Cricket Community

Rebuilding Together does not currently have a local chapter in Buffalo, so the Buffalo team took matters in to their own hands by spearheading a project and partnering with AmeriCorps, Hospice Buffalo and the Make-A-Wish Foundation to refurbish a home for Justin Zirpalo, a 13 year old handicapped boy who requires around the clock attention, and his father Sal.  Sal had purchased the “fixer upper” a few years ago with the intention of doing the work himself.  After purchasing the home, his wife unexpectedly passed away and he did not have the time or resources to complete the work.

Musician. Born on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bene, Mississippi. A singer and guitarist born into a sharecropping family, B. B. King became one of the best-known blues performers, an important consolidator of blues styles, and a primary model for rock guitarists. Following his service in the U.S. Army, he began his career as a disc jockey in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was dubbed "The Beale Street Blues Boy." That nickname was soon shortened to "B. B."