Mr. David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology of Buffalo
I have several friends from Buffalo New York. It's an interesting cross between small town and big city, between East Coast and Mid-West.
The last time I was in Buffalo was more than 30 years ago, and it was a dying city. It had been built up in the Erie Canal heyday when the main method of shipping goods to the mid-west and the west was by boat from New York City, up through the Hudson River to the Erie Canal and on to the Great Lakes, Mississippi River route to St. Louis and beyond.
This industry died with the advent of the train and the truck.
Next came Buffalo's Steel era - every major steel company had a plant in or around Buffalo, and when I was last there it was slag-central USA.
The steel plants poured their industrial contamination directly into Lake Erie which simply died. It supported nothing but algae.
So stringent regulations were passed and the steel companies moved their factories to the third world.
Now Buffalo is experiencing a new revival, and the Church of Scientology of Buffalo is an integral part of that.
Scientology has solutions to education, crime, administrative know-how that people can apply to any area of life and a spiritual technology where the individual can gain awareness of himself and his brotherhood with life.
And the new Church of Scientology of Buffalo, which was dedicated by Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center.
New Church of Scientology Opens on Main Street in Buffalo
Amid a marching band, balloons, confetti and a massive ribbon, Church officials, local dignitaries and celebrities opened the new home of the Church of Scientology of Buffalo November 16, 2003, with Mayor Anthony Masiello proclaiming “Church of Scientology of Buffalo Day.”
The new building, the former Buffalo Catholic Institute at Virginia and Main streets, was purchased by the Church in December 2002 and renovated with 50,000 volunteer hours by parishioners from Buffalo and other states and countries. One guest at the opening described it as “truly a showplace of the practical, spiritual methods you have to offer.”
Attending the ceremony were 1,400 well-wishers, including City Council members who praised the Church’s social betterment programs, preservationists pleased that the Church had breathed life into not just the building but also the neighborhood, and celebrities Billy Sheehan, renowned rock bassist and Buffalo native, and TV and film actress Jenna Elfman.
Senior Scientology executive David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, custodian of the religious Scripture of Scientology, addressed the assembly, noting that the true significance is not the “monument” but how it serves as a center “to bring the help this world so desperately needs.” >>
