Six years on Niagara Falls City Council. Led City Council for two years as chairman. Successful small businessman with Anello Electric and Anello Wineplace. Involved community volunteer.

When I think of heros, I think of my father. He had the courage to leave all of his family behind, and come to a new land where he didn't understand the language. The only education my father had was the Parish Priest taught him to read and write, but that was very basic. To know that he could come over to this country, earn a living, and be able to get around and make himself understood, I think it took great courage. At the time it was three boys and my mom. There were a lot of things as we grew up and depended on each other, that kept us close. To think of my father making that trip from Palermo to New York City, and what it was like for my mother with all three of us boys hanging on to her coat, as we were trying to get off the boat, and the way people were treated like cattle, standing for hours trying to get processed. And then seeing my father again for the first time in 18 months was an overwhelming feeling. He never really learned to speak English well, but he made himself understood, and I know everybody loved him. He never learned to drive a car, and even until the day he died, until after he retired, he would get around all over on a bike. The thing that most people remember about my dad was his very strong work ethic. My father was like a bull! I know for a fact, and people relate stories to me where he would do the work of two people. And that's the kind of person my father was, and as long as there was work in front of him, he'd just keep doing it, he'd never look up. And I think I get a little bit of that from my father, certainly I don't feel uncomfortable seeing a job and rolling up my sleeves, and wanting to get it done, or helping somebody else to finish it up, and I have to thank my father for that kind of work ethic.