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The fifth and last of the Flushing Bay pollution control meetings sponsored by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection was held last week at the Olmstead Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. More ... Students, friends and families attended the Hellenic Immersion Program of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York annual graduation ceremony on Monday, June 4. City Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr., Dr. Mary Marangos, representing Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, and Irene Stathos, representing Assemblymember Michael Gianaris, were also present. More ... State Senator Frank Padavan and Assemblymember Catherine Nolan are sponsors of bills that passed their respective houses and establish stronger guidelines for nutritious and healthy food choices for public school children throughout the state. More ... City Councilmember Eric Gioia and United Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten toured and dedicated the first ever science-only lab at P.S. 76, the William Hallett School, in Long Island City, on June 8. A plaque on the door to the lab designates it as the "Ann Friedman Memorial Science Lab", dedicated in memory of Friedman, a teacher at P.S. More ... The sixth annual Christopher Santora Educational Scholarship Dinner Dance will be held at Riccardo's by the Bridge in Astoria, on Friday, June 15 from 7 p.m. to midnight. All are invited to attend. At the dinner-dance, 13 scholarship winners, the Christopher Santora Educational Scholarship Fund Man of the Year and the Fund Guardian Angel will be honored. More ... Atonement Lutheran: +Jun. 23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Flea markets. +Jul. 2. Day camp begins, children ages 4+. +Sunday worship services in English at 10:15 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m.; Sunday worship service in Spanish, noon; Mondays, 2:30- 6 p.m.,afterschool program, pre-K (free for 4-year-olds) enroll now for September, 30- 61 87th St., Jackson Heights; 718.639.6074. More ... Each year during March and April, students at the Evangel Christian School in Long Island City put their spare change into piggy banks in their classrooms for the sole purpose of gathering money to pay for muchneeded "gifts" for children and families in underdeveloped and poverty-stricken communities throughout America. More ... Things are going so well for prospective Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson that he might never make a formal announcement that he's in the race. The former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, who had been portraying a district attorney in the "Law and Order" television series, last week ran second to Rudy Giuliani in a Quinnipiac University poll. More ... In 1913, the poet Joyce Kilmer wrote, "I think I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree". The poem, "Trees", although frequently targeted by critics for its treacly sentimentality, has stood over time as anthem to the beauty and power of trees. More ... After hearing New York Police Department officials testify that recruitment of new officers is failing to meet established goals, and that some city precincts are already facing manpower decreases, City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. declared that the situation is nearing crisis levels. More ... New York State Senator Frank Padavan (Queens) honored Dr. Charlene Jaffie, Principal of Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica Estates as a 2007 "Woman of Distinction" during a ceremony at the State Capitol. More ... Concerned that terrorists who plotted to blow up fuel tanks at Kennedy Airport used Google Earth to determine where their target was, Assemblymember Michael Gianaris has once again called on Google to take steps to remove detailed descriptions of what could be terrorist targets. More ... A night out came to a violent end early Sunday morning June 10. Four men left the Club Fashion, 32-16 Steinway St., at about 3 a.m. and got into an altercation with at least one other person. More ... 110th Precinct Nab Mall Shoplifter Cops arrested a 31-year-old Elmhurst man who last December was charged with shoplifting more than $3,000 worth of clothes from a shop at the Queens Center Mall on June 6. Police said Cesar Villaiobos and two accomplices walked into the mall at about 8:30 p.m. on December 27. More ... Queens lawmakers are fighting to block a drug rehabilitation center moving from Manhattan to Fresh Meadows because, as one opponent of the transfer put it, "it's out of step" with community efforts to revitalize the area in question. More ... Police from the Queens Highway Patrol Unit and Borough Task Force hit the streets last weekend in the kickoff of a New York Police Department crackdown on drunk driving. The offensive dubbed, "Operation Cold Sober", targets motorists who get behind the wheel after a night out at local clubs and taverns, police said. More ... Join the Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) in celebrating 25 years of free concerts on the waterfront in Astoria Park. The 2007 Waterfront Concert Series kicks off with the annual Independence Day Celebration on the Astoria Park Lawn, Shore Boulevard between the Hell Gate Bridge and the Astoria Pool, on Friday, June 29, starting at 7:30 p.m. More ... The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PA) contributed $3,500 to the Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) 2007 Waterfront Concert Series. More ... There don't seem to be many "serious" wine bars in Astoria-establishments devoted to offering local oenophiles a truly extensive list of vintages and varieties, according to self-confessed "wine freak" Rocco Sacramone, so Sacramone, owner and presiding chef at his highly rated Trattoria L'incontro Restaurant at 21-76 31st St., Astoria, decided to create one. More ... A project by P.S. 122 fifth-grade student George Tom Dellis brought Richard T. Grimes, trustee of the estate of architect Guy Rothenstein to the school at 21st Street and Ditmars Boulevard recently. More ... Frank Anthony Ryan of Jackson Heights, assistant manager of the East Meadow branch of Commerce Bank, and Lisa Marie Berton, Commerce Bank Hillcrest branch assistant manager, became engaged on June 4. More ... Temporary Reprieve For St. Mary's Senior Center Senior activists and local legislators won a partial reprieve from the city last week, when officials at the Department for the Aging (DFTA) announced they will keep the St. Mary's Senior Center in Long Island City open for another six months. More ... |
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