In honor of National Diabetes Month in November, Major Chrysler Jeep Dodge will contribute $1 for every Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge vehicle sold to the Iacocca Foundation’s JoinLeeNow (www.JoinLeeNow.org) fundraising campaign to raise money for diabetes research. This partnership will run through the end of 2006. “Diabetes strikes all demographics, from those living in Long Island City, nationally and around […]
Halloween Week Held At Queens Boulevard Facility
Residents, staff, volunteers, and family members enjoyed a special week of Halloween fun and festivities at Queens Boulevard Extended Care Facility. The week culminated in a frightfully fine costume party celebration on October 31, with prizes going to the top three costumes. The staff pumpkin decoration competition saw prizes awarded to the top-judged entries. The week brought joy and laughter […]
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Flu Vaccinations for Seniors: •Nov. 29, 1 to 2:30 p.m., North Flushing Senior Center at College Point, 22-38 College Point Blvd.; 718-747-2137. •Nov. 30, 1-2:30 p.m., St. Mel’s Roman Catholic Church, 28-20 154th St., Flushing; 718-886-0201. Call New York City Councilmember Tony Avella’s office at 718-747-2137 to register. **** Atonement Lutheran: •Sunday, 10:15 a.m., services and Sunday school in English; […]
Shopping Safety Tips Offered At Boro Cabinet Meeting
With the official start of the holiday shopping season traditionally coming the day after Thanksgiving, people should remember that this is also that time of year for fraud and pickpockets. To help ensure a happy holiday season, Alina Garcia of the City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) and New York City Police Department officer Geno Lopresti offered safety tips for […]
Mattone Withdraws Pier Project Application
After City Councilmember Tony Avella announced last week that he had received a commitment from the Army Corps of Engineers to extend the comment period regarding the permanent application by Carl Mattone for a pier four feet wide by 200 feet long in the rear of Mattone’s home in Douglaston and in the face of growing community unhappiness, Mattone has […]
Surprise Ending! N.Y. City To Retain $125 M For First Responders
An agreement has been reached in the House of Representatives to allow New York City to retain the $125 million appropriated for injured first responders after 9/11, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney announced yesterday. The surprise agreement worked out by Congressmember Vito Fossella, a Staten Island Republican, would thus retrieve the funds which President George W. Bush was taking back because they […]
QCBA Holds Seminar For Judge Aspirants
On November 15, Leslie G. Leach, Philip S. Straniere Civil Court Judges in Queens and Staten Island, respectively, and James J. Lack, Court of Claims, Manhattan, were guest speakers at a special ethics seminar sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Queens County Bar Association on “How to Become a Judge”. This […]
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Gioia Leads Turkey Giveaway at Queensbridge: For the third year in a row, City Councilmember Eric Gioia (D—Long Island City), joined an online grocer and volunteers from the Queensbridge Tenants Association, gave away hundreds of turkeys to hundreds of happy local residents for a happy Thanksgiving. “Thanksgiving is a time when as a city we should come together as a […]
Restaurateur Honored By Taminent Dems
Antonio “Nino” Vendome emigrated from Italy to the United States and in 1972 opened Nino’s, a small sandwich shop in Lower Manhattan. After opening a trattoria/café of the same name on Canal Street, also in Manhattan, Vendome saw Nino’s grow into a six-restaurant chain in Manhattan and Nassau County. He branched out into real estate, acquiring buildings in Manhattan and […]
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At the Taminent Regular Democratic Club 74th annual dinner dance November 5 at Riccardo’s by the Bridge in Astoria, Queens County Clerk Gloria D’Amico (standing) posed with (l. to r.): Nina Chaputian, her sister-in-law, Tina DeMonte, her brother, Frank DeMonte, and Edward Aloise. D’Amico was the only person identified when the photograph appeared in the article “Taminent Honors 2, Celebrates […]