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. **** Central Queens […]
Students’ Spare Change = Gifts For Others
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. During the last week in April the students breakopen the banks […]
Outsider Thompson Looks Impressive In Florida Poll
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. That was a […]
Board 7 Debates Tree Preservation
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. Community Board 7 struggled with both the sentiment and reality concerning trees in an increasingly urban environment […]
Vallone Sees Future Crisis As NYPD Manpower Drops
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. “We’re nearing the level of police officers we had when crime was running rampant in our streets,” Vallone, […]
Padavan Honors Local Woman
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. The prestigious award honors women throughout New York state for service to their community along with their personal and professional excellence. Women of Distinction honorees are from all […]
Gianaris To Google: ‘Change Maps So Terrorists Can’t Use Them’
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. “We dodged the bullet this time, but might not be as lucky in the future,” Gianaris […]
4 Stabbed Outside Steinway Street Club
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. A 37-year-old man, the most severely injured of the four, sustained stab wounds to the neck and chest and was initially listed in […]
Borough-Wide Blotter
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. They distracted a sales clerk at a […]
Gennaro-Lancman Fight Drug Rehab Center Plan
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. At this point, only the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has approved the plan to locate the Cornerstone Drug […]