(NAPSA)-According to Seven Crown Resorts, one of America’s largest houseboat vacation companies, navigating a houseboat is easier than driving a minivan. No experience or special licenses are necessary. First-time houseboaters can find helpful tips on the Web at www.sevencrown.com/tips or by calling (800) 752-9669. * * * Two new DVDs-“The Very Brave Elephant and His Friends” and “Let’s Get Moving! […]
Refinancing Program For At-Risk Homeowners With Mortgage Problems
Homeowners with risky mortgages, placed in jeopardy by the shaky mortgage market, will have the opportunity to refinance and avoid possible foreclosure under a $100 million program announced on Monday by Governor Eliot Spitzer. In announcing the program called “Keep the Dream”, the governor stated: “Home ownership is crucial to growing our economy throughout New York State. This innovative program […]
See What’s Going On And Visit The New Penn Park
After eight years of planning and preparation and seven years of construction Penn Park became an ecological gem at a cost of $87 million. In approximately five years the communities of East New York, Woodhaven, South Ozone Park and Howard Beach will have access to Jamaica Bay. This week the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) and the New York City Department […]
Friends’ Donate $4500 To ALS Research Center
Madeleine Gillis, longtime Community Board 1 member, contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in 2004. The “Friends of Madeleine”, a group of her friends, neighbors and fellow Board 1 members, raised some $12,000 in donations during 2005 and 2006 to help ease the burden of her illness for Madeleine gillis and assist Maryann Gillis, Madeleine’s daughter and 24/7 […]
Taipei Youth Sports Group At QCC Arts Center Aug. 4
The Taipei Youth Folk Sports Group will be making a rare appearance in the United States at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, on Saturday, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. The performers, all elementary and junior high school students from Taiwan, will demonstrate athletic feats as they present a program of traditional Chinese sports and games entwined […]
Simple Tips For Water Conservation
Did you know that a faucet that leaks just one drop per second can waste more than 2,000 gallons of water per year? That a leaking toilet can waste 200 gallons a day? Or that an average shower uses 20 to 30 gallons of water? Americans use an average of more than 400 million gallons of water each day. Much […]
Queens Botanical Wedding Garden Is 25 Years Old
The first wedding garden built in a public botanical garden celebrated its 25th anniversary last week and Astoria Federal Savings Bank marked the occasion with a $5,000 gift to the Queens Botanical Garden. When it was built in 1982, the Queens Botanical Garden Wedding Garden was the first in the nation among public gardens. “Other botanical gardens didn’t like it,” […]
Sabini Holds Workshops
With hurricane and blackout season under way, state Senator John Sabini held a series of workshops on disaster and emergency preparedness in his Western Queens district recently. The four workshops, in Jackson Heights, Corona, East Elmhurst and Lefrak City, were conducted by experts from the American Red Cross and featured a handout of free “safety tubes” funded by Sabini. The […]
‘Flushed’ With Potential
Flushing, at the northern section of the borough of Queens, is one of the most vibrant and dynamic neighborhoods in New York City. Very few neighborhoods have as much energy and potential, due to its untapped resources, people, waterfront and unparalleled accessibility to worldclass recreational amenities. Transforming Flushing into a regional destination will come largely from taking advantage of the […]
The Pulpit
Atonement Lutheran: •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, day camp from July 2, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; New Ground Day Camp, Jul. 9-13; flea market, Saturday, July 14; 30-61 87th St., Jackson Heights; 718.639.6074. […]