The New York Foundation for Senior Citizens Volunteer Ombudsman program is looking for volunteers to protect the rights of seniors living in the city’s nursing and adult homes. program, said her organization is hopeful that its new and refocused campaign “will be equally successful so that we can recruit additional Ombudsman Volunteers to continue to fulfill New York State’s requirement […]
Grassroots Program Helps Seniors Stay Independent
Dear Savvy Senior, I recently read an article about a new community-based elder care program called “villages” that provides in-home services to seniors that help them remain living in their own home. My husband and I are retiring in a few years and are interested in starting up a program like that in our small town. What can you tell […]
School Rating System Needs Improvements
EditorialLast week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein introduced the first ever “report cards” for the 1,400 schools in the New York City system. The howls of indignation are still ringing in our ears and, as far as we can tell, Klein and Bloomberg are still ducking shots from all directions while still maintaining their commitment to the […]
Letters
Russia Remains The Same To The Editor: Ninety years ago today [Nov. 7, 1917] the Bolshevik Revolution converted autocratic and tyrannical Russia into a communist gulag. The world, and particularly the Russian people, paid an awful price. The advent of Stalinism resulted in over 12 million Russians sacrificed to one-man rule. Amazingly, today the Russians long for a dictatorial strong […]
Dist. 30 Schools Rank A To F
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein released the first-ever progress reports on the city’s public schools last week, giving each school a letter grade. But it’s not as simple as “A”, “B”, “C”, or even “D” and “F”. Under the Department of Education’s $80 million, five-year contract with IBM, the DOE has used its new Achievement Reporting and […]
Clean-up At Oakland Lake & Ravine Nov. 17
On Saturday, November 17 from10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., park lovers of all ages are welcome to join the Martin Van Buren H.S. honor students and Friends of Oakland Lake and Ravine plant bulbs, flowers and shrubs, collect litter and learn about the environment and history of Oakland Lake. Parents, siblings, all children and young adults ages 6 to 17 […]
News Of The Neighborhoods
Queens Straphangers ‘Rail’ At Projected Fare Increase Charging conditions stink on city subways, Queens straphangers lashed out at Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) authorities on November 8 arguing that service improvements must be in place before there can be any talk of a transit fare hike. More than 100 angry people gathered at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Flushing, where […]
Store Owner Fends Off Robbery With Machete
A Queens bodega owner took a slice out of crime last week by using a machete to nail an armed thug will not face criminal charges, authorities said. Johan Marte, 46, owner of Erick Grocery in Woodhaven said the armed thief burst into the bodega with guns blazing on November 8. “He had a gun and I took him out,” […]