Acool, refreshing drink of water is something many people take for granted. But what if we didn’t have access to safe drinking water? Up until 100 years ago we did not. In fact, it was often dangerous. For thousands of years, people all over the world tried different ways to filter drinking water to purify it. But it wasn’t until […]
What You Can Do
Yes, you can do something about a deadly problem that seems worlds away. Click. Visit americanchemistry. com/100years and take the Clean Water Challenge Quiz. For each correct answer, ACC and its global industry partners will contribute the esti mated cost of enough chlorine tablets to disinfect 100 liters of water. With a total commitment of $200,000, ACC’s goal is to […]
The Pulpit
Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. All Nations Baptist: •Sunday, 2:30-5:30 p.m., for three months, free English classes which have already begun, registration required, limited space, 86-76 80th St., Woodhaven; 718.296.2025. **** All Saints’ Episcopal: •Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Join the Sunnyside Drum Corps Marching Band, boys/girls ages 7-17; band information. •Mon-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 […]
Rocco Vendome, 86 Fed 9/11 Volunteers
Rocco Vendome, who served hundreds of thousands of free meals to September 11 volunteers from his family business, Nino’s Restaurant on Canal Street, just north of Ground Zero, died at his home in Astoria on Jan. 13, 2009. He was 86 years old. A color guard was part of his funeral service on Saturday morning, January 17, at Immaculate Conception […]
Borough-Wide Blotter
108th Precinct Road Rage Arrest Police arrested a Woodside motorist on January 10 after he struck another driver with a metal rod when the two got into an accident. Police said Shawn Gilliam, 41, was driving along 60th Street near Queens Boulevard at about 5:30 p.m. when he rear-ended a car, pushing it onto a sidewalk. Gilliam and the driver […]
Air Force Sending Bird Radar To LaGuardia
The feds are sending a message to the flocks of geese at LaGuardia Airport- take cover, because the Air Force is set to zap you! Air Force officials last week offered to provide New York City with a state-of-the-art, bird-detecting radar system to prevent an air collision like the one that forced a US Air jetliner into the Hudson River […]
Burned Tot’s Mom Sues City
The mother of a two-year-old Flushing girl last month filed suit, charging the city Housing Authority failed to maintain and repair a heat pipe in the family’s apartment in the Pomonok Houses. Dorothea Brown charged in the lawsuit, filed in Queens Supreme Court, that her daughter, Tierra Seecharian, suffered third-degree burns on her leg when she became wedged against an […]
Teens Charged In Series Of Attacks
Police officials are praising cops on patrol out of the PSA9 Ravenswood Housing Police Satellite and detectives at the 114th Precinct for the pursuit and arrest of a pair of teens and questioning of the perpetrators that led to the arrest of two more suspects oand put an end to a string of violent robberies in the Ravenswood Houses-Queensview Cooperative […]
Mayor Raps ‘Inappropriate’ Caroline Remarks; Gov Loses Ground In Poll
As Mayor Michael Bloomberg ripped into a member of Governor David Paterson’s staff who trashed Caroline Kennedy as she ended her quest for a U.S. Senate seat last week, a new poll showed the governor losing ground to his possible opponents in his 2010 re-election race. The Siena College survey showed Paterson, who had held a commanding 49-26 lead against […]