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Listening to Rockaway artist Shirl Holt talk about art and creativity is like listening to the devout describe their deity. “Art is like the spirit of living … It’s life for me,” she says. And like a prophet hearing voices, Holt’s work also speaks to her. “It always says ‘I’m done.’... More ... The Beach Club, which served for many years as a watering hole on Beach 116 Street and then morphed into a catering hall before it was closed three years ago, has been sold for $2.75 million dollars, according to the realtor who cut the deal earlier this week. More ... On Saturday night US Senator Kirstin Gillibrand visited Rockaway to help celebrate the Harry G’s 17th Anniversary Doo Wop Scholarship Fund Concert at Beach Channel High School. More ... Governor David Paterson is coming to Rockaway, thanks to the sponsorship of Reverend Les Mullings of The Church of The Nazarene, Rockaway Clergy and Queens elected officials. They will host Paterson for a town hall meeting on February 11 at 6:00 p.m. at Far Rockaway High School. Open to the public, the meeting will discuss issues including teen violence, unemployment and education. More ... On one of the coldest days and lowest tides of the year, about 60 members and friends of the American Littoral Society, suffering from cabin fever, came out and walked the beach at Fort Tilden. More ... Senate President Malcolm A. Smith recently honored Far Rockaway resident, Denean Ferguson as his first ‘Person of the Month’ for 2010. More ... On January 29 the 100th Precinct Community Council delivered more than 30 bags of nonperishable foods to the Battalion Pentecostal Church on Beach 67 Street in Arverne. More ... Bob Trim, a 44-year Rockaway resident and artist, has donated his work to The Wave for the second consecutive year to commemorate Black History Month. Trim, 61, says he donated his work to The Wave to honor both Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Wave. More ... Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer has announced that the New York’s Great Appliance Swap Out Program will be taking place during President’s Week, February 12 - 21. More ... Andrew Wudowsky, 11, and his family are preparing for a trip of a lifetime to the Sunshine Foundation’s Dream Village in Davenport, FL. The family will depart from their home in Rockaway to arrive in Florida for an exciting five day stay. More ... Walk along the East Pond at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Gateway National Recreation Area, National Park Service with a park ranger on Saturday, February 6 from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. It will be a frosty walk while exploring the poems of Robert Frost. More ... The crew for Martin Scorsese’s HBO series, “Boardwalk Empire,” were filming on the 1920s-era Atlantic City set in front of the bungalows on Beach 25 Street. The filming took place earlier this week. More ... Applications are being accepted Feb. 1 through March 31 for the United States Naval Academy Summer Seminar (NASS) 2010. NASS is designed for students who will have just completed their junior year of high school in the summer of 2010. More ... The Graybeards held their annual dinner dance and fundraiser last Saturday night at russo's on the Bay in Howard Beach. More ... Community RSS feed |
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