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By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor It was standing room only as Queens Borough President Helen Marshall spoke at the Good Government Regular Democratic Club on December 2. During Marshall’s first appearance at the club in four years, she addressed such issues as transportation, overdevelopment, education and the future of the old Bea More ... Meeks To Deliver Toys To Needy Congressman Gregory W. Meeks will deliver over 2,000 toys for children between the ages of birth through 12 years between now and Christmas, according to a statement by spokesperson Candice Sandy. More ... Weiner Says No To Queens Wal-Mart Store Wal-Mart’s plan to move into New York City met stiff opposition today, as Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Queens & Brooklyn) joined by union and community leaders told the mega store to “keep out!” Weiner released a new study showing that Wal-Mart pays its workers rock bottom wages and relies on chea More ... Cystic Fibrosis Plunge The fifth annual ‘Take the Plunge for Cystic Fibrosis for Annie McMahon’ will take place on February 5, 2005 at 1 p.m. and Beach 98 Street. Bathers are encouraged to register beforehand at Vaughn’s Pub on Beach 98 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard. After the plunge the Cunningham Brothers will per More ...
More than 100 residents gathered on Beach 116 Street last Friday evening to drink hot chocolate, sing Christmas carols and meet Santa Claus as the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce held their Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. More ...
Seniors at Beach Channel High School enjoyed their three-day week before Thanksgiving by dressing up. Monday was Pajama Day, Tuesday was Retro Day and Wednesday was Drag Day. The seniors are pictured in their finest retro clothes. More ...
Detective Willie Olmeda and Officer George Torres (101 Precinct’s Community Affairs) set the Kwanzaa part of the display in place minutes before the ceremony begins. More ... Holiday Tips For Those With Alzheimer’s In Family For many families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, the holidays can be a difficult and emotional time. Friends and family come to visit, normal daily routines are interrupted, and many people with Alzheimer’s become agitated and disoriented by the changes. The More ...
Fourth grader Mateusz Waiter recently won the Seaside School P.S. 225’s Ezra Jack Keats bookmaking contest. Waiter’s story related to his journey of moving from Poland to the United States. More ...
of the Rockaways Broad Channel Station A Decade Later - 1905 From The Rockaway Museum by Emil Lucev, Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke Last week in Historical Views we saw a picture of the Broad Channel Long Island Rail Road Station in 1895, and the picture was taken from a moving train, which had just passed the old Broad Channel Drawbridge on the way to Hammels Station in Rockaway Beach. More ...
Don Riepe, Jamaica Bay Guardian, was stranded in JoCo Marsh last week while repairing an osprey platform. “I made the mistake of working during an outgoing tide,” said Don, “and had to wait for six hours until the tide came back.” Riepe was finishing up his work for the year and it was his last day More ...
Annual Hanukah and Christmas preparations and festivities are well underway at the Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation. Residents enjoyed refreshments, good cheer, music and good company at the Holiday Tree decorating ceremony, which was followed by the lighting of the Hanukah ca More ...
There is a new Christmas window on Beach 129 Street in Rockaway Park that seems to be catching the eye of passers-by. The window at Danielle’s Rockaway Florist enhances the beauty of the holiday season on the shopping street. Danielle is celebrating her first of many holiday seasons in Belle Harbor. More ... Collins Christmas Eve Dinner The Crystal Lee Collins Foundation For Youth Development (CLCFYD), founded in 1999, is geared towards helping youths who are at risk of dropping out of school. The foundation also provides HIV outreach, job readiness programs and a crisis intervention unit, which discourages violence. More ... On The Bayfront By Elisa Hinken I received e-mail last week from a fisherman who came across a problem and wondered if I knew the answer. Am I the “Dear Abby” of the fishing world? Well, I guess More ...
Michele Murray, a Belle Harbor resident and student at St. Edmund Prep School, will join a select group of students representing their schools, communities, and states as People to People student leaders. Murray has been accepted into the People to People Leadership Summit in our nation’s capital on More ... Mendizabel Completes Nursing Program Amelia A. Mendizabal, of Rockaway Park has completed an exclusive leadership program for nurses in senior management roles who aspire to become or remain leaders in the long-term care profession. More ... Three Local Women Celebrate A Century Last month there was a special celebration at the Long Island Living Center in Far Rockaway. Three women celebrated their 100th birthday with their family and friends. Marion Maffuchi, Sally Schwartz and Melitta Lowey. More ... State Department Honors Belle Harbor Native Belle Harbor native Veronica Cassidy Barry was awarded the U.S. Department of State Certificate of Appreciation, by Ambassador Hans H. Hertell at a ceremony held last month in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. More ... Looking Backward What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago... “We wish you a Merry Christmas! We wish you a Merry Christmas! Wish you a Merry Christmas!” from all of us at The Wave. More ... Meeks To Deliver Toys To Needy Congressman Gregory W. Meeks will deliver over 2,000 toys for children between the ages of birth through 12 years between now and Christmas, according to a statement by spokesperson Candice Sandy. More ... Weiner Says No To Queens Wal-Mart Store Wal-Mart’s plan to move into New York City met stiff opposition today, as Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Queens & Brooklyn) joined by union and community leaders told the mega store to “keep out!” Weiner released a new study showing that Wal-Mart pays its workers rock bottom wages and relies on chea More ... FRHS Memorabilia Flowing Into Museum By Howard Schwach Alumni from the “glorious past” of Far Rockaway High School have been contacting the Rockaway Museum, located at 88-08 Rockaway Beach Boulevard; to provide memorabilia for the upcoming “Far Rockaway High School Revisited” exhibit that is expected to open at the museum in March. More ...
Captain Paul Piekarski, Commanding officer of the 100 Precinct, greets Santa Claus at a recent holiday celebration in Rockaway. More ...
Feeling like one entire family, patients of the Peninsula Hospital Center Ambulatory Chemotherapy Dept, gather to commemorate the Holiday Season. Shirley Cooper spoke for the group when she stated, “We are like a family here. We support one another and are there to see each other through. The nurses More ... Concert To Help Haiti The New York Club of Children Helping Young Kids in Haiti will host its end of the year fundraising concert, “A Night To Remember,” at the Church of the Nazarene in Far Rockaway at the Community Church of the Nazarene on December 23 at 7 p.m. Funds raised from the concert will be donated to build a More ...
At its Annual Meeting on Thursday, December 2, 2004, Peninsula Hospital Center’s Community Advisory Council installed its new officers and elected new member Mr. James Bulloch. With the Hon. Audrey Pheffer officiating, Dan Mundy was sworn in as the Council’s new Chair, Thomas Mitchell as the new Vi More ...
M.S. 53 unveiled its brand new science laboratory on December 6. The lab took many months to complete and is capable of accommodating an entire class. More ...
Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (top row, left) helped usher in the holiday season last Thursday at the Peninsula Branch of the Queens Public Library, Beach 92 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard, by officiating the Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Pheffer’s Chief of Staff, JoAnn Shapiro (right) passe More ...
Police officers from the 100 Precinct including Community Affairs Officers Lou Brust and Kenny Beecher (at right) watch Wednesday night’s 100 Precinct Community Council meeting. More ...
By Howard Schwach Taylor McMahon was in the eighth grade at PS 47 in Broad Channel last year when she first heard of the new Channel View Academy For Research that was to open at Beach Channel High School the following September. More ...
The Rockaway Park Homeowners and Residents Association hosted its annual holiday party at the Knights of Columbus Hall last week, honoring three locals for their work with the community. Pictured, Sandee Doreemus (with flowers) receives an award for her representation of City Councilman Joseph Adda More ...
Administration, faculty and staff at St. Edmund Prep High School recently surprised guidance counselor Ann Erhard with a bridal shower. Erhard will wed police officer Michael Coughlin on January 15, 2005 at St. Francis de Sales in Belle Harbor. In attendance were two of her bridemaids, Kathy Carr an More ... |
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