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Ruth Wander celebrated her 80th birthday on June 16, 2005. Her first party was celebrated at her son More ... June 16th at Riis Park was a cool, foggy, damp, downcast day as twenty-six hardy women hit the links but not the new light poles. But some came close! More ... Collegiality has gone out the window at the Department of Education (DOE) under Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein. At one time, principals, assistant principals and teachers worked together in District 27 on core design teams and middle school teams. Now, they are at each other More ... The 100 Precinct Community Council, in a well-attended meeting, honored some of their own Wednesday evening and as well as a hero surfer who pulled a young man to safety three weeks ago. Pictured, Lincoln Mayne (center), the surfer who responded to a multiple drowning by charging into the raging surf and rescuing the teen is flanked by Community Council President Jate Doremus (left) and City Councilman Joseph Addabbo, Jr. More ... Commencement exercises were held at St. Saviour Church on June 3. Seventy percent of the graduating class of 82 students received $3.8 million in scholarship/merit awards. Margaret Bernstein, assistant principal, presented the graduates. More ... Police arrested four people and seized a stockpile of crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and cash Tuesday during an early morning raid on a Hammels apartment. More ... The Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways hosted its Annual Meeting at the Beach Club on Monday, drawing approximately 100 business people and community activists. Pictured, from left, Chamber President John Lepore with vice presidents Harold Cornell and Barbara Morris. More ... Five-year old Anthony Echevarria of Far Rockaway will graduate from Kindergarten at P.S. 106 on June 23, 2005. Anthony is the son of Anthony and Rosemarie Echevarria. More ... Steven Keenan, a former Wave intern, will graduate from Middle College High School on Friday, June 24, 2005. Steven is the son of Carol and John Keenan and the brother of Jack and Patrick. He will attend SUNY Plattsburgh this fall. More ... Keanu Alameda will graduate from Kindergarten at P.S. 106 on June 23, 2005. Keanu is the son of Tara Alameda. More ... Jennifer Nicole Quagliariello of Neponsit will celebrate her second birthday on Saturday, June 18, 2005. Jennifer is the daughter of Ilene and Anthony Quagliariello and the little sister of Christopher. More ... Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Remenia K. Bispham, daughter of Marie Hodge and Abdo Alkaifi of Inwood, and her shipmates are in the middle of a scheduled deployment, while assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, homeported in Norfolk, Va. More ... Allison Cashen, a graduate of Stella Maris High School and the College of Mount Saint Vincent, received her Masters of Physical Therapy from Hunter College on June 8, 2005. Cashen also received the Clinical Education Award at graduation. She is the daughter of Joan and Ed Cashen of Rockaway Beach. More ... Northeast Regional State of the African-American Male Initiative Conference (SAAM) opened last Saturday to an enthusiastic capacity audience of more than 1,000. Attendees from New York and New Jersey began arriving at the New York University School of Law as early as 7:30 a.m. for the day-long forum More ... The Parks Department recently held a Beach Bum Dog contest at Bay 8. Dogs had to wear beach attire and one dog was crowned More ... Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer recently greeted the Honorable Eugene Hutchinson, Ambassador and Counsel General of Ireland to Albany. Pheffer and other lawmakers shared a typical day on Capitol Hill as Hutchinson More ... Father James Mark Gilligan, M.M., a Brooklyn resident who serves mass at Rockaway Point., will celebrate his 50 More ... It has been 102 years since the once famous fishing station was destroyed by fire. When the More ... Local environmentalist and President of the Friends of Rockaway, Bernie Blum, believes that surface runoff from concrete and asphalt is pouring into the Jamaica Bay. Vegetation buffers, however, protect Jamaica Bay by slowing and metabolizing the chemical pollution (heavy metals, insecticides, etc.) More ... The Philip Port Memorial Unit of the American Cancer Society (ACS) of Queens raised $6,400 during its 45th More ... Cops doused a heated confrontation between a group of teenagers and about 100 fight-hungry spectators last week before it could become a full-blown battle on the beach, The Wave has learned. More ... Amit Kapoor will graduate today as the salutatorian of Beach Channel High School. Kapoor has maintained a 97+ average throughout his four years at BCHS and received a 1200 on his SAT More ... Walter Benjamin was a young man when he first met Lillian in 1946. He ran a plumbing supply business in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. She was looking for a job. More ... An all-hands fire destroyed a Rockaway bungalow on Wednesday as dozens of firefighters from fire units from throughout the peninsula fought the fire. More ... City Councilman James Sanders, Jr. came bearing gifts when he visited P.S. 42 on June 21. At that time, he informed Principal Riva Madden that he had secured $35,000 for new computers for the school. More ... Democratic District Leader Lew Simon sells raffles and urges Frank Bissitti and Donna Neuer to join the Cancer Society. More ... P.S. 183 held their annual Spring Concert to a packed audience on May 26. The standing room only crowd was treated to song and dance by second through sixth grade students. More ... Kiana Howerton, daughter of Rick and Deborah Howerton, graduated from the 3rd grade at P.S. 106 with numerous awards. Howerton is the granddaughter of Mildred Butler Smith. More ... Briyanna Lakiesha Hutchinson, daughter of Levy and Jeannine Hutchinson of Far Rockaway was accepted into the P.S. 106 Astre Program for gifted students. Hutchinson scored the highest in her class on all state exams. More ... Six St. Camillus students participated in the Stock Market Game program. David Penaranda, Matt Leonen, Kamil Lowe, Lukasz Stanczyk, Vincenzo Tonolete and Philip Tobiasz, under the direction of their teacher, Christine Jackson, ranked 13th out of 142 teams when the stock market investing was completed. More ... Early morning learners in grades three through five have attended a special program at P.S. 106 for eight weeks to raise their math and literacy levels. Third graders Leroy and Temi are pictured with their certificates of merit for attendance in the program. More ... Incoming P.S. 114Q Principal, I.A., Stephen P. Grill, as he calls all in attendance to order, for the commencement of the daily Belle Harbor School morning exercises. More ... Two more old Far Rockaway High School pictures to spur your memory. The first picture is obviously the school More ... The second man accused of murdering a female cashier during an armed robbery of a Far Rockaway Chinese food restaurant was convicted this week, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced. More ... A Far Rockaway man was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for raping a 12-year-old girl who he met after she accidentally dialed his cell phone, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced. More ... Ken Zwolinski grew up summering in the Rockaways and his family later moved there in the early 1970 More ... A break in an old 12-inch water main at the corner of Beach Channel Drive and Beach 136 Street on Monday disrupted traffic on the main east-west thoroughfare for hours. Water flooded both Beach Channel Drive and local north-south streets until crews from the city More ... Twenty-two students graduated from VNS Prep Alternative High School on Friday, June 17, 2005. Among the graduates this year were Chris Diaz, Alia Gibson, Samantha Banks, Samantha Catalano, Brendan Wallace, Lisa Samuels, Veronika Hinnant, Kevin Gahn, Areatha Mulrain, Kenneth McIntosh, Rakelle Blair, Paul Cortez, Tiffany Patterson, Angelica Negron, Tamika Diaz, Luz Torres, Endia Dewitt, Susan Zetina, Sylfronia King, Patrice Clemens and Tasha Smith. More ... Ben and Mary Lenihan will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 26 at the Beach Club. Among the attendees will be children, John, Margie and Matthew, grandchildren, Thomas, Patrick, Christine, Megan and Matthew, and a host of family and friends.Ben, born in County Cork, and Mary, born in County Kerry, met not in Ireland, but in the Bronx and married in St. Jerome More ... Seven-year old Christopher Stone loves dropping in on the six-foot half pipe at the Rockaway Skate Park. 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