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A new "surfing only" beach opened earlier this month in Rockaway, the Department of Parks and Recreation confirmed on Thursday. Abigail Lootens, a spokesperson for the department, talked about the new beach designation. "The new surf beach on Beach 67 to 69 [Streets] did open on July 6," said Lootens in an e-mail to The Wave. More ... Patricia Flaherty was chosen as Adult Volunteer of the Year by the New York State Health Facilities Association in Saratoga Springs on June 26. Flaherty has volunteered her time working with the patients for the past 12 years at Crown Nursing Center in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of Edward and Nancy Flaherty of Rockaway Point. More ... Kiana Howerton, daughter of Deborah and Rick Howerton, graduated from PS 106 this past June with the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian and President's Outstanding Academic awards. Kiana will attend Scholars' Academy in the fall. More ... Jasmine Marie Lopez of Arverne graduated from Beach Channel High School this past June. She will attend New York City Technical College this fall, where she was accepted into the nursing program. Lopez is the daughter of Harold and Jeannette Burgos and older sister to Harold Jr., Matthew, Michael and Amanda. More ... Kate O'Sullivan Earning over a 3.55 grade point average, rising Providence College junior and Rockaway resident Kate O'Sullivan made the Dean's List for the 2007 spring semester. Suzanne Kelly Suzanne Kelly of Breezy Point was named to the University of Scranton's dean's list for the 2007 spring semester. More ... Keyanna Bostick, daughter of Nicole Bostick and granddaughter of Louise Bostick of Far Rockaway, has joined the graduating class of 2007 and will attend college in the fall. More ... Lucille Obarzanek received her BA degree during commencement ceremonies at the University of Vermont on May 20, 2007. Almost 2,000 students were awarded a variety of bachelor's degrees during the University's 203rd commencement ceremony. Obarzanek majored in Psychology. More ... Even the power of the Lord himself can't save "Evan Almighty," with its Noah's Ark motif, from hitting a sandbar. This is assuming that God even gives a damn. Replacing Jim Carrey of 2003's "Bruce Almighty" with Steve Carell as the chosen one may be part of the problem. Carrey's relentless hamminess often saves his weakest movies. More ... The Rockaway Music and Arts Council held its second Sunset Picnic Concert last Sunday, featuring the Celtic rhythms of Mac Talla Mor. The non-traditional band, made up of drums, bagpipes, a keyboard and an electric guitar, held the interest of the large audience throughout the two-hour concert, mixing traditional Irish music with a bagpipe rock that is seldom heard on the peninsula. The group is made up of the members of the Ofgang family, with mom, Patty Devlin Ofgang on the bodhran (drum) and daughter Ilana on the keyboard and as lead vocalist - and a good one at that. Brothers Jesse and Levon double on the pipes and drums, while brother Erik writes the songs and plays the guitar. More ... Frances Abbracciamento, longtime Rockaway resident and one-time School Board President of District 19, returned to her Brooklyn roots last week and visited the school that is named for her late husband, Sal Abbracciamento. More ... The faculty of St. Francis de Sales School would like to congratulate the Class of 2007. The eighth-grade class earned a combined total of twenty-one scholarships to various high schools. Pictured with the scholarship winners are Sister Patricia Chelius, principal; Brenda Brown, assistant principal; AnneMarie Greene and Ann McMahon, eighth grade teachers. More ... Eight Bishop Kearney High School juniors studying physics were selected this past spring for their outstanding scholarship and attended the Principal's Dinner/Symposium at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. More ... Eighteen Rockaway residents proudly graduated from Bishop Kearney High School on June 2. All of the girls will be attending college in the fall and many of them received scholarships to their desired universities. More ... The CMS (Community Mediation Services) After School Program ended another great year at Far Rockaway High School with two end-of-year events. The Culminating Show, on June 8, was held in the school's auditorium and featured a runway show with apparel designed and created by students from the CMS Fashion Design club. More ... After collecting pennies for the Penny Harvest, PS/MS 105 students received a grant of $1,000 to donate to charities of their choice. First-graders from Ms. Johnson's class and fourth-graders from Ms. Buckley's class collected 250 pounds of pennies. More ... Teachers Ms. Martin and Mr. Krieger recently started a special Buddy Program at P.S./M.S. 105. The program brought together their two classes to work together on a research project, with each secondgrader paired up with a seventhgrader, and teams assigned a U.S. state chosen from the original thirteen colonies. More ... We wouldn't call the Smalls family a typical Rockaway family, but it's instructive to take a look at the family's fortunes over the past year or so. Ronnie Smalls was arrested last week for attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a 15-year-old girl. Police say that the girl was shot by accident as Smalls took aim at another gang-banger. More ... The Rockaway's People Network, formerly known as "Down the Way Productions," will hold a Rockaway community reunion on Saturday, July 21 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Bayswater Park, between Beach 31 and Beach 32 Streets along Beach Channel Drive. More ... Assemblywoman Michele R. Titus, with CUNY School of Law, Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN), CUNY On Wheels and Community Church of Nazarene, present free immigration workshops on Saturday, July 14 at PS 215, 535 Briar Place, Far Rockaway, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More ... New York medical and undergraduate students conducting research in the medical field now have the opportunity to win a $1,500 scholarship through the 2007 Empire State Medical Association's (EMSA) Student Research Poster Competition. State Senator Malcolm Smith encourages all Queens students studying medicine to participate. More ... "Seniors In Shape" continues their exercise and activities program with Tuesday evening and Saturday morning summer classes at Aviator Sports and Recreation in Floyd Bennett Field through August 28. This "total mind and body fitness" program is free to anyone 55 years of age and older. Tuesday evening classes start at 4:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. More ... A Rockaway native who was living and working in Washington, D.C. was killed in the early morning hours of June 29 when, police say, he had an argument with another customer at the Steak And Egg restaurant and was shot once in the chest. More ... Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council, Rockaway residents - especially children - will benefit from two initiatives announced last week. Funding is now available, as a result of the 2008 city budget that began on July 1, to expand the number of days of operation for all libraries in the New York City Library system. More ... The sounds of referee whistles, waves crashing and volleyballs in play filled the air at the Rockaway Beach Volleyball League's weekly tournament on July 3rd. What was missing were the familiar chirps of piping plover colonies that make their home on Riis Park's sandy shores. More ... Christina Fulmore of Rockaway Beach has been selected from a pool of over 300 applicants to serve in the Bronx office of National Student Partnerships (NSP) through AmeriCorps National Direct. More ... Laura Pfister (left) and her mother, Peggy Balukas, are pictured together at the Old-Fashioned Bathing Suit Contest held at Riis Park, where they placed first and second, respectively. Balukas is a mother of six and has donated many days as a clown to cheer people up in the New York City area for the past 50 years. Pfister is a substitute teacher and volunteer at PS 114 in Belle Harbor. Photo by Stephen Chin. More ... By fishing old and defective batteries and cell phones from drawers and closets, you may be able to help someone in an emergency. The Secure Call Foundation is taking the buried treasures found in many American homes and transforming them into 911 emergency phones that can contact emergency services free-of-charge and without a carrier plan. More ... 20 Years Ago... There was no smoking in the police station of the 100th Precinct (Rockaway Beach) on Monday morning, July 6, and with the stacks of beer on the ground floor anybody could easily have added "no drinking." The "no smoking" was real. More ... St. John's Episcopal Hospital recently held a Patient Safety Fair to raise awareness among the public and staff of the importance of safety in the hospital. Every year, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, an accrediting body for hospitals, issues a revised set of National Patient Safety Goals that seek to standardize efforts at making hospitals safer. Constantly working to implement the National Patient Safety Goals, St. John's Episcopal Hospital sets a high priority on patient safety. Ermelina Zabbala (right), RN, Nurse Educator for Critical Care, and Arlette Bustamante, RN, Nurse Education for Maternal/Child Health (center), discuss medication safety with staff member Myriam Addona, Laboratory Outreach. More ... A west end man who was found fast asleep in his car with the engine running has been arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on drug and weapons charges, a spokesperson for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown has told The Wave. More ... The fifth annual Graybeards Family Run returns on Friday, July 27 at 6:30 p.m. at Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 128 Street. The Family Run is one of the highlight events of the summer in Rockaway, with over 400 runners participating last year and hundreds more joining in the post-race festivities. A similar or greater turnout is expected this year. More ... Two young men, who refused to pay the fare on the MTA bus they attempted to board at Beach 116 Street on Sunday, got belligerent when the driver told them to get off and began to beat him instead. Police declined to identify the two, beyond saying that they are 19 and 20 years old. An EMT official at the scene and some locals who saw the attack pulled the young men off the driver and held them for police. Pictured, the two alleged attackers sit on the street in front of the A Line Station at Beach 1168 Street as police and locals look on More ... Security was tight last Sunday, July 8, at the entrances to both Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway and Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, in anticipation of the massive Guyanese-American Family Fun Day event. More ... Petty Officer 3rd Class John G. Ross is pictured visiting Miss K. Moculeski's first-grade class at PS 114. Ross stopped by the school while home on leave, after an eight-month deployment in the Persian Gulf supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. He wanted to thank Class 1-101 personally after they sent him cards and letters at Christmastime. "All the things sent from home, family, and friends of Rockaway made being away from home a little less stressful," explained Ross. He is stationed aboard the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower. More ... A "Summer Teen Scene" program on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights started this past Wednesday, July 11 at Aviator Sports and Recreation in Floyd Bennett Field, and will continue through August 25. The program, designed for seventh to twelfth grade students, will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 10 p.m., with the food court staying open until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings. More ... |
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