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St. John's Episcopal Hospital and Healthfirst will hold a Happy Heart Open House for seniors on Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. It will be held in the hospital's Teaching Center conference room, located at 277 Beach 19 Street and Plainview Avenue. More ... Famed mystery writer, Carol Higgins Clark accepted an open invitation to speak at the monthly book club meeting, hosted by Maureen Shannon of Dayton Towers, on January 4. She was passionate and entertaining as she spoke of her career as an actress and writer. Along with club members, she reminisced about her childhood summers, spent on Beach 114 Street. More ... City Councilman Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., earlier this month, introduced legislation that would prohibit high risk (Level 3) sex offenders from living within one thousand feet of any New York City park or school. More ... Crime and violence continue to plague the Redfern public housing complex in Far Rockaway. Two teens, one 13 years of age and the other 15 years of age, More ... Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik Khan and Department for the Aging Commissioner Edwin Méndez- Santiago have launched "Safe Streets for Seniors," a major new pedestrian safety initiative for older New Yorkers, More ... Broad Channel Volunteer Fire and Ambulance will host its 103rd Installation Dance on Saturday, February 9, from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., at Roma View Catering on Cross Bay Boulevard. For tickets or information, call danny at 347-678-5857 or Eddie at 718-318- 5504. More ... In response to the escalating housing crisis that is devastating communities, shaking our economy, and putting the financial security of millions of families at risk, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced the Mortgage Refinancing Initiative of 2008, which would provide an opportunity for atrisk households to refinance unworkable mortgages. More ... St. John's Episcopal Hospital has appointed Norma Gerton, RN, MSN, CFNP, to the position of Nurse Manager of medical/ surgical unit, Tower 10.Gerton has a wealth of experience as a nurse manager, having worked for Birgham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, all in Boston. More ... We've all seen those sweepstakes telling us we may have already won $10,000 or a new car. Well, New York State Comptroller Thomas DeNapoli said that New York has $8 billion, and some of it may already be yours, and he adds that he is not putting you on. More ... Influenza season is underway in New York City, and the disease is spreading across the city, the Health Department reported today. New York City residents who have not yet gotten a flu shot should get one now. More ... Two abandoned barges, laying low in the water of Barbados Basin in Arverne, have become a bone of contention between city officials, local environmentalists and the developers of Arverne By The Sea, a development firm that plans to build an upscale marina on that portion of the bay. More ... Applications are now available to eligible municipalities and not-for-profit organizations to compete for funds through Preserve New York, a grant program of the Preservation League of New York State and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). More ... This week I would like to tell everyone about the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department's 103 Anniversary Installation Dinner Dance. The dance will be held on February, 9, 2008 from 8:00 p.m. More ... Democratic club members and other local Democrats heard from representatives of the Democratic candidates at a forum at the Good Government Regular Democratic Club last Thursday. Mark Weissman, a young political scientist, who said he was an aspiring novelist, represented Senator Barack Obama. More ... Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer says that she has received numerous complaints from patients of the Select Dental Office located on Cross Bay Boulevard which closed their doors in mid-November. Currently, Pheffer says, the U.S. Department of Secret Service is actively investigating Select Dental. The Department now has custody of all Select Dental's patient records. More ... The following is testimony given by Barbara Larkin, the president of the Belle Harbor Property Owners Association (BHPOA) to the City Council Parks and Recreation Committee and the Committee on Public Safety. More ... Members of the American Legion Post 1404, Ladies Auxiliary and the Broad Channel Crafters presented a check from the proceeds of their Annual December Craft Fair to the Graybeards for their Wounded Warrior Fund. The Post and Auxiliary members actively run various activities for veterans, seniors and children in the community. More ... Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Jonathan Mintz and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT) Commissioner Paul J. More ... Rockaway Beach Residents, Beth- Ann McConnon and Kevin Brown took their time getting to the altar. Making their way to Rincon, Puerto Rico, via the West Indies - the journey may have been long but the destination held a beautiful wedding. More ... Congressman Gregory Meeks, who represents the eastern portion of the Rockaway peninsula in the House of Representatives, says that he is backing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination. More ... Congressman Gregory W. Meeks has voted to override President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). House Republicans were able to sustain the President's veto for the third time in the 110th Congress. The vetoed bill would have extended coverage to an additional 3.8 million children in the United States. More ... Members of the New York City Chapter of the Surfside Foundation are sending a message in a bottle, literally, to lawmakers in Albany in support of the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. In one afternoon, volunteers collected 10 bags of non-redeemable bottles from Rockaway's beaches to demonstrate that updates are needed to the current law. More ... Friends and family of Mary Correll celebrated her 102nd birthday at the JASA Social Adult Program on January 10. Born on January 10, 1906 in South Carolina, Corell moved to New York, with her husband, Humphrey. The two moved into Redfern Houses and resided there for 30 years. She currently lives with her son and spends her days at the JASA program. Pictured is Correll with Geraldine Wright, the director of the program. More ... Award winning Irish songwriter Niall Connolly will perform at The Tap and Grill Restaurant on Sunday, February 24 at 3 p.m. Connolly, a songwriter from Cork, Ireland, has toured Europe and North America where his combination of sincerity, energy, humor and songwriting have helped him defy language barriers, geography and common sense. The mixture of his gritty realism, strong imagery, infectious melodies and lust for life, makes hearing his music an intriguingly fresh experience. More ... Mary Heffernan announces the engagement of her daughter. Deirdre Marie Heffernan is set to wed Danny Fox. More ... Peggy Page, Executive Board Member/ Director; John Gilleece, Artistic Director of the Rockaway Theatre Company; Assemblywoman, Audrey Pheffer; and Cynthia Peithman, Pastry Chef from cakeline.com stand behind a creatively designed cake. More ... The Volunteer Fire Association presented Assemblyman Joseph P. Addabbo with an award for his support; the award was presented at their annual dance. Pictured from left to right are Ed Wilmarth, Vice President; State Senator, Shirley Huntly; Ed O'Hare, President; and Assemblyman Addabbo. More ... Speaking of a filmmaker's receipt of critical appreciation and respect, Woody Allen once said, "If you make comedies, they put you at the baby table." With his second "serious" film shot in England, the former comedic writer/ director is definitely not sitting at the baby table. More ... Many residents look forward to the opening of the new Rockaway Diner and Bakery on Beach 116 Street. Locals have been without a diner since the Rockaway Sunset Diner closed more than a year ago. The twostory eatery should be open by the summer. More ... Except for a clean-up crew, all was quiet at 120-13 Newport Avenue on Wednesday evening, very different from that morning, when members of the FDNY responded to an all hands, More ... The New York Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocates has called on the City Council to pass the Student Safety Act, legislation that would provide much-needed transparency and scrutiny to the disciplinary and security policies in New York City public schools. More ... Dr. Michael Franklin, Director of the Emergency Department at Peninsula Hospital Center, (front) hosted emergency personnel from local ambulance corps at an interactive lecture to better prepare ambulance personnel to handle a stroke victim en route to the Hospital Center. Victoria Backus, RN, MS, Nursing Director, PHC Emergency Department (second from right) joined Dr. Franklin for the presentation. PHC is a NYS designated Stroke Center with an expert stroke team in place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week prepared to administer the very latest in appropriate stroke therapies. "The more quickly a stroke can be diagnosed; the more expeditiously possible drug intervention can be administered. Quick appropriate action can mean a better outcome for our patients and that's always our goal. It just makes good common sense that emergency ambulance personnel know what to look for and what to do during transportation to the hospital," explains Dr. Franklin. Peninsula Hospital Center has hosted several of these informative and educational sessions for emergency service personnel on various topics. Joining Dr. Franklin and Backus, in the photo are members of the Rockaway Point and Rockaway Volunteer Ambulance Corps. More ... Arthur Pocress and his wife, Lila, recent patients at Peninsula Hospital Center, and their family thought so highly of the professional care and compassion exhibited by the PHC nurses and unit staff of the Hospital Center's Traumatic Brain Injury Unit and Telemetry Units that they had special plaques made for presentation to the nurses and staff of those units. Robin Blackwell, RN, Vice President of Nursing Services at the Hospital Center was deeply appreciative of the kindness shown by the Pocress family. "Although our nurses and unit staff always strive to provide the most competent and compassionate care, it is particularly gratifying when our patients and families take the time to express their heartfelt appreciation. We truly appreciate their recognition and expression of thanks." Pictured, Susan David, (left) and Ronnie David-Giantonio (right) presented two plaques to Janet McGowan, RN, Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Unit, (left center) Robin Blackwell, RN, V.P. Nursing, Chief Nurse Executive, (right center) on behalf of the Pocress family. More ... Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer has been contacted by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DCS), requesting her assistance with their Department's Correction Officer recruiting effort. Accordingly, under the auspices of the New York State Department of Civil Service, a new examination will be held on April 12, 2008. More ... A blood drive will be held on Thursday, February 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at St. John's Hospital Boardroom. The hospital urges everyone to donate. The donations will have an immediate life-saving impact and help hospitals provide vital patient care. A single donation may be separated into red cells, platelets, and plasma to help more than one person. More ... Residents of the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway joined with clergy this week in a rally at the sprawling public housing complex, saying that they are "fed-up with gun violence," and issuing a call for real action in ending "the culture of violence" that has taken so many young lives in the last few years - the most recent being 18 year-old Neville Ward, More ... More than a dozen residents of 175 Beach 115 Street were forced from their apartments into the cold afternoon as a boiler fire broke out at the wood-frame single-room occupancy building on Tuesday morning. They remained on the street for nearly an hour until they were given the all clear to return home. More ... Senator Malcolm A. Smith spoke with New York State Bar Association's (NYSBA) President, Kathryn Grant Madigan, and recipient of the Trailblazer Award, Taa Grays, about judicial diversity at the NYSBA Annual meeting. More ... The National Alliance for Healthy Communities honored Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network and Healthcare Partners, IPA and Senior Umbrella Newtwork of Brooklyn (SUN-B) for supporting their mission at the "Sophisticated Seniors" luncheon. More ... |
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