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St John's Episcopal Hospital's Hemodialysis Center hosted a discussion by the American Red Cross, on emergency preparedness. The organization gave advice on preparing families and homes in the event of a disaster. The discussion was led by Lucy Lopez, Assistant Director, Community Outreach and Preparedness of the American Red Cross of Greater New York. More ... Artist and illustrator Patricia J. Wynne will host a free workshop and book signing on Sunday, April 20, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Gateway National Recreation Area. She will help those in attendance discover how to do quick drawings of wildlife, pick up ideas for a nature journal, and she will offer participants tips on publishing their work. More ... Members of the American Legion Daniel M. O'Connell Post #272 Auxiliary Unit participated in the annual Queens County Four Chaplains ceremony held at St. Francis de Sales Church. The service was held to honor the four chaplains who gave their lives on the USS Dorchester during World War II. Pictured with Msgr. Brown are members of Unit #272 Auxiliary and members of the Post. More ... One of the major complaints about Rockaway is that there are no recreational activities outside of sports for the peninsula's young people. More ... As the Pope enters Rockaway airspace on his way into John F. Kennedy Airport tomorrow, parishioners at St. Rose Of Lima on Beach 84 Street hope that he will glance out the window and see the roof of the church emblazoned with a sign of welcome and endearment. A large, white sign on the roof of the auditorium says, "St. Rose Loves Pope Benedict XVI." One parishioner said, "We hope that he sees our welcome sign. Maybe it will get him to visit Rockaway." More ... Hospice and palliative care was the subject of this month's meeting of the Peninsula Hospital Center Auxiliary. Dr. Martin Grossman, Director of Medicine, explained the Hospital Center's plans to open a hospital based hospice unit in the near future. According to Dr. More ... The West End Temple Girl Scouts Troop 4275 visited Nora Gianotti's Chefs of the Future cooking party at her Beach 138 Street home, where they made gourmet pizza and learned new techniques for decorating cupcakes. More ... The following information comes from the webstie, www.Judaism101. com. And this day shall become a memorial for you, and you shall observe it as a festival for the L-RD, for your generations, as an eternal decree shall you observe it. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your homes ... More ... Peninsula Hospital Center and Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation (PCECR) pay honor each quarter to two distinctive individuals as their "Employees of Excellence". More ... Peninsula Hospital Center, an affiliate of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, recently received its annual renewal as a national Quality Respiratory Care Recognition (QRCR) hospital for 2008. More ... Peninsula Hospital Center will be holding its Annual Spring Luncheon on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at Russo's on the Bay in Howard Beach, honoring four "Nurses of Distinction. More ... To learn that a group of nurses have taken advantage of the State Medicaid home care program and exploited a patient is unsettling. Patients that rely on home care services, and the workers and the agencies that deliver such care, are all victims when there is abuse in the system. More ... St. Mary Star of the Sea Church will host a workshop on Sunday, May 4 at 1 p.m. (Spanish) and 2:15 p.m. (English) that will address the subprime mortgage crisis and predatory lending. For more information, call Jason Soto at 718-271-1238. More ... The Rockaway Waterfront Alliance is looking to help families register their children, ages 7-15 years old, to attend one of the Fresh Air Fund camps this summer. The Fresh Air Fund summer camp program in upstate New York offers hundreds of families the opportunity to send their children to camp for two weeks, free of charge. More ... The New York Life Foundation awarded Youth at Risk $25,000 for its Warriors' Way program. The program is designed to help prevent incarceration, teen fatherhood or other negative situations for teen boys ages 13-16, living in a single mother household. The program serves many of Far Rockaway youths. Pictured from left to right are Kevin Jones, Mentor, at Youth at Risk's Warriors' Way; Sy Sternberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of New York Life; and Rich Child, Program Manager, Youth at Risk's Warriors'Way Program. More ... Sheldon Sirota, DO, Director of St. John's Osteopathic Medicine Training Program, addresses the residents at St. John's Episcopal Hospital's annual poster competition for residents, which was held on Sunday, April 13, at the American Legion Hall in Valley Stream. More ... On Friday, April 4, St. John's Episcopal Hospital volunteer Maria Figueroa was honored at the Grand Ballroom of The Waldorf- Astoria during the United Hospital Fund Volunteer Achievement Award Ceremony. Figueroa volunteers in the hospital's Hemodialysis Center. Pictured from left to right are Renae Carr, Director of Volunteers; Maria Figueroa; and guest speaker Chris Cimino, NBC 4 "Today in New York" meteorologist. More ... Dancers from Thomasina's Dance Company in Broad Channel won the first place in the "Hall of Fame Dance Competition," which was held on Sunday, April 13. More ... The Ironworkers Joint Apprenticeship Committee, Local 40 and 361, will begin recruiting for 100 structural ironworker apprentices on April 17. Applications can be obtained at the locals' headquarters, 35-23 36 Street, Astoria, from noon to 6 p.m., from April 17 through May 29. More ... |
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