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Rick Horan has wondered for more than 20 years why the people of Rockaway have a tendency to only explore and enjoy the Atlantic Ocean side of the peninsula and not the Jamaica Bay side as well. Access, he says, has always been the problem. More ... Michael Whine, an expert on European Anti-Semi-tism will be a guest speaker during Shabbat Services on November 21 at 7:30 pm. He serves as Director of Government and International Affairs at the Community Security Trust, which provides defense services for the Jewish community in the UK. More ... St. John's Episcopal Hospital capped off Breast Cancer Awareness Month activities with a Dare to Wear Pink Day on Thursday, October 30. The Sunbums, St. John's team, walked in the "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" event at Jones Beach on Sunday, October 19. The team raised more than $17,000 through pledges, selling ribbons and raffles. More ... 20 Years Ago... People throughout Rockaway are upset by an Election Day choice of the Make Mine Silver & Gold jewelry store for daylight of robbery. Alexander Jones, a resident of Far Rockaway his whole life, is glad he was on the beach on Sunday morning, November 6, when he spotted a man clinging to a bobbing boat in apparent distress. More ... Butterflies by the Sea, Eisenstadt Hospice Center at Peninsula, was the host of a "rewarding" presentation to one of its inpatients this week. Steven Koffer, MTA employee, was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation and a cash award by senior MTA officials to thank him for his money-saving idea for the MTA. More ... Peninsula Hospital Center, affiliate of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, and Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation are pleased to announce that they are the recipients of an FY08 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program from the New York State Offices of Homeland Security. More ... Peninsula Hospital Center, an affiliate of North Shore-LIJ Health System, will be hosting a "Diabetes Awareness Day" special event on Monday, November 17, 2008. The entire event will be devoted to the provision of information for diabetics and their families through guest presenters and on-site information booths. This special event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. More ... Artists will trade paint brushes and pencils for cake pans and cookie sheets, as the baking arts take center stage at the Rockaway Artists Alliance Bake Off! The first ever bake off coincides with the RAA's Gifted exhibition and promised to liven up the season with an artistic array of entries vying to please the sense of sight, scent and taste. More ... Liz Sulik, Director of External Affairs at Peninsula Hospital Center, was recently honored by Transitional Services of New York (TSI) with their 2008 Community Leadership award at their annual "Paint the Town Red" Dinner Gala at Russo's on the Bay. More ... One hundred nurses attended the 10th Annual Distinguished Nurse Lecture Series held on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, at the Lawrence Village Country Club. The lecture, entitled "Legal Issues in Nursing" and "Compassion Fatigue: Fatigue Healing the Nurse, Self-Care Just for Me," was presented by Yolanda G. Smith RN, MSN, CCRN. More ... A much smaller crowd of mourners and family members came to the Beach 116 Street Memorial to those who died on American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12, More ... Veterans from several wars joined together on Tuesday, November 11 for a Veterans Day ceremony at the Doughboy and Doughgirl monuments at Beach 95 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard. The solemn ceremony, hosted by the Daniel M. O'Connell Post of the American Legion, drew more than two dozen people to the monuments. More ... As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to make New York more green, 1,800 baby trees were planted behind and to the sides of the ball field in Bayswater Park near Beach 35 Street last Friday. The goal for MillionTreesNYC, a citywide public/private program, is to plant one million trees throughout the city over the next decade. More ... Representative Anthony Weiner recently stated that New York should use retired subway cars to create artificial reefs in its own waters - and stop spending taxpayer dollars to ship them to other states. Weiner called on the Department of Environmental Conservation to immediately update New York's foreign material dumping permit process to allow the cars to be used in New York waters - and save taxpayers $300 per car. Pictured at Pier 1 in Battery Park are Representative Anthony Weiner and Eugene O'Reilly, recreational fisherman; and Captain Bill Reddan, president of the Eastern Dive Board Association. More ... |
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