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Da-Rock All-Starz celebrated Halloween by handing out candy to the trickor treaters in Far Rockaway. Pictured are members of the motorcycle club with locals. More ... With rising rents and fuels costs, many Queens residents are turning to Home Sharing, New York Foundation for Senior Citizens' free matching service and affordable housing option to help them cope with the cost of maintaining a home or as an alternative to renting their own apartment. More ... Representatives from Peninsula Hospital Center's Departments of Safety, Security and External Affairs participated in the informational presentation for the community concerning the steps which will be undertaken to proactively address emergent contingency plans in the unlikely event of a medical emergency during the remediation process of the former coal gasification More ... Club President Daniel Mirkin of Rockaway Rotary recently announced that past president Barbara J. Morris has been selected to lead a team of four non-rotarians to Germany during a four-week international vocational exchange during May and June 2009. More ... Governor David A. Paterson has announced that beginning Monday, November 3, eligible New Yorkers can apply to the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) for this winter season, allowing them to receive as much as $2,500 to help pay for heating costs. More ... The Peninsula Hospital Center hosted its first annual Diabetes Awareness Day on Monday, November 17, at the hospital on Beach 51 Street. The event, which ran from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., featured lots of presentations about living with diabetes as well as informational tables staffed by hospital personnel and a cooking demonstration. More ... Members of the Queens Botanical Garden recently visited the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance's Environmentor Program. Dan Tainow, head of Queens Botanical Garden's compost program, brought a new compost bin for students to use for composting their leftover scraps. The bin will be used by participants at the NYCHA Ocean Bay Community Center. More ... St. John's Episcopal Hospital volunteer, Ruth Hamburger, received the President's Service Award for Volunteerism at an award ceremony hosted by the Retired Senior and Volunteer Program (RSVP). Hamburger, an office aide in the hospital's Admitting Department, received the award for completing more than 4,000 hours of community service. More ... Nineteen physicians on the attending staff of St. John's Episcopal Hospital made it into the 2008 28th edition of "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area," a book compiled by Castle Connolly. This guidebook lists doctors by specialty selected, in part, on opinions solicited from physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. More ... Nearly 450 turned out for the Chrysanthemum Ball on Saturday, November 8, 2008, to support St. John's Episcopal Hospital. Hosted by St. John's Development Board, the charity ball was held at the Sands in Atlantic Beach and raised $230,000 to benefit the Hospital's emergency, intensive care and surgical care services. More ... Stan's Pepper Steppers, the world champion Double Dutch team out of Sorrentino Recreation Center in Far Rockaway, took top honors in the Third Annual Speed Jump Off earlier this month. More ... In March of 2005, Congressman Anthony Weiner stunned the 100th anniversary dinner of the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department with news that he and Senator Hillary Clinton had come up with $1 million dollars to build a new firehouse on Cross Bay Boulevard to More ... Surrounded by local fishermen, Weiner called for the state's Department of Environmental Conservation to draft new rules that would allow dumping the cars to make artificial reefs in the Atlantic Ocean. More ... |
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