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Woodside Neighborhood Asscoc. Town Hall MeetingThursday, May 24th @ 7PM, St. Sebastian’s 39-60 57 Street

Guest Speaker:Parks & Sanitation To Discuss Tree Planting

Marching With Mom

Sunnyside StudentsRally For RestorationOf After-School Funds

Carrying handmade signs stating “Save Sunnyside After-School”and “We Love SCS After-School,” over two hundred students inSunnyside Community Services’ after-school program at PS 150 Qparaded though the streets of Sunnyside on May 9th before rallying inprotest of cuts to the after-school program budget.

Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer spoke to the participants at therally, expressing his continued support for this critical program. “We’reworking really, really hard to save this program for the third year in arow,” the council member told the cheering students. “Children and theireducation – there’s nothing more important. This should never happenand I hope that it will never happen again.”

More than 47,000 NYC children are at risk of losing access toprograms on which they and their families rely. Sunnyside CommunityServices’ after-school program at PS 150 serves almost 200 students.The support provided during after-school hours is essential to theiracademic success. Working parents depend on after-school programs toprovide a safe, supervised environment for their children during criticalafter-school hours.

Judy Zangwill, executive director of Sunnyside Community Ser-vices told rally participants. “We are going to do everything we can aswe have done the previous two years with support from our councilperson Jimmy Van Bramer,” said Zangwill. “I’m calling on students,parents, teachers, and the community at large to join us in a fight to saveour after-school program.”

Those who wish to add their voice to protest the cuts and advocate forrestoration of funds critical to children and working families are encour-aged to call 311 to leave a message in support of funding the after-schoolprogram at PS 150 and other programs for children and working familiesin New York.

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Local residents and senior ad-vocates Ann Horata, DorisGuevara, and Marie Konecko,members of the Sunnyside Com-munity Services (SCS) Center forActive Older Adults, joined hun-dreds of seniors from across thefive boroughs to rally on the stepsof City Hall on Wednesday, May9th. The rally was organized by theCouncil of Senior Centers and Ser-vices of New York City (CSCS) toprotest millions of dollars cut fromprograms funded by the New YorkCity Department for the Aging.After passionately exhorting thecrowd about the value of the SCSCenter and the services it makesavailable to seniors and the com-munity at large, Horata, Guevara,Konecko and Josue Monterroso,director of the SCS Center forActive Older Adults, presentedtheir case, and well over one thou-sand signed petitions, to City Coun-cil Member, Jimmy Van Bramer.

Mother’s Day In Afghanistan

Over Mother’s Day weekend, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney visited members of the United Statesarmed forces serving in Afghanistan, joining a bipartisan congressional delegation that also included HouseDemocratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Jean Schmidt (R-OH) and Terri Sewell (D-AL). The lawmakers met with troops in the field and participated in importantdiscussions with American and Afghan government and military officials as well as with Afghan womenleaders and organizations. On the trip, they visited Helmand and Kandahar provinces, two of the most war-torn areas in the current conflict in Afghanistan, and yesterday traveled to Kabul, the nation’s capital. It wasthe first congressional delegation to visit Afghanistan since the historic Strategic Partnership Agreementsigned by President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on May 1, 2012.

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Council member Van Bramer lis-tened sympathetically to their tes-timony in English and in Spanish,and promised to work tirelesslywith other members of the counciland elected officials to continuethe fight for the services on whichseniors and the community rely.

Also present at the rally wererepresentatives from case manage-ment service providers to protest a$6.6 million dollar cut which theyargue would leave home boundolder New Yorkers alone and vul-nerable. Case managers are a life-line for an increasingly frail eld-erly population, many of whomlive alone and with limited re-sources. According to WendyZinman, program director of casemanagement at Sunnyside Com-munity Services, “Case managersassist homebound individuals over60 and their care givers in obtain-ing vital services, and help them tonavigate complex systems such as

Medicaid, Medicare D, food cardapplications, managed care op-tions, housing, and transportationissues.” Zinman added that caseworkers help seniors age in placewith dignity. “A case manager canhelp a frail or disabled senior ob-tain emergency finances to buy abed, for example, when we learnthey have been sleeping in a chair.”

Cuts to senior centers and casemanagement would cause unduehardships for some of the mostvulnerable New Yorkers, and re-duce their quality of life, as wellas that of their families. To addyour voice to those seeking resto-ration of funding for senior cen-ters and case management, call311 or your local City Councilmember. For more informationabout Sunnyside Community Ser-vices’ Center for Active OlderAdults or Case Management Ser-vices, go to www.scsny.org orcall 718 784-6173.



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On May 8th, the Sunnyside Chamber ‘s held it’s monthly luncheon meeting at DaziesRestaurant on Queens Blvd. The guest speaker was Jane Schulman, Vice President,Division of Adult & Continuing Education & Executive Director, Goldman Sachs 10,000Small Businesses. Under Ms. Schulman’s leadership in 2009, LaGuardia was chosen byGoldman Sachs to be the first community college to pilot Goldman Sachs 10,000 SmallBusinesses initiative, in which she spearheaded the development the program at LaGuardia,as well as the establishment of a Workforce1 Healthcare Career Center on campus andseveral Pre-College Academic programs for adults returning to education. Ms. Schulmanreceived her Bachelors of Science in Education from SUNY at New Paltz and a Masters ofScience in Guidance and Counseling from Brooklyn College. Adult Continuing Educationserved over 35,000 adults, children and businesses, yearly, in a wide variety of programs,courses and workshops.

Board InstallationsAt Ravenswood

by Edwin Cadiz

Last month, the Police Community Council; PSA #9 from NYC Housing AuthorityPolice Council had its installation of its new board. After 15 years, Juanita Brathwaile isstepping down as President. She was on had to see the swearing in celebration atRavenswood Community Center.

The new board consists of Karen Dennis (Pres.), Fatima Garcia (Vice Pres.), CarolWilkins (Secty.), Ernestine Cooper (Corresponding Secty.), Valerie Johnson (Treasurer)and two Sgt of Arms: Jerri Fitzgerald and Shirley Hawkins. The new board was sworn inby Deputy Inspector Edward Britton and Captain Jesse Lance.

Long Island City Arts OpenSaturday May 19th and Sunday May 20th 12:00pm-6:00pm, FREE.

Tons of Venues and Hundreds of Artists open their studios and art to the public.Starting Saturday, May 19th @ The Jacob Riis Settlement at QueensbridgeArts

Festival, 10-25 41st Avenue, Long Island City [41 Avenue between 10 and 12 Streets].Enjoy Live Music & Performances, Food, drinks and children’s activities.

Queens Supreme CourtHosts Military Retirement &

Awards CeremonyJustice Jeremy S. Weinstein, Administrative Judge, Supreme Court, Queens County,

Civil Term presided over the retirement and awards ceremony of Hon. Leonard Livote, Judgeof the Court of Claims who retired from the Army Reserve after 27 years of dedicated service.Colonel Livote, a Senior Military Judge, received the Legion of Merit Medal for exception-ally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service and achievement. Amongthe United States Military decorations, the Legion of Merit Medal is the sixth highest awardin order of precedence. The Legion of Merit Medal was presented by Brigadier GeneralPatrick Reinert, CDR USAR Legal Command, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Colonel RobertRigsby, CDR 150th JADET/LSO, Alexandria, Virgina, presented retirement gifts on behalfof the United States Army Trial Judiciary. The awards ceremony was attended by JudgeLivote’s military and judicial colleagues as well as court staff, friends and family.

(L-R): Colonel Robert Rigsby, Brigadier General Patrick Reinert, Hon. LeonardLivote, and Justice Jeremy S. Weinstein.

Rebecca Barker (Sunnyside Chamber President), Jody Glick (JodyBuilders Eco Contractors), Edgar Hernandez (LaGuardia CommunityCollege), Jane Schulman (Vice President La Guardia CC) and LindaMellon (Director, Strategic Initiative).



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To QueensOn May 11th, CM Van Bramer

announced that New York City’sBike Share Program, “Citi Bike” iscoming to Queens. After workingwith the Department of Transpor-tation, Van Bramer was able tosecure 10 locations in Long IslandCity giving the borough of Queensthe opportunity to be a part of thenation’s largest public bike sharesystem. The 10 locations in Queenswill add to New York City’s 600bike docking stations.

“The expansion of New YorkCity’s Bike Share program intoWestern Queens will give both tour-ists and our local residents the abil-ity to get around parts of our greatneighborhood in an environmen-tally friendly and convenient way,”said the Council Member . “I wantto thank the Department of Trans-portation for working with my of-fice to make sure that Queens is apart of Phase 1 of Bike Share. The10 proposed locations will not only

facilitate commuters into and outof Long Island City but it will alsoattract new visitors to all the fan-tastic cultural and culinary optionsthe neighborhood has to offer.”

The program will provide anew, affordable, 24/7 transporta-tion option for New Yorkers andwill launch in July 2012 in parts ofManhattan and Brooklyn in addi-tion to Long Island City. As part ofthe sponsorship agreement, CitiBike branding will be displayed onthe system’s 10,000 bikes and 600bike-docking stations. The systemwill be operated by Alta BicycleShare and the City will split anyprofits with the company.

Each bike will be equipped witha bell and both front and rear lights,and each bike will be inscribedwith a safety message encouraginghelmet use; cautioning riders toyield to pedestrians, avoid ridingon sidewalks, ride with traffic andto obey all traffic lights and signs.

On May 21st, CM Van Bramer,Community Board 2 and DOT will host acommunity forum on Bike Share and the

proposed docking stations. The program isscheduled to expand to additional

neighborhoods in Queens in Phase 2 of BikeShare’s launch.

Drunken Driver Charged InFatal Sunnyside Crash

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by Rob MacKay

A Brooklyn cabby who al-legedly struck and killed a pe-destrian while driving drunk inSunnyside last Sunday morn-ing has been arrested.

Police nabbed East NewYork resident Sayash Avedis,58, on Tuesday and chargedhim with manslaughter, ve-hicular manslaughter, crimi-nally negligent homicide anddriving while intoxicated. Hewas held on $100,000 bailand faces up to 25 years inprison, if convicted.

According to reports,Avedis was driving west-bound on Greenpoint Avenueat about 2:30 a.m. He clippeda parked truck and jumpedover a curb before smackinginto Gabriel Hernandez, whowas standing on the north-west sidewalk by the inter-section at 46th Street. Thearrestee’s gray 2003 MercuryGrand Marquis then swervedback onto the roadway andclipped a few more parkedvehicles before stopping.

Soon thereafter, Avedis wasapprehended and taken intocustody. He reportedly scoreda .11 blood alcohol level on aBreathalyzer test. (The legallimit is .08.) Allegedly, he toldpolice that he didn’t know thathe had run into a person.

Hernandez, who was un-conscious at the scene, wastaken by EMS personnel toElmhurst Hospital Center,where the 24-year-old was pro-nounced dead on arrival due tohead trauma.



Elections At United 40’sAt the May 9th meeting of the United Forties Civic Association, the Nominating Committee presented Joe Gurrado, Sally Renda and Bobby Burch their confirmation for

the election of the elected officers for the next two fiscal years.

Joe Gurrado, Sally Renda and Bobby Burch.

Jose Pena (Treasurer), Carol Burch (2nd VP), Don McCallian (President), Elizabeth Montenegro (1st VP)and David Rosasco (Recording Secretary). Not pictured Mike Stemmer Secretary.

SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday June 13, 2012, our annual salute to our Flag andSummer Festival for our members, elected officials, guest and friends.

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Marching With MomOn Saturday May 12, 2012

Mothers and Children were out inforce along Skillman Avenue forthe First Annual Woodside On TheMove (WOTM) Skillman AvenueMother’s Day Children’s Parade.The Parade, the brain child ofWoodside On The Move’s BoardVice Chairman, Al Volpe, and or-ganized by Lavern Mason-Howard,was an extraordinary idea with afresh and fitting theme. ParadeGrand Marshalls Council MemberJimmy Van Bramer and his mother,Elizabeth Van Bramer, led a grandprocession up Skillman Avenuefrom 47th Street; to 51st Street.

The sounds of the SunnysideDrum Corp filled the air and luredresidence and business owners outto view the procession of childrenand their moms as they strolled upSkillman Avenue showcasinghandmade banners dedicated tohonoring their moms. At the end ofthe four block procession, staffers

from La Marjolaine Bakery treatedthe crowd with their fresh signa-ture cookies. P.S. 152 WOTMAfterschool staff carried bannersand acted as judges for the BestBanner and Best Outfit contest.Woodside On The Move Inc. thanksthe local businesses along SkillmanAvenue who generously donatedprizes to support this event. Petu-nia Children’s Boutique donated a$25 gift certificate, Skillman’s Fa-mous Pizza and Coffee Shop do-nated a dinner for two, and TheBrogue Bar, donated a bottle ofChampagne and a bottle of Wine.

Woodside On The Move is aconsistent presence, developingnew programs and events to benefitthe community: the Mother’s DayParade, last month’s Youth Festi-val and the concert and street Fairsare clear examples of their unwa-vering commitment to improve thelives of the residents and neighbor-ing communities of Woodside.



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Can You Turn “Be a Millionaire Day” into Reality?If you look hard enough, you

can find many obscure holidays,but few of them can instantlycapture people’s interest as muchas Be a Millionaire Day, which is“celebrated” on May 20. Whileamassing a million dollars maynot be as significant a milestoneas it used to be, most of us wouldstill feel pleased if we couldsomeday attain “millionaire” sta-tus. While there are no perfectformulas or guarantees, hereare some steps to considerwhen working toward any in-vestment goal:

Put time on your side. Theearlier you begin saving and in-vesting, the better your chancesof reaching your financial goal.You can’t expect to “strike itrich” immediately with any singleinvestment, but by investing yearin and year out, and by choosingquality investment vehicles, youhave the opportunity to achievegrowth over time.

Pay yourself first. If you wait

until you “have a little extramoney lying around” before youinvest, you may well never in-vest. Instead, try to “pay yourselffirst.” Each month, move somemoney automatically from achecking or savings account intoan investment. When you’re firststarting out in the working world,you might not be able to affordmuch, but as you advance in yourcareer, you can increase yourcontributions.

Control your debts. It’s easiersaid than done, but if you cankeep a lid on your debt payments,you’ll have more money withwhich to invest.

Take advantage of tax defer-ral. When you invest in tax-de-ferred vehicles, such as a tradi-tional Individual Retirement Ac-count (IRA) and your 401(k) orsimilar employer-sponsored re-tirement plan, your money hasthe opportunity to grow fasterthan it would if placed in an in-vestment on which you paid taxes

each year. Of course, when youstart taking withdrawals, presum-ably at retirement, you’ll have topay taxes, but by then, you maybe in a lower tax bracket. Andsince you’ll have some controlover your withdrawals, you canhelp control taxes, too.

Build share ownership. As aninvestor, one of the best thingsyou can do to build your wealth isto increase the number of sharesyou own in your investments. So,look for buying opportunities,such as when prices are low. Also,consider reinvesting any divi-dends or distributions you mayreceive from your investments.

Don’t be overly cautious. Foryour money to grow, you need toput a portion of your investmentdollars in growth-oriented ve-hicles, such as stocks. It is cer-tainly true that stock prices willalways fluctuate, sometimes quitesharply, and you may receivemore or less than your originalinvestment when sold. But if you

avoid stocks entirely in favor ofmore stable vehicles, you run therisk of earning returns that maynot keep you ahead of inflation.As you approach retirement, andeven during retirement, your port-folio will probably still need somegrowth potential. Work with yourfinancial advisor to determine theappropriate approach for you.

Think long term. By creatinga long-term investment strategyand sticking to it, you’ll be lesslikely to take a “timeout” frominvesting in response to perceivednegative news, such as marketdownturns and political crises.

Following these suggestionsmay someday allow you to reachthe point when your financialgoals become a reality for you.

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Putting NYC Teachers and FirstResponders Back to Work

New legislation will provideNYC with federal funds to hireteachers and first responders

Standing in front of the Col-lege Point Police Academy, Rep.Joe Crowley (D-Queens, theBronx) announced he will intro-duce legislation to protect andcreate thousands of jobs for teach-ers, firefighters and police offic-ers. The Teachers and First Re-sponders Back to Work Act willauthorize $70 billion in federalfunding to help states and localgovernments retain or create jobsfor teachers and first responders.

Across the country, state andlocal budget cuts have eithereliminated or put at-risk thou-sands of education and first re-sponder jobs. The Teachers andFirst Responders Back to Work

Act, which is a part of PresidentObama’s American Jobs Act, willauthorize $70 billion in federalfunding over the next two fiscalyears to help states and local gov-ernments retain or hire teachersand first responders. Specifically,the Teachers and First Respond-ers Back to Work Act will autho-rize $30 billion in competitivegrants per year to states to helplocal school districts avoid lay-offs, rehire teachers who havelost their jobs due to budget cuts,and hire new teachers to helpmeet the community’s educationneeds. The bill also provides $5billion in competitive grants peryear to support jobs for policeofficers, firefighters and first re-sponders. The funds can also beused to maintain current re-

sources, such as keepingfirehouses open.

“When teachers are taken outof the classroom, fewer cops arepatrolling our streets andfirehouses close, we all pay theprice,” said Rep. Joe Crowley.“Teachers and first respondersare the backbone of our commu-nities and my bill will give citieslike New York the ability to re-tain these critical jobs and ensurewe are meeting the demands ofour growing community.”

“Our police officers,firefighters, and teachers all per-form vital roles in our local com-munities.” said AssemblymanMichael Simanowitz (D-CollegePoint). “I applaud CongressmanCrowley for his leadership onthis legislation to provide impor-

tant funding for the retention andexpansion of our currentworkforce. It is a common sensesolution that brings real jobgrowth to Queens.”

NYC Patrolmen’s BenevolentAssociation president Patrick J.Lynch said: “The NYPD is grosslyunderstaffed and we are paying aprice for it in the numbers of illegalguns and shootings on our streets.There are nearly 7,000 fewer policeofficers patrolling our streets todaythan just ten year ago and many ofthose who remain have been di-verted from street patrol to anti-terrorism duty. This important leg-islation will help us put more des-perately needed police officers backon patrol in the neighborhoods andthat is good for our citizens and forthe city’s economy.”

Rep. Crowley, State Senator Tony Avella; Assemblyman MichaelSimanowitz; Bob Astrowsky (Assistant Secretary, UnitedFederation of Teachers); Steve Cassidy (President, UniformedFirefighters Association); Capt. Alexander Hagan (President,Uniformed Fire Officers Association); and Det. Michael Palladino(President, Detectives’ Endowment Association).



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The following letters are the opinions of its authorand not necessarily those of the Woodside Herald.

Letters To The Editor

Attn: WoodsideCommunity

Dear Editor,My name is Adrian Bordoni,

Executive Director of WoodsideOn The Move, Inc. (WOTM), anon-profit proudly serving thiscommunity and neighboring areassince 1976. The reality of thebudget crisis in New York City hashit our agency: Woodside On TheMove’s OST after-school pro-grams at PS 11 and PS 152, servingalmost 800 students, were not se-lected for future NYC Departmentof Youth and Community Devel-opment (DYCD) funding. The lossof these 800 Afterschool OST spots

will directly and negatively impactthe lives of hundreds of Woodsidefamilies who depend on us for ser-vices. In addition, more than 50jobs provided through these pro-grams will be eliminated, and ourcommunity will lose millions ofdollars in funding that benefitsmany of our working families.

We know that we have alwayshad the support of our WOTMFamilies and the community andwe are asking once again that youstand with us to protest these egre-gious cuts. Moreover, we have thesteadfast support ofCouncilmember Jimmy VanBramer, an outspoken Friend toour organization and an integralpart of our cause, demanding therestoration of funds to our After-

school Programs. Please join us atthe two rallies we have scheduledto protest the cuts: on May 23 at5:30 pm at P.S. 152 at 62nd Streetand Northern Boulevard and onMay 24 at 6pm at P.S. 11 atSkillman Avenue and 56th Street.

We hope you will be able tojoin WOTM Staff and Board,School Staff, the Parents, the Stu-dents, our Elected Officials andPartner Organizations in this im-portant rally. To obtain additionalinformation or to confirm yourparticipation in this event, pleasecontact: Adriana Beltran, Execu-tive Assistant, [email protected] call 718-476-8449. Thank youfor your on-going concerns, wehope that our rallies, letters andphone calls will make the differ-ence so that we can continue toprovide quality arts, academic andrecreational programs to our com-munity.

Sincerely,Adrian Bordoni, Executive

Director, WOTM

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