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THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 27, 2002
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FOR 9/11 KIN
Made From Ground Zero Steel
Sculpture memorials made from steel recovered from the World Trade Center site are available to victims’ families in remembrance of their loved ones.
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Fake Doctors Get Prison Sentences
Caused Disfigurement With Injections
A Manhattan couple has been sentenced to prison for posing as physicians and recklessly endangering the lives of patients they were unauthorized to treat by injecting them with a Botox-like substance which caused life-threatening infection and disfigurement.
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ANTI-CRIME PROGRAM
FACING TERMINATION
Ozone Park Group Seeks Help For Stray Animals
by Jennifer Stevens
The 102nd Precinct Community Council joined a budget battle to save a citywide anti-crime program during last Tuesday’s meeting in Richmond Hill.
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Forest Hills Gas Station
Wants To Buy City Land
Illegal Dumping On CB 6 Medians
by Michael Efthimiades
Community Board 6 endorsed the sale of city-owned property in Forest Hills to a gas station owner during last Tuesday’s meeting.
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Sunnyside’s Skillman Avenue
Will Get A New Traffic Light
A traffic light will be installed at the intersection of 47th Street and Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside.
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Cops Battle Thefts From
Middle Village Cemetery
Break-Ins To Parked Vehicles
by Rob MacKay
Police are investigating an ongoing problem involving theft from parked cars at St. John Cemetery in Middle Village.
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NAB PICKPOCKET, GRAFFITI
VANDAL IN 112th PRECINCT
Council Names Anti-Drug Essay Contest Winners
by Scott Bryan
There was added cause to celebrate during last Wednesday’s 112th Precinct Community Council holiday party, as just beforehand P.O. Gregory Bahrenburg had collared a female pickpocket known to prowl in Forest Hills.
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Four Are Charged
In Park Gang Rape
Woman Assaulted For Three Hours
Four men have been charged with rape, sodomy, kidnapping and robbery in a brutal attack on a couple in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park during which the woman was sexually assaulted for almost three hours inside a makeshift shelter. Two others are being sought.
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Corona Man Charged With
Stealing Laptop Computers
Owners Were In NYC On Business
A Corona resident has been charged with criminal possession of three laptop computers that had been reported stolen last year by owners in North Carolina and Nebraska.
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Memorial Service At Crematory
Mourners Decorate Trees With Doves
by Rob MacKay
About 65 individuals got the chance to mourn lost loved ones at the Third Annual Memorial Dove Tree Ceremony at Middle Village’s Fresh Pond Crematory on December 15.
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Task Force Set For Queens Village
Boost P.O. Presence In 105th Pct.
NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has decided to move the Patrol Borough Queens Task Force out of Fresh Meadows after the city’s lease with its current space expires.
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Sign Up For State Organ
And Tissue Donor Registry
Many New Yorkers Await Transplants
As New Yorkers make their New Year’s resolutions for 2003, the New York Organ Donor Network is asking everyone to make a difference by enrolling in the New York State Organ and Tissue Donor Registry, and informing their families of their decision to become a organ donors.
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Telemarketers Take Share
Of Donations To Nonprofits
Report Questions Honesty In Fundraising
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has released a report highlighting the costs incurred by nonprofit organizations that engage telemarketers to solicit charitable contributions from New Yorkers. It shows that less than a third of the money raised by telemarketing campaigns goes to charity, while the balance is used to pay expenses associated with the fund-raising.
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Recall Hams In Jackson Heights
Sliced “Boar’s Head Spiced Ham” is being recalled from a Jackson Heights supermarket due to Listeria contamination.
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Citizens Can Help To Protect
NYC’S Drinking Water Supply
Join DEP’s COP Watch Program
Calling on residents, recreational users, hunters, fishermen, hikers and organizations to participate in a comprehensive community effort to reduce pollution, crime and terrorism, DEP Commissioner Christopher Ward has announced that DEP’s environmental police in monitoring the safety of water supply facilities in-city and in the upstate watersheds.
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Con Edison Presents Toys
For Tots At NY Burn Center
Hospital Unit Receives Donation
Con Edison shared the joy of the holiday season last Friday with children at the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Burn Center and Pediatrics Unit in Manhattan. The children received toys collected by Con Edison employees during their third Toys for Tots drive.
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DFTA Offers Help To Senior
Citizens With Winter Blues
Many Get Depressed After Holidays
The New York City Department for the Aging is working with the United States Administration on Aging, the National Association of State Units on Aging, and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging to inform seniors and their families regarding federal, state, and local assistance available to seniors dealing with post-holiday blues or other issues.
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Richmond Hill Republican
Club Gets Landmark Status
Will Save Site From Demolition
After a long battle, the Richmond Hill Republican Club building will be awarded landmark status.
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Hospitalman DeGraff
Finishes Corps School
Navy Hospitalman Jules DeGraff Jr., son of Jacinta Flores of Richmond Hill and Jules DeGraff Sr. of Trenton, New Jersey, recently graduated from the Basic Hospital Corps School at Naval Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, Illinois.
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