Category: Community

Every year before the end of summer and time for the kids return to school, the Nigerian Igbo Catholic Mass group at St. Paul’s the Apostle Parish in Corona host an annual picnic at Valley Stream State Park in LI, NY.

The United States Declaration of Independence guarantees every American the “Right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Tell that to the more than four hundred thousand mostly poor and working- class tenants of New York City Housing Authority buildings, many of whom live in apartments containing dangerous levels of exposure to lead paint poisoning.

Monday, May 14 was the day Pride and Entertainment intercepted one another at Queens Center Mall. The occasion was the second Annual Celebration of “LGBT Pride” an event put together by Councilman Daniel Dromm, Chair of New York City Council Finance Committee. This event leads to June Pride Month events which features a day filled with parade and entertainment in Jackson Heights Queens.

“We have had an incredible 99 year old history, and we try to honor that history continuing to provide important service to the brave men and women who currently serve or in the past have served in the American military, and also, to their families, as well. We also, but to a much smaller number, provide the same service to military men and women of our allies”, Hazel Cathers, the Executive Director of the Soldiers’ Sailors’, Marines’ and Airmen’s Club (SSMAC), told me in a recent interview.