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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

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TimesLedger Coach of the Year: Mike Mitchell

After falling to rival Molloy in the championship series a year earlier, the Knights were without the league’s best scorer when Chris Ryan decided not to return.

But Mitchell found a way to bring the team together and the result was another
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Business Calendar

MAY 5 – Business Growth Network – Queens Chapter 8 – 10 a.m. Business owners wanted for monthly meetings where there will be a discussion of business issues, networking and shared resources. This non competitive atmosphere is presented with a boardroom st
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Our Lady of Snows wins volleyball title

St. Thomas More jumped out to an early lead in the opening game and extended their lead to 11 points late in the game.

Led by Theodora Alexandrou, Julia Hannigan, Rita Romeo, Sara Correa and Kate Smolen, OLS fought back to trail 20-17. With St. T
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Snows softball improves to 6-0

Bianca Dilan and Rachel Costanzo combined to pitch a 2-hit shutout to lead their OLS team to the 4-0 win over American Martyrs at PS 186. Snows’ pitchers struck out 10 batters and walked only 4.

Gabriella Valdes, Ashley Rodriguez, Gabrielle P
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Closing the flood gates

The local residents say they worried about flooding every time the skies over Queens darkened. They say that for decades storms bringing heavy rains overwhelmed the local sewer lines resulting in flooding. Raw sewage poured into basements. Some might ask
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A goal line stand

Coach Robert King says the team serves young boys who can’t afford to play on other borough teams that often charge players hundreds of dollars. King charges each kid only $7 and even then some kids, age 7-17, can’t afford to pay. The team tra
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The new law will make it far more difficult

The new law will make it far more difficult for Queens residents to erase high-interest credit card debt. Those who once qualified for Chapter 7 protection will have to settle for Chapter 13 protection, which restructures debt with payments spread out ove
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Mayor too disconnected with education system

His brief comments indicated a further lack of understanding of what ails the education system. According to the mayor, for the first time parents who have problems with their child’s education can easily get the parent coordinator’s cell phon
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Bayside High School not a place of excellence

Bayside High’s principal was invited to address the PTA of one of the elementary schools in the high school’s zone because of anxiety among the parents regarding the direction of the high school over the last decade or so. Many are apprehensiv
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People must have health care proxies

A health care proxy and living will are similar in that they both clarify what to do only when you lack the capacity to make your own medical decisions. A health care proxy empowers a loved one to make medical decisions for you, whereas a living will is s
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Setting record straight on JHS 168

Please allow me to set some of the record straight. Virginia Montgoris, who is heading this protest for the QSI, has publicly stated she is not opposed to this school at all. When it was announced that this school would be placed at IS 25, there was no pr
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Diocese strung schools along

Our proposal was also denied. The parents worked relentlessly on what we thought was a good, solid proposal. Unfortunately, after stringing everyone along for weeks and giving false hopes, it was denied. Do you, the diocese, not like us here at St. Mary&#
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Bayside High still offers excellent education

While most of those selected as Principal For a Day are from the world of business (who may know very little about the school they visit), my background in education and long involvement with Bayside High gives me a different perspective – from the points
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Forest Hills residents need Parkway

A Daily News column at the beginning of the month wrote that Rivera has donated $826,000 to the campaign accounts of state officials and in return the state Legislature provided $80 million for nursing homes in Westchester County to increase salaries, imp
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Give children who want to learn a space to be educated

The diocese is Brooklyn/Queens; the offender of this reconciliation, her vicar of education, Monsignor Michael Hardiman. With a stroke of a pen for the second time in 71 days, the “protector of education” has decided that hundreds of children,

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