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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

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Making do

Assuming that your 401K is at a 7 percent return and 50 percent match, increase your annual contribution by $1,000 and maintain that level for 30 years. That will add up to an additional $153,110 to the family nest egg. You can put away a maximum of $14,0
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City EMTs need protective gear

Close to 50,000 PPE kits, which include respirators, filters, TYVEK coveralls, etc., were purchased by the state but none will be distributed to city volunteer squads. Instead, the city’s volunteer emergency service responders are to receive one-tim
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Tests only make it appear that progress is made

There is more than one danger inherent in this new structure. The educational system may now be a tool made to work for the advancement of political rather than educational goals. It has already been pointed out in the metropolitan press that the location
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Help stop overcrowding in neighborhoods

This is causing many problems including parking, strains on sewers and lack of water pressure and overloaded telephone and electrical lines.

Other problems are the overcrowding of public schools in Oakland Gardens, Bayside, and all of northeast Que
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Those who worked for Totten neglected at ceremony

Conspicuously absent – astonishingly, they were neither notified nor invited -were eight public-spirited citizens (including myself) who served without pay or perks for more than two years as members of the Fort Totten Redevelopment Authority, co-chaired
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Astoria Park Waterfront concert series 2005

Shore Blvd. between Hell Gate Bridge and the pool.

Friday evening, July 1 at 7:30 p.m. Independence celebration featuring Joe Battaglia & the N.Y. Big Band,

Lenny Coco & The Chimes followed by a Bay Fireworks display.
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HEALTH & HELP

Eat Healthy … Eat Well – Instructed by Jim Slim at the Kew Gardens Community Center on Fridays noon – 1 p.m.

Glaucoma – Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m.-noon. Flushing Hospital Medical Center lobby. (718) 670-5719.

Quit Smart – Stop smoking progr
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Help fund sexual assault forensics

In 1999, in a well-publicized matter, a woman sought care at a New York hospital. She had been brutally raped by a serial rapist who had been released from prison just the day before. Unfortunately, the health care providers did not properly collect the D
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ON STAGE

Warm Up Concert Series – July 2 from 3 – 9 p.m., DJ Harvey, Groove Collective, Simon James. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th St., (718) 784-2084.



Stars & Stripes – July 3 at 6 p.m., The American Concert Band

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