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Friday, January 4, 2008

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Welcome to the world, baby

Beautiful Hannah Beth-Marie Pelletier helps proud mom Chelsey ring in 2008 at Park Slope’s Methodist Hospital, where she caused a buzz of excitement for being Methodist’s first baby of the New Year, born at 3:59 a.m.
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Car turns into flaming wreck at GAP

Firefighters were dispatched to Grand Army Plaza Friday after a car caught fire at the circle near the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Officials said that the car was motoring past Grand Army Plaza when the engine caught fire at about 9:30 a.m
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Gunmen storm auto parts store

Cops are investigating a daring daylight raid of a Park Slope auto parts store. Workers at the Strauss Discount Auto Parts at the corner of Fourth Avenue and 14th Street said that three black males armed with guns raided the place during the morning of De
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Lifeguard training begins – Qualifying tests this month

The time is now to take a free swim qualifying test, the first step to becoming a New York City lifeguard, offered by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Qualifying tests to become a lifeguard for the summer of 2008 will be given
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Public forum

Community Board 7 and Windsor Terrace Alliance will sponsor a Public Speak Out on January 10 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Grand Prospect Hall.

The meeting, open to the public, plans to address Traffic and Transportation issues.

Speakers
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You’ve made merry, now make mulch

Bring your holiday tree to Prospect Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., January 5-6 for Holiday Tree Recycling, and they’ll turn it into mulch for healthy ground cover.

Watch your tree go into the chipper and take home some mulch for your yard or ga
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A good prescription for ailing folks

Young visitors at the Jewish Children’s Museum sent glad tidings from the heart when they created festive gift cards for sick children at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

The artsy, big-hearted bunch crafted and inscribed with greetings the get
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Seasonal cheer at Prospect Park Y

Goodwill and cheer abounded at the Prospect Park Y as the community facility played happy host to a steady stream of visitors on Christmas Day.

More than 200 volunteers, young and old, donned their Santa hats and served a sit-down holiday feast to
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Exposed to terrorism

I am deeply concerned about the US Office of Management and Budget’s plan to cut counterterrorism funds by more than half next year, and to provide no funding at all for port and transit security.

This ill-considered plan significantly impe
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Rudy’s another Dubya

If you want another President George W. Bush, then vote for Rudy Giuliani.

Both of these guys have one significant thing in common: It’s their way or the highway. And laws were made for others, but not for them.

The don’t govern
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Double trouble

Re: Alternate side parking regulations and double parking.

I recently received a double-parking ticket on 14th Street, between 4th and 5th avenues in Park Slope.

My vehicle had been moved and was double parked, along with many others, be
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Low-income housing

In response to Mr. Korb’s letter (“The Affordable Mirage,” 12-6 issue), suggesting that Mayor Bloomberg’s historic New Housing Marketplace Plan (NHMP) is focusing on the wealthy, nothing could be farther from the truth.

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