Yesterday at the Community Traffic Safety Awards Luncheon in East Meadow, Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg (D-Long Beach) received AAA New York’s 2011 Traffic Safety Award for Outstanding Achievement in Traffic Safety for an individual. Given annually, the award recognizes those who show an exceptional effort to improve the conditions of New York roads. “I am honored [...]
Senator Hannon Announces His Free Alzheimer’s Seminar This November 9th Senator Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau) announces that his 2011 Alzheimer’s Seminar will take place on November 9, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, at St. Paul’s School (Cluett Hall Building), in Garden City. “I’m pleased to bring a wonderful guest speaker, Virginia Belling, to discuss important topics [...]
1903 note card written by Theodore Roosevelt to son Quentin to be transferred in Sagamore Hill ceremony (Oyster Bay, NY) – National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will be in Oyster Bay on Thursday October 27 to participate in the annual Presidential Wreath Laying Ceremony at Young’s Memorial Cemetery to celebrate Theodore Roosevelt’s 153rd [...]
Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stages 3rd Annual Turkey & Trimming Drive on November 16 to Benefit Island Harvest – Long Island’s Largest Hunger Relief Organization Bethpage, Cablevision, Newsday, NY Islanders, Long Island Radio Group, Coliseum Caterers, Girl Scouts of Nassau and Girl Scouts of Suffolk Partner (Bethpage, NY) – The 3rd Annual Bethpage Turkey & [...]
Urges Women: Make an Appointment During Breast Cancer Awareness Month (Queens, NY) – On Saturday, November 19, between 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., NYS Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. in collaboration with the American-Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF), is sponsoring a free Mobile Mammography Van with staff from Multi-Diagnostic Services (MDS), in front of the Woodhaven [...]
(Queens, NY) – On Thursday, November 3, NYS Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., is co-sponsoring a repeat of the Senior Sunset Seminar series that begins with a health care proxy/elder law seminar at Sugar Bun Bakery, 156-22 Crossbay Boulevard, Howard Beach, with Linda Marshak, elder law attorney and partner at Brady & Marshak. The event [...]
Senator Kemp Hannon announces the launch of a statewide alert system that will help find vulnerable adults who become lost. Similar to the nationwide Amber Alert program, the “Missing Adult Alerts” system will assist local law enforcement officials in notifying communities when a cognitively impaired New Yorker goes missing. “The Missing Adults Alert system will [...]
(Queens, NY) – At a time when the unemployment rate in Queens and statewide is about 7.7%, with a New York City rate that is slightly higher according to the NYS Department of Labor, NYS Senator Joseph Addabbo (D-Queens) sponsored his 4th Job Fair on Friday, October 21, at The Shops at Atlas Park in [...]
Joins Multistate Coalition Urging FCC To Ban “Cramming” – Unauthorized Charges On Telephone Bills States Call For Stronger Regulations On Both Landline & Wireless Phone Services (New York) – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today called on the federal government to adopt stronger regulations to protect consumers against the phone bill fraud known as ‘cramming.’ [...]
System-Wide Clean Up Results in Doubling of Terminations Sought Fast-Track Reforms Are Making a Difference in Agency’s Obligation to Protect Individuals; Next Steps Include an Agenda of Improvements to Services and Care (Albany, NY) Commissioner Courtney Burke of the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) today released a six-month progress report outlining her [...]
