HoSang Cops First Commonwealth Award

New York City Council Member Leroy Comrie (center), joined by Council Member Oliver Koppell (3rd right), Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (2nd right) and numerous senior advocates at a City Hall press conference on Friday, February 22 to call upon the Department For The Aging (DFTA) to slow-down the implementation of a new modernization proposal for citywide senior citizen centers and to consider a new course of action that would avoid cuts to the senior services budget, the closing of senior centers and re-examine the regionalization of services. Joining the elected officials are (l-r) Bobbi Sackman, Council of Senior Centers and Services; Linda M. Leest, Services Now for Adult Persons; and, Priscilla Maysonet, Stein Senior Center.

WELCOME PARTY: Patrick Maitland, publisher of Street Hype Newspaper (l) poses with (l-r) Geneive Brown-Metzger, consul general of Jamaica to New York, Dr Metzger and Tony Cobb at the Generation 2000 (G2K) organized welcome party held last Saturday at The Elegant Rose Hall, the Bronx in honor of the ambassador.

CRICKET IN QUEENS: R. Singh, batsman for Richmond Hill, runs to score as fielders from the Aviation Flyers wait for the retrieval of the ball, during a high school cricket match in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, April, 2, 2008. New York City schools launched a cricket league in April, apparently the first school system in the country to offer the sport. The response has been overwhelming, a reflection of the city's growing number of immigrants from the Caribbean and South Asia, where cricket is the most popular sport.

AFRICAN MUSIC AND MAGIC: Musicians and storytellers Hasan Bakr and Kevin Nathaniel (in photo) will introduce pre-school and young school-age children to the sounds of Africa and the African diaspora through the story of a young musician, a magician, and how they save their village from the evil giant Abiyoyo. Instruments include the djembe, mbira, bongo, and shekere. This will be held on Sunday, May 18, 2008 from 2 - 4 pm at the Audubon Center in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY. For further information please call Rohan at 646-221- 5608.