City Kid Corner
Photo by City Kid CornerThanksgiving is just a few days away — as you finalize plans for your holiday meal, we here at City Kid Corner hope that you will also help us provide holiday meals for families in need in our area. [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/500-turkeys-for-500-families--502#/] For the
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A local imam prays for the victims of the recent earthquake in South Asia. (Photo by Shannon Geis / Kensington BK)Borough President Eric Adams [http://brooklyn-usa.org], Council member Mathieu Eugene [http://council.nyc.gov/d40/html/members/home.shtml], and Comptroller Scott Stringer [http://comptroller.nyc.gov/] joined the
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Photo via NYC H2O [http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2015/08/29/its-my-park-at-fidlerwyckoff-house-park1] Raising kids is a lot of work — keeping them fed, clean, and entertained is exhausting. Add to that the responsibility to raise them to be active members of the community, and the pressure is on. While volunteering
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Photo courtesy Friends of the EndIf you’ve walked past the dead end where the subway tracks cut through Albemarle Road recently, you’ve probably noticed how much nicer it’s looking these days — which is thanks to a new group of neighbors who just formed the “Friends of the
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Photo via Cortelyou Library Friends [https://www.facebook.com/cortelyoulibraryfriends/photos/a.555910051127649.1073741828.135876953130963/555910417794279/?type=3&theater] The Cortelyou Library Friends [https://www.facebook.com/cortelyoulibraryfriends] group and The Farm On Adderley [http://thefarmonadderley.com/] are gearing up for their third annual Butterflies, Bulbs and Bookmarks event
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Photo via CAMBA [https://www.facebook.com/CAMBAinc/photos/a.10152812439989732.1073741846.20055334731/10152812440584732/?type=3&theater] .If you’d like to help out a community organization that does amazing work, from running a food pantry [/blog/politics/at-camba-food-pantry-council-members-kick-off-program-to-battle-youth-unemployment#prettyPhoto] that provides meals to thousands of neighbors every month
Holidays
We are hugely grateful for all 52 neighbors’ contributions to our and CAMBA’s 500 Turkeys for 500 Families Thanksgiving drive [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/500-turkeys-for-500-families--501#pledges] – thanks to all of you, we are well on our way to meeting our $15,000 goal! However, Thanksgiving is a little
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Council Member Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com/] is joining other members of the City Council [http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2014/08/26/city-council-give-1-32-million-food-pantries/] to replenish the stocks of local food pantries around NYC, and you can help. Lander is holding a food drive through the end of
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The free Macy’s Fishing Clinics [http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/places/audubon/pop-up-audubon#july august] return to Prospect Park’s [http://www.prospectpark.org/] Audubon Center on Saturdays and Sundays in July and August, and they could use a few good anglers to help out! The park is looking
Central Brooklyn
Attention, budding musicians (and their parents): Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org] is holding an open house [http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/beat-cave] tomorrow (Saturday, March 29) for 15-26-year-olds who’d like to trade some time volunteering in the park for no-cost time in their recording studio, the Beat
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Every year, thousands of football fans put their blood, sweat and tears – and lots of money – into obtaining tickets to the big game. But now you can forget the sweat, tears and money, because a trio of organizations are huddling together to offer a free chance at Super Bowl XLVIII
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Have you donated to CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Emergency Food Pantry [http://camba.org/Programs/FamilySupportServices/NutritionalServices/BeyondHungerEmergencyFoodPantry/tabid/145/menuheader/2/submenuheader/13/Default.aspx] ‘s Turkey Drive [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/500-turkeys-for-500-families] yet? We’re about two weeks into trying to fund 500 turkeys for 500 local