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Marine Park
Cheers to Marine Park Alliance volunteers Alicia Hamill and Maria D’Alessandro for graduating from the Partnerships for Parks Academy Fellowship program. The jolly vollies and 36 other dedicated do-gooders received their sheep skins from Parks’ Commissioner Mitchell Silver at a whoop-de-do ceremony last month.
The six-month program helps community groups get to the next level of their development as a group or through a specific project. Participants work with Partnerships for Parks to create a timeline for their initiative, and get support to achieve it through coaching and peer support.
Standing O pals Maria and Alicia have a simple mission — to educate people about Brooklyn’s largest green space and bring programming for visitors at the Carmine Carro Community Center in Marine Park.
Partnerships for Parks Academy Fellowship (www.PartnershipsforParks.org).
Bay Ridge
Golden news
Get ready for golden-oldie night when the eighth annual Senior Idol competition raises the curtains at Xaverian High School on Oct. 25 at 7 pm. The finalists, announced State Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge), will be: Julia Diorio, Rafael Calderon, Jr., Victoria Keller, Andy Gandolfo, Donald Coy, Stephanie Spatajakis, Daarley Brown, Gianvito Bottalico, Vincenzo Valerio, Mario D’Amico, Anthony Neve, Gagz Danzo, Lee Spinosa, and Ernest Carrai.
The talent pool will take to the mic with a musical medley through the ages, including opera and popular standards. Celebrity judge Bobby Valli — brother of legendary Four Seasons’ frontman Frankie Valli — will perform the band’s hits during intermission.
Tickets are $10 and available at the door on the night of the show. Proceeds benefit the school’s music department.
To sweeten the pot each show ticket will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win two tickets to the Broadway hit musical “Jersey Boys.”
Xaverian High School [7100 Shore Rd. at 71st Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 238–6044].
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Your help is needed as Sen. Golden and American Legion Amity Post 791 team up for a collection drive to support our injured troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland and the Armed Forces Military Nursing Home in Washington, D.C. You can drop off new board games and new pajamas at Golden’s district offices in Bay Ridge and Marine Park, knowing that they are going to a great cause. Board games, including Candy Land, Scrabble, Monopoly, and Pictionary, provide occupational therapy for the soldiers during their hospital stay. The pajamas for men, women and children will go to military families.
The patriotic politician told “O” the donations would mean the world to the troops.
“It will send a message from Brooklyn that we support them and will never forget their service,” he said.
Donations will be accepted until Nov. 12 at state Sen. Marty Golden’s district offices [7408 Fifth Ave. at 74th Street in Bay Ridge, or 3604 Quentin Road at 36th Street in Marine Park, (718) 238–6044].
Park Slope
Peas porridge hot
It’s World Porridge Day on Oct. 10. Come and celebrate the second annual opening of the Brooklyn Porridge Company. Bowls of steaming hot goodness will be bubbling away at Uncle Louie G’s Italian Ices and Ice Cream Shop.
The Brooklyn Porridge Company [741 Union St. between Fifth and Sixth streets in Park Slope, (718) 623–6665].