Editor’s Note: This Op-Ed originally ran in last month’s issue of the Tremont Tribune. The author, Heidi Hynes, is executive director of the Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center in Crotona. By HEIDI HYNES
Weather: Sping has sprung! Sunny, in the high 70s today. Welcome Spring! ….
This Monday night BronxTalk will feature an expert from the Fordham University Seismic Station.
Weather: Cloudy and rainy today, and chance of snow showers tomorrow. Sigh.
Councilman Joel Rivera, St. Barnabas Hospital and the New York Blood Center are hosting a community blood drive at the hospital’s Hemodialysis Unit, at 451 Third Avenue, until 5:45 p.m. today.From the press release:The need for blood is constant. New York Blood Center alone requires over 2,000 volunteer blood donations each day to meet the transfusion needs of patients in close to 200 New York and New Jersey hospitals. Each donation of blood can help save 3 lives following component into red cell, platelet, and plasma separation. Car accident and trauma victims may need as many as 50 or more red cell transfusions.
Weather: Another sunny day today, finally warming up a bit to hit around 50 degrees this afternoon. Temps will drop again tomorrow, with rain expected and a possibility of light snow on Friday.Story of the Day: Snake FeverThe nation is captivated by the Bronx Zoo’s missing cobra, which disappeared from the park’s reptile house this weekend and then, mysteriously, started posting updates of its whereabouts on Twitter yesterday. @BronxZoosCobra has racked up 136,458 followers and has reached celebrity status, getting shout-outs from Mayor Bloomberg, Steve Martin and the Daily Show’s John Stewart. According to Gothamist: “Some entrepreneurs have already started an ‘I Egyptian Cobra New York’ line of clothing and accessories.” Collectors items, for sure.
Weather: Very similar to yesterday – sunny and cold this morning, gradually warming up into the mid-40s in the afternoon and then cooling down again at night.
Photos by Fausto Giovanny PintoCreated with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.Last Friday, March 25 marked the 21st anniversary of the tragic fire at the Happy Land Social Club, on Southern Boulevard in East Tremont, where 87 people lost their lives after an arsonist set fire to the building. Each year, Community Board 6 hosts a memorial mass at nearby St. Thomas Aquinas Parish and at the Happy Land memorial site. These pictures were taken during the service last week by Tremont Tribune reporter Fausto Giovanny Pinto.
Welcome to Monday, Bronx folks. I woke up this morning to the sporadic hissing of the radiator and immediately went about locating my long johns. Despite the calendar’s best attempts to tell us otherwise, it’s clear winter is making an extended appearance in 2011. Indeed, it remains long john weather. Weather.com says it’s 28 degrees this morning, but feels like 16.
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