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The Voice of Common Sense and Conservative Values VOLUME 90 NUMBER 37
SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER 3, 2019
WHAT’S NEWS RAGAMUFFIN, FESTIVAL WEEKEND ON THIRD AVE.
It’s time for Bay Ridge’s biggest weekend! On Saturday, Sept. 28, thousands of local children and their families will don costumes and march down Third Avenue for the annual Ragamuffin Parade. The next day, Sept. 29, tens of thousands will flock to the avenue for the annual Third Avenue Festival. For more on this story, see page 7INB.
A LENNON WALL GROWS IN BENSONHURST
A message board, known as a Lennon Wall, has suddenly sprung up on the corner of Bay 26th Street and 86th Street in Bensonhurst to give local residents the opportunity to post handwritten notes of support for the pro-Democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. Named in memory of the late Beatle John Lennon, a Lennon Wall is a public space where residents write or paint messages of remembrance for a person or messages of support for a cause. The first Lennon Wall was created in Prague shortly after Lennon was assassinated in 1980. In the years since his death, thousands of fans have visited the wall to write Beatles lyrics and post tributes to him. For more on this story, see page 4. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Bay Ridge Center invited guests to the christening of its newly donated passenger van to aid the center’s seniors. The van is an essential addition to the center as it allows for additional seniors to be picked up and brought to the center and then taken back home. It also affords them the opportunity to stay active and enjoy weekly outings to various destinations. The center now has three vans in its fleet including the new E-350 Super Duty van that holds 14 passengers. For more on this story, go to brooklynreporter.com.
SUNSET MEAT WHOLESALERS INDICTED
A newly unsealed indictment from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York charges A. Stein Meat Products, Inc., a Sunset Park-based processing and distribution business, with mislabeling meat products and selling them to consumers with inflated price tags. Owners Howard Mora and Alan Buxbaum are both charged with wire fraud for the alleged scheme, which involved directing employees to re-brand USDA “Choice” beef products as higher quality “Prime” cuts using counterfeit stamps from the federal agency, according to the complaint. For more on this story, go to brooklynreporter.com.
DIRECT TO D.C. Middle Eastern Christians from Bay Ridge bring attention to plight of fellow worshippers in the Mideast SEE PAGE 2
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photo courtesy of John Abi-Habib
NEW VAN FOR BAY RIDGE CENTER