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Avenue L Blood Drive "Surpasses Average"
      The special blood donor drive last Saturday on Avenue L "surpassed the average" in donors, according to officials of Maimonides Medical Center, who supplied technical help.
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Alleged DWI Suspect Charged With Attempted Bribery
      A Canarsie resident was charged last week for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) and compounded the offense by allegedly trying to bribe the officer who arrested him, police said. According to a report filed at the 69th Precinct, Police officers Sharlene Kennedy and Ryan Thomas responded...
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Medical Waste Transfer Station Proposed For Farragut Road
By Neil S. Friedman
      United Canarsie South Civic Association president Neal Duncan recently announced his opposition to a proposal for a permit for a local medical waste transfer station. At the group's April 11th meeting, Duncan said he planned to mount a grassroots effort to contest the project, which i...
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COUNSELING CORNER
Keeping The Romance In A Relationship
      It certainly isn't news that relationships take work. We've all been told that we have to put effort into keeping a romantic relationship fresh and interesting. But too often we get wrapped up in our busy lives and end up ignoring our significant other or taking him or her for granted.
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Happy Birthday To Us! We're 86 Years Old!
      It was on April 21, 1921 that Walter S. Patrick hung that shingle at the corner of Glenwood Road and Rockaway Parkway announcing the establishment of the Canarsie Courier, a community newspaper that would serve the local area.
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Declining Numbers Can't Minimize Stirring Holocaust Tribute
By Dara Mormile
      Local residents joined Holocuast survivors and their families at Congregation AAA Sfard Monday evening for a Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) service to honor the memory of the six million Jews who died at Nazi concentration camps more than 60 years ago.
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Weiner Announces More Changes Ahead For Gateway
      In a "State of the National Park" speech last week at Floyd Bennett Field, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn & Queens) announced that $66 million worth of renovations have been completed or are underway in New York City's Gateway National Park since 1998, work to protect and improve its wetland...
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Indictment In Jet Ski Manslaughter Makes History: District Attorney
By Charles Rogers
      The manslaughter indictment of Aristotle Plagianakos in the jet-ski death of fellow Mill Basin resident Paul Zaccaria marks the first time someone has ever been indicted in New York City for manslaughter re-lating to a reckless boating incident.
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