Local Resident Recounts Coping With Earthquake in Haiti
By Stanley Honore
      It was early that Tuesday (January 12) morning that my mother had been pacing back and forth to get ready for morning mass at the St. Anthony’s church up in the hills. And she had asked me to tag along with her, not being the kind to get up early for such things on a weekday.
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Students Thanked For Making Soldiers’ Holiday Season Brighter
     Some students at Public School 244 were inspired to do something for one of the school’s fourth grade teachers when they learned she was saddened when her younger brother, Jason Williams, was deployed to Iraq not long after the start of the school year.
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Haiti Earthquake Resource Center Opens In Brooklyn
      Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson joined Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to announce the creation of the New York Haitian Earthquake Family Resource Center in the National Guard Armory at 1579 Bedford Ave. between Union and President Streets in Crown Heights.
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