New York State Citizen Preparedness Corps

• A key component to the training is the distribution of free NYS Disaster Preparedness Kits to each family that registers and attends in-person to only the public events listed below.
• Courses will be offered on multiple dates and locations around the state.
• Check back for updates or sign up to be notified of upcoming courses.
• Sessions last approximately two hours

Saturday, March 23, 2019 – Yonkers, NY 03:00 pm to 04:30 p.m

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*This presentation will be in Spanish
488 South Broadway
Yonkers, NY 10705

UPDATE: There Is Also An English Program

Saturday, March 23, 2019 – Yonkers, NY 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

*Translation will be in English*

488 South BroadwayYonkers , New York 10705

PRESS RELEASE: Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano today announced that the City of Yonkers is accepting nominations for the city’s annual “Women of Distinction” Award, presented each year during March to celebrate Women’s History Month.

YONKERS: The annual “Women of Distinction” Award recognizes Yonkers women who have served their local community and positively impacted the lives of Yonkers residents. The public can nominate a Yonkers resident as a woman of distinction at www.YonkersNY.gov.

QUOTE: “So often it is our women who give so much of themselves to ensure Yonkers becomes a better city in which to live, work and play. They are our community leaders, educators and agents of social change,” said Mayor Mike Spano. “I encourage our Yonkers residents to nominate the heroes in their lives for our Women of Distinction Award.”

The deadline to submit a nomination is Wednesday, March 20; the award ceremony will be held on Thursday, March 28 at 6:00 pm at Yonkers City Hall (Ceremonial Courtroom, 4^th Floor).

About Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month originated in 1981 when Congress passed a resolution requesting President Reagan to commemorate “Women’s History Week.” The President proclaimed the week beginning on March 7, 1982 as the first Women’s History Week and the nation continued to designate a week in March as Women’s History Week until 1987 when the month of March was officially declared “Women’s History Month.”  Learn more at www.womenshistorymonth.gov.

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

With a Tomatometer Score of 80 percent and an Audience Score of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1977 release comes with positive recommendations.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kentucky_fried_movie

The Chicago Reader’s Dave Kehr said, “It’s easy to spoof cliches; it’s something else again to string them together with the insight into narrative structure these boys evidence,”

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-kentucky-fried-movie/Film?oid=1059271

Time Out said, “Great fun for an undemanding night out.”

Get a piece of the action at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) on Tuesday, March 5, at 7 p.m.

WATCH THE TRAILER: David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them.

David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he’s plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend and none of the locals will admit the creature exists.

With a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent and an Audience Score of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1980s classic has much to recommend it

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_werewolf_in_london

Time Out’s Tom Huddleston saying, “Not just gory but actually frightening, not just funny but clever, ‘American Werewolf…’ has its flaws, but these are outweighed by the film’s many, mighty strengths.”

INTERESTED? It’s playing at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) on Sunday, March 3rd, at 7 p.m.

YONKERS The Luxury units feature granite countertops and subway-tile backsplashes,

LUXURY: Energy Star Whirlpool appliances, Kohler fixtures, and walnut cabinets with soft-close hardware.

The building offers sweet perks, including a ground-floor River Club Lounge, an indoor pool overlooking the river, a roof-level River Club Bar with floor-to-ceiling windows, state-of-the-art fitness room, and 24-hour concierge service.

SYNOPSIS: Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris.

A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbor shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiraling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

Set to be released today, Friday, March 1, “The Hole in the Ground” already has a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hole_in_the_ground

“The Hole In The Ground finds a somewhat fresh angle on the possessed-kid subgenre,” noted Mike D’Angelo of the AV Club

https://film.avclub.com/the-hole-in-the-ground-is-spooky-fun-until-its-big-met-1832899581

The Hollywood Reporter’s Leslie Felperin said, “While this is more generically conventional than Jennifer Kent’s breakout thriller, it still taps potently into parental anxieties and primal fears.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/hole-ground-review-1181547

You can catch it at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) through Thursday, March 7th

Please be advised that a Government Operations and Oversight Committee Meeting has been Scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 4:30pm, in the Council Chambers, Yonkers City Hall, 4th floor.

1. Agenda:A Resolution Urging Mayor Mike Spano To Direct The Yonkers Department Of Traffic Engineering And The Yonkers Parking Authority To Conduct A Feasibility Study Regarding The Implementation Of Angled Parking On Streets Sufficiently Wide To Permit Such Practice.

2. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee

SEARCH WARRANT: A man and woman were arrested after police said more than a kilo of cocaine, human growth hormone, and $22,500 was seized

PATCH: Yonkers Pair Accused Of Drug Possession, Sale
TARRYTOWN, NY — A Yonkers man and woman were accused selling drugs in Westchester County.

The Greenburgh Drug & Alcohol Task Force said Lually Paulino, 36, and Yesenia Nunez, 31, both of Yonkers, face multiple felony drug charges as a result of an observed hand-to-hand cocaine sale by task force officers.

With the assistance of a state police K9 and her handler, Paulino, who police said was the seller, was found to have about 21 more grams of cocaine.

Information from the arrest led to the execution of a search warrant at Paulino’s home in Yonkers.

The search warrant, executed by the Yonkers police and the Greenburgh task force, yielded the recovery of more than a kilo of cocaine, a hydraulic kilo press, a quantity of Humatrope, which is a human growth hormone, and about $22,500 in cash.

Nunez, who lived at that location, was arrested….

https://patch.com/new-york/tarrytown/yonkers-pair-accused-drug-possession-sale

YONKERS: Westhab Had Their Dayspring Commons Housing Project Tabled For A Month, While The Reach Out To The Labor Community About A Possible Union Project Labor Agreements (PLA)

The possible Westhab PLA would cover housing built on land at 227 Elm Street And 320 Walnut Street for the construction of 63 units of affordable housing for low income and formerly homeless families, as well as, renovating a church into a 20,000 square foot community center.

The proposed complex would sit next to the former Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church at 203 Elm Street

The Dayspring Community Center at 320 Walnut Street, in Yonkers’ Nodine Hill area, was bought by Westhab in December 31, 2015 for $1.

The community center currently has afterschool programs for over 40 elementary school children and a dozen or so teens

The Yonkers-based Westhab received Yonkers Zoning Board of Appeals approvals for several variances in order to build Dayspring Commons, on top of a garage with 97 parking spaces to be located at 227 Elm Street.

For more than a dozen years, Yonkers officials have worked on urban renewal plans for the Nodine Hill neighborhood, a predominantly low-income area where some of the city’s oldest and most dilapidated housing is located.

Nodine Hill is one of the city’s oldest and lowest income neighborhoods with a large, transient rental population.

Westhab’s Executive Director Rich Nightingale has said that there is some difficulty of cultivating community leaders in an area that residents tend to leave when they can afford something better.