FYI Around The Borough
PAL’s Annual Tournament
of Champions
Police Athletic League youngsters
from all fi ve boroughs of New York
City participated in the city-wide PAL
Tournament of Champions STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Math) Challenge, Wednesday, February
16. Activities focused on STEM
and physical education learning, featuring
engineering, design and physics
skills building. The 2022 competition
was an individual, center-based
competition held at each PAL center
with participants in Kindergarten
through eighth grades working within
age groups.
PAL children at MS 118 participate in handson
STEM challenges.
Photos Courtesy of the Police Athletic League
Ysobel Leonard from Throggs Neck will play
Amy/Flower Wide-awake Jake.
Photo courtesy of TADA! Youth Theater
TADA Youth Theater
performs ‘Wide-Awake
TADA! Youth Theater presents
“Wide-awake Jake,” a family musical
of a little boy who simply can’t fall
asleep and the adventures he encounters
on his quest for slumber. A cast
member from the Bronx appearing in
“Wide-awake Jake,” Ysobel Leonard,
14, as Amy/Flower. Leonard, from
Throggs Neck, said this is her eighth
year with TADA! Performances will
run from March 6 through March 19 at
TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W. 28th St.,
in Manhattan. Visit tadatheater.com
for more information and to purchase
your tickets.
NYBG, Councilman Kevin Riley celebrate Black History Month
The New York Botanical Garden
in collaboration with New York
City Councilman Kevin Riley held
an event in celebration of Black History
Month on Feb. 24. Honorees were
Sherman Browne, founder and chief
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empowerment offi cer of AIMHIGH
Empowerment Institute; Madaha
Kinsey-Lamb, executive director at
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center;
and Michelle Sajous, director of
Community Relations at River Bay
Corporation in Co-op City. Attendees
also included New York State Assembly
Speaker Carl Heastie; Sen. Chuck
Schumer; Bronx District Attorney
Darcel D. Clark and New York City
Mayor Eric Adams.
Dance and music performance by Mind-Builders Creative Center.
Photos by Jewel Webber
New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, watches performers celebrate Black
History Month at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Michelle Sajous(Director of Community Relations
at River Bay Corporation in Co-op City)
holds her proclamation presented to her by
New York City Councilmember, Kevin Riley.
Madaha Kinsey-Lamb(Executive Director at
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center) holds
her proclamation presented to her by New
York City Councilmember, Kevin Riley.
Sherman Browne (l), Founder and Chief
Empowerment Offi cer of AIMHIGH Empowerment
Institute, holds his proclamation
presented to him by New York City Councilmember,
Kevin Riley.
Volunteers from The Home Depot
Foundation and New York Cares came
together to build a library for students
at PS 55 X in the South Bronx on Saturday,
Feb. 19. Luis Torres, PS 55 X Principal,
reached out to New York Cares
and The Home Depot Foundation for
help to reopen the library for his students
which was closed due to funding
and space needs. All assistants were
volunteers and the library will have a
jungle theme.
John Vallacchi, the event production coordinator
for New York Cares, applies the jungle
theme on the wall of the library.
Photos Jewel Webber
Volunteers placing the jungle theme on the
walls of the school library.
Home Depot
Foundation and
New York Cares
build Bronx school
library
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