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Glendale Stop
& Shop sells
second-prize
Powerball ticket
worth $1 million
BY JULIA MORO
editorial@qns.com
@QNS
Th e New York Lottery announced
that a second-prize ticket for the Jan. 5
Powerball was sold in Glendale.
Th e $1 million ticket was sold at
Stop & Shop located at 64-65 Myrtle
Ave. Another second-prize winning
ticket was sold in Brooklyn.
Th e winning numbers for the
Powerball game are picked from a
pool of one to 69. Th e red Powerball
is drawn from another fi eld of one to
26. Participants can see the drawing of
the winning numbers televised every
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at
10:59 p.m.
Queens had a stroke of luck in 2021,
with multiple winners across the borough
in Ridgewood, Whitestone and
Corona. Last month, a ticket worth
$21,853.50 was purchased at YZ 99
CENTS STORE, located at 817 Seneca
Ave. in Ridgewood.
Th e New York Lottery is the largest
and most profi table lottery in North
America, contributing $3.59 billion
in the fi scal year 2020-21 to help support
education in the state through
ticket sales.
New Yorkers struggling with a gambling
addiction, or those who know
someone with a gambling addiction,
can fi nd help by calling the state’s
toll-free, confi dential HOPEline at
877-8-HOPENY (877-846-7369) or by
texting HOPENY (467369).
For more information about
the New York State lottery, visit
nylottery.ny.gov.
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Photo by Carlotta Mohamed
Flushing residents commemorate
Jan. 6 Capitol attack with virtual vigil
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Th ree Flushing residents were joined by
Councilwoman Linda Lee outside of the
Flushing Public Library for a virtual candlelight
vigil on Th ursday, Jan. 6, to mark
the one-year anniversary of the violent
insurrection attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Henry Krumholz, who organized the
vigil, recalled watching a mob of then-
President Donald Trump supporters
pushing through barriers and storming
the Capitol seeking to overturn Trump’s
loss in the 2020 presidential election.
According to Krumholz, he was in a
complete state of shock.
“I couldn’t believe this was happening
in America. Former President Donald
Trump was 100% responsible for what
happened on Jan. 6, and had Vice
President Mike Pence changed
his mind and gone with Trump,
we would’ve lost our democracy
forever,” Krumholz
said. “As a lifelong activist,
it’s important for people
to come together and
say, ‘never again.’”
Susan, another
Flushing resident, said
it was horrifying to
see many people had
listened to Trump.
“Some people did not
see through his sick thinking
that he could only be
the president and he did
not want to lose. He changed
the facts and what’s so scary is
that people believed him and then
Republican politicians are educating
people that are not speaking up, and that’s
also scary,” Susan said.
Gabby, who proudly waved the
American fl ag, said she is “utterly
heartbroken” by the current state of the
country’s democracy.
“Th e fact that it is now endangered and
we have one party that is laughing in the
face of the rule of law, and we have a certain
segment of the American population
that would like to fi ll the other segment as
was evidenced on Jan. 6, I think it was a
jarring wake up call for everyone,” Gabby
said. “I’m really heartbroken that the only
Republicans who showed up in the House
for the Jan. 6 commemoration were former
Vice President Dick Cheney and his
daughter, Liz Cheney.”
According to Lee, it’s not a left
versus right or Republican versus
Democrat issue, but a basic right
and threat to Americans’ freedom that
Republicans have failed to recognize
which is “extremely disappointing.”
“Th is is one of those important incidents
that we can’t forget that our democracy
was threatened and people wanted to
take that away from us,” Lee said.
For Lee, the Jan. 6 insurrection felt like
a “crazy, surreal moment” that left her in
shock, as she thought about her friends
who were sheltering in place inside the
Capitol building.
“Congresswoman Grace Meng who was
one of my mentors, just knowing that
folks like her and her colleagues were in
the building while all of this was happening,
and some of the personal stories
we heard while the insurrection was
going on and the days aft er that, it said a
lot about where we were in that moment
as a country,” Lee said. “I’m glad though,
that since that incident, the House and
Congress has passed laws to expand voting
rights. It was a huge slap in the face
towards our democracy and, as a country,
we have to do better and stand up to that.”
In a statement, Meng refl ected on that
harrowing day, as she was barricaded in
a room on the House fl oor as the angry
mob marched right outside her door.
“I feared for my life and called loved
ones asking them to pray for me as
these insurrectionists, spurred by then-
President Trump, stormed the halls of
Congress. I continue to be off ended,
appalled and disgusted over the havoc
and damage that they wrecked and their
weaponizing of the American fl ag, and all
Americans should feel the same regardless
of party affi liation,” Meng said.
According to Meng, who represents
Flushing in Congress, hundreds have
been charged for their roles in the attack
and it is crucial that those responsible
continue to be brought to justice.
Many questions about Jan. 6 remain
unanswered — from who was involved,
the security, coordination and communications
failures that occurred, and the
actions of Trump and his apparent refusal
to stop the chaos.
Last summer, Meng voted to establish
an independent, bipartisan commission
to investigate what happened. Th e panel
has already interviewed more than 300
witnesses and secured thousands of pages
of records, Meng said.
“It is essential for the American people
to have accountability and the truth.
We deserve nothing less, and I am hopeful
that we will fi nd out these answers as
the panel continues its vital work,” Meng
said.
Th e insurrection is still surreal to
Meng, who says she continues to see the
destructive and violent images of rioters
when she walks through the Capitol.
“As we refl ect on the one-year anniversary
of the attack, we must all stand united
against the heinous acts that occurred
on that dark day in our nation’s history,”
Meng said. “We must continue to
address the hurt and pain that it has
caused, the healing that still needs to take
place, and do everything in our power to
ensure that a situation like this never ever
happens again.”
Flushing residents Henry Krumholz and Gabby outside of the Flushing Public Library.
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