76 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • FEBRUARY 20, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com Send us your announcements & pictures to: The Queens Courier c/o making a buzz: 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 • editorial@queenscourier.com subject: making a buzz s people making a buzz COMPILED BY TONIA N. CIMINO BIRTHDAY GIRL Former Borough President Claire Shulman celebrated her 88th birthday surrounded by her friends and fellow “WOW” women at Mulan in Flushing. Happy birthday! INSTALLATIONS There are three new faces on the board of trustees at the Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria. Victoria Schneps-Yunis, president and CEO of Schneps Communications; Armando Soto, business development associate of Yenni Capital, Inc.; and Maria Odysseos, assistant vice president and branch manager at Investors Bank, were sworn in as new board members on February 5. The three new board members were sworn in by Borough President Melinda Katz at the Queens Council on the Arts’ creative workspace, located at 37-11 35th Avenue. The board of trustees’ role is to offer leadership, collective dedication, expertise and creative energy that will allow the arts council to remain a national model and to continue to remain on the cutting edge of innovation and inspired service to artists, according to the Queens Council on the Arts. For more information visit www.queenscouncilarts. org. Chef Dave Martin preparing his Coca Cola braised bonelesss short rib entree with creamy grits and red kale. Photo by Mike Savitzky (l.to r.) Armando Soto, Yenni Capital, Inc.; Barbara Pryor; Maria Odysseos, Investors Bank; Borough President Melinda Katz; Captain Diane Pizzuti; Gianna Cerbone Teoli; Victoria Schneps- Yunis; Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Executive Director for Queens Council of Arts; Juvenal Rein; Catherine Lee; Stephen Martin. SPREADING THE LOVE Students at P.S. 114 in Belle Harbor and P.S. 146 in Howard Beach spread the love this Valentine’s Day to senior citizens in their neighborhoods. Assemblymember Phil Goldfeder visited the senior centers in Rockaway and Howard Beach to distribute hundreds of the handmade cards and made sure not one senior was left without a card. ‘COUTURE MEETS CUISINE’ Fashion, art and food came together in Long Island City for a night of celebration and fundraising. The Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) “reinvented itself as a catwalk for couture and cuisine” on February 3 at Manducatis Rustica, located at 46-33 Vernon Boulevard, for the fi rst moveable feast artist dinner called “Hemlines & Waistlines: An evening where Couture meets Cuisine.” The event raised close to $20,000, surpassing an original goal of $10,000, to support scholarships for students in QCA’s High School to Art School Portfolio Development Program. “Hemlines & Waistlines” featured visual artist Mark Salinas and Chef Dave Martin, season one fi nalist on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef.” Photos Courtesy of Jesse Winter Photography
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