FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com september 25, 2014 • The Queens Courier 11 Astoria Comic Con kickoff party to include ticket, comic book giveaways BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO aaltamirano@queenscourier.com @aaltamirano28 Queens comic book fans unite! Katch Astoria, located at 31-19 Newton Ave., will host a Comic Con Kickoff Party on Oct. 3, one week before the four-day New York Comic Con (NYCC) takes over the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. Partygoers who come dressed up in costume will be able to compete for the title of Best Costume and the chance to win two three-day passes to NYCC. The party, which starts at 7 p.m. and will go until 3 a.m., also includes raffles and other prizes such as what organizers call “rare” comic books like “Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8,” “Transformers: Regeneration One #80.5” and “Spawn: 20th Anniversary Collectors Special.” Brooklyn Defender, a beer created by Brooklyn Brewery and NYCC organizer ReedPOP for New York Super Week, will be $5 all night long. There will also be a live performance by tribute band The Blues Brothers at 9:30 p.m. There is no cover charge for the Comic Con Kickoff Party. For more information call 718- 777-2230 or visit www.katchastoria.com or www.facebook.com/katch.astoria. Photo via Twitter/@KatchAstoria First Miss Queens Pageant to be held in Long Island City BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO aaltamirano@queenscourier.com @aaltamirano28 Next year Miss America might be from Queens. For the first time, the borough will have an official Miss America preliminary competition, called the Miss Queens Pageant, held on Oct. 12 at RESOBOX located at 41-26 27th St. in Long Island City. The inaugural event, presented by the Miss Queens Scholarship Organization, is open to women, between 17 and 24 years old, who live, work or go to college in Queens and Long Island. The winner of the pageant will go on to compete for the title of Miss New York in spring 2015. The pageant is divided into talent, interview, onstage and swimsuit/fitness portions. Potential contestants still have until Sept. 30 to sign up for the pageant. “It’s something that the community really wanted,” said Shekinah Monee, executive director of the Miss Queens Scholarship Organization. “To have a borough that never had their own pageant, it was important to bring that to them, to let them have that sense of pride as well.” Through the pageant, the newly formed Miss Queens Scholarship Organization will award scholarships to the women for undergraduate and graduate school, a tradition first started by the Miss America Organization, according to Monee. As part of qualifying as a contestant, each young woman must raise at least $100 for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, which are dedicated to raising funds and awareness to help enhance medical facilities and health care for sick and injured children. Tickets for the Miss Queens Pageant are $15 prior to the show and $18 at the door. For more information visit www.missqueensorg. wix.com/missqueensorg. QUARTERS DON’T MAKE YOUR W ASHING MACHINE WORK. ELECTRICITY DOES. It’s easy to forget how important electricity is to our daily lives. But rest assured, Con Edison never does. Of course, all that reliability doesn’t come cheap. So we offer more than 100 money-saving tips on our website. Like washing your clothes with cold water and not over-drying them. We even have energy calculators, so you can estimate how much those changes can save you. After all, doing the laundry shouldn’t clean out your wallet. For more tips, visit conEd.com and follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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