28 THE QUEENS COURIER • NOVEMBER 5, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com editorial THE QUEENS PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ARTISTS STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS WEB EDITOR EVENTS MANAGER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH ALAN SELTZER STEPHEN REINA RON TORINA, JENNIFER DECIO, CHERYL GALLAGHER ANGY ALTAMIRANO, KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE ANGELA MATUA, ALINA SURIEL CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI ANGY ALTAMIRANO DEMETRA PLAGAKIS CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.queenscourier.com editorial e-mail: editorial@queenscourier.com for advertising e-mail: ads@queenscourier.com Entire Contents Copyright 2015 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOST ABOUT THE HOLIDAY SEASON? “Family time. Just having fun, seeing people you haven’t seen in a while.” Eli Jackson “Seeing my grandson. He’s away at college in California.” Jerry Wigler “The holiday parties at the preschool I work at. We’re having a costume parade around the block for Halloween.” Linda DeStefano “Being with friends and family.” Pilar Castano BY KIRSTEN E. PAULSON “Spending time with family and having the day off from work.” Patricia Johnson street talk “Being with family and going to mass on Christmas morning at Sacred Heart.” Katie Peiser “We like to either go early or later on into Manhattan to do sightseeing at Rockefeller Center. It’s a family tradition.” Mimi Ai Tlamsa SNAPS QUEENS Kristina the cat showed her love and support for the Mets Photo by Christina Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Instagram @queenscourier, Facebook page, tweeting @ queenscourier or by emailing editorial@queenscourier.com (subject: Queens Snaps). Sweet music to Queens ears Are you ready to rock? Because ready or not, Flushing Meadows Corona Park is on the verge of becoming home to the next big music festival in the nation. Madison Square Garden (MSG) announced on Nov. 2 its intention to host a three-day outdoor music festival next June in Flushing Meadows. MSG has a reputation of bringing some of music’s biggest acts to New York, and undoubtedly, there won’t be room for amateurs on their festival stage. In fact, there may not be room for many people in the park, as the festival would practically shut much of Flushing Meadows down for an entire weekend. This prospect prompted Queens Borough President Melinda Katz to speak out against the festival plan on the afternoon of Nov. 2, noting that “it’s still unclear how limited resources expended for events of such scale would be returned to Queens and its families.” Katz’s concerns should not be taken lightly. Anyone who’s ever walked through Flushing Meadows on a weekend realizes its importance to the people of this borough. This is the place where families of all backgrounds, especially those who can’t afford a vacation, go to have some inexpensive fun — whether it’s a picnic or a pick-up soccer game or simply strolling through the landscape. Moreover, the park — as we’ve noted in this space before — needs signifi cant improvement. In many areas, the grass fi elds are weathered to bare dirt and infrastructure such as benches and park bathrooms are outdated and sorely need an upgrade. There’s time and room for all parties involved to negotiate a deal here that will allow the festival to progress on a tolerable scale without inconveniencing thousands of local residents. More specifi cally, perhaps MSG could kick in a few of the bucks it will make off this Flushing Meadows festival toward beautifying the park long after the last act leaves the stage. That would be sweet music to Queens’ ears. Salute your local veterans New York City joins the rest of the nation next week in saluting those who served in defense of the country on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Because it falls in the middle of a work week this year, a few organizations are holding their Veterans Day tributes early this year. One community holding such an early commemoration is Middle Village, which again hosts the Queens Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 8 at noon along Metropolitan Avenue. It’s important for residents from every part of Queens, from Malba to Middle Village and every point in between, to come out and show their love for those who served our nation with pride. It takes someone special to answer the call of duty — to put the lives of strangers ahead of their own, all for the purpose of defending “the land of the free and the home of the brave” from any and all enemies. Gestures of gratitude are very simple — waving an American fl ag, applauding the veterans marching, even a simple smile and a word of thanks. It costs little, but their value is great indeed. This is the least we can do as Americans, because the debt we owe our veterans is virtually impossible to compensate any other way. “The food and hanging out with family.” Christa Pascucci
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