38 The Queens Courier • kids & education • november 28, 2013 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com s kids & education Photo Courtesy of Christ the King High School Students and faculty at Christ the King have collected hundreds of dollars and canned food to donate to charity just before Thanksgiving. Christ the King High School gives back BY LIAM LA GUERRE [email protected] Christ the King High School has gotten into the Thanksgiving spirit. Students and faculty members from Christ the King orchestrated its annual canned food drive, collected hundreds of dollars for charity and hosted a Thanksgiving mass. Sister Elizabeth Graham, the school’s campus minister, said the student body had collected about $600, which will be donated to three organizations. The money will be given to Immaculate Conception Parish in the Philippines, for those who were affected by the typhoon, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and the St. Matthias Food Pantry, which also received cartons of canned food from the drive. “We at Christ the King High School are very proud of our student body’s effort to raise money for these three worthy causes,” Principal Peter Mannarino said. “Christ the King students once again show how they are becoming the moral leaders of tomorrow.” ‘Safe Routes’ coming to four Queens schools BY LIAM LA GUERRE [email protected] Safer streets are coming soon to four Queens middle and elementary schools. The Department of Design and Construction (DDC) confirmed it has selected a construction company to make adjustments around the schools to increase safety, as a part of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Routes to Schools program. The safe routes program is a citywide initiative that seeks to improve safety to city schools with the highest accident rates. A DDC representative said the $3.3 million improvements will begin by the spring of 2014 around I.S. 77 in Ridgewood, St. Stanislaus Kostka School in Maspeth, St. Joan of Arc School in Jackson Heights and P.S. 108 in South Ozone Park. The work around the schools will include adding speed bumps, adjustment of streetlights and traffic signals, ramps to the sidewalks, work to improve the curbs for pedestrians, placement of bus pads in the streets and infrastructure and utility work. These four schools are on DOT’s list of 135 priority schools for traffic safety improvements, which was originally created in 2003 by the city agency. Overall, there are 33 priority Queens schools on the list that are slated to see the improvements. The work on the four schools is expected to be completed by the spring of 2015. Bake sale benefits typhoon victims THE COURIER/ Photo by Angy Altamirano BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO [email protected] P.S. 169 in Bay Terrace held a bake sale on Friday, November 22 to benefit relief efforts for the Filipino victims affected by typhoon Haiyan. Considered one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, the typhoon made landfall on November 8 in the Philippines’ Samara province. It is estimated to have killed thousands and left many in need of water, food and medical supplies. All funds were donated to a nonprofit organization called Convoy of Hope. THE COURIER/Photo by Liam La Guerre I.S. 77 in Ridgewood and three other Queens schools will soon see safety improvements in nearby streets.
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