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TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 • 10 NEW TRUSTEES ARRIVE expanding technology, entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the borough. Then on Tuesday, Aug. 19, Katz picked Robert Santos of Sunnyside Gardens to serve on the library board. Santos is the City College of New York vice president for campus planning and facilities management and previously held assistant and deputy commissioner posts with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the Parks Department. By law, the mayor and borough president alternate nominations to the board of trustees. -SEE LIBRARY ON PG. 28- L.I. Man Used Slurs Before Hit-And-Run Booked For Oz. Pk. Truck Attack A 55-year-old Long Island man was booked on hate crime charges for allegedly calling a Sikh man “Osama” and then intentionally ramming his pickup truck into the victim and dragging his body along the street before fleeing in Ozone Park last month. De Blasio made the first nomination last Friday, Aug. 15, naming Jukay Hsu of Flushing to serve as a trustee. Hsu, an Iraq War veteran, founded the Coalition for Queens, a nonprofit aimed at by Robert Pozarycki Following last month’s purge of eight Queens Borough Public Library trustees, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz began refilling seats this past week. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown identified the suspect as Joseph Caleca, 55, of Setauket, Long Island, who faces charges of seconddegree attempted murder as a hate crime, first-degree assault as a hate crime and leaving the scene without reporting. Caleca faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. “Caleca is accused of an unprovoked attack that allegedly began with the defendant driving by the victim and his friends and yelling out a vile anti-Muslim insult,” Brown said in a statement on Tuesday, Aug. 19. “After an exchange of words, the defendant allegedly struck the victim intentionally with his vehicle and dragged his body along the street.” According to the criminal charges, the 29-year-old Sikh man and three of his friends were standing at the intersection of 101st Avenue and 99th Street just after midnight on July 20 when a light-colored pickup allegedly driven by Caleca approached the group. -SEE BIAS ON PG. 28- Mayor, Beep Name Two To Lib. Board Lawmaker Attends Kiwanis Gathering Kiwanis International President Gunther Gasser toured the inside of the Assembly Chamber and the Capitol Building during his visit to Albany on Thursday, Aug. 14. This weekend was the New York state Kiwanis convention and Gasser flew from Austria to make the event. Pictured from left to right is Assemblyman Mike Miller, Rosemary DeJulio, Gasser, Christiana Gasser, and former Kiwanis International President Tom DeJulio. ©Times Newsweekly 2014-REDEEMER Redeemer Lutheran School A Great Family School! Realize the Possibilities with Redeemer Lutheran School Welcoming for 2014 – 2015 Free Full Day UPK Program (At this time – “Wait List” only) Available Now Free Half Day (AM/PM) UPK “Plus” Program Half Day or Full Day Nursery (3 yr. olds born 2011) Kindergarten through Grade 8 Redeemer Lutheran School (718) 821-6670 6926 Cooper Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 www.RedeemerLutheranSchool.org


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