24 12 times • OCTOBER 1, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.com THE COURIER SUN • OCTOBER 1, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com PLACE editorial sun WWW.COURIERSUN.COM 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 WARREN SUSSMAN CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. 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SNAPS QUEENS Frozen fi sh at the New World Mall in Flushing PHOTO BY ALINA SURIEL 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). Participate in participatory budgets All too often, New York City government gets blamed for what it doesn’t do rather than credit for what it does. We’d like to take a moment to applaud those City Council members in Queens and the other boroughs for bringing participatory budgeting to their districts. Each City Council member involved in participatory budgeting gets $1 million. The people of their district, through a series of workshops and meetings, get to pitch their ideas and then vote on them. The Council member then allocates funds toward the top vote-getting projects. In some instances, the input from the public is used to bring even greater improvements (and related funding) to a district. Through participatory budgeting, Costa Constantinides secured $245,000 for technological upgrades at seven public schools; Jimmy Van Bramer got $500,000 toward a revamped bikeway in Long Island City; Paul Vallone allocated $400,000 for a new music studio at Bayside High School; and I. Daneek Miller brought back $450,000 for an enhanced outdoor performance space at Roy Wilkins Park. Those are just some of the examples of the public improvements brought about by this exercise in direct democracy. Participatory budgeting is the rare opportunity for every New Yorker to make an impact on what gets done in their neighborhood — and every New Yorker who has such an opportunity should jump to take it. Call your local City Council member and fi nd out if he/she is taking part in this wonderful process, then attend the meetings and get involved! Remembering pope’s golden lesson St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint for whom Pope Francis is named and to whom he is so devoted, once said, “Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.” Pope Francis lived up to that saintly advice during his six-day visit to the U.S. He preached at Masses celebrated before thousands in three different cities and from the pulpit before Congress and the United Nations General Assembly. He also demonstrated something more meaningful than mere words in visiting schoolchildren, dining with the homeless, gathering with leaders of other faiths, consoling the infi rmed and counseling prisoners. With Francis having returned to Rome and the pomp and circumstance surrounding his stay now complete, the fear is that his messages — both spoken and unspoken — will be quickly forgotten. The realities in Queens and New York are hard to face but impossible to ignore, including rampant homelessness, economic disparity, a broken criminal justice system and other hardships. No one expected Francis to perform a miracle and fi x all this with the wave of his staff. It is up to us to fi x these problems, and if we learned anything from his visit, it is that we as a society must be better at abiding by the “Golden Rule,” one that transcends religion — doing unto others as they would do unto us. Francis showed what Americans should do with its sick, its imprisoned, its homeless and its diverse population. 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