FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com APRIL 7, 2016 • THE COURIER SUN 15 CJ found his voice in song. For more on CJ’s “Then One Day” moment and how our programs can help create yours, visit FamilyCenterForAutism.org or call 516.355.9400. #thenOneDay If life were a musical, language would be no problem for CJ. But obviously, it’s not. He can communicate his wants and needs – but there’s never been a conversation. Even though he’s come so far, there’s still no full-on dialogue. Music is the way he expresses himself. Developmental | Social | Educational | Recreational The only center where people with autism and their families experience life-changing moments every day. Photo courtesy of Animal Care Centers of NYC Frank Leeis on his way to a farm. Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart rescues runaway Jamaica cow BY ANGELA MATUA amatua@qns.com/@AngelaMatua The bull who caused a frenzy on CUNY’s York College campus in Jamaica on the morning of April 1 received help from a famous friend, an Animal Care Centers (ACC) spokesperson said. Comedian and former “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart and his wife Tracey picked the cow up from an ACC’s location in Brooklyn and took the steer to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glenn, N.Y., according to the animal rescue group’s Facebook. According to Katy Hansen, a spokesperson for ACC, staff named him Frank Lee after the notorious Alcatraz prisoner, Frank Lee Morris, who escaped in 1962. Hansen said the one-year-old male remained unharmed during his journey through CUNY’s York College campus. At around 10 a.m. on April 1, bystanders at the college began posting Instagram videos of the steer running through the grass in the vicinity of Liberty Avenue and 106th Street on campus. An Instagram video shows police offi cers corralling the cow with a rope. According to an NYPD spokesperson, the cow was escorted to ACC in Brooklyn after they managed to wrangle it. The steer escaped from a truck ready to deliver it to a slaughterhouse in Jamaica. ACC was prepared to raise $1,000 to purchase the cow from its owner, a cattle rancher in Monticello, N.Y., The New York Times reported. Frank Lee was picked up by the Stewarts on Friday afternoon with the help of Mike Stura, an employee at Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue, an organization started by Tracey Stewart. This isn’t the fi rst time a cow was spotted in the neighborhood. In January, another cow escaped from a Jamaica slaughterhouse. Cops managed to wrangle the cow, affectionately nicknamed Freddie, and delivered it to a sanctuary after a petition was started to stop the animal from being killed. Offi cials were not able to confi rm if the most recent cow escaped from the same slaughterhouse. CLEARING THE HURDLE FOR SCHOOLS TO DONATE FOOD TO THOSE IN NEED BY MIGUEL VASQUEZ editorial@qns.com/@QNS Schools, colleges and universities may soon be able to easily donate excess food to charities under a bill that the State Senate passed last week. The legislation (S.854) “directs the commissioner of education, in cooperation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets, to establish voluntary guidelines to provide for the donation of excess, unused, edible food from school, university or other educational institutions’ meal programs to voluntary food assistance programs.” State Senator Joseph Addabbo, who co-sponsored the bill, said it “would address two extremely important issues of saving individuals and their families from hunger and malnutrition, and saving our planet from unnecessary and negative environmental degradation.” “Under this proposal, those nutritious prepared meals could end up in food pantries helping the hungry instead of rotting in dumpsters and landfi lls,” he said. This approach presents an organized method by which schools will be able to donate to charities as well as lessen the toxicity of our atmosphere by conserving resources. Not only do high levels of food waste add to greenhouse gas emissions, as proven by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but they also adversely affect our water supply. In the United States alone, approximately 25 percent of the nation’s freshwater is lost in the tons of food thrown away each year. The bill has been referred to the Assembly Education Committee for further action.
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