FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com SEPtember 25, 2014 • The Courier sun 11 Queens Library launches ‘Where In Queens’ website Screenshot via whereinqueens.org For about two years now, there has been a gaping sinkhole along the entrance path to the park from Woodhaven Boulevard Ozone Park train stations to re-open by the end of September. QUARTERS DON’T MAKE YOUR W ASHING MACHINE WORK. ELECTRICITY DOES. It’s easy to forget how important electricity is to our daily lives. But rest assured, Con Edison never does. Of course, all that reliability doesn’t come cheap. So we offer more than 100 money-saving tips on our website. Like washing your clothes with cold water and not over-drying them. We even have energy calculators, so you can estimate how much those changes can save you. After all, doing the laundry shouldn’t clean out your wallet. For more tips, visit conEd.com and follow us on Facebook or Twitter. ISABELLA Isabella Taxilaga was the grand prize winner of the Be Kind People Project’s nationals student writing contest. My name is Isabella and I am in the second grade at P.S. 122 in Astoria. My favorite things to do are reading, writing and drawing. I love to write poems, songs and stories about my family and what I feel. I really love doing this job and I’m very happy and proud to write for everybody. Second Grade Poem BY ISABELLA TAXILAGA Getting homework from class, it is really a task. Talking to my friends, it will never end! Doing math as a class, trying to finish really fast. This is life in second grade, it is quite the parade. I hope everyone is enjoying their class this year. Second grade is a little harder than I thought. It was not what I expected. Even though the work is hard I met a new friend this year and my teacher is wonderful. Her name is Ms. Victoros, and I like her very much. This year I am working on finishing my homework as soon as I get home and improving my handwriting. What kinds of things will you work on this year? BY ECLEEN CARABALLO editorial@queenscourier.com At times the question isn’t “What do we need?” but “Where can we find it?” and “How soon can we have it?” On Sept. 18, Queens Library’s vice president of digital strategies and services, Kelvin Watson, and the CEO of Zendesk, Mikkel Svane, launched the “Where in Queens” website to meet those needs and provide simple answers. The “Where in Queens” app and website is a mobile-optimized portal which aims to connect users with social services closest to where they are. Specifically, it provides information regarding shelter, food, medical services, legal services, technology and education. The local services, which include emergency housing, health care and food pantries, are geared toward assisting the underprivileged community, and all of the services are tailored specifically to meet the needs of Queens residents. This new website was described by Queens Library’s Interim President and CEO Bridget Quinn-Carey as “the next generation” of the library’s awardwinning Community Resources Database created in the late 1990s. LinkSF, the first mobile website to connect homeless people with lifesaving services, was the basis and inspiration for Mikkel and his team at Zendesk when it came to creating “Where In Queens.” The website is accessible to any Internet-connected device, including mobile phones, and can be found at www.whereinqueens.org. For more information on the services it has available, visit the Queens Library website at www.queenslibrary.org.
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