22 The Courier sun • OCTOBER 15, 2015 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com Photo courtesy BluePearl Veterinary Partners Penelope, who was rescued from a drainage pipe in Middle Village on Monday night, is looking for a permanent home. KITEN RESCUED IN MIDDLE VILLAGE LOOKS FOR PERMANENT HOME BY ANTHONY GIUDICE find a permanent home. [email protected]/@A_GiudiceReport “I will bring her home and foster her until she can be adopted,” Taiano said. This cat is looking for a new lease on her nine lives. A man walking his dog heard the distressed kitten Officers from the 104th Precinct worked for several crying from inside the storm drain, prompting him to hours to rescue a kitten from a drainage pipe at 72nd alert the authorities via Twitter. Officers and an emergency Street and Penelope Avenue in Middle Village on Oct. services unit responded to the scene and tried 5. The feline was transported to BluePearl Veterinary Partners hospital in Forest Hills for examination. The kitten, named Penelope after the street where she was found, was released from BluePearl Veterinary Partners on Tuesday afternoon into the temporary care of Phyllis Taiano, president of animal rescue organization Four Paws Sake NYC. Taiano is currently caring for Penelope until she can to coax the kitten out of the drainage pipe. Eventually cops were able to scare Penelope out of the pipe by making noise in an adjacent drain pipe. “She’s adoptable,” Taiano said. “There’s no hissing. There’s no clawing. She’s totally accepting love.” For more information on how to adopt Penelope, visit the Four Paws Sake NYC website, http://www. fourpawssakenyc.com/. Councilman Ulrich announces participatory budgeting workshops BY ROBERT POZARYCKI [email protected] @robbpoz Residents in the confines of Community Board 9 will again have their say on how to spend city funding through participatory budgeting workshops that Councilman Eric Ulrich will host in the weeks ahead. The first workshop took place on Oct. 13 at the CB 9 meeting in Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens, and there will be a workshop at the Oct. 15 Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association meeting, held at 7:45 p.m. at the American Legion Post 118 at 89-02 91st St. During each session, residents will break up into groups and brainstorm ideas on capital improvement projects in Kew Gardens, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven. Such projects include new street trees, technology upgrades at public schools or library renovations. Residents may also submit their budget ideas in writing through suggestion boxes that Ulrich placed at locations throughout the community, or digitally through his Facebook or Twitter accounts. Delegates from the communities will review the ideas gathered with city representatives before presenting a slate of suggestions to the public for final review and a vote in March 2016. This is the third year in a row in which Ulrich is holding participatory budgeting in the CB 9 area; he is holding a separate participatory budgeting process in the southern areas of his district (community boards 10 and 14) for the fifth consecutive year. “Participatory budgeting encourages a greater partnership between communities and elected officials to find creative solutions for neighborhood needs,” Ulrich said. “As I have always said, this isn’t my money, it is the taxpayers’ money, and they should have a say in how it’s spent.” Three other sessions will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, during the 102nd Precinct Community Council meeting at the Richmond Hill library, 118-14 Hillside Ave.; at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, during the Richmond Hill Block Association meeting at its office, 110-08 Jamaica Ave.; and at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, during the Our Neighbors’ Civic Association meeting in the Nativity Church basement, 101-41 91st St. in Ozone Park. Additional workshops will be announced, according to Ulrich.
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