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Dyker Civic's Annual Dinner
was held Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the Bay Ridge Manor.
Bay Ridge resident and retired public school teacher Chip Cafiero was honored.
Thanks to all of of Dyker Civic's members and friends who attended and purchased raffle tickets for local artist James Stone's patriotic painting signed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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At our Tuesday, September 8th meeting, State Senator Martin Golden, City Councilman Vincent Gentile's staff, Assemblyman Brook-Krasny, Assemblyman Abbate and Dyker Civic President Fran Vella-Marrone presented certificates to the participants of our Summer Classes for Seniors Program. For more information, please visit our Dyker Seniors page! Our featured speaker was Archie Warner, Brooklyn Manager of Customer Services Operations for the United States Postal Service. We learned about the Walk-A-Thon to benefit Reaching Out Community Services, our neighborhood food pantry, and presented director Tom Neve with $469.09 raised by Dyker Civic members and friends and City Pitties volunteers during Operation Food Bowl. These funds were raised to buy pet food for struggling "pet parents" in our community.
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DYKER CIVIC EVENTS spring and summer '09
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME
with the 68th Precinct
was held TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH...
A Beatles tribute band, a barbeque, and for the 4th year in a row, Dyker Civic raffled off a girl's and a boy's bicycle! City Pitties and Dyker Civic brought Tavi & Friends and a raffle courtesy of Petland Discounts.
Muffin's Pet Connection column
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At our June 9, 2009 meeting, representatives from the American Red Cross presented a video and discussed the mission of American Red Cross Greater New York. They brought Mr. Fred Leahy, a Senior Volunteer Partner, to discuss his personal experience with ARC as a volunteer at major disaster sites like Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Denise Bloise, Director of the State Island Area Office, and Mr. Olivier Szlos, a senior director of the American Red Cross of Greater New York, answered questions and distributed pertinent information about making an emergency plan, being informed and training to become an ARC volunteer. For more information, please click on Links.
"Red Cross: Join Disaster Relief Effort", Home Reporter and Sunset News, June 18-24, 2009
"Responding to a Disaster Area: Red Cross representatives offer Dyker Heights Civic 'Four Steps to Safety Plan'", Bay Ridge Courier, June 18, 2009
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Our May 12, 2009 panel of 9 experts addressed: "How Animals Help Our Community and How the Community Can Help Animals"
"Food Pantry Helping Hungry Pets, too!", Home Reporter and Sunset News, August 13, 2009
"Common Sense" column by Dyker Civic Board Member Jerry Kassar, Brooklyn Spectator, May 16-22, 2009
"Pet project: Animals in the community", Bay Ridge Courier, May 21, 2009
"Animals and the Community", Bay Ridge Courier, May 7, 2009 & "Dyker Heights Civic Association Meeting to Feature Animal Safety", Bay Ridge Eagle, May 7, 2009
What is the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals?
Fun activities for kids and a blurb about Delta Society Pet Partner Team, Nancy & Callie ASPCA Animaland Pages (copyright ASPCA).
Kings County ADA Carol L. Moran brought her retired seeing-eye dog, Buddy, and these Animal Cruelty Prevention flyers.
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Sanitation
Please click here for information, printable signs and forms regarding the "Lawn Litter Law" and how you can stop receiving unwanted flyers at your home, courtesy of Josephine Beckmann, District Manager, Community Board Ten.
Community/Real Estate
Please visit our History & Gallery page where you'll find our historian's in-depth report on the Saitta House and other Dyker places of interest, blueprints, photos, etc., and the approved DeRussy and Johnson street renaming proposals.
Dyker Heights was recently featured in the Real Estate section of The New York Times. Dyker Heights Civic Assocation President Fran Vella-Marrone and Historian Christian Zaino were interviewed. New York Times Article
104th Annual
Independence Day Parade
13th Avenue
June 27, 2009
President Fran Vella-Marrone, Gary Marrone, Josephine and John Beckmann and DykerTeens Page Editors Jayne and Annemarie Beckmann, 68th Pct. Community Council President Ilene Sacco and Communications Director Jennifer DeFrank marched with Dyker Civic and our unofficial mascot Dyker Dog, Bacio!
"Chip Cafiero Honored By Dyker Heights Civic Association: 'Organizer Extraordinaire' Saluted At Dinner Celebrating Group's 81 Years", Brooklyn Eagle, Oct. 29, 2009
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