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Bronx Community Board Meetings 1/22/2008

• COMMUNITY BOARD 1 (Melrose, Mott Haven) meets at 6:30p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, at Lincoln Hospital, Conference Room 6, 234 Morris Ave., at E. 149th St. Call (718) 585-7117.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 2 (Longwood, Hunts Point) meets at 6p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 941 Hoe Ave., Community Room. Call (718) 328-9125.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 5 (Morris Heights, Fordham, Bathgate and Mount Hope) meets at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, at St. Simon Stock School, 2195 Valentine Ave. Call (718) 364-2030.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 6 (E. Tremont, Belmont, Bathgate and West Farms) meets at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Belmont Library, 610 E. 186th St. Call (718) 579-6990.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 9 (Soundview, Clason Point, Parkchester, Bruckner and Harding Park) meets at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, at CB9 Office, 1967 Turnbull Ave. Call (718) 823-3034.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 10 (Throgs Neck, City Island, Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Zerega, Westchester Square, Country Club and Edgewater) meets at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, at Dreiser Loop Community Center, 177 Dreiser Loop, Room 2, second floor. Call (718) 892-1161.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 11 (Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Laconia and Van Nest) will not meet in January. Call (718) 892-6262.

• COMMUNITY BOARD 12 (Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn, Eastchester and Baychester) meets at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan.24, at CB12 office, 4101 White Plains Road. Call (718) 881-4455.

SOURCE: NYDailyNews.com

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Vincent Pastore Can’t ‘Fuggedabout’ The Bronx!

Vincent Pastore does not sleep with the fishes.

He does, however, live close to them, on City Island.

The actor’s Salvatore (Big Pussy) Bonpensiero character was bumped off and dumped at sea by Tony Soprano in the award-winning TV series “The Sopranos.” But since then, Pastore has been busy, busy.

He’s starring in the Broadway musical “Chicago,” singing for the first time onstage, as the schlumpy hubby of boyfriend-killer Roxie Hart.

The actor, who has been in films ranging from “GoodFellas” to “Shark Tale,” and on HBO’s “Gotti,” is also currently on TV’s “Celebrity Apprentice”; he has his weekly radio show, “Wiseguys,” and a couple of “projects” he’s squeezing in-between it all.

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Students Blogging About Health & How To Beat Obesity

A team of blogging schoolchildren may be the South Bronx’s newest weapon against diabetes and obesity.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in Manhattan has been awarded a two-year, $50,000 grant to create blogs, interactive Web sites called wikis, and slide shows about the health crisis in the Bronx, focusing mostly on Hunts Point.

Graduate students will be guiding teams of students and community members from the South Bronx, who will write blogs about their lives and give tips to their neighbors on healthy eating and how to keep in shape using the resources of their community.

“Traditional consumer health journalism, with the detached voice of journalists and the middle-class experts they quote, is not a good vehicle for reaching the needy populations of the South Bronx,” said Trudy Lieberman, the school’s director of health and medicine reporting, who applied for the grant. “The top-down approach of traditional journalism is unlikely to be effective at getting overweight teens to lose weight and eat vegetables.”

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BedBugs Dont Bite In The Bronx!

Bedbugs in the Bronx? Bug-gedaboudit!

Next week, the city begins a series of seminars at venues all over town on avoiding bedbugs - except in the Bronx.

The reason isn’t that city officials don’t want to come to the Bronx - but rather that, apparently, the bedbugs don’t.

While some residents of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens are in a near panic over the worsening citywide infestation, people in the Bronx don’t seem to be bugged by the critters - yet.

“The Bronx had the second-lowest number of complaints last year,” said Seth Donlin of the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which keeps track of such calls to the city’s 311 hotline.

“It’s the lowest total after Staten Island, which is statistically insignificant,” Donlin said.

Bronx residents called to complain about bedbugs just 1,117 times last year, and HPD documented only 347 actual infestations.

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Bronx Claims Highest Percentage of Asthma, Diabetes & Infant Mortality In New York

The Bronx continues to hold the dubious distinction of being among the sickest of the boroughs.

It has high percentages of asthma and diabetes, as well as the highest number of teen births and the highest infant mortality rate, according to the city Department of Health’s 2006 Vital Statistics Summary.

In the past decade the city’s infant mortality rate has been in steady decline, down to an all-time low of 5.9 per 1,000 live births in 2006.

But the Bronx rate remains the highest among the five boroughs, increasing from 6.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2005 to 7.1 in 2006, with Mott Haven, Williamsbridge and Morrisania having the borough’s highest infant mortality rates.

“This is a strong indicator of the social welfare and health of the mother,” said Dr. Lorna Thorpe, city Health Department deputy director. “Women who plan their births, have appropriate prenatal care, low rates of obesity and diabetes make healthier moms.”

Thorpe also sees a correlation with teen birth rates.

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