NYC GRIDLOCK

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Wednesday, November 27 is a Holiday Gridlock Alert Day, one of the heaviest vehicular traffic days of the holiday season. NYC Residents, commuters and visitors are strongly advised to use mass transit.

The remaining gridlock alert days for this holiday season are:

Wednesday, December 4
Friday, December 6
Thursday, December 12
Friday, December 13
Wednesday, December 18
Thursday, December 19
Friday, December 20

Also, the following are street closures for NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

VITAMIN D FACTS

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Figuring out all the factors that can affect your vitamin D level is complicated. Your body makes vitamin D when sunlight hits the skin. You can also get the vitamin from food (mainly because it’s been added; few foods are natural sources of vitamin D) or by taking a supplement.

The process by which the body makes vitamin D is complex. It starts when the skin absorbs rays in the invisible ultraviolet B (UVB) part of the light spectrum. The liver and the kidneys also participate to make a form of the vitamin that the body can use.

HOLIDAZE TRAVEL TREACHERY

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During this busiest travel time of the season and as getaway week arrives for millions, a powerful wintertime storm with heavy rains and strong wind-gusts are threatening to tear into many travel plans between 11/22-12/3.

Tis the season without jolly because of not so friendly skies. This wacky weather threatens Thanksgiving celebrations and Black Friday shopping sprees.

If you're one of those millions expected to be traveling:

CITY ISLAND CIVIC MEETING

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The last meeting for this year of The City Island Civic Association will take place tomorrow at The Fordham St. Community Center.

HUMOR FESTIVAL

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is happy to celebrate Thanksgiving Day weekend by presenting FESTIVAL DEL HUMOR, A Night of Laughter to Remember, featuring Paul Rodriguez, Ruperto Vanderpool, Cuquín Victoria & Jochy Santos with Special Guest Anthony Ríos on Saturday, November 30th, 2013 at 8pm.

COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE

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Super Community Blood Drive - Monday, 12/9/13 Auditorium - 12:00pm - 7:00pm

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Vimeo 3 https://vimeo.com/71057100

The 2013 Super Bowl Host Committee has partnered with the New York Blood Center to increase blood donations leading up to the Suber Bowl. All donors will be automatically entered into a sweepstakes for one pair of tickets to the Super Bowl. ( Super Community Blood Drive.)

http://nybloodcenter.org/donate-blood/super-community-blood-drive/

Register here http://www.eventbrite.com/org/2779644254?s=18951675

Thanks a lot, great, great grandpa!

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Feral hogs date back to Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who brought them to Florida as a food source in 1539. Later, American colonists allowed some domesticated hogs to feed in the woods, freeing many of them forever.

But as they continue to escape from farm pens, the state of Virginia is now acting to reduce population of wild pigs. These are the most invasive animals in U.S. There’s been a population explosion of these large, wild animals in the Virginia woods, and it’s not the cute, doe-eyed kind that conjures images of Bambi.

HOLIDAY TRANSIT ADVISORIES

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The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory through noon Monday. A mix of rain, light freezing rain and light sleet was expect the temperatures will not be as cold as initially forecast.

The developing storm system will bring heavy rains and could possibly impact holiday travel across the eastern portion of The United States by the middle of the week.

Meanwhile, alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations are suspended on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28.

SUNDAY SERMON

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Last week and 150 years ago at Gettysburg, Lincoln spoke two minutes. Edward Everett, the keynote speaker, spoke two hours. Lincoln read the 271 words written on a sheet of paper. On this Baptismal Sunday and the Bible Study I wish I could deliver a two minute sermon. Actually we are struck by God’s grace, not listening to a long sermon but just one biblical passage somewhere! St. Paul quotes one verse from Habakkuk: “The one who is righteous will live by faith.” (Romans 1:17) That’s the key passage of his entire letter.

KNOCKOUT ASSAULT ARREST

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NYPD has arrested a man on charges of assault as a hate crime after a 24-year-old says he was punched in the face.

Officials are now investigating whether it was part of a "knockout" assault of an unsuspecting person with one punch. The man says he overheard a group talking about it before he was attacked.

Police say the victim told them he was walking in Brooklyn around 2:45 a.m. Friday when he was struck once. He was not seriously injured.

Amrit Marajh, 28, of Brooklyn has bee arrested, along with three others who were taken into custody and were released.

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