Staten Island FAMILY • April 2012 Children at Play Early Intervention Center 40 Merrill Ave Staten Island, NY 10314 (718) 370-7529 [email protected]
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PETERS 50 New & Noteworthy The hottest new products April 2012 • STATEN ISLAND FAMILY 3 Letter from the publisher NYC is on our planet Earth aving been in- food casually thrown clean-up team and recruit others to show your kids that this is a priority volved in the in the streets, cigarette get on the team too. Maybe it’s orga- you have set and that you are willing H Earth Day move- butts everywhere, and nizing our blocks for regular clean- to get involved in helping even if you ment for a long time, I bottles, cans and other ups and thereby giving our kids that weren’t the ones who did it. can only say, that here refuse tossed onto the example to experience personally. Without a doubt, we can all make in New York there re- streets or thrown to We need to train them and ourselves a difference. This is our planet. This mains a real lack of the curbs. to not be accepting of the mess and is where we live and this is where awareness on the part This is outrageous the clutter. We all need to stop and our children will live. Let’s help them of the average citizen, and the only explana- pick up the papers as they fly by, not by cleaning up the backyards and in comparison to other tion one can find for walk over them. front yards of our fair city and get- large cities both here this ongoing condition This is an ongoing task that will ting them to be on the team too. in the US and in Western Europe. is that most people feel “it’s some- only make a dent if done with regu- Happy Spring and as always We lag behind and the streets of body else’s job” to clean it up. “Not larity and conviction. We are urging thanks so much for reading and our city are a testament to that my job; not my mess; not my block; every parent to teach their kids by thanks for helping us become award fact. not my washroom; not my side- example that this is our planet earth winning magazines. Your loyalty is Paper is floating everywhere, walk; not my corner”, seems to be and that each and every one of us much appreciated. there are plastic bags hung up in the general and pervasive attitude. can and does make a difference. We many of our trees and even seem- How can we change this? I believe must encourage their participation ingly educated, intelligent people the answer lies with our children and discourage complacency and have become apparently immune and the emphasis and responsibil- the avoidance of responsibility. to the mess. Cavalierly, most peo- ity we encourage them to have in Sweeping your street every week, ple walk past newspapers blow- relation to the whole environment. or bending to pick up the papers ing down the sidewalk, half-eaten I believe we all have to get on the that have been tossed down will help Susan Weiss-Voskidis, Publisher STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION PUBLISHER / EXECUTIVE EDITOR: ADVERTISING: WEB OR PRINT ADDRESS Susan Weiss (718) 260-4554 New York Parenting Media/CNG PUBLISHER / BUSINESS MANAGER: [email protected] or 1 Metrotech Center North Clifford Luster [email protected] 10th Floor SALES MANAGER / ADVERTISING: Brooklyn, NY 11201 Sharon Noble CIRCULATION SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: (718) 260-8336 www.NYParenting.com Tina Felicetti [email protected] SALES REPS: Lori Falco, Sharon Leverett, EDITORIAL Stephanie Stellaccio, Jay Pelc (718) 260-4554 ART DIRECTOR: Leah Mitch [email protected] PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: On Man Tse LAYOUT MANAGER: Yvonne Farley The acceptance of advertising by New York Join the conversation on Facebook. 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