Proudly Serving Bronx Communities Since 1988 3URXGO\6HUYLQJ%URQ[&RPPXQLWLHV6LQFHFREE 3URXGO\6HUYLQJ%URQ[&RPPXQLWLHV6LQFHFREE ORWOODQ EWSQ NVol. 27, No. 8 PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N April 17–30, 2014 ORWOODQ EWSQ Vol 34, No 4 • PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION COR P ORATION • FEBRUARY 18-MAR C H 3, 2021 NVol. 27, No. 8 PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N April 17–30, 2014 FREE BULLYING SURVIVOR INSPIres KIDS AT P.S. 294 Couple Spread Love On Valentine’s Day pg 2 Elections 2021: Kevin Pazmino Profile pg 12 Photo by Síle Moloney SHIRA BLUMENTHAL, FOUNDER of the anti-bullying movement, #HatNotHate (far right) joins students and staff at P.S. 294, Walton Avenue School, in the Mt Eden section of the Bronx, on Thursday, Feb. 11, to donate 500 blue knit hats to students and raise awareness about bullying. By SÍLE MOLONEY girl with short frizzy hair, buck website, hatnothate.org. which she told other kids her When she was nine years teeth, and very little confidence. Then, there was another mother had invented. Blumen- old, Shira Blumenthal, founder At the start of fourth grade, she “cool” girl in her class, who, she thal said she can’t remember the New Computer Center of the nationwide anti-bully- had two friends. “They were a wrote, was friends with every- first time she was bullied by the For Fordham Library ing movement, #HatNotHate, little cooler than I was, but that one, boys and girls, and who al- girl, but she continually made was a self-described, chubby didn’t faze me,” she writes on her ways wore a bra strap headband, (continued on page 19) pg 13 DOWNLOAD No Fee Unless You Win THE FREE APP Hablamos Español KRAMER& Free Consultation POLLACKLLP (212) ANSWERS INJURY ATTORNEYS Larry J. Kramer Joshua Pollack Keep us with you wherever you go (212) 267-9377 VIST OUR WEB SITE AND VIEW OUR TESTMONIALS WWW.212ANSWERS.COM 2 • February 18-March 3, 2021 • Norwood News Couple Hand out Vol. 34, No. 4 Gift Cards on Vol. 27, No. 10 NorwoodVol. News 27, No.is published 10 bi-weekly on Thursdays by Valentine’s Day MosholuNorwood Preservation News Corporationis published (MPC) Norwood3400 Reservoir News isOval published East bi-weekly on Thursdays by by DAVID GREENE bi-weeklyBronx, New on ThursdaysYork 10467 by MosholuPhone: Preservation 718 324 4998Corporation Mosholu Preservation Corporation A couple celebrating St. Valentine’s 3400Fax: Reservoir 718 324 Oval2917 East E-mail: [email protected] Reservoir Oval East Day, who wanted to give back to elderly Bronx, New York 10467 Web.:Bronx, www.norwoodnews.org New York 10467 residents of Fordham Manor, spent some of the day attempting to hand out eight Publisher Phone: 718 324 4998 Phone: 718 324 4998 $25 gift cards at their local supermarket Mosholu PreservationFax: 718 324 Corporation 2917 to surprised and grateful shoppers. 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