WEEKEND EVENTS ON STATEN ISLAND (3/6-3/8/15)
Posted by Joan Coogan on
As I watch the last snow fall of the season from my home office (yes, this is the last, hopefully), I dream sweet, pleasant dreams of warmer days, my garden and how much fun I’ll have digging in the soil, planting vegetables, new plants and flowers. Positive thinking always chases the doldrums away! 
This Saturday, 3/7, a blood drive will be held from 9-3 at the gymnasium of Our Lady Help of Christians R.C. Church, 23 Summit St. in memory of Firefighter John G. Chipura, who died a hero on September 11, 2001. I met “Chippy” on a real estate showing a few days before 9/11. His buddy was interested in buying a commercial building and accompanied him for a second opinion. He told me he had been a police officer at the 72nd Pct. in Brooklyn; after a few…
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