SJU Students Serve CCBQ Seniors Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens’ Sheridan Senior Residence, Astoria, and St. Louis Senior Center, Crown Heights, hosted St. John’s University volunteers on Sept. 29, as part of the university’s 11th annual Day of Service. At Sheridan Residence, left, volunteers helped seniors clear weeds and debris from their rooftop garden and […]
Known as the “Ambassadors of Goodwill,” the Harlem Globetrotters have combined an entertaining style of basketball with a broader community service mission for over 85 years. The Globetrotters brought their goodwill to Brooklyn on Sept. 18 by visiting Bishop Ford H.S., Park Slope, for an anti-bullying and violence prevention assembly. This event marked the first […]
CCBQ Golf Classic Raises $150K Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ) raised a record $150,000 at the annual Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Golf Classic at Sands Point Golf Club, Sands Point, L.I., Aug. 13. Proceeds benefit more than 160 CCBQ programs and services. Bishop Sullivan, second from left, enjoyed a round of golf at the […]
100 Uzzis Celebrate 100 Years in America Last month, four generations of the Uzzi family held their first family reunion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their ancestors’ arrival in America from Italy. Uzzis from Brooklyn and across the country met at Transfiguration […]
