The athletic talents of 14-year-old Emma Estrada do not include a soccer ball, a basketball hoop, a lacrosse stick or a softball glove. No, instead all Emma needs to compete are a pair of skates and a sheet of ice. That’s because the freshman at St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, is a synchronized skater – and a gold medalist already in the sport as well.
In everyday life, just one person can help to achieve American virtues, like justice and freedom, by being respectful of other religions, those with different ideas and anyone who might be different from us.
Marianna Tzirani, from St. Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows, writes about her Biotechnology class visit to the lab at the Lake Success DNA Learning Center in Cold Spring Harbor, L.I.
I believe kindness is a virtue that brightens everyone’s day. You may never know what someone is going through so if I’m able to make someone smile, that is my priority.
A look at the 2015 All-Diocesan CHSFL Football Team.
Guests at the third annual Youth Choir Festival, organized by the Diocesan Music Commission, were treated to an uplifting and entertaining afternoon at Resurrection-Ascension, Rego Park.
The Alvernian Drama Society at St. Francis Prep., Fresh Meadows, will perform a production of “A Christmas Carol,” on Dec. 4, 8 p.m., and Dec. 5, 7 p.m.
St. Bernadette’s School in Dyker Heights and St. Sebastian’s School in Woodside were among the schools honored on Mission Sunday at a Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Chappetto at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn.
When St. Francis Prep., Fresh Meadows, celebrated its patron’s feast day, students and faculty were still energized by the recent visit of the pope who chose to be named after the very same saint.
What motivates me is the goals I have set for myself. I am not too hard on myself, but I do refuse to give up when I know something is achievable.
