SCA students participate in StArt 2019 Art Exhibition
Three St. Catharine Academy
students were among the
approximately 90 high school
students who had their work
exhibited at the StArt 2019
Regional High School Art
Exhibition at Concordia College
in Bronxville, New York.
Thirty-one private and public
high schools from the Bronx
and Westchester, Fairfi eld,
Orange, and Rockland Counties
participated in the exhibition.
Goals of the exhibition
are to give high school
students an opportunity to
showcase their work in a professional
gallery and to build
their credentials and portfolios
for college. Students from
St. Catharine Academy who
participated are seniors Shania
Burrus, Kamilah Guerrero,
and Leeana Mullamphy.
Mullamphy’s painting
was of her 80-year-old grandmother’s
hand. “My art piece
depicts my grandmother’s
hand and the many years she
has used them to work,” said
Leeana. “My grandmother
is the essence of work ethic
because she raised her family
and once owned and ran
a bodega. I believe that my
grandmother’s hands are so
beautiful because they have
aided her to become the person
she was meant to be, a
strong independent woman.”
Guerrero’s work, using
the mediums of oil, pastel,
collage paper and ribbon, was
inspired by her mother. “I
looked at my mother embracing
a tree, and that sparked
something! The ribbons represent
a lifeline coming out
of the branches, a storyline
in our lives.”
Burrus, who plans to pursue
a career in architecture,
incorporated acrylic and
Gelli prints to create her concentration
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theme, trying to
fi nd oneself in the midst of
urban design.
Speaking to the experience
of seeing her art exhibited,
Leeana said, “It was
a privilege to show my art
piece at the O’Silas Gallery
as well as see other artists’
work. Viewing both your
own work and other’s allows
you to truly appreciate the
diversity that arises from
our love of the arts.”
St. Catharine Academy offers
a comprehensive visual
arts program where students
may take three years of art.
The curriculum includes introduction
to art, drawing
and painting I and II, advertising
design, fashion design,
photo shop, and culminates
with AP Studio Art. In recent
years SCA graduates
have pursued their studies
at the School of Visual Arts,
(L-r) Art teacher Deborah Ross with Shania Burrus, Kamilah Guerrero,
and Leeana Mullamphy standing before their works of art.
Fashion Institute of Design
and Merchandising, Fashion
Institute of Technology and
SUNY Purchase.
BY ANNIE BOLLER
Wishing everyone a happy
and heathy 2019. Our meetings
are suspended during
January and February.
A special thanks to Mary-
Jane Musano and Andrew
Chirico of the Waterbury La-
Salle Community Association
for inviting us to join them at
their December meeting. Patrick
Caruso of Community
Board 10 was a guest speaker.
He informed us of several programs
available to Seniors,
i.e. SNAP, HEAP, etc. as well
as other programs available
for families and youth. If you
are interested in any of these
programs or want to fi nd out
more information, please contact
Patrick at the board offi ce
at (718) 892-1161.
John Cerini spoke describing
the many income tax
changes beginning this year.
If you want to contact John to
discuss any tax concerns or
use any of his services, his offi
ce number is (718) 829-1040.
Afterwards, we gathered
for some holiday sweets and
cheer. We thank Waterbury
LaSalle for their warm welcome
and hospitality.
The ‘stop work’ order has
been lifted at 2115 Burr Avenue.
They are now required to
have 11 parking spaces for this
location. Thank you to the district
manager Matt Cruz at CB
10 for his continued effort to
ascertain that these developments/
developers are abiding
to the laws for development.
What originally was to
be Don Coqui in Pelham Bay
has since changed its name to
PR Sazon and is now open for
business.
Once our newly elected offi
cials Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and
Senator Alexandra Biaggi are
settled in their new offi ces,
we will extend invitations to
them to speak at one of our
meetings. We will keep you
appraised of the dates if they
accept our invitations.
On Sunday, January 27, the
Post Offi ce will increase the
price of a stamp from 50 cents
to 55 cents. You may want to
consider purchasing some
‘forever’ stamps prior to the
27th.
BY GENE DEFRANCIS
Our next meeting is Tuesday,
February 5 at the beautiful
Sanz Banquet Hall, 815
Allerton Avenue. Doors open
at 7 p.m. and we will continue
our discussion regarding
the 2019 Holiday Lights and
our upcoming Anniversary
Party.
If you have not sent us
a check yet for the Holiday
Lights we ask that you do so
before this date so we can
send our full ‘Thank You’ ad
inside this great local paper,
so you can get the recognition
you deserve for supporting
our community.
Remember shop at these
stores. Look for their sponsorship
poster in their window.
Thank them and spend a few
dollars inside. If your business
did not yet receive its
sponsorship poster yet please
contact us immediately so we
can rectify that. AllertonMerchants@
gmail.com.
Date will also be fi nalized
for the anniversary party and
deposit made. It will be held at
the Sanz. Full page, half page
and quarter page ads will be
available as well as tickets.
Live performances, a DJ and
amazing food from Gasolina.
If you have not eaten at Gasolina
and their new and amazing
menu you don’t know
what you’re missing.
The holiday lights are
down and the 2018 chapter is
closed. We actually had less
complaints this year than
year’s past. We would get
calls to upgrade constantly.
And next month we sit down
with the designer to fi gure
out what is feasible. We need
all hands on deck. The more
money we collect the more
fl exibility we have. Once we
get the layout of what is in
our scope we will address it
in our March meeting and
later that month close the
deal.
We want to thank our
Sector C NCO police offi -
cers Gregory Hernandez and
Daisy Sanchez. A man who
was known to rob and harass
our merchants frequently has
been arrested. He apparently
had a pattern of targeting female
owned businesses.
We do not tolerate any illegal
activity that hurts our
small businesses but to the
added factor he had an obsession
with Women owned
businesses we are encouraging
our neighbors to contact
the Honorable Darcel Clarks
offi ce and local elected offi
cials to keep him off our
streets and away from our
merchants.
This arrest also put confi
dence into more merchants
who were discouraged about
fi ling a police report with
the belief ‘nothing would get
done’. Well something has
been done and it’s up to us to
support our businesses.
If you’re being harassed
or intimidated (whether you
are a merchant or resident)
contact us. We want to help.
Together we will make Allerton
a safer and cleaner place
to live and do business.
Also there is an apparent
push to develop in and around
our community. If you are a
victim of tenant harassment
because your landlord wants
to remove you from your
home, contact us we will put
an end to that immediately.
This includes but not limited
to no heat, no running water,
and mold in the apartment.
Likewise landlords who have
tenants destroying their
home, selling drugs, and constant
noise complaints that
are soliciting angry phone
calls from neighbors we are
here to help as well.
As always any questions,
comments, concerns reach
out to us via email or join the
conversation on our Facebook
page ‘Allerton International
Merchants’. If you live
in the Allerton neighborhood
we want your helping shaping
the future of your home.
Your community is your
business.
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