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Mill Basin’s youngest journalists write all about it for school’s Newspaper Club
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
These kids are making news!
Pint-sized pupils at a Mill Basin
public school turn their library into
a bustling newsroom each week when
they convene for regular meetings of
their Newspaper Club.
Rookie reporters in the PS 236 club,
founded three years ago by the school’s
enrichment teacher, produce some
15-25 newsletters per school year, with
each edition dedicated to a single story.
The kids in grades three through fi ve
love hitting the hallways for half an
hour each week to get the latest scoops
from the Avenue U school, and working
together to perfect their writing
skills, the educator said.
“They feel so important, and some
of them are gaining confi dence in their
writing,” said Suzy Ojalvo.
This reporter sat in on a Jan. 30
meeting of the newspaper club, watching
as two cub reporters wrote up indepth
coverage of the third-grade history
presentations, for which kids
dressed up as prominent fi gures such
as Eleanor Roosevelt, Walt Disney, and
Marie Curie, according to one of the
little newshounds.
“It’s when the third graders dressed
up as historical fi gures and made gigantic
posters about them and told me
about them — I have three entire pages
full of quotes,” said fourth-grader Eli.
Her partner-in-print, 8-year-old Jacob,
said he got his start in the publishing
business at age 5 by writing short
autobiographical newspapers, which
he would then deliver to his loyal readers
on regular weekly deadline.
“I’d tell my friends about a new
newspaper I’m writing, then they’d
wait and I’d hand them a newspaper on
Fridays about my life and they really
like it,” the third-grader said.
Two other youngsters spent the session
putting together an article on the
school’s spelling bee last November.
One of the reporters went through the
piece checking for the fi ve “Ws” — the
keys to any good news story, he said.
“We’re looking at the who, what,
where, when, and why of the story,”
said Sagie.
The fourth-grader fl ipped through
ON THE BEAT: Club members Muhammad,
left, and Michael conducted an interview.
DA prosecuting
killings at Bay
restaurant as
a hate crime
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A Manhattan Beach man faces life in
prison without parole for allegedly
murdering three Asian employees of
a Sheepshead Bay restaurant with a
hammer, according to the district attorney,
who announced he will prosecute
the killings as a hate crime.
Prosecutors slapped Arthur Martunovich,
34, with a 21-count indictment
including fi rst-degree murder,
second-degree murder as a hate crime,
and other charges for what District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez described as an
atrocious and racist attack .
“This was a violent, horrifi c and
harrowing attack on three completely
innocent, hardworking men who were
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Farewell to Hynes
Members of the Fire Department’s Emerald Society Pipe and Drum Band marched before the Feb. 2 funeral service for former
District Attorney Charles Hynes, who died on Jan. 29 at 83-years-old. Hynes, who held the position of top prosecutor from 1990
to 2014, also served as the city’s Fire Commissioner from 1980 to 1982. For more, see page 3. Photo by Steve Solomonson
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