Paid
Lifeguard Training Program - The Department of Parks and
Recreation will be recruiting and training summer lifeguards for the
city’s 54 outdoor pools and 14 miles of beaches. The paid training
program consists of 40 hours of instruction in swimming and rescue
techniques, First Aid and CPR, and includes a final swim test and
written exam. First-year lifeguards will earn at least $13.57/hour, and
work 48 hours a week. For more info, call 311 or visit
www.nyc.gov/parks .
The New York Botanical Garden is currently hosting
Chocolate and Vanilla Adventures, an
educational children’s program which takes place in the Everett
Children’s Adventure Garden where children learn the plant origins of
these two sweet treats, as well as participating in hands-on activities
and tastings. This program complements the upcoming
Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower. The
flower show features plants of Old Havana and the Cuban countryside, and
on weekends during the exhibition, there will be home gardening
demonstrations and Q&A with experts. Both programs run through
April 11. For more information and schedules, call (718)
817-8700 or visit
www.nybg.org .
The Bronx River Art Center, together with the NYC Department of
Transportation, present an abstract wooden art sculpture, Aurora, 14
feet tall, 11 feet wide and 11 feet deep, to be on view for 11 months
until June at the center of West Farms Square Plaza located at the base
of the West Farms Square/East Tremont Avenue subway station on the
corner of East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, one block away from BRAC
which is located at 1087 E. Tremont Ave. For more information, visit
www.nyc.gov/urbanart.
MTA’s Trip Planner Voice, Trip Planner Voice
is a telephone service that allows customers to access bus
and subway travel itinerary information via telephone 24/7
without the need to wait to speak to an agent.
Trip Planner provides customers with
the best and most accurate directions, fare information,
walking distances and scheduled connections to and from
other transit modes and transfers. For more
information, and to learn how to get
mobile access, visit
www.tripplanner.mta.info .
Bronx Zoo daily events include:
keepers doing enrichment demonstrations
with their Siberian tigers at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.;
penguin feedings at 3:30 p.m. in
the Sea Bird Colony & The
Bee-Eater
Buffet at 2:45 p.m. in the World of Birds. Call
718-367-1010 or 718-220-5100 for info.
The "Original" Hall of Fame:
The Hall of Fame for
Great Americans, which features 98 bronze portrait busts of noted
Americans, is open seven days a week at the
Bronx Community College
campus (at
University Avenue and West 181st Street). Group tours are available. For more
information, call 289-5161.
Friends of the Woodlawn
Cemetery presents walking tours
of the cemetery on Saturdays
featuring significant memorials and resting places of
notable individuals, and
on Sundays, special theme tours go
off the beaten path to gravesites of interesting
individuals. Tours are approximately two hours in length and
involve 1.5 miles of walking. $10/adults; $7/seniors;
$5/students/children. Call 718-920-1470 for a schedule of tours, times,
and meeting places.
At the Bronx Zoo: (Info: 718-220-5182/6880/6898 or 718-367-1010):
Call 718-367-1010 for admission fees.
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