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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 .

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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.

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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.

The Bronx Culture Trolley has become a "must do event" on the calendars of "First Wednesday" regulars from all five boroughs and beyond. Read about it here...

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