Good Morning, Brooklyn: Wednesday, August 10, 2022

New Probationary Firefighters: The New York City Fire Department graduated 231 probationary firefighters yesterday during a ceremony held at the Christian Cultural Center on Flatlands Avenue. Acting Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh presided over the ceremony, which was the culmination of 18 weeks at the FDNY Training Academy, where they learned firefighting and medical response, hazardous materials, collapsed and confined space rescue training, extrication of vehicles, inspections and building procedures. for engine and ladder operation.

The new firefighter class has eight women, bringing the total number of female firefighters to 141 – the most in FDNY history.

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TOOLS REQUIRED IN THE 2020 INVESTIGATION THROUGHOUT: The NYPD, in an ongoing investigation into a case from two years ago, is asking for the public’s help in locating the unidentified vehicles. (on video) is wanted in connection with a murder within 81^str Area in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Derrick Garner, 41, was shot once in the left forearm and once in the left side by unknown persons driving three vehicles traveling eastbound on Decatur Street through the intersection of Reid Avenue, Monday, August 17, 2020. Victim was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or by logging in to CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips

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MISSING CHILD FROM BROWNSVILLE: The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing child who resides inside 73^st The area, which includes Brownsville-Ocean Hill. Natalia Acuna Botero, 12, was last seen on Friday, August 5, at 9:15 p.m., inside her home. She is described as being approximately 5’6″ tall, weighing 120 pounds, with a thin build, light skin, brown eyes and black hair and wearing a blue t-shirt and black jeans.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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BROOKLYN PASTOR ORDAINED AS NEW MINISTER OF CHURCH ON THE RIVER: Riverside Church on Sunday, August 7 launched a video series to introduce their 8^th called the High Minister, Rev. Adrienne Thorne, who for six years served as senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. Beginning in October, Pastor Thorne will also become Riverside Church’s first African-American female pastor.

First Presbyterian Church celebrates its bicentennial this year and under Pastor Thorne’s leadership in 2019 won the Brooklyn Heights Association Community Service Award specifically for its meal ministry.

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BOOK CONVERSATIONS ON JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS’ AMERICA: Could Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas make sense for America? Center for Brooklyn History, in partnership with the 370 Jay Project based at NYU in Brooklyn, presents a talk next month, presents a talk on Wednesday, September 7 with Corey Robin, one of the right’s most prominent analysts with insights into American conservatism. His groundbreaking books, The Mystery of Clarence Thomas, Reactionary Mind and Fear: The History of a Political Idea, explain the narrative that brings the nation through these unprecedented political times.

The registration link to this BPL/Center for Brooklyn History “Talks in the Othmer” series event is https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/talks-othmer-corey-robin-center-for-brooklyn-20220907

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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KEEPING STRONG DURING THE PANDEMIC: The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, being a school of the arts, has met creatively challenges of the pandemic, according to BCM’s 2022 Impact Report, published yesterday. Among the achievements of the past two years have been the welcoming of Uton Onyejekwe, the first Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at BCM; retaining staff and faculty through the Great Resignation with salary increases, increased PTO, and the introduction of a sabbatical program; running a successful major donor program and deepening institutional relationships that have increased BKCM’s contributed income by 22% per year for six years; and doing a case study of BKCM’s first Community Music Center in Cypress Hills: a scalable new model for serving families directly, in convenient and accessible locations, that was catalyzed by adaptations of the COVID era.

BKCM had entered the darkest days of 2020 already from a position of strength due to community support and the tremendous commitment of its staff and faculty, and served more than 6,200 students in 67 sites across the city – near its presence and extent before COVID.

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ARTS COUNCIL GRANT PANELISTS WANTED: Arts and culture experts are invited to become Grant Panelists for the Brooklyn Arts Council in the upcoming year of proposal review. The Brooklyn Arts Council uses a panel selection process to review proposals and determine awards. Since grants are awarded to a wide variety of artists throughout Brooklyn, panelists are sought from all boroughs of the borough.

Panel Application Deadline: October 20, 2022, via https://brooklynartscouncil.submittable.com/submit/233218/2023-grant-panel-nomination-form

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DALLA E JASHT PRACTICES TO CELEBRATE THE INDEPENDENCE OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso hosts an event to celebrate the 60th anniversary^th Trinidad and Tobago Independence Anniversary, this Thursday, August 11, from 5-8 p.m. According to the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, approximately 200,000 respondents identified their heritage as Trinidadian.

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, a two-island Caribbean nation located next to the South American countries of Venezuela and Guyana, achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 and joined the Commonwealth and the United Nations that same year. . It became a republic in 1976.