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The Flushing Library is going to host a Marrow Registry event near the end of March. Think you could be a match?

Details:

Queens Library HealthLink Flushing Cancer Action Council and the New York Blood Center invite healthy adults to give someone a second chance at a healthy life by registering
for the BE THE MATCH Marrow Registry. Registration will take place on Monday, March 28, 2011, between 2 and 8 pm at Queens Library at Flushing, 41-17 Main Street and Kissena Boulevard. Registration is quick, safe, painless and free. To sign up, please call Queens Library at Flushing, (718) 661 – 1200, extension 0.

Each day, thousands of people with serious illnesses search for a bone marrow donor to make a life-saving transplant possible. Because tissue types are inherited, patients are most likely to match someone of their own race and ethnicity. Donors representing diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds are needed so that every patient has a second chance at
life. A patient’s likelihood of having a suitable donor on the Be The Match Registry who is willing and able to donate on their behalf is estimated to range from 66% to 93%, depending on race and ethnicity. Most patients (about 70%) do not find a match in their families. They need your help.

Volunteers need to be between the ages of 18 and 60, be willing to donate to any patient in need and meet the health guidelines.
Registration only means that the volunteer will be in a database for possible contact at a later date. You are not committing to donate. For
more information about The National Marrow Donor Program, please call 1-800-MARROW-2 or visit BeTheMatch.org.

Have you ever wanted to try everything at the Flushing Mall Food Court? Here’s your chance!

Jeff Orlick, the man behind the blog Jeffrey Tastes, will be hosting the Flushing Mall Grazing Experience this Saturday, Feb. 19. It originally started out as an event for about 50 of his closest friends, but – like everything on the internet – has gone viral and spiraled out of control, and now he expects about 200 people to attend. All you have to do is spend $10 at the food court and get tasting. There will even be prizes and…we’ll just let Jeffrey tell you about, more info here.

The scuttlebutt is getting too hard to ignore.

While rumors have been swirling for a while that the New York Mets and Citi Field would play host to the 2013 All-Star Game, several published reports (here’s one) are now reporting it’s all but a foregone conclusion that the Midsummer Classic will be coming to Flushing.

The last time the Mets hosted an All-Star Game was way back in 1964. No Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise has gone longer without hosting a game, which means the Mets were well overdue. But really, who wanted to watch an All-Star Game in Shea Stadium? It wasn’t exactly the most photogenic of places in the professional sports world, so we can’t really blame MLB for withholding the honor from the Mets for so long. And the timing couldn’t be better, we’re sure the Wilpon’s could use a little good news right now, given their recent troubles.

We just wonder if a formal announcement will put a newfound urgency on getting the huge Willets Point makeover underway.

Lion dancers, taste of Sky View Center, and a raffle. Suggested donation of $10 gets you a raffle ticket and food tickets.

Sky View Center
Atrium Level
40-24 College Point Blvd.
Flushing

Come and learn about the programs the YMCA offers.

Flushing YMCA
138-46 Northern Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11354

Learn about lanterns made in other countries. Make a lantern to take home and one to decorate Flushing Town Hall. Free.

Flushing Town Hall
37-35 Northern Boulevard
Flushing