Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Scandal Padlocks Pride Center

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Scandal Padlocks Pride Center: In 2007, Lisa Winters (Left) posed with a member of the Weather Girls who performed for a gala fundraiser for the Bronx ...

Scandal Padlocks Pride Center

In 2007, Lisa Winters (Left) posed with a member of the Weather Girls who performed for a gala fundraiser for the Bronx Community Pride Center. The center will cease operations on Saturday.

(Photo by Gary Quintal)

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 27- The Bronx’s only gay community center will close its doors for good on Saturday in the wake of the scandal in which its former director has been charged with embezzling over $300,000.

Lisa Winters, former executive director of the Bronx Community Pride Center was indicted last week on charges that she used $338,000 in center funds to pay for such items as a trip to South Africa, clothes, personal expenses including a dog walker. 

The Bronx Community Pride Center has released the following statement: 

The board of directors of the Bronx Community Pride Center (BCPC), the borough’s largest LGBTQ service organization, has unanimously voted to cease operations of the center on June 30, 2012 and to begin making arrangements for current services to be provided by partner organizations within the Bronx.

Due to BCPC’s current economic difficulties, past debt and inability to raise sufficient unrestricted funding, the organization can no longer implement its current programs. The organization has debts which exceed revenues at this time and without significant cash infusions from major donors they are unable to continue operations financially.

The Board of Directors is committed to assisting in any way to make sure that our clients continue to be served, especially since this population is traditionally under served in the Bronx. We’re a group of caring individuals and this decision has been difficult for us to make but we will never give up for our mission of heath equality.

“As BCPC closes I ask that all Bronx LGBTQ organizations come together and fill the void that would be left behind. The Board of Directors is committed to assisting in any way to make sure that our clients continue to be served, especially since this population is traditionally under served in the Bronx. We’re a group of caring individuals and this decision has been difficult for us to make, but we will never give up for our mission of heath equality,” said Antonio Centeno Jr., BCPC Board Chairperson.

The Bronx Community Pride Center is a non-for-profit organization which was incorporated in 1997 as the Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium. Around 2005/2006 the name and mission was changed and the agency then became a community center. The organization is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT”) center that provides direct supportive and case management services including educational, cultural and wellness programs to nurture and support members of our community. They provide training and education opportunities to help train future leaders which will promote the heath of the LGBT community.

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Ump Blows it as Yanks Win

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Ump Blows it as Yanks Win: Replay Debate Heats Up after Screw Up By Rich Mancuso BRONX, NEW YORK, June 27- Phil Hughes pitched eight strong innings and the New Y...

Ump Blows it as Yanks Win

Replay Debate Heats Up after Screw Up

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 27- Phil Hughes pitched eight strong innings and the New York Yankees, with a three-run first inning and a late home run from Alex Rodriguez overcame a ninth inning rally and defeated the Cleveland Indians 6-4 in the Bronx Tuesday night.

But the game story was not about the Yankees hitting another home run, a solo shot by Rodriguez in the seventh that gave New York a 5-0 lead. It was a ball that was supposedly caught by Dewayne Wise when he went over the wall down the left field line with two outs in the Indians seventh inning, on a ball hit off the bat of Jack Hannahan.

Third base umpire Mike DiMuro, after the game, saw the play on replay and realized the ball hit off Wise’s glove and fell in the stands. At the time, the Indians had a runner on third base.

Had the play been ruled a foul ball, it may not have mattered in the final outcome. Though Cleveland would score four runs in the ninth off Cory Wade, including a home run before Rafael Soriano recorded the final out and his 16^th save.

DiMuro, a veteran umpire of twelve years said, “Now that I see the tape it is obvious that the ball fell out of his (Wise) glove. In hindsight, I should have asked him to show me the ball since he fell into the stands and out of my line of vision.”

Yankees manager Joe Girardi said about the play, “It was a tough play. As much as we want them to be perfect (umpires) they are so much under a micro scope.” But, the Yankees, as with every team in baseball have been the victims of calls that have gone against them.

This time they could joke about the play and call. However, the missed call once again brings up the question about expanding the use of instant replay in the game.

Wise got a huge ovation from the crowd and tapped the glove of Yankee captain Derek Jeter as they ran to the dugout.

“What was I supposed to do run back to left field?” commented Wise about the play that also got a smile from Hughes. “I saw him looking at my glove so I just got up, put my head down and ran off the field,” he said about the call from DiMuro.

Hughes (8-6) gave up six hits, and struck out four in winning for the fifth time in his last seven starts. Rodriguez hit his 13^th home run and 642^nd of his career. The Yankees increased their major league lead home run total to 116 and won their fourth straight game.

“We only hit one home run,” said Girardi that got a laugh from media in his post game press conference. New York had a streak end of five straight games with two home runs or more. 

They look to sweep Cleveland Wednesday afternoon and are a season high 17 games over .500, with a four game lead in the American League east.

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Mark Teixeira, Eric Chavez, Jayson Nix, pitching coach Larry Rothschild, and Yankees General Partner and Vice Chairperson Jennifer Steinbrenner Swindal surprised students of Flying Manes at one of their classes at the Riverdale Equestrian Center in the Bronx.




The Yankees helped the students in grooming the horses and assisted in leading and walking beside the horses during the students’ riding lessons. At the conclusion of the event, on behalf of the New York Yankees Foundation, the Yankees players presented Flying Manes with a check for $10,000.



Flying Manes Therapeutic Riding was created by Stefanie and Bricklin Dwyer in 2009 with the goal of providing therapeutic riding lessons and other equine-assisted activities to individuals in the New York City area who are faced with physical, cognitive and emotional challenges. The organization—which requires more than 70 volunteers—offers children and young adults a unique, confidence-building sense of accomplishment and has worked with close to 100 students in the four years since it was founded.

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Home Run Derby

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Home runs continue as Yankees come home and beat Indians

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, June 26- Already with a Major League leading 112 home runs, the New York Yankees returned to the Bronx Monday night where they will play 13 of their next 20 games at Yankee Stadium. That’s good news for New York because a majority of those home runs have been hit in the Bronx.

That is not to say that the Yankees don’t hit the long ball on the road. That was seen over the past three days when they hit five at Citi Field against the cross town Mets as they took two of three.

With Hiroki Kuroda on the mound, and in command, the Yankees home run ball continued Monday night. Robinson Cano hit his 17^th, Nick Swisher got his 12^th, and Dewayne Wise hit his first, getting the start in center, as New York won the  opening of a three-game series over the Cleveland Indians 7-1.

“You can hold him down for a while, but he’s going to get hot,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi about Cano who has hit six of the 17 home runs in the last eight games.

Cano drove in three runs. Kuroda (7-7) took a shutout into the eighth inning and won for the fourth time in his last six starts.

The continued home run domination of the Yankees has the opposition looking. During the series with the Mets, manager Terry Collins said they hit home runs everywhere.

With three more home runs Monday night, the Yankees have now hit 14 home runs combined over their last five games. They have hit two home runs in five straight games for the first time since August 21-26 of last season.

“It feels good, everything is connecting,” commented Cano who has increased his batting average to .302 after a slow start. Earlier in the day, Cano also took the lead in voting to start at second base for the American League in the all-star game that will take place in Kansas City July 10^th.

The win was the first of seven games on this home stand that will see the Yankees host the top two teams in the American League Central. The White Sox come to the Bronx, a four game series that begins Thursday evening.

Wise got the start and Curtis Granderson was inserted as the designated hitter. Alex Rodriguez was given a night off.

Phil Hughes (7-6) gets the start for New York as the series continues Tuesday night in the Bronx.