Bronx community boards must pick up the torch lit by their Manhattan counterpart and follow through with alienation legislation. The people of the Bronx deserve nothing less.

A listing of community events, programs and services in the for our readers in the northwest Bronx.

For more than 20 years, the Bronx Jewish Community Council has partnered with B’nai B’rith’s Project HOPE to bring food packages to frail and elderly homebound Jewish adults at Chanukah and at Passover. During Chanukah last month, hundreds of BJCC volunteers delivered 500 packages to seniors, most who live alone, throughout the borough.

With veteran leadership, great depth, family-like chemistry and one of the best athletes to ever wear the blue and white, the Lehman College women’s basketball team is poised to defend their CUNY Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) Championship this season.

A listing of arts and entertainment events and programs in the northwest Bronx.

In an effort to beef up policing of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, the New York Police Department is sending reinforcements to the 52nd Police Precinct’s southern areas.

Norwood residents are urging the Parks Department to renovate the dog run in Williamsbridge Oval Park, which they feel is inadequate and causing harm to their pets.

Fourth and fifth graders from the Bronx New School, led by team captains Andrew Jackson and Lindsay Gonzalez, performed well enough to move on to compete in the Mad Hot Ballroom semifinals in Manhattan, Dec. 14, and then the fall semester finals on Dec. 17, achieving gold medal status in both events. They are now headed to the Grand Finals at the World Financial Center Winter Garden this June.

Three days after Bedford Park resident Kathie Fidis died on Dec. 19, her wake at the John Fox funeral home was packed, standing room only, with family, friends and a gaggle of regulars from Rose’s Luncheonette, the tiny coffee shop Kathie and her husband, Michael, turned into a neighborhood institution.