Bronx Celebrates ‘Food Day’ With New School Health Initiative

Today is officially Food Day in New York City–the first annual government-sponsored day to celebrate “real food and healthy eating,” marked by events across the five boroughs with a focus on nutrition. In the Bronx this morning, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and State Sen. Gustavo Rivera were at Mount St. Ursula Academy in Bedford Park to kick off a new health initiative for local schools. The Family Health Challenge, developed alongside the Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center and the Committee of Interns and Residents, asks students and their families to set small goals for themselves–cut out soda one

Meeting Tonight: How to Fix Gun Hill Road

The Department of Transportation is holding another public input session concerning Gun Hill Road’s congestion and safety problems at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, 3450 Dekalb Ave., tonight at 6:30 p.m.

Send Us Your Health Questions!

Got a pressing health, fitness, or nutrition question on your mind? Send them our way! We’re ready to tackle your queries about food, sex, illness, health insurance, prescription medications–any health-related topics that puzzle or interest you. We’ll answer your question in a new Q&A feature appearing in the Norwood News‘ Be Healthy! column. If we don’t know, we’ll ask to experts. You can sign your name or send it anonymously. Send your queries to: norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org. Here’s a link to the first installment of the Be Healthy! Q&A, which was featured in last week’s Norwood News. <<<Click here

Happy Monday, Breaking Bronx readers. From here on out, we’ll be starting each work week off with a post called “Weekend Wrap,” linking to relevant local news and big Bronx stories that went down over the weekend. Make sure you check back with us here every Monday. Some items from the last few days: A bill passed recently by the City Council will require the DOE to provide extensive reports on how school space is being utilized–though local parents are skeptical this will do anything for the crammed classrooms in the notoriously overcrowded Bronx District 10. This Daily News story

Friday News & Notes

Friday News & Notes is a new regular feature we’re implementing on Breaking Bronx as a way to report news tidbits, preview weekend happenings, and point out some of the stories you may have missed earlier in the week. Like Breaking Bronx, this will be an evolving feature. — “Master carver” Ray Villafane will be at the Botanical Garden this weekend carving up the world’s largest pumpkin, which weighs in at 1,818.5 pounds. The photo above, by Adi Talwar, is from last year’s giant pumpkin carving extravaganza at the Garden. Click here for more of Adi’s pumpkin carving photos. —

An ancient rivalry is back in the Bronx for an emotional showdown under Friday night lights. Dewitt Clinton’s Governors are headed to John F. Kennedy’s Riverdale campus in what should be a hard-fought contest that starts at 7 p.m.

Engel: With Qaddafi’s Death, Real Work in Libya Begins

Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the house foreign affairs committee, sent out a swift response to the news of former Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi’s violent death earlier today, saying it’s time for Libyans to get down to the business of setting up a functioning democracy.

Community District 10 Education Council Meeting Tonight

The Community District 10 Education Council, which encompasses much of the northwest Bronx, will hold its monthly meeting tonight, Thursday, Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at PS 33, 2424 Jerome Ave.