Another K2 Forum in the Works by CB7

By DAVID CRUZ

With lawmakers now ramping up efforts to rid synthetic marijuana from the streets, Community Board 7 is once again doing its part by sponsoring a forum on the impact the drug has had on neighborhoods. Synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, has seen a growing number of users across the city, including the Bronx. The substance, packaged as incense, causes severe side effects that are potentially fatal. They are usually sold at bodegas with little to no oversight. Details are still being worked out by CB7 organizers. The first K2 forum by CB7 was held at North Central Bronx Hospital

By KIMBERLY JACOBS

The Twitter hashtag #PeaceInTheStreets now lives in Bedford Park, thanks to a new mural painted on 202nd Street and Briggs Avenue, across from PS 8. After receiving a grant in May for $1,250 from Citizens Committee for New York to paint the graffiti-tatted wall, Samelys Lopez gathered a team of artists to follow through with a mural. Teammates included Lady K Fever and Laura James from Bronx 200, and a group showcasing selections of artwork by 200 artists around the Bronx. Other artists with colorful names can be seen on the wall. Those include: TKid, CES, King Bee, Andre Trenier, Lizzy Alejandro, Trike,

Walk for Water A free 3K walk and 5K run calling attention to preserving water will be held Oct. 3 at 10 a.m. Walk begins at the Allerton Ballfields (enter at the dead end street of 204th Street off Webster Avenue). To register, log on to walkforourwater.org. Free Enrichment Program The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, 3415 Bainbridge Ave., CHAM 2 Conference Room, offers a free monthly art and enrichment program for children with developmental disabilities, to spend two hours with a supervised teenage mentor from the community from noon to 2 p.m. Classes begin on Oct. 3. For more information,

Editor’s Pick Free Fitness for Seniors City Parks Foundation offers free seniors fitness classes including yoga and fitness walking through Oct. 30, at Van Cortlandt Park’s Woodlawn Tennis Courts, Jerome Avenue and East 233rd Street. Walking schedule is Tuesdays and Thursdays and yoga schedule is Mondays and Wednesdays; both at 9 am. For more information, call (718) 760-6999. Onstage Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Rd., Pelham Bay, presents Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble performing multicultural jazz on Oct. 2 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 885-1461. The Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents Sonido Costeño

By DAVID GREENE & DAVID CRUZ

Questions are still lingering over the safety of a sprawling Kingsbridge street that was the scene of four children and two adults struck by a livery taxi cab Wednesday morning. The accident happened during the rush hour. Police say the driver of a taxi cab was traveling southbound on East Kingsbridge Road when he lost control and hit the pedestrians before crashing near a storefront. All victims were rushed to a nearby hospital. Pieces of the vehicle, along with a child’s umbrella, were left behind at the scene. The section of East Kingsbridge Road, leading towards Fordham Road, does

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 will hold its general board meeting on Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the North Central Bronx Hospital, 3424 Kossuth Place, at 6:30pm. CB7 committee meetings are held on the following dates at the board office, 229A E. 204th St. at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted: Public Safety & Quality of Life, Oct. 1; Education/Libraries & Youth Services Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.; Executive Committee, Oct. 6; Traffic & Transportation, Oct. 8; Veterans, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m.; Environment & Sanitation Oct. 13; Health & Hospitals Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.; Senior Services, Oct. 14; and Parks

Like the Nationalist Party protestors in the streets of Puerto Rico during the 1950s, a band of some two-dozen protestors, many of whom were of Puerto Rican descent, marched from Lehman College to El Grito de Lares, a street dedicated to Puerto Rico’s 1868 uprising against the nation of Spain. They commemorated their protest on Sept. 23, a day before the anniversary of the uprising. For the People Power Movement, a group calling for all-around equity and independence for Puerto Rico, their list of grievances was broad, and at times loaded–outrage over school funding, substandard housing, low-wage jobs, and the assassination

By DAVID CRUZ

Greetings, loyal readers! As expected, the digital edition of the Norwood News is out with, as you guessed it: Plenty of Community News You Can Use! We begin with a story that’s 25 years in the making: pilot access to the Jerome Park Reservoir, long a source of majesty for the Bronx, yet only experienced by a handful. Advocates are pushing, step by step, to grant access to parkgoers who have yearned to take a stroll around the man-made reservoir. Worth a read from our own Adedamola Agboola. Inside, you’ll find a story 76 years in the making: the closing of Freilich

By JASMINE GOMEZ

I was always a fan of the current Pope, El Papa Francisco. Everything I read about him somehow always made me like him a little more. Stories about him getting out of his Popemobile to be among the people despite security concerns, and his statements of compassion towards the gay community made me feel proud to be a Catholic. When I heard Pope Francis was coming to New York, I didn’t intend to take part in the official events, preferring the flawless view I could probably get on my TV of his New York travels. But then, my father