At the Jerome Gun Hill BID Festival last Saturday, Dale “The Mouth” Boone raised his arms in what he thought was a certain cookie eating contest victory. He was wrong.

This year’s honorees were Rosanna Rosado, publisher and CEO of El Diario La Prensa; Sonia Ossorio, board president of NOW; Junior Suarez, a Staten Island native who helped pull two people out of a truck after a steam blast in Manhattan; and Doris Quinones, a former Norwood resident who is the executive director of the Bronx Tourism Council and a board member of Mosholu Preservation Corporation (which publishes the Norwood News).

Spencer Foreman, MD, president of Montefiore Medical Center, was recently granted an honorary doctorate at a Lehman College awards ceremony for the remarkable growth, innovation and research achieved under his leadership, said Dr. Mary Papazian, Lehman’s provost and senior vice president.

Robyn Anderson-Malico, a nurse at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in University Heights was one of 10 honorees nationwide to be given the National Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award. The award is given out yearly to recognize health care professionals and nurses who leave a lasting impression on patients with their outstanding service.

Benny Ninja performs at the Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance (BAAD!) in the south Bronx on Oct. 6 as part of the BlakTino Performance Series. See Onstage in our Out & About section for more details about this and other upcoming events in the Bronx.

Opera performer and Bedford Park resident Anna Tonna, the recipient of a 2007 – 2008 Fulbright Award in Voice, leaves for Spain this month to study the Spanish composers who have so influenced her craft.

At the Jerome Gun Hill BID Festival last Saturday, Dale "The Mouth" Boone raised his arms in what he thought was a certain cookie eating contest victory. He was wrong.

At the Jerome Gun Hill BID Festival last Saturday, Dale "The Mouth" Boone raised his arms in what he thought was a certain cookie eating contest victory. He was wrong.

With construction beginning in just nine months, many details concerning a new state-of-the-art building, slated for the PS 94 campus in Norwood, have yet to be determined by the city’s Department of Education.