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Patrice Francois Home: Queens Village Ht: 5’ 5" Stats: 34-28-38 This island beauty from Trinidad with haunting dark brown eyes may have not yet gotten her first break into the world of modeling, but she’s trying. A customer service representative at the Ridgewood Savings Bank branch in Forest Hills for the last five years, Patrice Francois finds that she doesn’t have a lot of free time on her hands. When she’s not at the bank she’s either working her second job at Queens Center Mall or going to school at Mercy College to get her degree in banking. But the desire to get in front of the camera lens has been a strong one. “I have just wanted to be a print model since I was small,” she said. “But I’m not skinny, not tall – though my body is nice. I’m not looking to do fashion modeling, but some print work would be nice.” Patrice hooked herself up last summer with the New Faces Development Center in Hicksville, which, though not an agency, is giving her a leg up on finding some work. “They send my pictures all over the place,” she said. “If some company is looking for a 5-foot-5 black girl, they send my pictures.” “I just wanted the opportunity,” Patrice said. “I don’t want to be a big star or anything. I just want to do what I like.” Being an immigrant from Trinidad, she still doesn’t know many people outside of work and school. When Patrice isn’t working at one of her jobs or in class, she usually spends her time with her boyfriend and his family, she said. She added that modeling would not be her primary job if she were to get some work. “I really like banking,” she said. |
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| Name Game
Ever ask yourself why the New York Jets, who play in New Jersey, are called the Jets?
If you don’t know, you may want to stay clear of the current debate over where their new home will be. Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to build the new Jets stadium on the West Side of Manhattan. His likely opponent in the Nov. election, Congressman Anthony Weiner, wants it behind Shea Stadium at the Iron Triangle. One CB5 member skeptical of Weiner’s plan incredulously told the Congressman, “We have the airport there!” “Hence the name, Jets,” said Weiner. |
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| Ancient History
Four 8th graders from the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Corona were recent guests of Inside City Hall, the must-watch show for City politics. The 8th graders sounded off on everything from safety in schools, to tsunami relief to the city’s budget.
Host Dominick Carter tested the political-know of his young guests with a few pop questions. Who is the current School’s Chancellor? Who is the current Mayor? Who was the mayor before him? The Corona students were three for three, answering Joel Klein, Mike Bloomberg and Rudolph Giuliani. When asked who came before Giuliani, the four students were dumfounded. Not one of them knew that before Giuliani, the man inside City Hall was Mayor David Dinkins. He defeated four-term Mayor Ed Koch in the 1989 Primary, but lost his re-election bid in 1993. For 13-year-olds, the 1993 election isn’t current events, but more like ancient history. |
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| The Joke Is On Us…
To begin his recent State of the State address, Governor George Pataki indulged in something of a shout-out to the other two members of the infamous “Three Men In Room”—those same political luminaries that gave New York the latest budget in state history and continue to preside over a government described by the Brennan Center as the worst in the nation.
It was an occasion, for those so inclined, to reflect on the almost fossilized state of politics in Albany. “This is the eleventh time I’ve addressed you as governor of this great state—what an extraordinary privilege,” Pataki said. He continued, “Ten years ago I was a new governor, Joe Bruno was the brand new Senate majority leader, and Sheldon Silver had been the Speaker of the Assembly for the less than a year.” This level of self-congratulation is fairly typical for political speeches, especially the bland “State of” type strain. But Pataki provided a punch line to thank New Yorkers for a decade of indifference. “And it’s amazing,” he said, “after ten years, none of us has changed a bit…” We’ve been shouting that all along! |
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| Life Saver
Our former sister paper in Washington, D.C., The Hill, reports that Congressman “Gary Ackerman (D- NY) helped “avert a religious crises as new members of the house posed for photos with Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill).
Frosh Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla) who is Jewish asked that the Old Testament be used in the swearing-in photo with Hastert. But the Speaker’s staff was unable to find a copy of the Good ‘Ol Book. But Ackerman, who keeps Jewish prayer books in his office, promptly delivered a copy of the Old Testament, which according to The Hill, “convinced Wasserman Schultz that he’s a mensch and a bubbala.” |
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| Double Jeter
Derek Jeter was in a Queens Boulevard courthouse on Wednesday after being called on a 3-year-old felony insurance fraud conviction.
But rest assured Jeter’s record was cleared and Yankee fans can rest easy because this isn’t even the Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter anyway (though some Mets fans likely had their fingers crossed). “They made a mistake,” he told Newsday. “They just vacated it.” A medical technician from Brooklyn, this Derek Jeter, 22, caused a ruckus in the Queens court after his name was called. And though a baseball pitcher himself in his spare time, this Jeter is far away from the Majors although he is a Yankee fan. | |||||||||
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