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| Jumpin’ For Joyce
Joyce Swenson
Age: 17 Height: 5’ 11" Weight: 120 lbs Stats: 34-25-34 Joyce Swenson, 17, a senior at Francis Lewis High School, has been modeling for about eight months. She started modeling when she was discovered in the last place one might expect – a photo shoot. “ElleGirl was doing a photo shoot at my sister’s school for a body image article,” Joyce said. “They called me back and said ‘Y’know, you have the right look.’” From there, Joyce literally fell into the Gap. “I’m looking for an agent right now,” she said. “Modeling is something I’d really like to do, but the decision is really not up to you. It’s up to the industry.” “I really just like the clothes and getting up in front of people,” Swenson said. “It gives you a lot of confidence.” Confidence is something that Joyce has in spades. She’d have to, her dance card is completely full, be it the school soccer team, drama class, or her internship with a local fashion designer, Joyce is a young woman on the move. “I like soccer,” Joyce said. “It’s just another way to relieve stress, your team becomes like your family.” If the modeling doesn’t pan out from a career standpoint, Joyce would be more than happy to go into fashion marketing, an area she’s currently concentrating in thanks to her internship with a Queens-based fashion designer. “As a model, you’re trying to sell the clothes by presenting them,” she said. “When you’re marketing, you have to think of a lot of different ways to do it; it’s different.” Regardless of how she makes it in the industry, Joyce is a young woman with a lot of interests, and just as many options. |
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| The End For Vivi?
The Sherlock Holmes of hounds detected traces of the missing show dog Vivi at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills last week. Vivi, formally known as Bohem C’est La Vie, escaped from her dog carrier at JFK Airport in February after performing in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. The scent from an old blanket was used to track the 3-month-old whippet known for its explosive speed.
Karin Goin has led the patrol for the pooch with several of her best sniffers, but even though areas in Flushing and Jamaica have offered scents of the canine, Goin believes they may be several months old. She suggested recently the decorated dog may have had an unglamorous ending to its luxurious life. Consider the fast-moving traffic. |
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| Welcome Moises
Mets General Manager Omar Minaya has wasted no time this off-season. A week after the team broke ground at the site of their new stadium, the Mets signed veteran outfielder Moises Alou to a one-year contract.
The signing came the same day that the team declined an option on starter and perennial All-Star Tom Glavine. The Mets will be the seventh team that Alou has played for, including Montreal, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Houston, the Chicago Cubs and Florida. Despite a career spanning nearly two decades, and being an active mover on the free-agent market, Alou has never played for an American League team. His career .301 average and .516 slugging percentage represent a power upgrade for the Mets, whose outfield also contains Carlos Beltran. With any luck, the addition of Alou will offset the possible loss of Glavine for next year’s campaign. |
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| They All Come Here
Laura Tyson grew up in the sunny suburb of Cornwall, Conn., later following the New England Dream, and going to Dartmouth.
But it was her work as a business reporter in Hong Kong and Taiwan that led her on her path to Queens. While working on a story in 1997 on Madam Chang Kai-shek, the American-born wife of the influential Chinese leader, she met and fell in love with a Chinese man named Li. Though Madame Chang Kai-shek, about whom Laura Tyson Li later penned a novel, started her life in this country and married a man in China, where she lived until her death, Li went one step further, marrying a Chinese man, but then moving as a Chinese immigrant to Queens, adding her Caucasian, Dartmouth-educated self to the list of the borough’s fastest growing immigrant population. Ni how, Laura, and welcome. |
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| Traffic Turkey
Though Thanksgiving may have come and gone already, it’s never too late to share a bit of turkey news.
On Wednesday, Nov. 15, just one short week before the most sacred of stuffing-related holidays, a wild turkey ran across the toll plaza of the Triboro Bridge. That's right, a turkey! It caused a 15-minute delay as Bridge officials chased it between cars and booths, trying to corner the fowl. After the turkey was finally wrangled, New York City Transit authorities told members of the press that the bird had been released into a patch of woods nearby. While the bird has not been seen since, Queens residents in Astoria Park shouldn’t be surprised to see a relieved-looking bird with driving gloves and exactly $4.50 in change. |
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| Fun For Everyone
At a ribbon cutting to open Queens Hospital Center’s new Ambulatory Pavilion, Borough President Helen Marshall praised the hospital and its services. She was so excited about the convenience she experienced during her colonoscopy there that she encouraged all in attendance to get a colonoscopy soon.
“My husband and I both had our colonoscopies right here and if you haven’t had your colonoscopy yet, I tell you it’s great,” she said. “Come on and have one.” Needless to say the entire audience was roaring with laughter at the imagined visuals that went with Marshall’s colonoscopy story. | |||||||||
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