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ABOVE: William Hendricks, 4, of Stamford, drops his milk-crate-mobile into fifth gear during a 50th birthday celebration for the Mini Cooper, a benefit for the Boys & Girls Club of Stamford, sponsored by MINI of Fairfield County at the Hotel Chesterfield in Shippan.

08/09/2009

When I was a little kid my favorite toy was a cardboard box with a Frisbee bolted to the inside of it for a steering wheel. That thing was fast, even if it didn’t go anywhere. So I was excited to see a kid at this Mini event, proving that even in an era of helicopter parenting and ridiculously expensive and complicated toys, all it takes is an old steering wheel, a milk crate and your imagination to have some fun.

-CP

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New York Mets bench coach Sandy Alomar makes an appearance as a guest instructor at Baseball World Training School’s Summer Camp at Bedford Middle School, in Westport.

Kathleen O’Rourke/The Advocate

8/04/09

These aspiring baseball players were lucky enough to get some insider tips from Alomar at the camp this morning.  He touched on proper stance and balance, double play execution, throwing technique and most importantly, respect for their family, friends and teammates.  After all was said and done, I doubt the young kids heard the respect part but Alomar’s “nice throw son” and “perfect double play” comments will stick with them for a long, long time.

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Morgan Crosby, 21, and her two children Tyler Hines, 21 months, and Amena Hines, 1, spend a quiet morning in their new home.   Morgan is one of the young women participating in the Partnering Success program through the Malta House.

Kathleen O’Rourke/The Advocate

7/23/09

Advocate reporter John Nickerson and I spent some time yesterday with Morgan Crosby and her two young children.  Morgan, a 21-year-old single mom hoping to make it on her own, seemed to have a pretty good grasp on the challenges that lie ahead.  As I tried to stay as unobtrusive as possible, Tyler was determined to be in front of my camera at all times.  What struck me about this little boy was his obsession with looking at his picture on the back of my camera.  I recently dragged out my old Nikon film camera and watched the confusion on one of my young nephew’s face as he tried to understand why there was no image to view on the back.  “I want to see it, I want to see it,” he pleaded.  It reminded me of another assignment where a group of campers toured an apple orchard.  In the corner was an old record player spinning a Frank Sinatra vinyl record, something most of these kids had never seen.  Forget the apple picking, cider mill or baking pies – the children on that field trip stayed glued to the spinning disc with that little needle for the rest of the afternoon.  It left me wondering where all the 8-tracks and Walkmans are now.

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ABOVE: The grounds crew work on a sand trap on the new 11th hole at Sterling Farms Golf Course.  The course has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation and the latest changes include a complete redesign of holes #11 and #12.

7/16/09

It had been quite a while since I ventured up to Sterling Farms Golf Course and it was long overdue.  So I was happy to get this assignment from our sports department on the renovations at the club.   The course was a buzz of activity with foursomes on every hole, golfers on the putting green perfecting their short game, a group of campers gathered on the driving range,  young tennis players dressed in white volleying on the newly resurfaced courts and cast and crew preparing for Shakespeare on The Green.  But amid all this summer activity I actually heard a man say “Football season is just a few months away.”  So before we find ourselves gathered on the sidelines in 30 degree weather, get up to Sterling Farms and enjoy.

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Paul Nanos, co-owner of Engel’s Furs, works on the sewing machine in his Bedford Street store.

Paul and his brother Denis tell their story in The Advocate’s new series “In Their Own Words”

VIEW AUDIO SLIDESHOW:

LOUNGING ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY

Sunday, June 28, 2009 by:Chris Preovolos

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ABOVE: Tourists sit in beach chairs in one of the new pedestrian zones on Broadway near Times Square.

6/27/2009

I made this photograph while on a freelance assignment last week at NASDAQ for Marine Money. It was the first time I was in Times Square since portions of Broadway were shut down to vehicular traffic.

There was an interesting profile of Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s Transportation commissioner, in New York Magazine recently, which explains the project in greater detail. It’s worth a look.

–CP