Contest

The Queens Chronicle’s “How Lucky Can You Get?”

Here are the winners of the Queens Chronicle’s “How Lucky Can You Get?” trivia contest:

Joan Palmentiere, a teacher in Jamaica, Queens is 1st Prize winner of a Sharp 22" LCD TV from G&R Electronics

My name is Elizabeth Bisciello and my boyfriends name is Chris Varano. I am 25 and Chris is 28. We have known eachother for about 12 years in total. My best friend's brother is Chris's best friend. We are 3 years apart and we were always around eachother growing up. Of course way back then, I was considered the "younger" girl and was basically off limits to any of the "older" boys. I always knew there was something special about Chris from the very beginning. Just the glow he had about him was so unique and special. I knew his heart must have been so wonderful and good. (Boy was I right).

Do you have a love story with an economic twist?

It’s that time of year — time to take out the old ladder and string up your holiday lights, time to hit the stores for those new decorations you just have to have, time to pull the drapes aside and watch the folks across the street put up their stuff.

The second Queens Chronicle photo contest in the last six months is over and the winner has been selected. The theme this time around was the potholes of Queens, and we had several entries documenting ugly and potentially dangerous ones.

Steve Fisher of Middle Village, right, stopped by the Queens Chronicle offices this week to pick up the tickets he earned by winning our Holiday Photo Contest with his picture entitled “Sponge Bob with Nymph.”

In this shot of a weary Santa Claus, which he dubbed “The Day After,” winning lensman Steve Fisher again reinterprets the commonplace in an unusual way. Steve even composed a poem to capture the mood, borrowing a bit from 19th-century poet Clement Clarke Moore: