Retired teachers from MS 217 in Queens have a good time at the New Retiree Luncheon on Nov. 12 at the New York Hilton.

One day a month, students from Queens Vocational and Technical HS give about 100 manicures, facials and haircuts to senior citizens at the nearby Sunnyside Community Services center.

Twenty members of the UFT Players slipped into their roles as passengers aboard a cruise ship in an original play — “Sail On, Seniors!” — that explored the problems and pleasures of senior life.

At the launch of a partnership between District 23 and Brookdale Hospital, 77 students from PS 156 and IS 392 in Brooklyn received dental examinations.

Forty teachers at Midwood HS in Brooklyn rallied on behalf of one of their former colleagues on Nov. 27 by volunteering to have mouth swabs taken in search of a bone marrow match.

Although fall soon will turn to winter, an entire garden is springing up in Washington Heights, where the Community Health Academy of the Heights officially launched its garden project.

"They were trying to close you, but you’ve weathered the storm and DeWitt Clinton will not close,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew defiantly told the staff of the Bronx high school during an Oct. 30 visit.

The New York City Association of Foreign Language Teachers/UFT held its 16th annual professional conference on Oct. 26, with more than 300 teachers of Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Greek, German, Latin and other languages in attendance.

The UFT and the Albert Shanker Institute hosted career and technical education experts from around the country at a two-day conference at UFT headquarters on Oct. 10-11.

Flowers bloomed and spirits brightened on Oct. 26 at PS 197 in Far Rockaway, where students, families and staff teamed up with Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton Foundation to breathe much-needed life back into the school grounds after Hurricane Sandy tore through the neighborhood last year.