We’ll start this Valentine’s Day edition of the Bronx News Roundup off with the cute love story from the Daily Newsabout Bronx couple Annette and Henry Henderson, who have been married for 59 years and will be honored today at the borough president’s Valentine’s Day Luncheon. Annette tells the News: “He holds the door for me, pulls out my chair, helps put my coat on to this day.” Listen up, gentlemen: words to live by.

The article also includes several Valentine’s Day happenings, including free Tango lesson at the Lehman Art Gallery at 1 p.m., free portraits for Bronx couples at the Bronx Documentary Center from 3 to 7 p.m. and a free “love in” at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance at 7 p.m. Here’s a few other Bronx V-Day activities going on today, courtesy of DNAinfo and also more from the Bronx Times.

Years of advocacy against gun violence earned Gloria Cruz an invitation to attend President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. According to the Daily News, Cruz, 52, began pushing for stronger gun control in 2005 after her 10-year-old niece Naiesha Pearson was shot in Cruz’s neighborhood, Mott Haven.

The Bronx resident was invited to Washington as Bronx Congressman Jose Serrano’s guest.

Hundreds turned out on Tuesday night for the funeral of Wenzell Jackson, the 46-year-old pastor of Mount Hermon Baptist Church and chairman of Community Board 4, who died suddenly of a heart attack last week. By all accounts, Jackson made a huge impact on the Highbridge community through his ministry and work on the community board. A clerk at the church told DNAinfo, “I can still hear him tell me, ‘Take the high road. Be a bigger person. Because it’s just nice to be nice.” Great article, from DNAinfo’s Patrick Wall.

The Artuso Pastry Shop is at it again. Back in 2008, when Pope Benedict XVI made a visit to Yankee Stadium, the bakery created “Papal pastries” in his honor. Now that the pope has announced his resignation, the bakery is once again selling cookies with edible prints of the retiring pope.

Watch NY1’s Papal pastries video coverage.

Chief operating officer for the Yankees Lonn Trost called this year’s baseball ticket sales “rough” on WFAN’s radio show. Trost said that these days fans are looking for a packaged experience, including the game, good food, and beverages. Trost revealed that the franchise is working on a “new legacy club” that will allow “season-ticket holders the ability to have their children run the bases, get upgrades, and attend press conferences,” CBS reports.

DNAinfo.com reports that juniors of the Bronx High School of Medical Science “lobbied administration” asking them to provide students with math and English courses. The high school has since added two English teachers to their staff and has placed some juniors into the classes they were missing.

School authorities they were understaffed and had to make some students wait for their English and math credits, but that they were meeting legal requirements and were setting up all of its students for graduation. Kavoy Mayne, a junior at the school told DNAinfo.com, “I feel like this school is just setting you up for a two-year college.” Read the full story here.

A Bronx teacher who was “sexually assaulted” by an off-duty police officer the morning of her first day of teaching wants lawmakers to include sodomy and forced oral sex in the law’s classification of rape. According to CBS, Michael Pena, the former New York City officer was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for sexual assault charges, but was not convicted for rape. He later admitted to rape and was sentenced an additional 10 years. Watch CBS’s video on rape survivor Lydia Cumo.

Businesses that were not physically damaged cannot claim losses to insurance or the government even though they are now struggling because of Hurricane Sandy; so instead of disbursing small amounts of grant money to these businesses, the Bronx Chamber of Commerce is planning to use the $200,000 TD Bank grant to educate business owners for the “long haul,” NY 1 reports.

According to the Citizen’s Committee for Children’s report, children growing up in the south Bronx and central Brooklyn have it the hardest. Jennifer March-Joly, Committee director, told the Daily News that these neighborhoods are the “neediest parts of the city”. The report was based on a child’s success and their happiness. The report factored in reading scores, child poverty rates, and child abuse rates. Bronx neighborhoods, Hunts Point and Mott Haven were at the top of the list, coming first and second.

A Bronx man allegedly used a tow truck to steal 25 cars, one at a time over the course of six weeks this winter, and sold them for scrap metal in New England, DNAinfo reports.

And finally, a $26 million pilot project to reduce pollution in the Bronx River was completed and has already netted 10 tons of garbage, NY1 reports.

That’s it for today. Send links and love letters to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.