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Board Of Trustees Approves Budget By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese The Garden City Board of Trustees has unanimously approved the 2008-09 budget, which calls for the average Village homeowner to pay an additional $171.36 in Village taxes. Trustees voted on the budget after a public hearing held during the Board's annual organization meeting on Monday eveni... More ... Library Director To Retire By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese Garden City Public Library Director Alan G. Roeckel will retire on June 21st after 32 years of service, announced Village Administrator Robert Schoelle, Jr. at the April 7th Board of Trustees meeting. "I certainly leave with deeply mixed emotions," said Roeckel. "But as many of you kn... More ... The View From Here . . . By Bob Morgan, Jr. In honor of the new 2008 baseball season, I've been reading an excellent book, The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox and the Playoff of '78 by Richard Bradley (Free Press, 2008). More ...
Three extraordinary individuals will be awarded at the Garden City Chamber of Commerce's 6th annual Pineapple Ball next Friday evening, 7:00 p.m. to midnight at the Garden City Hotel. Honored for outstanding contributions to the Garden City Business and residential communities and beyond wil... More ... Making Mother's Day Special Saint Anne's Church in Garden City is sponsoring a drive to collect Mother's Day Gifts for moms living in shelters in Nassau County who are faced with serious personal challenges. Some are pregnant teens who have made a difficult choice to keep their babies; others are victims of abuse,... More ...
"Do not just play the notes, energize the notes!" were words of advice given by renown composer/conductor, Mike Carubia. "Explode the first note. Tentative entrances sound like a mistake." He succeeded in expressing powerful ideas as a musician in a kind and relaxed manner to the Garden C... More ... Website Launched To Inform Residents About Third Track During the past few months, the LIRR Committee of The Property Owners Association of Garden City Estates (Estates POA) has met to discuss the serious issues surrounding the MTA/LIRR project planned to add an additional track to the LIRR Main Line. More ...
Please save Thursday June 5 for "Heart of the Home", the Garden City Unit of the American Cancer Society's Kitchen Tour. You're invited to visit four spectacular kitchens, many with great rooms, in some of Garden City's most beautiful homes. More ... Welcoming Club Presents A Day at the Races For the first time ever, the Welcoming Club is holding a Day at the Races! This event will take place on Saturday May 3rd at the Belmont Racetrack for the Nassau County Breeders Cup. We will also be able to place bets for and watch the Kentucky Derby that takes place at 6:15pm that evening. More ... EPOA Scholarship It is with great pleasure the Eastern Property Owners Association announces a scholarship that will be available to local High School seniors. Candidates must reside in the Eastern section of Garden City, be attending college full-time in the Fall and be involved in some form of community ser... More ... School Board To Meet The Garden City School Board of Education will meet on Wednesday, April 16, at 8:15 p.m. in the Middle School cafeteria, 98 Cherry Valley Avenue. The public hearing for the 2008-2009 school budget is scheduled for Monday, May 12. The budget vote is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20. Regular meeti... More ...
On Saturday, April 12, The Garden City Clergy Fellowship sponsors monthly Faith in Action events, where members of various faith communities gather together to make sandwiches and assemble bag lunches to feed the needy. Each lunch consists of a sandwich, cookies, a juice box and a piece of frui... More ...
Fr. Gabriel Muteru, Honorary Chairman, and the Board of Trustees of the St. John's Kenyan Children's Foundation cordially invite everyone to attend our main fundraiser, a Wine Tasting Reception, to be held next Saturday, April 19, 2008, from 8pm to 11pm, at Kellenberg Memorial High School Caf... More ...
The Children's Medical Fund will be hosting a "Bunco & Brunch" on Monday, May 5th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 405 Stewart Avenue. The cost is $25 per person. All CMF proceeds will benefit Schneider Children's Hospital of the North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System. For more information or ... More ...
The popular Mexican Holiday, Cinco de Mayo, will again be celebrated! My Best Friend invites you to celebrate Cinco de Mayo at their Fiesta for FA on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the garden of Sean and Anna Miller at 265 Saint Paul's Place, Cathedral Gardens. More ... AAUW Annual Book And Author Luncheon The Garden City Branch of the American Association of University Women will hold its annual Book and Author Luncheon on Friday, May 2, 2008 at The Swan Club in Glenwood Landing, Roslyn. The luncheon begins at noon and the community is cordially invited to attend. The program will featur... More ... Nassau County Bar Association Lectures A series of three lectures in cooperation with the Garden City School District's Continuing Education Program. Reducing Your Real Estate Tax Assessment - Tuesday, May 6th, 7 - 8 PM. Do you think your real estate taxes are too high? Have you wondered what you can do about it? Have you... More ... Trips To Broadhollow Theater And Carnegie Hall BroadHollow Theatre April 30, 2008- Arsenic and Old Lace - is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. More ... "The Path To Wellness After Cancer" LIJ Medical Center's Hematology and Oncology Department will present a free community education program for cancer survivors and their family members on Wednesday, May 7, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Monter Cancer Center, Con-ference Room, 450 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park. More ... PTA Annual Spring Plant Sale The Gaarden City PTA is in the Third week of its annual Spring Plant Sale. Thanks very much to the many families that have already ordered. We would love to continue to receive support for this important fundraiser. The weeks are passing and orders must be in by April 18. We are privileged, t... More ... Knights Offer Defensive Driving Choice "Msgr. John's Knights" now offer drivers a choice of date for their regular six-hour Defensive Driving classes. Choose Saturday April 19 from 9 A.M. to 3 PM or Tuesday evenings, April 15 & April 22 from 7 to 10 PM. Both courses will be held in St. Anne's Rectory, 35 Dartmouth S... More ... Garden Artist In National Exhibition by Hyram Landers Orchids & Orientals, a still life oil painting by local artist Lillian Forziat, has been selected for inclusion into the Oil Painters of America (OPA) 2008 National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils. According to a statement released by OPA, "Our goal is to assemble the finest display of represe... More ... Adelphi To Host Conference On Entrepreneurship The Adelphi University School of Business is proud to convene the "First International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Systems Thinking, and Complexity" to be held from April 24 through 26, 2008. More ... "Look Good, Feel Better" Long Island Jewish Medical Center's "Look Good, Feel Better" support group for women coping with the physical effects of radiation and chemotherapy will meet Monday, May 12, 2008 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at LIJ's Oncol-ogy Conference Room, C-Level, Oncology Building, 270-05 76th Ave., New... More ...
Edward Matthew McCoyd and Dr. Rose Soriano Aguilar were married on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of december 2007 at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Garden City. After the ceremony, a reception was held at the Garden City Country Club. More ... GC Casino Bridge April showers didn't shower on the Casino bridge but it did bring some pretty flowers and beautiful bridge! After a convivial cocktail hour and a delicious dinner everyone settled into some serious but social bridge. Interesting hands and bids turned out some repeat winners and some delight... More ... NOTICE - HAVE YOU A HIDDEN TALENT that has yet to be discovered in print? We are looking for articles, not exceeding 3,000 words or less than 1,500 words, on local topics, opinions, ideas, nice places to visit on Long Island, and even fiction. In our magazine section, we will try to: "Discover" one new feature lengt... More ...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, and probably again. You can take the resident out of Garden City, but somehow, you just can't take Garden City out of the resident. Case in point! More ...
The Garden City Unit of the American Cancer Society requests the pleasure of your company at the Twentieth Annual Phantom Ball. This beloved and unique event will not be held on Saturday, the third of May, at anytime whatsoever. More ...
Dan Christuffel, professor of painting and sculpture at Adelphi University and artist in residence at C. W. Post, presented a lecture on "Gustav Klimt, the Austrian artist of the turn of the 20th century, on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at the Garden City Community Club, L-R: Chairperson Renate Rego M... More ...
The Epilepsy Foundation of Long Island is proud to announce their 2008 Dinner Dance Gala "Hooray For Hollywood", Friday, April 18, at Carlyle on the Green, with 2008 Dinner Chairs, Betsy and Jonathan Blattmachr, Corporate Leadership Award Honoree, William A. More ...
Adelphi University's Institute for Parenting is proud to host John Grienenberger, Ph.D., who will present "What is Reflective Parenting and How Can it Help My Child?," another addition to the Parent Coffee Series on Thursday, May 8, 2008, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in Adelphi's Alumni House... More ... Community Church Adult Program This Sunday, April 13 at 9:15 a.m., the Rev. Max Surjadinata will address the Adult Forum at the Garden City Community Church. Rev. Surjadinata participated in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) of the World Council of Churches. He was stationed in Ramalla... More ... Senior Connections Public Forum On Caregiving The Garden City Public Library will offer the second in a series of Senior Connections Public Forums - "Elder Law" on Wednesday, April 30th at 1:30 PM. Ellen G. Makofsky, Esq. will speak about the intergenerational issue of protecting your family and your assets. Ms. More ... Seniors Duplicate Bridge On April 7 th there were 8 tables of Seniors duplicate bridge in play. Results of the evening play were as follows. North-South 1. Lucile Tilitz & Barbra Burke 2. Joan Kiernan & Claire Burns 3. More ... Free Legal Clinic For Seniors In its mission to educate the community on legal issues, the Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) provides free monthly legal clinics for Nassau County residents 65 or older. Seniors have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with an attorney for a private consultation. The next Senior Citizen ... More ... Garden City Retired Men's Club Calendar Of Events The Garden City Retired Men's Club is a non-profit membership organization formed in April 1961 for the purpose of providing educational and recreational activities for the retired male senior citizens of the Garden City Community. The organization is non-sectarian and non-political. More ... Garden City Senior News Trip for Lunch in Centerport and the Vanderbilt Museum The Recreation Department has planned a trip to the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport and lunch at Nicky's for Wednesday, April 30th. The Recreation bus will pick us up at St. Paul's Senior Center at 10:15 a.m. We will then travel to Centerport and eat lunch at Nicky's. After lunch we will... More ...
On Saturday evening, March 29, about 115 members of the Garden City Community Church participated in a Progressive Dinner. Four church members opened their homes for the hors d'oeuvre hour and 12 members hosted dinners in their homes. Dessert was held in Gardner Hall at 9 p.m., where everyone... More ...
The Garden City Historical Society's third annual Children Art Exhibit, "Architecture of Garden City," is on display this weekend, Saturday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, April 13, from noon to 3 p.m. at The Garden City Historical Society Museum, 109 Eleventh Street. The artwork drawn... More ... Garden City Library News Garden City Library's NextReads Newsletter Looking for a good book to read? Or maybe you'd like to listen to an audiobook while you travel to work or on a road trip. There are so many books, so many choices. NextReads, an electronic newsletter service suggesting what to read next, is available through the Garden City Public Library... More ... Garden City Library News Free Slide/Lecture "Architecture & You: The Chrysler & Empire State Buildings, and What they show us about ourselves" at 2 p.m . on T hursday, April 24 , at the Garden City Public Library. For more information call (516) 742-8405. The audience will gain insight from the philosophy of Aesthetic Realis... More ...
News From The Children's Room The Children's Department is excited to have two family events taking place this April! Pet Zoo on Wheels, a family program by "The Pet Den" will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd at 11:00 AM. This program is for Ages 3-Grade 5 with adults. Tickets are required for every child and will be d... More ...
Due to the closeness of some of the Spring Holidays, the Nursery Classes at St. Joseph's School have been busy as spring bees celebrating and making their crafts! Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter were welcomed with cupcakes and parties, and shows for the parents. As part of the w... More ...
The Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of L.I. will prform "Ladies & Gentlemen, Gilbert & Sullivan" at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, at the Garden City Public Library. This concerrt will combine a rare Arthur Sullivan gem with the latest installment of the company's trademark, G... More ... Family/Caregiver Support Group The Long Island Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in collaboration with Winthrop University Hospital Division of Oncology & Hematology is offering a FREE family/caregiver support group. These meetings are facilitated by an oncology nurse and social worker. More ... Clinical Trials Center Seeking Volunteers Winthrop-University Hospital Clinical Trials Center and James Grendell, MD, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Winthrop, are seeking volunteers with ulcerative colitis for a medical research study of a currently marketed FDA-approved (Food and Drug Administ... More ... |
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