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Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel will partner with the Garden City Park Fire Department to host a blood drive on Sunday, July 26. The drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Garden City Park Firehouse, 2264 Jericho Turnpike. More ... Gaze into the store window at Things and Stuff and you can look into the past. On display are several photographs of significant features (circa 1880) of St. Paul's School provided by The Garden City Historical Society. More ... Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray (left) presents an official Town of Hempstead Citation to the Garden City Eastern Property Owners Association in fitting recognition of its Annual Public Meeting held at the Garden City Public Library. GCEPOA President Walter McKenna accepted the presentation on behalf of the organization. More ... Want to know what the argument is about? Want to learn more about the biggest pop phenomenon of the last 15 years? Want to be able to keep up with your children or grandchildren? Join in a discussion of Christianity and Harry Potter facilitated by Mr. Charlie Janoff on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at Little Portion Friary. More ... The Friends of Mercy Medical Center will hold their 28th Annual Golf Classic on Thursday, September 17th at the Hempstead Golf and Country Club. More ... Garden City Police Commissioner Ernest Cipullo has announced the arrest of a 28 year old Hempstead man for endangering the welfare of a minor (a female, age 9) and public lewdness. Beginning on June 8th the subject allegedly borrowed a relative's car and traveled into Garden City in search of female joggers and walkers. More ... Esther Goodcuff B.S. '74, M.A. '77, Adelphi University's associate vice president for enrollment management and student affairs, was selected as this year's recipient of the Nassau Counselors' Association (NCA) College Counselor of the Year Award. More ... Girl Scout Troop 1126 held it's last meeting this year at Sushi Ya restaurant on Franklin Avenue. The hibachi chef amazed the girls with his culinary wizardry and good times were had by all. To close out the year, the girls made a contribution of over $500 to the Mary Brennan INN in Hempstead. More ... Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray (center), Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby (4th right) and Town Clerk Mark Bonilla (4th left) present official Town of Hempstead Certificates of Recognition to Eagle Scouts Brendan J. Guerrin, Andrew B. Kuruc and Evan A. Browand of Garden City, Timothy J. M. Schuellein of Franklin Square and Michael Soudmand of Floral Park. More ... Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tucci of Garden City are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Gina to Philip Botti son of Mr. and Mrs. Mario Botti of Locust, NJ and Ventura, California Gina and Phil got engaged July 5th on the Mediterranean Island of Ischia. More ... There is nothing like travel to broaden you. It does not mean that you have to go far for this to happen. In f act, a trip into New York City will do it in spades. More ... On August 3, from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Women on the Fast Track (WOTFT), a Long Island - based organization for business and professional women, will hold their Nassau County Chapter 1 meeting. WOTFT is a unique networking group for business and professional women that was launched in Nassau and Suffolk County in the later part of 2006. More ... On Sunday, July 26, North Hempstead Town will feature a concert entitled The Liverpool Shuffle, in a tribute to The Beatles. At 1 p.m. at the beach overlooking beautiful Hempstead Harbor. Parking fees to the beach apply. For further information, please call 311 for rain information and for further information... More ... Children of all ages came to the Garden City Library on Tuesday, July 7th for Art Creations with Liane. Children ages 21/2-5 are pictured dancing with the Rain Sticks that they made with Artist Liane Mallon (far left). More ... The Mary Brenan INN, Hempstead June 20, - we cleaned the entire facility. Girl Scout Troop #1331 volunteers: Rosie Tomao, Brooke Warhurst, Bridget Yule, Rgan Marooney, Caitlinn Riedeit, Mura Jarger, Kristen Noonan. More ... On Thursday evening, August 13, from 6-8 p.m., the Garden City Chamber of Commerce invites members of both the Village's business and residential communities to attend a mid-summer After Hours Networking Reception to be graciously hosted by the Garden City Country Club, 206 Stewart Avenue, in its magnificent grand ballroom. Guests will enjoy an array of elegant d'oeuvres and open bar. More ... We all have heard war stories of soldiers separated from the others and forced to fend for themselves in an enemy country. Perhaps we have seen a movie like "Behind Enemy Lines," detailing such a tribulation. But to Bob Rudkin of Cedar Place in Garden City, this was no Hollywood-embellished story. For Bob, it was a life-altering experience. More ... Nancy Sheridan of Garden City, is the recipient of a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York. Sheridan, an assistant professor of Fashion Merchandising Management (FMM) at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City, received the award at FIT's commencement ceremonies at Radio City Music Hall on May 19. More ... This week, there were a number of Guessing Game Winners. Six children guessed the correct number of stretchy bracelets-Brandon Singh, Julian Larenas, Timmy O'Hare, Ty Wuchte, Ryan Bice, and Adam Baksh. Great job, guys! Each week, there is a new guessing game, and children up to Grade 5 can use their powers of estimation to guess the number of items in the jar. More ... * Tues., Aug. 4, 11:00 a.m. Final Summer Reading Club Show for children ages 2 1¼2—5 (no Kindergarten) with an adult. Nancy Buggee Toddler Tango. (By invitation only!) * Wed., Aug. 5, 7:00 p.m. Final Summer Reading Club Show with Patricia Shih. For children entering Grades K-5 (By invitation only! More ... On Monday, August 3rd, the Garden City Public Library will begin issuing date-due slips on receipt paper only for all materials that are borrowed. Patrons will receive one slip per visit listing all the items they check out at that visit with each of the item's due dates listed. More ... The Garden City Public Library is a collection site for used eyeglasses for the Recycle for Sight Program, which is run by a local Lions Club. Recently the Library has had to add a second collection box due to the large number of eyeglasses received. More ... • *Tues., July 28, Mask Creations with the Long Island Children's Museum, 1:00 p.m. for Grades K-2 and 2:15 for Grades 3-5. Registration began July 21. • *Wed., July 29, 7:00 p.m. Family Night, Movie • *Thurs. More ... Instructor Sue Bazzicalupo (left) shows Amanda how the liquid mixture became ice cream at the Library's Ice Cream Making Workshop on July 15th. More ... What are The Best Jobs for the 21st Century? Did you know that there are 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs? The Garden City Public Library has updated its job search titles for both the new job seeker as well as the career changer. More ... Long Island Blood Services will hold a blood drive at The Garden City Public Library on Monday, July 27th from 2PM to 7:30 PM. The bus mobile will be parked at 60 Seventh Street, outside the Library. Over 800 pints of blood are needed every day to meet the needs of patients in over 50 Long Island hospitals. More ... Carrie Malandrino (standing left) discusses choices of paint color with young adults who participated in The Art of Malibu Tile Workshop at the Library on July 8th. More ... On Monday, July 13th, Garden City's own DJ (pictured in the background), the DJ, who was a member of the class of GCHS 2006, led YAs in a DDR —- Dance, Dance Revolution —- dance party night. Participants are pictured dancing the Macarena in the large meeting room at the Library. More ... Guitar Hero World Tour A professional DJ will be leading groups of four in the popular game Guitar Hero on Monday August 3rd at 7PM . In addition to the guitars, he will bring upgraded drum sets. Registration began Monday, July 20. Group size is limited to 40. More ... Long Island Golf Art by professional artist Bill Dodge will be displayed in the Garden City Public Library's showcases August 1-30. In addition to his career as an illustrator, fine artist, muralist and portrait painter, Professor Dodge teaches in Visual Communications at Farmingdale State College. More ... The Garden City Recreation Department is pleased to announce its upcoming Gazebo Concert Series. Our concerts are held at the Gazebo on the corner of Hilton and Stewart Avenues and begin at 7:15 pm. More ... 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 ... Councilman Edward Ambrosino attended the 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration of couple shown held in the Franklin Square Senior Center located on Martha Place in Franklin Square. More ... August 3rd and 17th 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Come to the Garden City Public Library where you can play your favorite games. Come by yourself, or come with friends. We supply the games... you supply the fun! Why not play games in the A.M., eat your lunch in our Step Down Café, and then stay for the afternoon movie? More ... On July 20 there were 11 tables of Monday night Seniors duplicate bridge in play. Results of the evening were as follows. North-South 1. Lucille Tilitz & Jean Taylor 2. Joan Kiernan & Claire Burns 3 & 4 TIE 3. More ... As previously reported, the annual festival at St. Anne's parish, known as Spirit Day, will be held on Saturday, September 19th. Rides, attractions, fun and food will be plentiful on that day. The final event of the evening will be the drawing of the Big Bucks raffle winners. Up to 1,000 tickets will be sold at $100 each. More ... Parents of all children are invited to attend A World of Promise: Gifted Students as Global Citizens on October 23 & 24, 2009 at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.This conference will be hosted by AGATE, the New York State Advocacy for Gifted And Talented Education. More ... Councilman Edward Ambrosino attended the 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration of couple shown held in the Franklin Square Senior Center located on Martha Place in Franklin Square. More ... The Friday Duplicate Bridge Club held its 32 nd annual luncheon and awards ceremony at the Cherry Valley Club in June. After a delicious luncheon the winners were announced. In first place were Grace Basile and Estelle Fischer. More ... During the current construction project at Village Hall, a Time Capsule buried in 1981 was found! The Time Capsule was buried by a local Girl Scout Brownie Troop who invited community to write letters to themselves, to be mailed when the time capsule was dug up. There are over 140 letters and we're trying to track down the current addresses of the recipients. More ... Cadet GC Troop #1331 volunteered at the finish line to cheer on the walkers in the pouring rain. The girls made up great end race cheers! More ... The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) announced that Dr. Kimberly R. Cline, president of Mercy College, has been named to its 2009-2010 board of trustees. Dr. Cline is a resident of Garden City. CICU represents the chief executives of New York's more than 100 independent (private, not-for-profit) colleges and universities on issues of public policy. More ... A generous $5,000 grant from Astoria Federal Savings Bank has enabled Winthrop-University Hospital's Cancer Center for Kids (CCFK) to launch a new program to provide comprehensive and supportive wellness services to female patients and their mothers. More ... The Garden City Community Church Vacation Bible School enjoyed another successful year with its Discovery Canyon curriculum from June 29 th - July 2 nd . Attended by over 85 children in grades pre-k through 4, the program was made possible with the help of over 45 volunteers of various ages from fifth grade to senior citizen! More ... Erik's Reptile "Edventures" returned to the stage at the Library as part of the Family Night Programming on Wednesday, July 8th . Garden City children ages 2 1/2 through Grade 5 and their siblings are pictured on stage with Erik (left) holding a giant snake. More ... With their busy schedules and the added pressures of being a teenager, High School students often do not find any spare time for extra service activities. However, this year 74 Girl Scouts in Nassau County have chosen to fit a minimum of 65 hours of community service into their schedules. More ... Garden City students who study classical ballet under the direction of Jeanne P. Kogut, director of the Academy of Dance, a longtime teacher and resident of Garden City, are privy to participate in a British system of training. This system provides a comprehensive syllabi, developed by a committee of experts. More ... On June 5, 2009 the Tri-town UCP held their annual June luncheon at Shackletons. The event was chaired by Michele Giaccio and co-chaired by Judy Wander. The theme for the luncheon was "Life is a Beach." Unfortunately the weather that day was more like "Life is a Monsoon." But once inside the restaurant the ladies got into the spirit of the day. More ... Caddy Scholarship Tournament Champion Flight Low Gross Nancy Kiley 82 1st Low Net (tie) Anne Tuomey Marilyn O'Grady 72 2nd Low Net(tie) Marge Battisti More ... The Garden City Spartans delivered a 10-0 win over the Williston Park Patriots White in their second game of the summer season. The game started as a pitcher's duel for the first 4 innings. The Patriot's lefty pitcher threw a palm ball, which confused the Spartan hitters for three innings. Mason Kufs countered with his lightning fast ball and racked up 8K's in the first four innings. More ... On July 15, Cherry Valley Golf Club hosted a member-guest and member-member tournament. The 9 holers started their day with a power breakfast and then proceeded to enjoy their day of golf using the popular Pinehurst format. Culinary delights featured delicious taste of summertime favorites, highlighted by salad fixings chopped by chef. More ... |
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