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Christ Church in Garden City is busy again this fall. On Saturday, September 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. you can find some great bargains at our Garage Sale. During this time of "belt-tightening" you can afford these household items, games, crafts, costume jewelry and more. More ... Please join the CPOA for its first meeting for 2009-10 at the Garden City Senior Center on Golf Club Lane on Tuesday, September 8th at 8PM. All Central residents are invited and encouraged to come. The CPOA will be discussing current Garden City matters as well as issues from other villages that may impact us. More ... HOLA of Garden City, Inc. will be celebrating its 6th year by holding a Welcoming Cocktail Party for new and current members on Friday, September 25, at Novita Restaurant from 8:00-11:00 PM. HOLA of Garden City is a non-profit organization founded by a group of Garden City residents who are interested in promoting Spanish culture in a social atmosphere for our community. More ... Members of the community are invited to the American Association of University Women's annual tea to meet three AAUW scholarship recipients. The tea will be held Sunday, September 13 th from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Garden City Community Church located on Stewart Avenue and Whitehall Blvd. More ... ON TUESDAY, September 8 , the Herricks Community Players has announced it will hold auditions for its upcoming fall show at the Herricks Community Theater, 999 Herricks Road, New Hyde Park. More ... The next general meeting of the Western Property Owners Association (WPOA) will be held on Wednesday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at Homestead School. (Please note the earlier start time for the WPOA general meetings. More ... RotaCare is celebrating 16 years of caring with their annual Caregivers Ball. The ball will be held on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Tam O'Shanter Club in Brookville. Black tie is optional. RotaCare is proud to honor two outstanding gentlemen. Akram Boutros, M.D., F.A.C.H.E. More ... Robert B. Willumstad '05 (Hon.), former chairman of the board of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), will deliver the annual Hagedorn Lecture Series on Corporate Social Responsibility on Thursday, September 24, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. in Adelphi's Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom in the Ruth S. Harley University Center, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. More ... How many people do you know who "used to go" to church but just don't anymore? Research shows that most people who do not attend church regularly attended at one time in their lives. Many of these people are willing to try church again, given the right opportunity. More ... Here we are at the Labor Day weekend and school will be starting just after that. The G.C. Pool will be put to rest until next year and many of the members are sad to see it close. This also marks the beginning of club programs and the monthly bridges that have been resting since last June. More ... Maureen Dana Marquess and Thomas Patrick Sullivan were married Saturday, August 22 nd at Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto, California. The nuptial mass as followed by a reception at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton, California. Members of the wedding party included the groom's sisters, Kristen Sullivan and Jennifer Sullivan, as bridesmaids. More ... Robert Lockwood Mills of Sun City Center, Florida, who lived in Garden City as a boy, has authored his seventh published book, Baseball—-Then and Now . It recalls his days as a sandlot player on a field behind Stratford School, which he attended from 1951-1953, and continues as a nostalgic look at the evolution of the game at the major-league level. More ... Garden City Grandmothers Club will hold a barbeque and bridge on Wednesday September 16th at 12 noon. $15 Donation-Guests Welcome! RSVP Gwen Duff (516) 486-0396 More ... Jennifer Ryniker, GCHS Class of 2006, a Hospitality major at James Madison University, is scheduled to graduate in May 2010. This summer she successfully completed a three month internship at the Four Seasons Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey where she worked in various different departments with an international staff. More ... Due to popular demand, the Recreation Department will again offer an adult pastel class taught by Arleen Ruth Urban. This class is open to adult residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. The class will run from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Fridays beginning September 18. Our classes will be held in Cluett Hall at St. Paul's. 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 ... John Lappas, a parishioner of St. Anne's parish for over 20 years and an active member of Msgr. John's Knights has been stricken with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". This is a neuro-degenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, and then progresses to the muscles throughout the body. More ... Co-ed senior exercise classes will begin again at the Lutheran Church, 420 Stewart Ave, Garden City on Wednesday, Sept. 23. All are welcome!! Join friends/make new ones on Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays from 10-11 a.m. Designed for mature adults to enhance flexibility, balance, strength and endurance, exercises address the various needs and abilities of participants. More ... President Judy Radocy is pleased to announce the official opening of the 2009-2010 bridge year on Friday, September 11 at 12 noon, at the Senior Center. Membership is open to all Garden City women. Guests may be invited on a weekly basis. More ... On Aug. 31 there were 11 1/2 tables of Monday nite, Seniors duplicate bridge in play. Results of the evening were as follows. North-South 1. Joan Kiernan & Claire Burns 2. Rosemary Brown & Athena Philippides 3. More ... Chamber members and guests will hear about the current trends of the mortgage industry at its season kick-off luncheon on Wednesday, September 30, 11:30 a.m. at the Garden City Hotel. Edward J. Thomas, Regional Sales Manager of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, will discuss trends in past 2009; expectations in the 4th quarter; and going forward in 2010. Mr. More ... On September 10, from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Women on the Fast Track (WOTFT), a national organization for business and professional women, will hold their September meeting for all Nassau County Chapters. WOTFT is a networking group that offers smart, talented, successful women the opportunity to establish strategic alliances with like-minded women. More ... The time is drawing near. In two weeks many will gather at St Anne's to celebrate the annual festival, known as Spirit Day. On Saturday, September 19th the areas in and around New Hyde Park Rd and Dartmouth St will be transformed into a carnival-like atmosphere. The hard work, planning and execution of such an event fall on the shoulders of many within the community. More ... The Garden City Historical Society is proud to welcome Samuel G. White, great-grandson of the famed architect Stanford White, as a guest lecturer in the Society's "Meet the Author" series. Mr. White's presentation is combined with a book signing of his newest work, Stanford White Architect, published by Rizzoli in 2008, and co-authored with Elizabeth White. More ... Adelphi University's Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Della Hudson-Tomlin, lead a group of over forty incoming freshmen students on a three day program of volunteer community service in the communities surrounding the Adelphi campus. The Freshman Community Action Program, FCAP, celebrated its 4th year with an August 26 work day with Rob Alvey at the Garden City Bird Sanctuary. More ... Fall Storytime and Book Discussion Registration The registration for all storytimes and book discussions begins on Monday, September 14 at 9:30am. Storytime registration can be done either online at www.gardencitypl.org or in person. Book discussion registration may only be done in the Children's Department. More ... During the Library's six week summer season, the Children's Department held 57 programs for children of various ages with attendance exceeding 1,600! The Children's Department staff registered over 600 children in the Tomorrow's Talents and Tiny Talents Summer Reading Clubs. More ... Back to school ... Back to the Garden City Public Library for a new fall series of programs for young adults in grades 6 - 12. This fall the Library is offering movies, crafts, book discussions, and college prep programs for young people. More ... Cara Matina is working towards her Girl Scout Gold Award. In doing so she hosted a monthly meeting with Cultural Care Au pair and the newest aupair arrivals from around the world to the Garden City and North Shore communities. She discussed with them the dangers of texting and drunk driving. More ... The Young Adult Department of the Garden City Public Library has just completed its busiest and most popular summer in years! Express Yourself @ Your Library was the national theme for Library Young Adult Summer Programs. This summer Garden City's programs encouraged young adults to express themselves in many different ways. More ... Seemingly as different from one another as they can be, three women nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. Why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. More ... Library patrons Sue Tietjen (left) and Diana MacLeod (right) are pictured selecting Property by Valerie Martin, one of the seventeen titles available to book discussion groups through the Library's new Book in A Bag service. Each canvas tote bag (pictured) contains everything a book club needs, including 10 copies of the title, audio material, and an information package with a summary, book reviews, biographical information, discussion questions, an author interview, and suggestions for further reading. More ... Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10AM Masha Hamilton's captivating novel The Camel Bookmobile will be the selection for a book discussion, which will be moderated by Gloria Weinrich, on Wednesday, September 23rd at 10 AM. More ... The Garden City Public Library Labor Day weekend hours are: Friday, September 4: 9:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Saturday, September 5: closed S unday, September 6: closed Monday, September 7: labor day - closed More ... |
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