September 4, 2009 RSS feed / Community

AAUW To Hold Annual Tea

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. More...

RotaCare Plans Caregivers Ball

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. More...

Resurrection Invites Community "Back To Church"

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. More...

Marquess ~ Sullivan Wedding

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. More...

Grandmothers Club Barbecue Bridge

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...

Garden City Senior News

ADULT ART CLASSES AT CLUETT HALL

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. More...

Msgr. John's Knights Support The Walk To Defeat ALS

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". More...

Senior Women's Friday Bridge Meetings

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...

Chamber Speaker To Present "State Of Mortgage Industry"

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. More...

Volunteers Have The Spirit At St. Anne's

The time is drawing near. In two weeks many will gather at St Anne's to celebrate the annual festival, known as Spirit Day. More...

Adelphi Freshman At Garden City Bird Sanctuary

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. More...

What's Up For Young Adults At The Library

Back to school ... Back to the Garden City Public Library for a new fall series of programs for young adults in grades 6 - 12. More...

Working On Girl Scout Gold Award

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. More...

Lunch Bag Book Talk Kathryn Stockett's The Help Wednesday, September 30th 12:00-2:00

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? More...

Friends Of Library Book Discussion

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 More...

CPOA To Meet On September 8th

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. More...

HOLA Of Garden City Begins Year

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. More...

The Office Cat

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...

WPOA September General Meeting

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...

Former Chairman Of AIG To Speak At Adelphi

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. More...

Socially Speaking

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. More...

Former Resident Writes Book

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 . More...

Completes Internship

Jennifer Ryniker, GCHS Class of 2006, a Hospitality major at James Madison University, is scheduled to graduate in May 2010. 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. More...

Senior Exercise At The Lutheran Church

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. More...

Seniors Duplicate Bridge

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...

WOTFT September Meeting

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. More...

Stanford White's Great-Grandson To Lecture at Historical Society

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. More...

Garden City Library News

News From The Children's Room

Fall Storytime and Book Discussion Registration The registration for all storytimes and book discussions begins on Monday, September 14 at 9:30am. More...

Over 1600 Children Attended Programs At Library

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! More...

Summer 2009 - One Of The Busiest Seasons For Young Adults

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. More...

First Group Uses Library's New Book In A Bag Service

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. More...

Library Hours

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...