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On September 13, Garden City native, Erin Quill returned to the Broadway stage at The Golden Theater to say goodbye to the TONY Winning Musical, Avenue Q, which closed after 6 years on Broadway. More ... Bob Cangemi, owner/operator of the Garden City Shoe Shop, 178 Seventh Street for the past 40 years, and his wife Elizabeth (Betty), will be a special guests of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce at its luncheon next Wednesday, October 30, at the Garden City Hotel, Noon - 2:00 p.m. More ... The Garden City Chamber invites the community to turn out for the second Restaurant Week in Garden City to begin on Monday, October 19 through Thursday, October 22. The week will wind up with the Chamber’s 30th annual Fall Festival Street Fair to take place on Saturday, October 24. More ... The PTA/SEPTA sportswear sale is back! The collection features some great new apparel items and the return of a few favorites. More ... The annual St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals Evensong will take place at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City on Sunday, October 4th at 4:00 p.m. You are invited to bring your pets for this very unique service. The service will be preceded by a very special fair which will take place on the Cathedral grounds from 2 - 4 PM, called Fall Frolic 2009. More ... The Garden City Chapter of Children’s Medical Fund invites you to join us at our upcoming Fall Brunch and Fashion Show on November 12, 2009 at the Hempstead Country Club. The fun kicks off with CMF Boutique and vendor shopping at 10:30am to help you tackle that long holiday gift list! More ... The Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead extends a cordial invitation to all its members and guests to join them at the Garden City Casino on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 for a festive celebration commemorating the Club’s 90th birthday. The party will begin at 1:30 p.m. More ... ON SATURDAY, September 26, come to the dance at the Irish American Center, 297 Willis Ave., Mineola. 8 p.m. Music by Pete Kelly’s Premier Ceili Band. Coffee, tea and Irish soda bread will be served. Bar open for your pleasure. Donation $15. More ... Linda and John Brunning and Pat and John Witton recently hosted a neighborhood gathering to show support for the re-election campaign of life-long Garden City resident Stephen A. Bucaria. It was well attended by Franklin Court neighbors and friends. Stephen is seeking re-election for position of Supreme Court Justice, Nassau County. More ... The Eastern Property Owners’ Association is urging all residents of Garden City to attend one of the upcoming informational meetings on the $36.5 million School Investment Bond. Residents will vote to approve or reject the bond on Tuesday, October 27. Voting will take place from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm at the Garden City High School. More ... To raise awareness and promote education about the use of AEDs (automated external defibrillators) in our schools, Winthrop-University Hospital’s “Long Island Miracles” Advocacy Group, the Long Island Chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, will offer a free lecture, “Legislation and the AED,” on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 7:00 More ... Winthrop-University Hospital’s Advances in Cancer Care educational series will offer a free program, “Leukemia & Lymphoma: Personalized Therapies, Targeted Treatments,” on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 7:00 PM. Co-sponsored by the Leukemia &Lymphoma Society, the program will be held at 101 Mineola Boulevard at the corner of Second Street in Mineola. More ... Adelphi University welcomes back the Jupiter String Quartet for its second season as Adelphi’s Ensemble-in-Residence. The group will perform its first of three programs on Friday, October 2, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in the 500-seat acoustically state-of-the-art concert hall at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AU PAC), 1 South Avenue, Garden City. More ... Adelphi University is pleased to host an exhibition of artwork on loan courtesy of the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper collection from Sunday, October 4 to Thursday, October 8. Rare pieces from Auguste Rodin and Camille Pissaro will be on display in the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper Center for Fine Arts, 1 South Avenue, Garden City. Admission is free. More ... Ladies....Need a night out after a hectic back-to-school schedule? Why not join The Welcoming Club of Garden City for a Mystery Movie Night, Wednesday, September 30st at Clearview Herricks Cinema, 3324 Hillside Ave, New Hyde Park. Refreshments are served at 7:30 pm and the movie begins at 8:00 pm. More ... Manners! You must remember them. Parents constantly told us to say PLEASE and THANK YOU! We were sent off to our childhood parties with the statement - mind your manners and we did. We wrote Thank you notes when we received a gift and got thank you notes in return when we gave a gift. Where did manners go? More ... Julia Joseph and Milton will perform at Garden Stage at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Garden City, NY on Friday, October 2nd at 8 p.m. More ... Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s purse, will host a kick-off event at THE LIFE Church, One Old Westbury Rd, at Jericho Tpke., Old Westbury, on Saturday, October 3, at 11 a.m. More ... Saint Anne’s Church is currently holding its Annual Fall Coat Drive until October 26, 2009. Every year, hundreds of men, women, and children in the Nassau County live through the cold winter season without a warm coat. There are more struggling families this year because of the current economic downturn. More ... Resurrection & THE LIFE Church will hold flu clinics open to the community to get immunized with the flu or pneumonia vaccination, delivered by a Walgreens pharmacist. Immunizations will be available at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 420 Stewart Ave., near Clinton Rd., in Garden City, on Friday, September 25, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and at THE LIFE, 1 Old Westbury Rd. More ... Senator Kemp Hannon (6th Senate District) is sponsoring his 8th annual Health Fair and Awareness Day on Thursday, October 29th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the David S. Mack Sports Complex at Hofstra University in Uniondale on the north side of campus. More ... The Msgr. John’s Knights of Columbus is sponsoring a Defensive Driving Course in conjunction with the Empire Safety Council on Saturday, October 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More ... The St. Patrick’s Battalion, also called in Mexico Los San Patricios, is the topic at the October 6 meeting of the Irish Cultural Society. More ... Registration for HOLA’s 2009/10 session has begun. The Spanish Class program is available to children in grades K-5 and will be offered on Mondays at Stratford School. The 12 week session will begin October 5, and end January 11, 2010. There will be two classes given on Mondays. More ... Over Labor Day Weekend 40 scouts and parents headed from Troop 56 headed upstate for a canoe trip down the Delaware River. Everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather, during the 10 mile canoe trip. When not canoeing the group enjoyed excellent cooking, fishing, swimming, and camaraderie around the campfire. More ... Become part of the largest organization of girls and women in the world! Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place! Do you like Crafts? Science? Math? Camping? Trips? Helping Others? Come find out what it’s all about! More ... Our fall session of Yoga with Connie McKnight will begin the week of September 14 according to the following schedule: Mondays 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. 13 classes for $65 Wednesdays 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. 12 classes for $60 More ... The Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) provides free monthly legal consultation clinics for Nassau County residents 65 or older. Seniors have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with an attorney for a half-hour private consultation on any topic of concern. The next Senior Citizen Free Legal Consultation Clinic will be held Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 9:30 a.m. More ... Sept. 14, On Sept. 14, there were 13 tables of Senior Duplicate bridge in play. Results of the evening play were as follows. north-south 1 & 2 TIE More ... Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi today announced that the Nassau County Department of Senior Citizen Affairs and its Advisory Council will convene a Public Hearing on the 2nd Annual Update to the Nassau County Four Year Plan for the federal Older Americans Act and the New York State Community Services for the Elderly Act. 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 re creational activities for the retired male senior citizens of the Garden City Community. The organization is non-sectarian and non-political. More ... Monday 1:30 p.m. Monday’s Marvelous Movie Matinee - Shadow of a Doubt with Joseph Cotton and Theresa Wright, 108 min. September 30 - More ... The Calendar of Events for the Garden City Public Library has received a makeover. The Library is using EventKeeper to enhance the functionality of its events list. More ... Mickey Maxwell Cohen will present a FREE slide/lecture “A Naturalist Views The Galapagos Islands” on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 2:00pm at the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., Garden City, NY. This public program is funded by The Friends of the Garden City Public Library. More ... Parents lined up in the Children’s Room at the opening of the Garden City Library on Monday morning, September 13th to register their children for storytime programs with Librarian Barbara Grace. The Library offers children’s programs for children from 18 months through Grade Five. More ... When a smoke alarm sounds we all know what to do, right? Find the nearest escape route, get out and stay out! But if that exit is blocked, the best escape plan in the world will not help you and your family get to safety. More ... Adelphi University welcomes Robert G. Darling ‘81, White House physician during the Bill Clinton presidency and former director of the Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security, to discuss “First Physician, An Adelphi Graduate’s Experience as White House Doctor,” on Saturday, October 10, at 10:00 a.m. More ... Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi has announced the start of the County Seasonal Influenza Immunization Program for older adults. Beginning October 7th, accessible community sites will be open to County residents age 60 and over and their spouses. More ... Confused and overloaded by all the Swine Flu information that is floating around? You’re not alone. That’s why Senator Kemp Hannon is proposing a bill, calling for the State to consolidate all of the pertinent information regarding the H1N1 flu onto one online forum to ensure accuracy and convenience for New Yorkers. More ... Adelphi University’s Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership (LICNL) received a $35,000 grant from the Allstate Foundation to facilitate a program that will assist victims of domestic violence and the region’s nonprofits to become more financially literate. More ... St. Joseph’s Church Cub Scout Pack 243 is holding their roundup on Friday, September 25th at 7:30 P.M. in the auditorium. We invite all boys in the parish of St. Joseph and any school in the area to come meet us and see what Scouting is all about. We have many exciting activities planned..both overnight and day trips! More ... As a cantor, Garden City resident Elizabeth Tanzola Cavaluzzo lifts the spirits of those attending religious services in various parishes throughout both the Diocese of Rockville Centre and Brooklyn by sharing her voice. More ... The Garden City Bird Sanctuary has coordinated with the Nature & Wildlife Photographers of Long Island to exhibit a show in the gallery & showcases at the Garden City Public Library from October 4-30, 2009. Exhibits are FREE and open to the public during regular library hours. The Library is closed on Sundays during the summer. More ... The telltale signs of AAUW’s successful 2009 Membership Tea are revealed in this picture display. Appearing in the first photo are three AAUW Educational Awards recipients, who were featured speakers at the tea. Shirley J. Carrie, Kesha Thomas McBeth, and Gowri Rao all presently attend universities in New York City. More ... On a beautiful sunlit day on Saturday August 15, 2009, The GC Boy Scouts swim team was joined by fellow teens Frank Caponegro and Jacqueline Vani for the One Mile swim at Morgan Beach in Glen Cove, at the annual Nassau/Suffolk chapter’s Swim Across America event. More ... |
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