Investment Bond Open Meeting:
Thursday, October 8
Estates POA to Host
Senator Kemp Hannon:
Wednesday, October 14
Halloween Festival at
GC Bird Sanctuary:
Saturday, October 17
Wednesday, October 7
La Bottega Wine Tasting Event
La Bottega and Caffe Barocco is proud to be a part of a very special wine tasting fundraiser hosted by Children’s Medical Fund of New York’s Garden City chapter beginning at 6 p.m. at Caffe Barocco, 143 Nassau Blvd. in Garden City South. Tickets are $65. Enjoy a cocktail style tasting of a variety of imported wines and delicious Mediterranean foods to compliment the wine. Proceeds will benefit critically ill children at Schneider’s Children’s Hospital. Tickets are per person and must be paid for in advance with cash or check only. Payments can be made at La Bottega. For more information, call Annemarie at 486-0935.
Free Legal Seminar About Elder Abuse
Presented by the Nassau Community College Paralegal Studies Program and the Women’s Bar Association of Nassau County at 7 p.m. in the College Center Building. Among the topics presented in the seminar will be identification of elder abuse in its various forms: financial, physical and psychological; available actions when elder abuse is suspected; and advance directives. Family court petitions, government rules and regulations and available resources for the elderly will also be discussed. Lawyers Rita Stein, Esq., Irene Villacci, Esq., and Joy Watson, Esq. will be the presenters. Linda B. Zuech, Esq., president of the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, will moderate the event. For more information about the seminar, which is open to the public, call 572-7774 or e-mail paralegal@ncc.edu.
Thursday, October 8
Investment Bond Open Meeting
The Garden City PTA will hold an open meeting with school district officials to discuss the $36.5 million school investment bond and answer resident’s questions. This will take place at Garden City High School beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 10
Former White House Physician to Speak
Adelphi University welcomes Robert G. Darling, 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,” at 10 a.m. in Adelphi University’s Performing Arts Center, Multipurpose Room, second floor, 1 South Ave., Garden City. The lecture is part of a larger tribute event for longtime Adelphi Professor of Biology Warren B. Eickelberg. Call 877-4555.
Story Theatre
Nassau Community College Dept. of Theatre and Dance presents the children’s theatre production of Story Theatre by Paul Sills. It is a charming production featuring playlets based on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Among the fairy tales included are The Bremen Town Musicians, The Little Peasant, The Fisherman and His Wife and Henny Penny. Performances are Oct. 10 at 1 and 3 p.m.; Oct. 11, 18 at 3 p.m.; Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets $7 adults; $5 children. To order tickets call the NCC Theatre box office 572-7676.
Wednesday, October 14
Estates POA to Host Senator Kemp Hannon
Brian Daughney, president of the Property Owners’ Association of Garden City Estates, Inc. announced that Senator Kemp Hannon, will be present at the group’s next regular Estates POA meeting to be held at 8 p.m. in Stratford School’s auditorium. Residents are also encouraged to visit the Estates POA website, www.gcestates.org, to get updated information about current issues affecting the village and meeting agendas.
Thursday, October 15
Jumping Off Cliffs – A Career in Theatre
Nassau Community College presents Tony Award-winning actress Karen Olivio who will make a presentation at 11:30 a.m. in the College Center Building. Olivio will speak about living with determination and following one’s dreams, using as a framework her experience as a Latina actress. Karen Olivio is currently starring as Anita in the Broadway revival of West Side Story. The program is free of charge and accessible to the handicapped. Call 572-7148.
Saturday, October 17
Halloween Festival at GC Bird Sanctuary
Come on over and have a howlingly good time! The Third Annual Halloween Fest and Haunted Hikes are scheduled at the Garden City Bird Sanctuary opposite 181 Tanners Pond Road. The games and festivities begin at 4 p.m. and following the 5:30 p.m. costume parade, the escorted haunted hikes begin at sundown. Tickets are $10 per person, (children 2 and under are exempt). Enjoy arts and crafts, decorate your own holiday pumpkin, win prizes for games and contests, have a potato sack race or mummy wrapping, get your face painted, and enjoy fine cocoa, coffee and hamburgers available for purchase. The haunted hikes are entertaining and educational. Choose “scary” or “not so scary” and watch out for ghosts, goblins, spider webs or whether the water you are offered to drink is contaminated or not. There may be the ghost of Mark Twain or Mr. Death warning about global warming. The rain date is Sunday, Oct 18 from 3:30 to 8 p.m. For tickets, call 326-1720.
Defensive Driving Course
Empire Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Course will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Anne’s Church, school cafeteria, lower level, 25 Dartmouth St. Save 10 percent on collision liability rates for three full years. Save money. Up to four points off driving record. Save lives by training in this smart driving workshop. Make check for $45per person, payable to: Knights of Columbus #11836 and drop off or mail to (with name, address, email, phone number: Defensive Driving Course, St. Anne’s Rectory, 35 Dartmouth St., Garden City, NY 11530. Class is limited. To enroll or for more information call John Russo 384-4552 or John McCabe 633-6146.
Upcoming Events
Garden City Public Schools Investment Bond Tours
On Oct. 27 the Garden City community will be asked to vote on the 2009 School Investment Bond, which addresses the district’s most pressing health and safety, code requirement and spatial issues. The proposed bond includes capital projects in all nine district buildings. The public is invited to join district administrators for school building tours to view some of the areas that would be addressed by the bond. For more information, contact the Public Information Office, 478-1079. The following tours already took place: Saturday, Sept. 26: 9:30 a.m. – Primary Schools; 11 a.m. – Stratford. Oct. 3: 9:30 a.m. – Middle School; 11:30 a.m. – High School. The remaining tour date is as follows: Oct. 17: 9:30 a.m. – Stewart.
St. James Lutheran Fall Fair
St. James Lutheran Community Church in Stewart Manor will hold its annual Fall Fair Saturday, Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. St. James is located at 116 Elton Road in Stewart Manor. There will be unique gift items, a “Granny’s Attic” full of old treasures, local merchant gift certificates and a bake table. Between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. the luncheonette will be serving their famous clam chowder, grilled cheese, hot dogs and homemade desserts. If you have any questions, call 352-4099.
Defensive Driving Courses
Conducted by AAA New York in the Garden City office located at 229 Seventh St. The six-hour course allows participants to get the latest driving information from AAA-certified instructors, a 10 percent discount on collision and liability insurance and a reduction of up to four points from driver’s license. One hour lunch break on all-day sessions. The cost is $35 for AAA members; $49 nonmembers ; 25 senior discount days members 55+*; $25 young driver discount days members 16 to 24**). Class size limited. Reservations required. Call 873-2381. The following dates are offered:
•Oct. 9* from 9:30 a.m. to 4;30 p.m.
•Oct. 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
•Oct. 13 and 14** from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m.
•Oct. 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
•Oct. 20 * from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
•Oct. 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
•Oct. 25 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
•Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Haunted House for Cancer Research
The 7th Annual Szuba Family Haunted House for Cancer Research will take place on Oct. 24 and 25 from 3 to 9 p.m. (just after the Fall Festival) at 92 Meadow St., Garden City. It will also be held on Oct. 25 from 3 to 9 p.m., rain or shine. The event is held each year on the weekend before Halloween and it is a wonderful way for families and kids of all ages to enjoy some Halloween fun and take part in raising money for a good cause. For a $5 admission fee you can be escorted through a haunted mansion by a ghoul or a friendly witch (student volunteers), walk through a haunted graveyard and enjoy some delicious Halloween bake sale goods. All proceeds benefit the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research and the MIRACLE Foundation (donation checks are welcomed and are tax deductable). Both charities are LI-based cancer research foundations. The Szuba family has hosted this fun event in the memory of Dr. Martin Szuba who also passed away from pancreatic cancer. Dr. Szuba’s sons, Jared (Chaminade class of ’09) and Michael (GCHS class of ’12) started the event just weeks after their dad passed away so that other children might someday not lose a parent so young to cancer. Come for a chilling fright or a delicious cupcake and help our community fight cancer. Call 578-6138.
International Dinner
The United Methodist Church, 40 Washington St., Hempstead, is having an International Dinner to benefit the scholarship fund on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. Advance sale $25; $30 at the door; children $10. For reservations call 485-6363.
Restaurant Week
The Garden City Chamber invites the community to turn out for the second Restaurant Week in Garden City to be held Oct. 19 through Oct. 22. The week will wind up with the chamber’s 30th annual Fall Festival Street Fair to take place on Oct. 24. While plans are still forming to date, participating restaurants offering “price-fixed” meals between 4 and 7 p.m. include Leo’s, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Walk Street, Garden City Pizza, Seventh Street Café, La Nona Bella, Calagero’s, Sushi Ya, Upper Crust Cafe, Grimaldi’s, Mumon, Novita, Waterzooi and Uptown Grille. Additional restaurants wishing to participate may call the chamber at 746-7724, ext.101.
Vendors Wanted
For an indoor craft fair to be held on Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. For an application, call 678-5000, ext. 6430. Spaces are limited, Reserve your spot today.
Ongoing Event
St. Anne’s Fall Coat Drive
St. Anne’s Church, 35 Dartmouth St., is currently holding its annual fall coat drive through Oct. 25. Every year, hundreds of men, women and children in 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. Drop off new or gently used clean coats, jackets or sweaters. The collection closets are open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enter through the main church doors, go to the top of the stairs and the closets are on the left. Bag all donations and label as: men, women or children. Individual donations and collection efforts at your office, school or community organization are encouraged. Call Jon Schwieger at 747-4749.
