Garden City Recreation – Indoor Tennis Center
The indoor tennis center is open daily and is a great place to get some fun and exercise during these long cold wintry days. There are courts available at various times throughout the day and they are also available for tennis parties on Saturday nights. To rent a court or for more information, please call the Community Tennis Center at 516-483-2525.
St. Joseph School – March 21 Family Fun Run
St. Joseph School is celebrating 75 years of teaching minds and guiding hearts in Garden City. They are inviting everyone in Garden City to join them for their party. On March 21, St. Joe’s will be hosting a 5K and 1-Mile Family Fun Run beginning at 8:30 a.m. The 5K will be sanctioned and certified by USA Track and Field and professionally chip timed. There will also be an untimed Fun Run. Following the run, a post race festival including treats, DJ music and games for the kids will keep the party going after the last runner has crossed the finish line. There will be age category awards and prizes.
Later in the day, school tours will be given, a special liturgy will be held at St. Joseph Church and a formal reception will be held at the Garden City Country Club. For more information, please visit their website: www.sjspta.com/run.html or email run@sjspta.com.
Please Continue To Shop And Dine In
Garden City During The Inclement Weather
Although lately the weather has been very harsh, I encourage you to continue to shop and dine in the village. The stores and restaurants continue to be open during the inclement winter weather.
Shopping and dining in the stores and restaurants on Seventh Street, Franklin Avenue and New Hyde Park Road will benefit not only you by not having to take a trip outside of the village, but will certainly help our businesses. We are fortunate to have these businesses in our village and while shopping and dining, please let the merchant that you appreciate that they are open.
I look forward to seeing you in the stores and restaurants in the village.
S.T.O.P. Program
The Town of Hempstead Sanitation Department will conduct the first of its monthly S.T.O.P. (Stop Throwing Out Pollutants) program on Saturday, March 21. The program, which is held at various locations throughout the Town of Hempstead, will make hazardous waste facilities accessible to as many residents as possible.
This Saturday’s program will be held at Eisenhower Park, parking field No. 3, in East Meadow. Take Hempstead Turnpike, to Park Boulevard, which will take you through the center of Eisenhower Park and follow the signs to Field 3. The hours of operation will be 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Under the S.T.O.P. program, residents are able to take polluting materials to the facility and have them disposed of by a registered professional disposal company, free of charge. The facility will not accept the following materials: ammunition, explosives, fireworks, infectious or medical waste, propane or oxygen tanks, radioactive materials, unlabeled materials and fire extinguishers. Nonconforming or damaged propane tanks can be returned to the establishment that refills your barbeque grill tanks.
Board Of Trustees Meeting Schedule
The next regularly scheduled board of trustees meetings will be held on Thursday, March 19 at 8 p.m. I encourage all residents to attend board of trustees meetings so as to be thoroughly informed of village issues from a first-hand perspective. I hope to see you at this meeting as well as the budget meeting.
