Chamber Of Commerce Easter Parade
Sunday, April 5
Marvelous Movie Matinée
Monday, April 6
Still Life Through A Cinephile’s Eye
Through April 30
Thursday, April 2
Boys Junior Varsity Lacrosse Versus Massapequa HS
10 a.m., Garden City High School, 170 Rockaway Ave., 516-478-2070
Sunday, April 5
Garden City Public Library Closed
Chamber Of Commerce Easter Parade
The Annual Easter Festival and Antique Car Parade, sponsored by the Garden City Chamber of Commerce, is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 5. The parade will step off from parking field No. 9E between Tenth and Eleventh Streets and will proceed south on Franklin Avenue to Seventh Street, west to Hilton Avenue. Easter bunnies will be on Seventh Street during the parade.
Monday, April 6
Marvelous Movie Matinée
A screening of the 1963 Blake Edwards comedy The Pink Panther starring Peter Sellers, David Niven and Robert Wagner will be held from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Garden City Public Library. The event will be held in Meeting Room B. Funding is provided by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. The library is located at 60 7th St. For more information, please call 516-742-8405.
Annual Organizational Meeting & Budget Hearing
All residents are welcomed and encouraged to attend the annual organizational meeting and budget hearing the board of trustees will be holding. This session will be at 8 p.m. and is being held in the boardroom at village hall located at 351 Stewart Avenue in Garden City. For more information, please call 516-465-4000 or visit www.gardencityny.net.
Tuesday, April 7
Spring Egg Hunt At The Library
All are invited at 10 a.m. for a Spring Egg Hunt at the library. This program is for children ages 2 ½ to 5 years old (not yet in kindergarten) and an adult caregiver. Registration begins Monday, March 30 at 9:30 a.m. on Eventkeeper. You must do a separate registration for each child you wish to attend the program. Please arrive promptly. If you are late, your spot may be given to someone on the wait list. Children should bring their own baskets to collect eggs. The library is located at 60 7th St. For more information, please call 516-742-8405.
Wednesday, April 8
Medical Needs Research
In this hands-on class, you will learn how to use the Internet to research health-related needs. This class will include a brief introduction to the Internet for non-users. Attendees will visit sites providing reviews of medical professionals, information on drug interactions, research on symptoms of disease and ailments, information on alternative approaches to treatments and much more. This class is geared towards people who are comfortable using a computer. This class is presented to show seniors how to find information on medical and health-related issues in which they have an interest. The Village and Sharper Training Solutions, Inc. takes no responsibility and accepts no liability for the use of any information on websites discussed in class. Information found on any website is not meant to replace the advice of a physician, pharmacist or any other expert in their field. This class is free and open to any senior who is a resident of the Incorporate Village of Garden City. All classes are held in St. Paul’s Senior Center from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. To register for this class, please visit the recreation office at 108 Rockaway Ave.
Teens & Tots Storytime At The Pool Training
Everyone is looking forward to summer and returning to the Garden City Pool. The Young Adult Department in cooperation with the Recreation Department of the Village of Garden City conducts a story time every Tuesday and Wednesday in July and the first week of August. To be a volunteer in this program, you must attend a training session at the library. Required training will be available for any YA in 5th grade and up who wishes to participate in the story time program for the first time this summer. You will learn the skills of book selection, read-aloud techniques, how to engage a young audience and how to prepare and teach crafts safely. The 2015 Training Session will be held on Wednesday, April 8 from 1:30 to 4:30 a.m. Other dates can be arranged by contacting YA Librarian Marge Kelly at 516-742-8405, ext 242. Registration begins Monday, March 23 through the library website www.gardencitypl.org, click on the Calendar of Events. This program is a community service and participants earn credit. The library is located at 60 7th St. For more information, please call 516-742-8405.
Through April 30
Still Life Through A Cinephile’s Eye
Fine art photography by Gene Brown will be exhibited through April 30 in the Garden City Public Library’s gallery located at 60 Seventh St., in Garden City. Diverse photographic styles from abstract-reflective images to nature will be on view.
Gene Brown is a retired freelance writer who has loved photography since the 1970s, but never found enough time to perfect his skills and extend his vision until retirement. Last fall he started an image-a-day email mailing list (103 members currently) to give himself the incentive to shoot new photos. It’s a labor of love bordering on obsession: he is happiest when working on his images and was even out looking for images during this recent brutal winter.
His interests run the gamut from nature to the abstract, although he finds himself increasingly drawn to the mystery and imaginative possibilities of what we often overlook in our visual environment: the melding of reality and reflections from store windows, mannequins and the like. More and more he looks for subjects that encourage one to imagine their stories.
Brown attended Queens College and Columbia University while studying for a masters in American History. He authored a number of books, including Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood From It’s Beginnings to the Present; Show Time: A Chronology of the Theatre From It’s Beginnings to the Present; and biographies for young adults of Anne Frank, Duke Ellington and Bette Davis. He also edited The New York Times Encyclopedia of Film and was senior writer on The American Film Institute Desk Reference (which is in the Garden City collection). He is currently a member of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Collective.
Exhibits are free and open to the public during regular library hours. Installation and removal dates are subject to change. For hours and directions please call 516-742-8405 or visit www.gardencitypl.org. Exhibit funding is provided by Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
Ongoing Programs
Defensive Driving Courses
Six-hour course were conducted by AAA in the Garden City office located at 229 7th St. After March 1, courses will now be held in Homewood Suites by Hilton located at 40 Westbury Ave. in Carle Place. Save money; reduce violation points; sharpen skills. The cost is $39 for AAA members; $32 members 60 and older; $55 nonmembers. Dates and rates subject to change. Online class available. Visit AAA.com/DefensiveDriving. Reservations required. Call 516-873-2381. The following dates are offered:
April 6 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m
April 12 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Apr 16 & 23 – 6:15 to 9:15 p.m.
May 4 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
May 21 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
May 31 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
