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Garden City Day to kick off summer celebrations
PLAYOFFS BOUND
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
The Garden City High School girls lacrosse team is playoff bound after finishing the season with an 8-1 record. The first playoff game will be at home on Wednesday, May 15th
Increase in bus traffic on Clinton Road BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
An increase in the number and frequency of public Nassau County buses on Clinton Road in the eastern section of Garden City is real and is not going to change, according to the CEO of NICE Bus system, the bus transit agency that serves Nassau County In mid-April a Garden City News reader and resident of Clinton Road inquired with NICE, which is a subsidiary of Illinois-
based Transdev North America. NICE Buses are running often from 700 Commercial Avenue, technically in Garden City, to the Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center, a bus facility between Jackson and West Columbia Streets in the Incorporated Village of Hempstead. On Tuesday May 7, NICE Bus CEO Jack Khzouz participated in a telephone interview with the News to discuss changes involving the consistent use of Clinton
Road. He confirmed that one Garden City resident has inquired and raised concerns related to the increased presence of buses along the stretch of Clinton Road. “I spoke to the resident on a couple of different occasions and explained to the resident that, while he lives between our bus depot and the Hempstead Transit Center/Hempstead Turnpike, and obviously this is right in the midSee page 46
At its April 25th meeting, the Garden City Board of Trustees’ designated the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 25, as a special ‘Garden City Day’ to commemorate the founding of Garden City’s Sesquicentennial (1869 to 2019) as well as the Centennial of the Incorporated Village of Garden City (1919 to 2019). Mayor Theresa Trouvé announced that 2019 represents an extraordinary moment in the history of the Village of Garden City. “We are celebrating our 150 and 100-year anniversaries and we do want to make a gala festival of it, I think this is worth it,” she said. According to the mayor the fireworks for the village’s celebration “are a very, very good brand and include strobe lights.” The cost for the 15-minute fireworks show is about $15,000, she said. A large portable stage with the Town of Hempstead logos on it, outfitted with proper lighting for music and performances will be set up at St. Paul’s as the Town offered it for Garden City’s celebration. Celebrations for large audiences and including fireworks have a few hurdles to clear before gaining approval at the local level. At its last meeting the Board of Trustees not only officially entered the May 25 proclamation into village record; they approved the request by Adelphi University to hold a fireworks celebration on Sunday, August 25, at 8 p.m. on the campus of the Waldorf School of Garden City. During the meeting Trustee Mark Hyer commented on ‘etiquette among neighbors’ with Adelphi or other groups making requests to the village for fireworks displays -which in the case of Adelphi in late August, will be set off from the adjacent baseball field. Approvals are routine, as a fireworks display requires proof of insurance, coordination with Garden City Police and Fire departments as well as $500 for a permit. Trustee Hyer says the Board must take measures to ensure that Adelphi properly informs all area residents, “making more of an effort to notify residents when they come in for a display.” Mayor Trouvé says this is akin to the issue village offiSee page 45
Garden City PTA celebrates Reflections winners PAGES 20-21 GCHS Baseball team wins conference championship PAGES 60-61