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Caroline gets her pond with renaming Grasing Keller, a Baldwin Civic Association member. Grasing Keller often found A pond in Baldwin’s Silver that people were confused by the Lake Park was officially named directions she would give them after Oceanside native Caroline to the pond, which is just north McCahon last Saturday. McCa- of Wateredge Avenue, when it hon was a nature lover who had no official name. So she s p e n t h e r wo rk approached County lunches and other Le gislator Debra free time with her Mulé, who was “All family in the park for (the renaming),” s h e l ove d . Fo r Grasing Keller decades the pond added, and the Baldwas known inforwin Civic Associamally, but affectiontion signed on as the ately, as Caroline’s sponsor organizaPond by state offition. cials, local entities Mulé, who lives in working on the SilFreeport, rides her ver Lake Park projbike through the ect, community park and has advomembers and even cated for the compleGoogle Maps. tion of the Silver McCahon, a gradLake Park project — uate of Oceanside MCCAhON’s a revitalization of High School, died friend and cothe park — said, unexpectedly at age worker, Marguerite “When Marguerite 27 in 1990, and her came to me and said, friends in Baldwin Grasing Keller ‘No it’s not officially and Oceanside came named that,’ I said, together to plant a Kwanzan ‘Well, let’s make it happen.’” It cherry tree and install a plaque took a few months late last year, behind the fish ladder at Caro- but after a public hearing hosted line’s Pond in her honor. Efforts by the civic association, the to do more, by naming the pond County Legislature voted unaniafter her, were spearheaded by McCahon’s friend Marguerite Continued on page 7
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ThE WEsT ENd Arts Guild, the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce and artists all collaborated to help boost business in the community for the Window Works Art Project.
Artists use vacant Oceanside storefront as their canvas
Community hopes to revive business with art By TAYlOR NICIOlI Intern
Several storefronts along Long Beach Road sit empty, but on June 25, the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce and the West End Arts Guild kicked off an initiative called the Window Works Art Project, hoping to fill these oncevibrant businesses with life once again through art. The groups gathered in front of one in particular, the former site of Jandi’s Natural
Market and Organic Café, to show off the artwork that had been placed in the windows by local artists. The building, once was a well-known spot to eat and shop for health food, has been empty since June 2020. Now the project participants hope that artwork in the windows will at least give those walking by a lift. “With this project, we’re trying to improve the business district and the Oceanside community in two ways,”
chamber President Paul Engel said. “One, we have business spots that are vacant, that can be an eyesore, and putting art in the storefront can be uplifting to the passersby. Two, the artwork will make the building more attractive, in hopes of bringing in more businesses in as well.” West End Arts is a visual arts guild founded in 2004 in Long Beach, with a focus on helping two- and three-dimenContinued on page 3
his is a living testament to her. It will always be Caroline’s Pond. This will always be here.