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‘Moms’ sniping at inn for NRA event
Gun safety advocates push catering hall to cancel BY R E B ECC A K L A R The Nassau County chapter of Moms Demand Action is firing at the Inn at New Hyde Park for planning to hold a National Rifle Association event in September. Tracy Bacher, a mother of three from Sea Cliff and the head of the local Moms Demand Action chapter, said the activist group is launching a protest campaign after Inn management said it plans to keep the event despite the group’s request to reconsider. Members are calling and
emailing the Inn and the group plans to hold several protests outside the catering hall leading up to the event if it is not canceled, Bacher said. A representative from the Inn at New Hyde park said the catering hall declined to comment. “When I got wind of the event I called the events mangers and kind of pleaded with them to reconsider their contract with the NRA, and they declined,” Bacher said in an interview Monday. “They actually said ‘the NRA sounds like a lovely organization.’ That was
a direct quote.” The fundraising event, hosted by Nassau County Friends of NRA, is set to be held on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 5:30 p.m., according to the Friends of NRA website. Tickets range in price from $65 for a single ticket to $2,000, for the Charlton Heston Table. The event features a raffle and auction with prizes including a .410 gauge Henry Lever Action Shotgun with a Second Amendment engraving and a Continued on Page 59
Floral Park eyes Tiny Town renovation, again PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR
Peter Kollias grew a 13-foot tall sunflower in his backyard garden in New Hyde Park. He said it’s the tallest flower he has ever grown, after about 15 years of planting them. See story on page 3.
B Y R E B E C C A K L A R was rejected in May. Floral Park officials are renewing a push to renovate Tiny Town, a village playground that hasn’t been renovated in nearly two decades. The village began accepting bids for the playground, located by the corner of Bergen Street and Fuller Avenue, on July 25, after a first set of bids
On Monday, Mayor Dominick Longobardi said the village had received bids, though he had not yet seen them and did not know how many came in. A little over two years ago, the village removed a diseased tree that was becoming a danger to the children playing in the park, Longobardi said.
“Once that tree was down, we kind of got a good look at what we were doing with that, what the park looked like and the age of the structures that were there,” Longobardi said. Officials decided it was better to renovate the playground as one project rather than replacing it in pieces, Longobardi said. Continued on Page 69
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