Next Saturday, Oct. 24 will be a very festive day in our Village marked by the Chamber of Commerce's 20th Annual Fall Festival Street Fair, combined with the annual High School Homecoming Day Parade and the annual Street Fair. Bring your family and enjoy the community spirit and fun.

The Chamber's Street Fair on Seventh Street and Franklin Avenue is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. and will run through mid-afternoon. Seventh Street, between Franklin and Hilton Avenues, will be closed to all traffic from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. For your convenience, please use the Hilton and Franklin Avenue entrances to Parking Field 7-S and the Stewart Avenue entrances to Parking Field 7-N.

Garden City High School's Homecoming Parade will step off promptly at 12:15 p.m. from the most easterly end of Seventh Street and proceed west along Seventh Street to Cathedral Avenue, north onto Stewart Avenue, west to Oxford Boulevard and north to the high school parking field. The Homecoming festivities and football game will follow the parade at the Warren King Field.

Your Board of Trustees join me in wishing all involved our best for what we know will be a great day in Garden City.

The Village's Oct. 1 mailing of water bills, which reflect consumption during the months of July, August and September, has generated a number of inquiries by residents who expressed concern over the amount of their bill. Each inquiry has been checked and the bills have been verified to be correct.

The reason for this increase in the bills is the inordinately dry weather during the past three months. Village records indicated that during this period in excess of 668,000,000 gallons of water were pumped for distribution.