Saturday, Oct. 26 will be a very festive day in our village marked by the Chamber of Commerce's 24th 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.

The 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.

Residents are reminded that the department of public works will begin collecting leaves sporadically, based upon the amount of leaves on individual streets and weather conditions. As accumulation increases, full collection will begin in the western section on a street-by-street basis and proceed easterly through the entire village. Weather conditions permitting, this route will be repeated on a two-week basis. If you have any questions concerning the leaf collection schedule, please call the Garden City Village Yard at 485-7540. Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday, Oct. 27. Residents are reminded that clocks should be set back one hour. As a reminder, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 result in two consecutive off days. All residents with automatic sprinklers should remember to reset their clocks at this time to comply with the village's lawn watering regulations. As a further reminder, the last day for lawn sprinkling is Nov. 30.