During the Oct. 16 board of trustees meeting, Gerard Loughran, Garden City Community Fund president, informed trustees that the Garden City Buffalo's authorized the Fund to donate, on its behalf, $10,000 toward the cost of the September 11, 2001 memorial monument now standing at the Village Green.

"The Garden City Buffalo's, a group organized in 2002, are compassionate, dedicated and ambitious. They staged a golf outing at the Garden City Country Club in October 2002, raising approximately $43,000," Loughran explained.

"The expressed purpose for raising the money was to provide for both family relief fund efforts and also help the Village of Garden City with any costs associated with the construction and erection of the 9/11 memorial monument."

Tim Paisley, Garden City Buffalo's president, was on hand for the presentation, along with members of the organization.