As the newly elected president of the Massapequa Park Merchants Association, I want to take this opportunity to thank the public for the support of the local stores in our community. With all of the big malls surrounding us, we want you to know how very much we appreciate your business. We hope to continue to bring our shoppers special events all year round such as our beautiful Christmas puppet houses and decorations, street fair, etc. This year, Santa Claus will make his home at Mother Goose Toys, and Alex, Pat and Ron Dank will have something special on hand for the children.

Some new members have recently joined us and we are happy to welcome Elsie's Hair and Nail Salon, Grace and Elsie Durso; Pequa Hardware, Lorraine and Bud Shannon; The Village Handyman, Robert Shannon, Jr.; Park Eye Center, Drs. Bernard Sausner, Dr. David Sausner and Dr. Theresa Rua; Luciano's Hair Designs, Lou Ieni; Carvel, Richard Sherman and Tom Marciano; Tom and Sons Meats, Anthony Roveto; and Unqua Travel, Rick Ericson. Please ask for them when visiting their stores as personal service and lots of attention to the customers are everyone's goal.

Our list of merchant members is too large to print in this letter, but we will be spotlighting several of them at one time in the future so that you can become familiar with all of the benefits of shopping in the Park!