Here's wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year! Now that we can all breathe a sigh of relief from the pressures of shopping for Christmas and Chanukah, it's time to begin leisurely shopping for all those goodies that are now on sale at our local stores on Park Boulevard. and Front Street.

Watch for our January Jackpot Drawing and our February Valentine contest which our Massapequa Park Merchants Association will be sponsoring. Great gifts will be given away to the lucky winners and entry blanks can be filled in at all the member stores on Park Boulevard and Front Street starting in January.

Everyone in the Massapequa Park Merchants Association extends their heartfelt thanks for all the patronage received by their stores during this holiday season. Local shopping is so important and is the staff of life that keeps our village stores in business. Please come by during January and February, shop the sales, enter our contests and say hello to the hometown sales people who are here to serve you. We appreciate your business!

Our best wishes for a peaceful new year.

Carol A. Leff

President, Massapequa Park

Merchants Association