I and my wife Eleanor, extend to all, our best wishes for a joyous holiday.

Our village is well served by its employees. Three of its employees, Dolores McGahan, Vilma Doherty and Pierre Marchais have retired.

I want to thank each of them for the years of dedicated service to our residents and I wish each of them well in their retirement.

1999 Christmas & New Year's Holiday Sanitation Collection Schedule

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day Holidays:

Village Offices will be closed for a half-day on Thursday, Dec. 23, and all day Friday, Dec. 24, in observance of the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day holidays. There will be no residential garbage collection Friday, Dec. 24.

The residential schedule for this week is as follows:

If your garbage is normally collected on Monday & Thursday, it will be collected on Monday, Dec. 20, and Wednesday, Dec. 22, this week.

If your garbage is normally collected on Tuesday & Friday, it will be collected on Tuesday, Dec. 21, and Thursday, Dec. 23, this week.

Recycling, Rubbish and Newspaper collection shall remain on the normal days.

There will be commercial garbage collection only on Christmas Eve, Friday, Dec. 24.

Village Offices will be closed for a half-day on Thursday, December 30, 1999 and all day Friday, December 31, 1999, in observance of the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day holidays. There will be no residential garbage collection Friday, December 31, 1999.

The residential holiday schedule for this week is as follows:

If your garbage is normally collected on Monday & Thursday, it will be collected on Monday, Dec. 27, and Wednesday, Dec. 29, this week.

If your garbage is normally collected on Tuesday & Friday, it will be collected on Tuesday, Dec. 28, and Thursday, Dec. 30, this week.

Recycling, Rubbish and Newspaper collection shall remain on the normal days.

There will be commercial garbage collection on New Year's Eve, Friday, Dec. 31.

We have read and heard the term Y2K for the past year. The question that many of us have is, what is Y2K?

In the formative days of computers, programmers used a 2 digit field for the year in order to conserve space. When the Year 2000 arrives, the date field will indicate "00" for the year and as a result, some computers may fail or not function appropriately.

I am pleased to advise you that all of the village's computer systems are Y2K compliant and there will be no interruption of service to our residents.

Should you have concerns regarding whether other entities are Y2K compliant, you may wish to consider one or more of the following:

1) Refill your prescriptions prior to Dec. 31. This will permit you to have an adequate supply of medications.

2) In the event that your power fails (which is extremely unlikely), please make sure that you have a battery-operated radio. This will permit you to get information when the power will be restored.

DO NOT use portable non-vented devices, such as barbecue grills, inside your home nor kerosene heaters.

3) Please make sure that your flashlights are operational and it would be prudent to have extra batteries. With the advancement of technology one item - i.e.; a hand can opener - has for many, disappeared from the items in our kitchens. If power is interrupted, you will need one.

We are on the eve of the beginning of a New Millennium. I invite our residents, houses of worship and organizations to supply items to be included in the millennium time capsule. Please support our local businesses. They support many community activities and by shopping locally we will be saying "thank you."