Having a Reputation Paid Off for Students Who Matched Hard Work and Play

It was another beautiful graduation in Oyster Bay on Sunday, June 28, 2009. The sun came out last weekend after hiding for most of the month. Friends and families had moved chairs under the shade of the tall trees on the lawn in what can be called an Oyster Bay tradition. When the strains of Pomp and Circumstance began, the students in their purple and gold robes began their march out of the school, down to East Main Street and up the walkway to the terrace in front of the school. Proud parents and friends took photos of their graduates as they marched up the aisle.

The Oyster Bay Town Board put itself on the line as it put up a resolution on the May 26 meeting agenda to prohibit street side solicitation. The resolution was aimed at solving the long existing problem of day laborers hoping to be picked up for work as they stand on street corners along Forest Avenue in Locust Valley in the numbered streets located near the City of Glen Cove.

Applications are now available and online registration is now open for the 2009 Arrow Exterminating Company Long Island Women’s 5 Kilometer Run, and women runners and walkers of all ages and abilities are cordially invited to participate.

 This will be the 26th anniversary edition of the Run, which is Long Island’s only running event that is for women only, and it will be held on Saturday, July 18 starting and finishing at the Woodward Parkway Elementary School in Farmingdale.

Congratulations to 49-year-old Kelly Pickard of Oyster Bay for her award winning performance in the 18th annual David Lerner Associates Long Island Police Appreciation Run, held in Eisenhower Park on Thursday evening, June 11.