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Vol. 32 No. 9
FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 5, 2025
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Lakeview celebrates Black history By MADISoN GUSlER mgusler@liherald.com
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The Nassau County Guardians and the Lakeview Public Library celebrated Black History Month.
Lakeview residents gathered at the Lakeview Public Library last Saturday for a Black History Month celebration led by the Nassau County Guardians. The event was organized by the library and the Guardians, to bring people together. “I’m a Lakeview resident for 58 years, and I believe in bringing back to our community,” said Lynn Singleton, treasure of the Guardians, who estimated that she has organized the event for eight years. “It is very important to me, because the community comes out, they get to meet Black officers — the officers from Nassau County Police Department — and it’s informative, educational for the children. We just make it a nice event for everybody.” The Nassau County Guardians Association is dedicated to encouraging the African-American
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Whelan Field, where he grew tem that will mitigate local up playing baseball, and the flooding, while also revitalizing nearby creek, Pine Stream, Whelan Field. The pitch for the project was A f t e r H u r r i c a n e S a n dy which travels from above West wreaked havoc on Long Island Hempstead’s Halls Pond and accepted by the state in 2020, in 2012, the state set aside fund- through Rockville Centre, who then granted Malverne $7 ing to increase storm resiliency before merging into the Mill million to fund the project in in Malverne and other local River. The stream follows along its entirety. Corbett, alongside Ocean Avenue in Malverne and representatives from the Melcommunities. Money was allocated to the could be viewed from Whelan ville-based engineering firm, H2M architects + engineers, village, but was never put to Field. “I envisioned doing a scenic unveiled the renovation plans use — until now. When Tim Sullivan was walk along Pine Stream, going in October of 2022, officially from Coral Court down to Pine- breaking ground on the project elected to the village’s board of trustees in 2019, former Mayor brook Avenue,” Sullivan, who in June of 2024. While there is no definitive Keith Corbett tasked him with is now the mayor, said. Apply online at mptrg.com/heraldwrap call 516.715.1280 The main feature of the or completion date, as the harsh figuring out a project that plan, called the Pine Stream winter weather has caused would use the allocated funds. Sullivan dreamed up a revi- Extension Project, is construc- delays, the park is expected to talization project centered on tion of a water retention sys- be open by the summer, village
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officials said. On Feb. 19, Mayor Sullivan took the Herald on a tour of the site to provide an update on construction. “This is really exciting,” Sullivan shared. “The for mer mayor and I call it ‘transformational’ for the village. We’ve never put this kind of money into any park in our village,
certainly not in one shot.” The renovated Whelan Field will feature a quarter-mile scenic walk that loops around the park and follows along the stream. The cement path will be lined with lights and benches surrounded by trees and native plants. To align with goals set by the
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