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Brewing up a fundraiser for Malverne police By MADISoN GUSlER mgusler@liherald.com
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Members of the Malverne Police Department attended the Malverne Police Benevolent Association’s first Hops and Cops Farm Fest last Monday.
More than 100 residents showed their support for the Malverne Police Department last Monday evening, attending the Malverne Police Benevolent Association’s first Hops and Cops Farm Fest at Crossroads Farm at Grossmann’s. With a $100 entry donation, attendees enjoyed unlimited craft beer provided by local breweries, as well as catered food. “This was a fundraiser for the Malverne PBA, the first of its kind,” Christopher Aresta, a Malverne police officer and event coordinator for the PBA, said. “We just offered a nice event to the community to come and enjoy.” Door prize raffles, raffle prizes, a 50/50 and more were offered during the inaugural event. The raffle prizes were donated to the PBA from numerous local businesses. “I’m very happy to say the event was a success,” Aresta said. “We’d like to thank everyone that showed their ContinueD on PAge 10
Beautification committee leads community cleanup By MADISoN GUSlER mgusler@liherald.com
The Lakeview train station was spruced up last weekend. Dozens of people attended the biannual community clean up, hosted by the Lakeview Civic Association, on Saturday. Despite the damp weather, association members, local officials, Metropolitan Transportation Authority police, Sanitation District 6 employees and residents gathered at 9 a.m. to help out. “We work with all residents, local government officials, and all the different departments in the area,” civic association
President Lisa Ortiz said, “to address quality-of-life concerns and to ensure that our downtown area is maintained. “We clean it up, plant new plants, and make sure the comm u n i t y yo u ’ re e n t e r i n g through our business district looks beautiful,” Ortiz added. Participants picked up garbage around the train station and along nearby streets. The other focus of the cleanup was the upkeep of the community garden on Woodfield Road, adjacent to the Lakeview train station. The work included weeding, trimming and uprooting plants to replace them for the fall season.
“We’ve noticed that areas of the garden have become overgrown,” Lisa Jolly, a member of the association’s Beautification Committee, said. “So during our annual fall cleanup, we try to beautify the space with some seasonal mums, and make sure that our bulbs are in place for bloom in the spring.” Each year, Jolly said, the committee considers what was planted the previous season, and plans g arden updates accordingly. “I have pictures of where our beautiful tulips and daffodils bloomed last year, and we’re planting perennials in between those spaces,” she explained. “So we try to be stra-
tegic, and not mess up the work we did last year.” The garden was created in 1997 as a beautification project for Lakeview, and was sponsored by the Lakeview Council Incorporated, which disbanded in 2021. The cleanup shares the same intention of creating a welcoming entrance to the hamlet.
“This is the gateway to our community,” Ortiz said. “So people coming in, you want them to see that this is a wellmaintained, well-manicured community. This is a community of people that care about the way it looks. We pay a lot to live here, and we want people to see that this is a community that ContinueD on PAge 16