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Drive-in movie night to replace Baldwin Day anniversary of the locally sponsored fireworks show, will be Aug. 1 this year. Baldwin Day will not be the Mahler said he and other same this year because of the organizers are seeking various coronavirus pandemic. To bids from contractors for the replace the traditional picnic drive-in movie theater, adding and fireworks show in Baldwin that the location is not yet Harbor Town Park, known, although Chamber of Comthey hope it will be merce members Baldwin Park or “a a re p l a n n i n g a location suitable to d r ive - i n m o v i e the Baldwin comnight. munity.” On Baldwin Day Baldwin resiin previous years, dent Linda Degen the park was filled suggested selling with thousands of t i c ke t s f o r t h e residents of Baldevent, breaking it win and neighborup into a couple of ing communities, nights and seating who set up their people apart from erik Mahler lawn chairs and one another on a socialized, shopped Chamber president first-come, firstat vendors, ate hot served basis, but dogs and hamburgers, and took Mahler said that wouldn’t be in to a musical performance necessary because people would before the grand finale fireworks be in their cars to ensure socialshow. distancing guidelines are folBaldwin Chamber President lowed. Erik Mahler said at a virtual “This is going to be a drive-in meeting June 3 that it is too “up so people will already be social in the air” to plan for a mass distancing in their cars and not gathering of people in the park be able to leave their cars unless where it would most likely be dif- they’re sitting on their cars ficult to practice social distanc- themselves,” Mahler explained. ing. The event, which would Organizers also said there have been the 25th anniversary of Baldwin Day and the 12th Continued on page 4
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Baldwin CiviC assoCiation members and elected officials joined Baldwinite George Pittas in cutting the ribbon and unveiling the Baldwin Community’s Garden new gazebo and brick walkway last Saturday as part of Pittas’s Eagle Scout project.
Eagle project beautifies community garden By Bridget downes bdownes@liherald.com
Members of the Baldwin Civic Association, local residents and elected officials celebrated last Saturday as they unveiled the new gazebo and brick walkway in the Baldwin Community Garden, which was Baldwinite George Pittas’s Eagle Scout project.
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Pittas, of T roop 568, reached out to the chairwoman of the civic association’s Beautification Committee, Rita Cavanagh, to ask if she needed any projects completed. Immediately thinking of the community garden, Cavanagh uttered, “A gazebo!” Pittas received approval from Nassau County to build the gazebo, because the gar-
den is on county property, and, “once that was done, we started fundraising through the selling of the bricks, and then we had to wait until we raised enough funds, and everything came together,” he said, adding that the gazebo was finished by the end of December last year. Community members and Continued on page 3
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his is going to be a drivein so people will already be social distancing in their cars.