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Last Updated:  March 8, 2012                                                                                                                                       
Welcome to West Hempstead!
Photo Courtesy of Rosalie Norton

Welcome to the West Hempstead Community Support & Civic Association's website! We hope that you will find plenty of informative and engaging content about our community. The goal of our site is to make it the primary source for information about West Hempstead. Please check back often updates to the site occur frequently. Thank you for visiting!

To post an event, contact the webmaster at:  webmaster@westhempsteadcivic.org



World Trade Center Steel To Be
Escorted To West Hempstead

UPDATE

The escort motorcade will be leaving West Hempstead at 8:30 to go to JFK.  They are expected to return to the West Hempstead area between 9:30am & 10:00am where they will follow the route listed below.

Last October a request was made to Assemblyman Ed Ra by the West Hempstead Community Support Association (WHCSA) asking if he could petition the Port Authority to have the WHCSA receive a “portion of the steel” from the World Trade Center. Assemblyman Ra enlisted the help of State Senator Dean Skelos and together they worked to secure for us a piece of the steel. When the WHCSA issued a request for letters to be sent to Assemblyman Ra, dozens of letters were sent to him from WH community organizations and residents. As a result he and Senator Skelos were able to persuade the Port Authority that the community deserved to be approved to receive an artifact from the World Trade Center.

 

In December, the WHCSA was notified that we had received approval contingent upon meeting the strict insurance requirements set forth by the Port Authority. We were told that the date available to be able to transport the artifact was March 28. The next step in the process was to meet with the Lakeview and West Hempstead Fire Department Chiefs and Commissioners, and the Auxiliary Police Unit 116 to plan transporting and escorting the “steel” to the Chestnut St. school building where it will remain until a permanent monument can be designed and erected in Hall’s Pond Park.

We are asking residents business owners along the escort route to please come out to line the route and display your American flag.  The route through West Hempstead and Lakeview will start from Exit 18 on the SSP – Eagle Ave. to Woodfield Road, left on Woodfield to the Lakeview Fire Department, … then right onto Pinebrook Road to Ocean/Hempstead Ave...to Nassau Blvd. to Hempstead Tpke., turn right on… Hempstead Tpke. to the West Hempstead Fire Department continue on the Tpke. and make a right onto Westminster Rd. and at Hempstead Ave. proceed to Chestnut St. and left onto Chestnut St. to the Chestnut St. school.

Legislator Vincent Muscarella is working with the County to secure the necessary permission to place the monument in Hall’s Pond Park. Stone masons and graphic designers have been asked to submit designs which would be appropriate for the size of the steel which measures 50” by 17”x17”. A date for a formal dedication has not been determined at this time.


UPCOMING EVENTS

March 21, 2012 - 7:30 pm
WHSCA Community Meeting
Guest speaker: NC Executive Ed Mangano
WH Middle School Cafeteria

March 22, 2012
WH Community Scholarship Fund
Annual “FUN”draiser

March 25, 2012
WH Boy Scout Troop 240
Fund Raising Pasta Dinner
Seating 4 PM & 6 PM
$12/adult; $6/under 8 years old
Contact Maureen Reid 565-4096 for tickets
St. Andrews Lutheran Church (downstairs)

March 28, 2012
World Trade Center Steel Escort

March 31, 2012 – 11:00am
Lions Annual Easter Egg Hunt
For children 9 and under
Hall’s Pond Park— Nassau Blvd.

May 5 , 2012
WHCSA “Community Service Award”
Application deadline

May 15, 20120 - 6:00 am - 9:00 pm
West Hempstead School Budget Vote
WH Middle School Gym, 450 Nassau Blvd.
 
May 24, 2012
WH Rotary Club Annual Dinner
Full course dinner with beverages $50/pp
Includes choice of entrée, wine, soda, dessert
& coffee. Call 538-8515 for reservations
Pompeii Restaurant, 401 Hempstead Ave
 
May 28, 2012 - 10:00 am
WH Memorial Day Parade
Contact 733-0879 for details
 
June 4, 2012 – 7:00 pm
Senior Awards Night
WH High School Auditorium
Nassau Blvd. 



Report Potholes!

Town of Hempstead
516-489-5000 (most residential streets)

Nassau County
516-571-8260 or 516-572-0735 (Nassau Blvd./Woodfield Rd./Hempstead Ave.)

NY State
1-800-POTHOLE (Hempstead Tpke.)

Not Sure Whose Roadway that Pothole Is In?

Call the Town of Hempstead Helpline

516-489-6000




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West Hempstead Community Support & Civic Association
PO Box 425, West Hempstead, NY 11552
516-733-0879