Dear Community, Our next meeting will be on Monday, January 25, 7:00pm at the MC Selden Library. We will be discussing our new signs, our new street signs and our new flags for the telephone poles. We have been working on collecting funds to enhance Middle Country Road. This spring will be exciting to see everything come together on our Main Street.
Selden Civic and the Selden Girl Scout Troops join together for many projects. Clean ups, enhancements and civic minded outreach in the community. We look forward to getting to work and starting a new year.
Please remember this is January which is sign up time for our membership or renewal of membership. Please come out to support us.
REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.REMINDER..... all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.
...... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS
To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.
It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.
We have meet with the DOT again to discuss safety and enhancements to Middle Country Rd. We have good news we do have the DOT (Department of Transportation) coming back to Selden to do several changes to our portion of the Rd. We will be giving you updates of what we expect to see.
Each year we collect food for the Selden Centereach Youth Association food pantry. We also will be collecting new toys and warm coats. Please give what ever you can to help our community members in need. Thank you for you help this year we do have a great need and we need you assistance. thank you again....
We have a meeting with the DOT on the 20th to discuss all the up grades and safety features we will be receiving on Middle Country Rd. It took a few meetings, but we were able to get the DOT to come back to Selden to fix the past mistakes. We are pleased that they are willing to listen and compromise to improve our road. We will up date you at the meeting.
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We will be discussing some very disappointing and sad news. Our Ruland Family Farm House has had a fire. We do not have much news yet but hope to have more answers of the damage soon. We have reached out to the town to see if they may be willing to restore and repair the damages. Assemblywoman Ginny Fields will also be attending to give us an update from the state.
On August 28th we had our Annual Selden Civic Family Pride Event-Movie Night in the Park-cartoons-movie started at sundown, at Liberty Park in Selden corner of Boyle Rd and Liberty Ave. This evening went well and a good time was had by all. Thanks for joining us we all enjoy the evening and the movie Kung Fu Panda.
We also will take this opportunity to Celebrate our Volunteers of the Year. We would like to first announce that our winners are Robert Lindsey, volunteer and veteran, Bob has been a volunteer in our community for many years working with other veterans in our community and our county; his dedication to our Country makes us very proud that Bob is part of our civic. Next we are honoring, Kelly Klien, volunteer and teacher, working with the students to organize them to good civic citizens, involving them in meet the candidates night to learn the issues, to working on Hobb's Farm and always part of our clean ups, working in our community to enhance and improve. Our last honoree is, Matthew Sharp, our volunteer student/Go Green Club founder and his club for making such a great showing for our Brookhaven Clean up day. These three individuals have made a difference in our community. They have worked to improve and enhance all of our lives through there hard work. We want to thank all of our volunteers for giving the gift of time but this year we will celebrate our honorees at our June 22 meeting. Please spread the word. We hope to see you at our Monday night.
Thank you to our Suffolk Country Legislator, Brian Beedenbender, for he secured a $5,000 grant to go towards community enhancements.
SC Legislator Beedenbender has also great news to share about the land in Selden adjacent to the College on College Rd. He will be proposing this 61 acre lot to be transformed into an active park that could include ball fields (baseball, football, lacrosse…), children’s play equipment, a passive walking park, restrooms and of course leaving green wooded areas for all to enjoy.
The Selden Civic needs your help and support, please join and encourage others to join. We look forward to working with you and all our member organizations and general community members.
Be part of the change that you want to create. Be a volunteer.
Respectfully, Deborah Felber, President
Every January starts our new membership drive please join today. Although we take membership all year!!!Go to our website and print out and mail in your membership. We need your support.
January 2010
Presidents Message by Deborah Felber
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We are also looking for volunteers to join our committee's please contact us by email seldencivic@optonline.net attend our meeting.
We need your support to keep having great events.
We also are working on beautification projects we can always use volunteers and ideas just contact us we want to hear from you.
Be part of the change you want to create, be a Volunteer!
VOLUNTEERS MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE! THANK YOU TO ALL THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OTHER PEOPLES LIVES.
Middle Country Smart Growth Stay involved, Participate, and be Inspired we will let you know what comes next....! For more info visit www.MiddleCountrySmartGrowth.com or call 516-873-0230
Congratulations to Kelly Klien our Educator of the Year for 2009.
We are so proud and fortunate to have an educator like Kelly Klien in our District. She is an asset our all the students that have been in her classroom or have worked with her in her community service projects. The Selden Civic is very luck to have the support of our Teacher of the Year Ms. Kelly Klien.
