Be sure to catch up on all that Gerritsen Beach Cares did in 2011!
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Please join us to recognize and thank our 2011 most generous sponsors & supporters.
Plus, we will discuss plans for the upcoming 2012 GBC events & activities, donations we will make and the types of support we may provide to other groups, events and causes.
Mark your calendars! The next GBC General Meeting will be this Monday, 4/23 7p @ St. James (2776 Gerritsen Ave). Come & bring your family & friends!
Agenda:
· Review of 2011 Events and Activities
· Community Awards Night – May 19 at PS 277
· White Island Update
· 2011 NYC & NYS Grants Update
· 2012 GBC Officers Election
· Review of GBC’s support of other local groups
· Locking up the Parkland Program
· Gerritsen Avenue Holiday Lights & US Flags Update
· Free Graffiti Removal on Gerritsen Ave by calling 1-908-420-9219
· Volunteers needed!!!!
GBC’s Mike Taylor took NYS Assemblyman Alan Maisel for a quick boat ride down Shellbank Creek to show him some of the garbage and rotting docks + around White Island to see the progress being made on that project. Click here to see the pictures
The NY Public Library has posted a few pictures of the neighborhood & surrounding area on their website. Check them out here: http://www.nypl.org/search/nypl_digitalgallery/gerritsen%20beach
Spring has officially sprung & GBC is in need of some extra hands to help spruce up our neighborhood. If you’re able to tune up some gas-powered equipment, build a fence around a garden, plant flowers or just help with some general outside clean up, please meet us @ the GBC storage containers by the little league field on Saturday 3/24 or 3/31 from 10a – 1p. Please contact Mike for more details 1-646-220-8215 or info@GBCares.org
Gerritsen Beach Little League Baseball final registration is this Saturday, 3/24, from 10a-12N @ the Cort Club. Registration is open to anyone between the ages of 5 to 16 years old – the League looking for volunteers to help reorganize the league as well as coaches, managers, and team helpers.
The GB Fire Department is offering a CPR class on Sat 4/7 from 9a-1p – $25, register @ through their website www.GBFD.net or call 718-332-9292
Did you see all the new US flags along Gerritsen Ave, Whitney Ave, Burnett St, Allen Ave, Lois Ave and Larry Veling Field? Perfect timing for spring & the upcoming parades 
Check it out & thanks to all our volunteers for helping to put them up!
Mark your calendars: GB’s 3rd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will march on Gerritsen Ave. Sat 3/31 @ 1p Sponsored by the Donovan Family and Friends
