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 Freshly Painted Scoreboard In time for the Gerritsen Beach & Marine Park 9/11 Ceremonies, the area around Larry Veling field has been spruced up. Our area is holding two ceremonies to remember 9/11:
Below is some before and after shots
 Before (above)
 After! A nice new view!
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 After! Nice job.  Before
 Even the little league container got a paintjob.  G.G.R.M.M.B.B.R. - Great Gerritsen Round Mau Mau Barrell of Beer Race. We haven’t done a Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association roundup in a while because there hasn’t been anything to talk about. So here are the cliff notes. Kiddie Beach is wrapping up the season, congrats to all. Racoons - are overwhelming some areas of the beach. Especially the areas with an abandoned lot or home. The city does not acknowledge a raccoon problem nor do they have any actionable plan or advice. The responsibility is on the home owner. However, if you see “rats” in an empty lot or abandoned home the city will come in clean it up a bit and bill it to the property. Call 311. Hurricane Irene - Rumor is they shut down the Knapp sewer plant which could be to blame for the sewer backups into homes. People were opening sewer caps, sewer manholes to try and get rid of water with no success. 17 Lacon Court (aka Jemal) – The DOB has already issued $13,300 in violations with three more about to go into default judgment. They are on top of the situation but they do not know who the owner is, as their violations notices are being returned. There is A LOT of stuff going on there, expect an update soon. Dangerous & Damaged Utility Poles – No one is having luck getting action dangerous or damaged utility poles as each company Verizon, ConEd, and NYC passes the blame to each other. Some have reported it reported it to 311, others the 61 precinct, and one has gone to every city office ten times to demand action. FEMA – Report your damage to FEMA! Little League Walkway, Scoreboard, Containers - GBCares sent out a letter on behalf of the Gerritsen Beach Little League asking for $500 monetary donations from organizations to repair the cement walkway, paint the scoreboard, paint the containers, and plant flowers around the flag pole in time for the 9/11 ceremony. Everything is done except the cementing, which is awaiting an architect plans to be filed with nyc parks. GBPOA plans on donating the full amount. Flag Vandalism - Most of the flags at the Little League were vandalized breaking the poles and brackets those will be replaced. Seba Traffic Light - No one knows when it is switching on. Seba will be a flashing red (aka a stop light), while Gerritsen will remain green. 9/11 Ceremonies - Marine Park at 5:00pm, Gerritsen Beach Little Leauge 7:00 pm Halloween - Halloween is coming (again) some members of the GBPOA will be walking the streets. A few plan on attending the 61 & 63 council meetings to demand an actual response. Dan’s 5k Fun Run – Saturday, September 17th. G.G.R.M.M.B.B.R. (above) - Great Gerritsen Round Mau Mau Barrell of Beer Race. It’s that time of the year again for the races which is this Saturday.
Gerritsen Beach Cares, Inc General Membership Meetings When: Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.  Come dressed in a costume and participate in Halloween! Enjoy a day of spooky fun for the entire family at the GBCares Annual Halloween Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, rain date November 6th at Larry Veling Field. Children of all ages are encouraged to come dressed in a costume and participate in Halloween parades at 2 p.m. While you’re there, participate in a variety of fun activities, including face painting, pumpkin painting, creating your own costume jewelry and more. The event is free or low cost and open to the public and is organized by GB Cares, Inc. For more information please contact: Michael Taylor at 646-220-8215 or LillyBeth Hanson 718-648-6599
We have been trying to get more information on White Island (Mau Mau) to let our readers know EXACTLY what is going on and we are being ignored by GBCares, who held all of the meetings regarding White Island over the past year or two. After multiple phone calls, emails, face to face requests, a snail mailed request, and a public plea – we have been ignored. But then we found this uplifting quote:
That quote came from a GBCares Newsletter in 1998 referencing the war they had with the Property Owners. What happens when you substitute newsletter with website in that quote? We cannot help but notice the massive amounts of irony after reading their article (below) and we know some will ask us “Why even release this?”. Let’s quote GBCares since they said it best, in that 1998 Newsletter.
Well Said! We will warn you, you will have to strap in and READ. It should take all of 2 minutes. Here is what we found:
In time for the September 11th Memorials scheduled for Saturday, September 11th 7 pm at Larry Veiling Field the Flag was draped over the Avenue.
 Red Boxes are Expansion Plans Seba Avenue Skate Park is expanding again.Parks recently held a meeting at Councilman Lew Fidlers office with George Broadhead of the Property Owners and John Douglas of GBCares. They were invited to see the new plans and offer their input. We will be getting a new general asphalt field on the right side of the park more toward Lois. The new asphalt MAY end up being used for roller hockey WITH nets. That’s a huge maybe right now. This won’t be started until Spring of 2012. Here is where we are now. As for the existing Asphalt which is the middle ground for the Skate Park and Tot lot – that will be replaced with swings: 8 Child 8 Young 1 Handicap. Project completion date: Fall of 2012 GerritsenBeach.net Epic Time-line  Well Trimmed Avenue Just in time for the GBGames, Gerritsen Beach’s Mid Summer celebration, Gerritsen Avenue got a much needed trim – but not by who you would expect. Millennium Development – not GBCares – came in at the request of the Parks manager to trim Gerritsen Avenue. Millenium Development has an interesting story. They are based out of Bergen Beach and are under the umbrella of Bergen Basin Community Development Corp & Bergen Beach Youth Corp which are well funded and are the rumored political tool of Councilman Fidler. Between those two organizations they receive between 4-5 Million dollars in reported funds and also a million plus from Councilman Fidler. Their officers are well paid as well most making over $100,000.
There are murmurings that Millennium Development, though manifest destiny, is positioning it self for expansion into Gerritsen Beach. They would bring in youth programs, senior programs, events community cleanups. Sounds great right? Well no…. Millennium Development is not a Gerritsen Beach organization, they would be stepping all over our existing organizations which already cover their scope. Money is spread too thin to begin with across our organizations – why not give $300,000 plus that Bergen Basin receives to Gerritsen Beach instead? There would be no competing with Bergan Basin fund’s. The community would have no say how Millennium Development spends it’s money within our community. Back to the story at hand – Bergen Beach Youth brought in their youth group and with the help of Parks Department machinery the entire avenue was trimmed but at what cost?
The Annual GB Games and Car Show organized by Gerritsen Beach Cares is this Sunday. There are two events in one that make this a single event great. First there is a car show hosted by Tri-Five Classic Auto Club and second a family oriented block party called GBGames, all sponsored by the community. There will be lots of family oriented activities including a water balloon toss, a watermelon eating contest and bucket brigades as well as a ton of games. There will also be free or low cost rides including a bounce house, a water slide ride, and an obstacle course for the kids. Be there! You make even see a dancing Elmo!
Elmo in Gerritsen Beach from Gerritsen Beach on Vimeo.  2008 GBGames Gerritsen Beach Cares’ GBGames is Gerritsen Beach’s Mid-Summer Celebration. It is a combination Street Fair and Car Show on Gerritsen Avenue and a day of fun and games for the entire family! That said, it cannot exist without your help! Gerritsen Beach Cares is requesting that you or your organization participate in anyway it can.
What was before a barren section of Gerritsen Avenue now has a beautiful garden.
Olga Marshall passed away a few months ago. She was a fixture of Gerritsen Beach anyone who have lived here knew her, if not by name, by sight, seeing her plant gardens around the bus shelters or taking in lost animals as her own). She worked with GB Cares to better the neighborhood. Saturday, May 29, 2010 between 10:00am – 2:00pm there will be a cleanup and planting in the garden at Gerritsen Ave & Everett Avenue in memory of Olga Marshall.
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A Response to GBCares Newsletter
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A full year after the debacle known only as “woodchip-gate”, GBCares continues to blame this site and its visitors for all of its problems. But, the truth is literally in the details.
In an article called “Weekly Community Service Suspended Until Further Notice”, which GBCares released in their newsletter, they outlined their story, starring a jealous city agency, and a “careless weblog attack”.
Strap in kids!
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