Floral Park Community Blood Drive

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Flowers for Jericho Turnpike

 Flower Baskets for Jericho Turnpike 

Michael Jakob and Ron Keats, visited with the Superintendent of Buildings Steve Siwinski and Village Trustee Jim Rhatigan at the building department just after the shipment of flower baskets were delivered.

The baskets are now lining Jericho Turnpike and Tulip Ave and are sponsored by the Floral Park Chamber of Commerce. 

The flowers, along with our banners, will make the main thoroughfare through Floral Park much more inviting than it has been in the past. 

We are thrilled to be making a difference in the beautification of our village.

Centennial Gardens Fundraiser | June 5th

Centennial Gardens Fundraiser Party in the Park

The Floral Park Conservation Society is hosting its annual Garden Party Fundraiser on Friday, June 5th, at Centennial Gardens Park to help start off the Belmont Triple Crown weekend. There will be live music with local favorite "The Simple Truth" which features Floral Park's own Chris Vesiglia and songs by Drew Yowell.  

The FPCS volunteers will conduct guided garden tours, where guests can view the variety of beds and gardens in now in bloom. The offerings will include wine, beer and light hors d'oeuvres. Tickets are limited and available for $30 in advance and $35  [over 21 only] on the day of the event at the main gate beginning at 5PM until sunset on Floral Parkway
at Raff Avenue. Proceeds going towards the care and maintenance of Centennial Gardens Park. 

For tickets mail your  check made payable to the "Floral Park Conservation Society"  144 Ash Street Floral Park NY 11001 or contact FPCS Treasurer Joe Serra at jserra@aol.com or Eileen Barry at mamabarry5@aol.com.  

Help the FPCS keep the "Floral" in Floral Park!

Floral Park Chamber of Commerce - Scholarship 2015

Floral Park Chamber of Commerce - Scholarship 2015 

The Floral Park Chamber of Commerce will again award a $500 scholarship to a deserving graduating senior from Floral Park Memorial High School and private schools for students who are residents of the Incorporated Village of Floral Park. The chamber Scholarship Committee will choose the winning entry based upon creativity, ingenuity, content and presentation. FPM students may obtain their applications from the guidance department.

The applications can also be obtained on the Floral Park Chamber of Commerce website http://www.floralparkchamber.org/programs-events/scholarshipsg

 Your topic for 2015 is the following: 

How would you use social media to create and promote a marketing campaign for local Floral Park businesses? 

The deadline for completing the applications is Friday, May 8, 2015. The completed essays are to be returned to the guidance department. For additional information call Terry Whalen at 516-286-8000 or sterlingsignco@gmail.com.

Floral Park Comes In 50th In Safest Cities

50. Floral Park Village, New York

Floral Park is 50th in the Top 100 cities in the US. 

Presidents Message | April 2015

Happy Spring to All  

We are all getting ready to head back outside, start planting and enjoying the sunshine. The winter was nasty but your chamber of commerce folks never rested. We are in the middle of multiple projects for our members and village.

Mildred Tassone of The Island's Home Team has been working with our webmaster, Stephanie Larkin of Red Penguin Solutions to prepare our new administrative/finance/membership and web back end system for full functionality. This is a huge undertaking and a very important one for our members. It will allow for more effective communications, better invoicing, streamlined membership administration and so much more. We are extremely grateful for their work and especially Mildred's tireless and daily efforts to get this done.

Currently, it is now connected to our website and needs additional modification for a complete data transfer from the old system. Our intern from Floral Park Memorial, Jenny Seuling is helping us amend that data and the web will be up to date shortly.

Chamber Scholarships

Each year our chamber sponsors a High School Scholarship program and Elementary School Essay contest. This year we will be awarding two $500 scholarships to Student residents of the Village of Floral Park. We will also be awarding one student from each of our elementary schools for the top essay in that school. Terry Whalen of The Sterling Sign Company chairs this program and has sent out the applications to our schools.  The applications are also available on our website at floralparkchamber.org/programs-events/scholarships.

2015 Belmont Stakes

We are all looking forward to our 2015 Belmont Stakes Festival and Street Fair.  Stephen Wickes of One Sound Label is organizing the event with the support of our friends at NYRA and the Village of Floral Park. Please note that this year's event will take place on Sunday June 7 from 2 PM to 7 PM on Tulip Ave. 

Consider being a VENDOR at the Fair and get your business exposed to our neighbors. Contact Stephen at 516.351.2350 today as space is limited.

Surely, it will once again be a feast and fun fest for all ages with plenty of food, music, entertainment, vendors and rides. Join us as we celebrate our village and the fabulous Belmont Stakes.

It is membership time.  If you haven't yet sent in your membership renewal, please do.  If you are not yet a member, contact me and we can talk about why you may want to be.  We do appreciate your support.

Have a wonderful Spring.

Ron Keats, President, Floral Park Chamber of Commerce

(516) 641-1200

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Updating membership on New Membership Program

We are moving from the old membership program to the new membership program. To do this we must update the information for memberships paid into the new program.

• the link for you to login to the new program
  
• user name an pw for login : 
  
  
• attached is the membership paid list
• the instructions on who to go in and update each one for creating an invoice and also creating a paid update.

Instructions:

• ​Go to members
• select a member from top menu
• go to transaction history to create a new invoice and payment

• ​create a new invoice for either a business (150) or community (50) from dropdown menu when you get into new invoice

• ​And new payment amount and 
• update spreadsheet. 

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