Board OKs school
property rezoning
‘The Babylon Town Board
that appeared the spiction
‘fa Garden iy develope 0
‘rezone a forme schoo! prop.
yn Deer Park that Fans
{turn ino a senior hosing
complex
“The board voted 50 atts
Wednesday. meeting to
Allow the rezoning of 220,
‘Washington Ave in Deve
Tank the Yoaere te ofthe
Tongclosed Geonge, Wash
ington Schoo
“ne Engel Burman Gros
plans tae down Oe
Eohool and build 200 unit
ot housing. «clubhouse and
pool for feskdents and
‘de, sc well a an adminis
{tative Bullng for the Deer
ark School Dstt, accord
Ingto Bram D. Weber an at
fsiney representing Engst
The town's rezoning per
rision comes with several
ondions covenant andre
‘STisiony including ting
‘exterior construction fo be:
‘cen 7am, and 8 pm
‘weekdays and 9 am and
‘Bim on Saturdays and 40
{nis of affordable or work
Force housing
“Sonstructin ie estimated
to. last 18 months, Weber
si ‘Shi cal
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Veterans set
to honor WWI's
Rainbow Division
Siaveacarentccon
Veterans ofthe 2nd US, I
fantey Division will Teturh
Garden, City ‘omorrow, 100
Sears after thee forebears in
‘iene alow Dion
marched through the village's
Camp ls Yor the Fst me
‘Suing World War
dad ofthe cecil
Stored its Rainbow Monument
tt James Steet south and
Cinton Road sich incades
‘Serptions isting the Ne
tonal Guard regiments. fom
‘s'atater and the District of
Columbia hte made up the
27000-man division.
"The division eared its nice
‘MacArthur ho then served at
Its che of staf, remarked that
its troops hailed from home’
{owns that stretched aro the
‘country Ie a rainbow
"Theis soldiers began arre~
fing at Carp Mil, 2 ew font
ace
GARDEN CITY
MILITARY CENTENNIAL
camp that covered roughly 2
Square mile over the southeast.
fm comer of Gane City and
rt of Hempstead Village In
Fid-August B17, according
Pra Fanning a retired New
York National Guard lestenant
‘olonl and the memorials of
‘er for the Rainbow Division
therans Memorial Foundation
“he natn st. quote-un-
quote AllAmercay isin"
ime together then for the fst
{ie a Fanning howl pret
‘Sde over tomorais ceremony
“The soldiers wearing rain-
owt pats orginaly seen by
Hempstead’ seamsuesses
‘would passthrough Camp AL
Bore Mil named fora New
‘York native "and. Medal of
‘Honor winner during te Spa
JaheAmerican War, fr ring
nd goon o Fit in France
"Nesey" 4000 of them were
fslled in ction and more than
13000 "were wounded during
Won War according to the
Garden Cicy monuments in
Sctipton
‘When’ the war ended in
1918, "many troops came back
‘through Camp Mis to be dis
Charged’ local istorisn and
‘Vietsam veteran Cyt Smith
si
Tm all, more than 200,000
Commemorating
Camp Wills
Tho Vilage of Garden Cty ito
commemarate he loom ae
‘Say of Carp Mi wih acare
sn tomorow 213 pat the
Rarbow Monument 8 James,
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reap to low te
cordon iy Senor Confer at Got
‘Gib Lave an lth Sree.
troops. passed throagh
Mall shuth sid ~ tneluding
poet joyee Kilmer and wrler F
Scott, Ftgera who mien
foned the camp in his 1922
book “The Resutful and
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