Good evening and welcome to the town board meeting of February eighth, twenty twenty five.

If we could all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr.

Brady, can you uh lead us off?

And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

And if we could remain standing, uh we'd like a moment of silence as we member and pray for the passing of uh the Honorable Alice E.

Roker uh last week, um, and also uh another fixture in our community, veteran community, uh U.S.

Army veteran Wayne Reese, who was a uh early recipient and then a longtime volunteer with uh my brother Vinny, uh helping veterans uh find find uh housing and have their housing uh needs fulfilled.

Councilman Patrick Murphy.

I forgot the kids' table off the city.

And there's no cookies and milk over here.

Uh do uh no shave.

They're organizations of the Alliance for Safe Kids and United for the Troops.

Uh and they also take donations through uh it's usually March sixteenth, but this year, because March 16th is a Sunday, they will be uh kicking off the donations on the thirteenth of March with uh donations that are dropped off and also money raised by the police department.

So it's a great thing to do.

Uh both United for the Troops and the Alliance for Safe Kids have uh websites that you could check their needs list and any help for those two organizations that helped too, very important uh groups in our community is just amazing.

So uh I know I dropped off a couple of bags for the troops, a couple of checks uh for each organization, and we will uh we will keep doing things throughout the uh month.

Uh and it's uh it's uh great, and thank you, uh Officer Mullen and uh all of our PD for uh you know not only keeping Kenny's uh spirit alive, but also the great work you guys do in the community on a daily basis.

Um we had a ribbon cutting the other day, five below.

They opened a couple of weeks ago.

They did their ribbon cutting on Valentine's Day morning, so they are up and running in operation.

Uh also up and running in operation is Walgreens, and they will do their ribbon cutting this Thursday at 9 30 a.m.

All are invited to come by, I'm sure.

And uh as we cut open cut the ribbon on another business.

Uh and then we will have another uh business grand opening on March 1st, which we'll talk about next week, or or get it out there.

And then um on Valentine's Day, it was a busy day, but we had the senior luncheon.

Uh got to spend some time at the at the community center.

Uh I was joined uh by Diana uh Quast, our town clerk, Mora was there, uh Amy Swann from the library, uh my wife Carol came down as well.

Uh uh DJ Paulie always volunteers time for all the parties there, does a wonderful job.

And something that a lot of people don't know, we have one of the members of the Belmonts who lives in town.

And Angelo was singing some of the uh Dion and the Belmont songs, which was really uh a great little addition to that.

Um we were talking about veterans.

Uh our legislators in the county of Westchester have approved a free Westchester County park pass for veterans.

They did that at the end of January.

So any veteran that would like a complimentary park pass for Westchester County just needs to bring uh proof of residency, uh the proof of their veteran status, and you can go to any park pass office location, and you can find out more information if you need right online with the Westchester County uh government uh website.

And um, I do want to wish uh uh ha two days early, but uh a happy one hundredth birthday to one of our veterans, uh Tommy Einwich.

He was uh he was the uh chaplain at the American Legion Post 1009 uh until health has kept him more homebound.

But a great man, he actually served in World War II, 17 years old, and his father had to get sent home.

His father served in World War One and World War II, and because they were both uh overseas and the only males in the family, the government actually sent his dad back home because uh you you can't they they won't will not do a notification that all the males in a family have have been uh killed in action.

So uh it's an interesting story.

And and Tom was a prodigy drummer, uh 12 years old.

He was uh a drummer down in New York City.

Uh really interesting uh gentleman and uh Tom, we wish you good health and uh and a happy 100th birthday.

And that is it for me.

Happy birthday.

Um hello, Yorktown, good to see you all.

So I just want to remind you that our fantastic library always has something cooking pretty much every day.

But on the 19th at 7 p.m., they do have a Zoom link.

You can find it on their website to actually learn and watch skits of these groundbreaking black comedians that have taken place, and it is hysterical because I started doing some Googling.

And then on Friday on the 21st, if you have nothing to do midday, they have a screening of Wicked, and you can bring your own snacks.

Not like you can at the live at the movie theater, but here at the library, you can bring your own snacks, and you can go ahead and watch it.

And I know that it's a bit frigid outside, but we're hiring for the summer.

So all you campers who no longer can be campers but want to be counselors, or all your fantastic swimmers who want to be licensed lifeguards, we can use you here in our facilities.

Please call the parks and rec department and see about locking in your summer employment before the sun comes out.

And that's it.

All right.

Well, we had a uh a great Valentine's Day celebration at Winwood Oaks.

Um and uh uh Ed already uh touched on the five below opening and a couple other things that are coming up.

We do have a uh a new owner at Yorktown Golf and Baseball.

That's the place on Lexington.