The Lakeville Estates Civic Association will be celebrating the holiday season with ar parade on Saturday, Dec. 12, 3:30 p.m.
The civic is trying to bring joy to the season after a very trying year with the coronavirus pandemic. The parade will proceed through the streets of New Hyde Park, Garden City Park and Herricks.
Participants are asked to decorate their cars with holiday décor to celebrate the season.
Let us know if you will be able to join us by replying by Monday, Dec. 7, to our email LECA11040@gmail.com or by calling 516-528-4997 and leaving a message. If you are not able to join with your vehicle in the parade, please cheer us along the parade route.
Cars will start lining up at 3:00 p.m. on Patton Boulevard and Lakeville Road. All participants must stay by or in their vehicles and must wear a mask.
Elected officials who have responded that they will be attending the Holiday Car Parade are as follows: state Sen. Anna Kaplan, state Assembly Ed Ra and Gina Sillitti, Nassau County Executive, Laura Curran, Nassau County Legislators, Richard Nicolello and Ellen Birnbaum and Town of North Hempstead’s Town Clerk Wayne Wink, and Council members, Lee Seeman and Peter Zuckerman.
At 3:30 p.m. we will start the parade with the singing of the National Anthem.
Then we will be make a left from Patton Boulevard and head south on Lakeville Road to Hillside Avenue.
At Hillside Avenue we will make a left and proceed east on Hillside to Herricks Road. Then we will make a right on Herricks Road and head south to Jericho Turnpike.
At Jericho Turnpike we will make a right and go west. We will be stopping briefly at Jericho Turnpike and Nassau Boulevard where the Garden City Park Civic Association will light their Christmas tree at Citibank (no one will get out of their vehicles).
We will continue west on Jericho Turnpike to Leonard Boulevard. We will then make a right turn onto Leonard Boulevard and head north to Ashland Avenue .
We will make a left at Ashland Avenue (residential street) and proceed west to New Hyde Park Road.
We will make a left from Ashland onto New Hyde Park Road south and head to Jericho Turnpike. At Jericho Turnpike we will make a right and proceed west to Lakeville Road.
At Lakeville Road we will make a right and head north to Hillside Avenue.
At Hillside Avenue we will make a right past the old Dairy Barn that is one block east and at that time we will light our Christmas tree and Menorah (again no getting out of vehicles).
Parade ends and from there everyone goes home.
