Join your friends and neighbors on Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 1:00 PM at the Galaxy Picnic Area for a Barbeque. Contact Barry Nevins at 201-868-7535 or at galaxygflag@hotmail.com for more information.

If you have not as yet initiated your personal profile, you can e-mail your first and last name, the address of your building and your apartment number at password@thefrontdesk.net. Upon receipt, they will forward a temporary User ID and Password to you. Once you log on you can change your User ID and Password. If you have any questions or if you have trouble navigating through the program, e-mail them at info@thefrontdesk.net.

The new waterproofing membrane will be installed in the next several weeks, and then tested repeatedly to ensure watertightness. The manufacturer's representative has been on site many times to see that the job is done to manufacturer's specifications. Once the waterproofing is complete, the berm will be professionally landscaped.

After months of planning, we are now ready to initiate our Lock Box service with Fleet Bank. Before we officially make the change for all units, we are performing multiple tests that started with our Tower I Residents who received their new statements with this past billing cycle. To ensure that the test is accurate, we ask for your cooperation by not using the Tower Mail service or the Fleet Bank Mall Branch office for your monthly remittance.

We would like to thank our Tower I residents for their cooperation, and tell you that we are aware of the shortcomings with our new statements. Due to the current size of the remittance portion of the statement, only eight chargeable entries can be shown. Line entries above that number or items charged to your apartment during the past month are being lumped together and posted to the new statement as "arrears". Please rest assured we know most of you are not in arrears. We are continuing to work with our accounting software in an attempt to more closely replicate our old "blue" format statement before we do a complete conversion.

The only significant change to your process is in the mailing. Instead of sending your payments to our office, you will send them directly to our bank. Our bank will then process your payment and send us a report for our records. Similar to your other monthly bills, the payments must be mailed to the appropriate address where they are opened and properly credited.

Although we recognize that this may cause initial inconvenience, there are many benefits to this system. For example, the new system will allow the Accounting Department to focus on more important functions such as collections of past due accounts, accurate garage billing, quarterly and year end financial reporting and more detailed and timely financial reporting.

We hope to be finished with the testing phase in the next two months. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call Mary Ellen at 201/453-2412 or Linda at 201/453-2414.

The new waterproofing membrane will be installed in the next several weeks, and then tested repeatedly to ensure watertightness. The manufacturer's representative has been on site many times to see that the job is done to manufacturer's specifications. Once the waterproofing is complete, the berm will be professionally landscaped.

No movie will be shown on July 4, 2003 because of the holiday and fire works display.

The Galaxy Social and Cultural Committee will be sponsoring a Caribbean Week, August 18 to 23, ending in a Caribbean Night party on August 23rd. If you come from a Caribbean country, maybe you would like to share your knowledge of the culture and customs of this region through a talk, slide show, a cooking demonstration, a fashion, crafts, art or dance presentation. If you are interested in doing a presentation, or know someone who could be part of our Caribbean Week program, leave a note with your name and phone number for Pam Sanabria at the Tower II concierge desk.

The Green Party Club invites all Galaxy folk who are interested in progressive political politics to come to our next meeting on Monday, July 7, 2003 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM in Room 3 of the Spa.

The next meeting of the Creative Eye will take place on Thursday, June 12, 2003 at 8:00 PM in meeting room #3 of the Spa Lounge. The theme of the next exhibit will be "Go With The Flow".

The Board has approved new rules for the size of automobiles permitted in the garage. So, before you purchase that new SUV this weekend, please contact the management office to find our new height and length restrictions for the garage. A formal notice will be distributed shortly.

The Galaxy will be offering a community CPR class in the Spa on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 from 7:00 PM until 10:00 PM. Come and learn adult, child and infant CPR. Space is limited so sign up at the Spa now!

The Friends Network is in need of a new manager or co-managers. If you are interested, please call Steve Rosen at 201 662-8440 evenings only.

Reservations are taken at the Spa. Courts must be reserved but not more than 24 hours in advance; one hour reservations for singles/two hours for doubles. There is a $10.00 fee for guests on weekends until 5:00 PM.

Anyone interested in round robins or lessons, contact Cassandra Wagner at 201-854-6068 or intothecourt@aol.com.

Steve Rosen's Sunday morning Hacker's League will be up and running at 9:00 AM on the New East Courts #1, #2 and #3.

The book for the July 16, 2003 meeting will be The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks.

The book for the August 20, 2003 meeting will be The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

The group meets at 8:00 PM in meeting room #3 in the Spa. Contact Florence Friedman at 201-854-1268 with any questions.

The only 'official' and valid website for The Galaxy can be found at http://www.galaxy-condo.com. Any other websites with the Galaxy name are not endorsed or reviewed by management, and may contain inaccurate information.