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‘Harveys Lake Beach Club’ mistaken for ‘Sandy Beach’

Dear Editor:

I am writing to you regarding your pictures from the Harveys Lake Fire and Ambulance Company Kids Day held at “Harveys Lake Beach Club,” formerly known as “Old Sandy Bottom Beach” at the Sandy Beach section of Harveys Lake.

I wish to set the record straight. “Sandy Beach” is the beach located between Poles 192 and 196 on Lakeside Drive. This area is now privately owned and is completely covered with weeds. “Old Sandy Bottom Beach” (now the Harveys Lake Beach Club) is located on Lakeside Drive between Baird Street (Pole 183) and West Point Avenue (Pole 188).

Several times in recent articles (the first one advertising the “Kids Day,” another one for the day that Channel 16’s Joe Snedeker was scheduled to be at the Harveys Lake Beach Club, just to mention a couple) your headlines proclaim “Sandy Beach.” That is totally incorrect.

As the owner of the previous “Old Sandy Bottom Beach” and, now as a shareholder in the Harveys Lake Beach Club, I ask that you inform all of your reporters of this information.

I even had to set the record straight with our borough secretary as I came past their sign proclaiming “Sandy Beach” when Joe Snedeker was coming to town. She then changed her sign to read “Harveys Lake Beach Club” at Pole 187.

At least with that description, people will know where to expect the specific “goings on.”

Carlene R. McCaffrey

Harveys Lake