Previous Arrow Riverhead BID president Steven Shauger. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) Lisa Pickersgill, Ray s daughter. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister) The Pickersgill family. Andrew Copertino shares memories of Mr. Pickersgill. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister)
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The resurgence of downtown Riverhead began with a vision more than a decade ago when Ray Pickersgill pitched taking over the Riverhead Business Improvement District. And it began with the first chair Mr. Pickersgill placed in the large downtown parking lot for an event he organized.
“If you look to the east or you look to the west of right where you stand, the buildings that have been built over the past 10 years started with that first chair Ray Pickersgill put in this very parking lot where there wasn’t even a car,” said former Town Supervisor Sean Walter
atmosphere. but also i notice there are so many children. children born in the last 14 years it s a smaller ceremony. and it strikes me as i look at the memorial next to me, there 184 benches to commemorate all of the victims and there is a name on email bench. i m standing next to matthew flacco s memorial. what strikes me is it s the crepe myrtle trees have grown so much since the memorial was created. martha: jennifer, thank you very much. we ll be back there at 9:37.