Vol. 79, No. 6
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Syosset Schools celebrate Year of the Pig at Lunar New Year BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Lynn Lin (left) founder of Sitan Tai Chi in Syosset, with Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman and his assistant Paulina Parsons at the Chinese New Year event in Syosset High School on Saturday February 2
For a fourth consecutive year Syosset Central Schools, parents, community organizations and special guests celebrated Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) with a slate of performances and an exhibition on the first Saturday of February. On the grand stage at Syosset High School, last Saturday afternoon Nassau County Executive Laura Curran spoke in Mandarin to wish attendees a prosperous Year of The Pig. “I want to thank the Chinese community for your contributions to Nassau County and the country -- whether it’s food or fashion, work ethic and strong family values, your traditions and your culture enriches the American tradition and the American culture. We are very happy you are here in Syosset and Nassau County and I wish you a prosperous New Year,” Curran said. Angel Cepeda, a candidate for Nassau County Legislator in 2017 and current commissioner of Community Services with the
Town of Oyster Bay, presented an official Town Board citation to the presidents of the Chinese American Association of Syosset (CAAS) and Syosset High School’s Chinese Cultural Society (CCS) at their February 2 event. “On behalf of Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino and the entire Town Board we want to celebrate with you today and recognize the important work that CAAS and the high school CCS is doing. You are not just educating our residents on Chinese culture, you have helped celebrate the diversity we see here on Long Island. Towards that end the Town has put together a Diversity Committee that will also continue to do this outreach and work from North Shore to South Shore, interacting with our 300,000+ residents,” he explained. Cepeda served as a school board member in Plainview-Old Bethpage from 2007 to 2013. Last weekend he noted how incredible it is to witness the ways in which See page 10
Committee selects firm for environmental testing
The Syosset Park Citizens Advisory Committee – comprised of representatives from the community guiding the environmental testing and analysis process for a mixed-used development proposal located at the intersection of the Long Island Expressway service road and Robbins Lane in Syosset – selected an industry leader with three decades of environmental consulting and engineering experience to conduct the testing and analysis. Additionally, the committee selected the company’s Executive Vice President, Joel Rogers, PE, to serve as the technical advisor to the Committee. Because there was extensive commentary by the public
relating to independent testing raised during the DEIS public comment period, there is no way to complete an FEIS for Syosset Park until the results of such testing are available. Accordingly, an FEIS will not be submitted until the results of the independent testing are provided. Keith Adwar, Citizens Advisory Committee chairperson, stated, “The Citizens Advisory Committee is in agreement that Impact Environmental has the background and experience to provide both the technical assistance and testing necessary to ascertain if there are any environmental hazards to public safety that
warrant supplemental testing. Through the efforts of the technical advisor, field sampling efforts in-house, and 3rd party certified laboratory analysis of collected samples, the independent nature of the process will be achieved and the integrity of the process will remain uncompromised. We therefore respectfully request that the applicant provide us with the necessary guidance to proceed with funding in order to proceed with independent testing. “ Impact Environmental is located in Bohemia, with offices in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The firm has See page 18
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