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Syosset resident organizes 200-mile ride for Parkinson’s
SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (Woodbury) with volunteers at the back to school clothing and supply drive Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (Woodbury) and a team of community partners joined forces to gather hundreds of donations for the Youth and Family Counseling Agency (YFCA) of Oyster Bay-East
Norwich during a successful back-to-school clothing and supply drive on Saturday, Aug. 7. Organizers gathered new and unused backpacks, sneakers, socks, school supplies, clothing and other
back-to-school essentials. The drive was hosted in partnership with New York State Senator Jim Gaughran; the Long Island Coalition Against Bullying (LICAB), the Alliance See page 8
No shades of gray for Amazon warehouse, renderings show BY GEORGE HABER Architect renderings of the Amazon warehouse being built on Robbins Lane in Syosset show that the exterior will be a stucco fac-
ing in taupe and blue colors, a review of the plans reveals. Local residents have expressed concern that the large gray concrete slabs erected on the 40 acre site
would be the exterior look of the new 204,000 sq. ft. building. "Definitely not," said Tim Zike, Deputy Commissioner See page 8
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C. Fred Weil, a Syosset resident of close to 30 years and a practicing attorney with his law office in town, is once again organizing a 200-mile bicycle ride event from Tavern on the Green in Manhattan’s Central Park up to Schenectady, known as the “Park to Nott Ride to Fight Parkinson’s.” The ride, set for its sixth year in 2021, will take place this year over Labor Day weekend, from Friday morning September 3, ending on Sunday September 5. Labor Day Monday is not part of the event. Former Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce President Kenneth Robinson shares office space with attorney C. Fred Weil. Weil is an alumnus of Union College in Schenectady and the Park to Nott Ride has the locations of Central Park in New York City, as the starting point, with the ending point being the Nott Memorial at Union College’s Schenectady campus. Weil explains that as the original route for the annual charitable ride was planned, “in plotting the route I considered not only the distance, but also safety and scenery - with an emphasis on minimizing hills.” He noted that the spectacular ride includes portions of the Hudson River Greenway, the John Kiernan Nature Trail, the South and the North Country Trailways, the Dutchess County
Rail Trail, and the Mohawk Hudson Bikeway. Bike riders and travel companions of theirs can have two Labor Day weekend overnight stays in hotels that can be booked; the first night’s stop (Friday) being in Fishkill, Dutchess County, and the second on Saturday in Catskill, Greene County. Originally, in 2016, Fred Weil and his friend took this 200-mile bicycle journey upstate “intended to be a single event.” But in that first year, the total fundraising reached $12,000 for Parkinson’s research and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, as the Back to the Future series and Family Ties actor Fox has served as an outspoken Parkinson’s patient in the last three decades. “We had so much fun with the initial ride Park to Nott Ride in 2016 and we decided to make it an annual event. So far we have raised about $70,000 and the event has evolved into over a dozen riders participating. The giving back involved is hand-inhand with meeting interesting people along the route. It happens to be just a beautiful, scenic ride and we will end up at the Union campus. The Nott Memorial is a landmark, beautiful building,” Weil said in an early August interview. In 2020, due to the pandemic, the event was adjusted to be a “century” bike ride of 100 miles instead of the usual 200-mile journey. See page 8
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