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Vol. 25 No. 33
AUGUST 10 - 16, 2023
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Water tower repair delayed to November does a lot for our water system.” The initial phase of the projCompletion of repairs to the ect involved moving cellular Elmont water tower has been carriers and Nassau County pushed back to November, as Police Department communication antennas from the community conthe tower. tinues to wait for Interior repairs the town’s name to to the tank began be painted on the l a s t S e p t e m b e r, structure. including sandThe repairs initially were to be blasting to clear off completed by the corrosive elements second week of to make the tank July, but the conu s a b l e. E x t e r i o r t r a c t o r, N U C O repairs began in the Painting Corporaspring, and Tierney tion, has extended estimated that 40 the deadline to percent of the exteNovember. rior work on the Michael Tierney, tank had been comsuperintendent of pleted as of press the Water Authority time. of Western Nassau T h e e s t i m at e d County, said his cost of the improveagency is investiment project for the gating why the pro- DWAyNE PAlmER water tower is more c e s s h a s b e e n Elmont resident than $3 million. delayed and wants In a 2020 letter to to get repairs back Nassau County Legon target. The contractor has islator Carrie Solages, Elmont worked on other water tanks r e s i d e n t D w ay n e P a l m e r throughout the tristate area described the town’s water since 2000. tower as an “eyesore,” and resi“It doesn’t make us happy dents of the Elmont community because we need this tank back have demanded that the strucin service,” Tierney said. “It
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Susan Rassekh, senior director of operations and Northwell Health community relations for the central region, grabbed some produce at the first farm-to-table event of the year.
Northwell Health, Queens County Farm team up to teach healthy eating By REI WolFSoHN Intern
Community members are lear ning healthy, affordable recipes as part of the Farm-to-Table initiative at Queens County Farm Museum over the next 12 weeks. The new initiative, which began Aug.2, features a five-year partnership between Queens County Farm Museum and Northwell Health, where everyone is welcome to learn healthy eating habits and purchase produce at an affordable price. “It’s a well-known fact that healthy eating is important to preventing chronic illnesses in the future,” said Deb Salas-Lopez, senior vice president of community health and
population health at Northwell. A healthy diet can prevent, delay and manage Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity. But that’s not the only mission of this new initiative. The goal of Farm-to-Table is to educate children and adults about healthy eating options, show them how to get fruits and vegetables at affordable prices and how to make them taste good. Brynn Digeorge, a 10-year-old student who attended the first Farm to Table event last week, wants to go back for future events before the initiative ends in October. “Personally, I love the taste testing,” Brynn said. “The food was so good and I did CoNtiNued oN page 3
sa community member, I am happy to see that the tower is being rehabilitated. Once they broke ground, they pretty much kept their word.
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