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Oceanside/Island Park Herald 03-16-2023

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VOl. 58 NO. 12

MARCH 16 - 22, 2023

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Kiwanis Club does it again Annual Pancake Madness family fundraiser in Oceanside is a big hit By KARINA KOVAC kkovac@liherald.com

The Kiwanis Club of Oceanside’s Pancake Madness fundraising event on March 5 sur passed club members’ expectations, and they described it as the largest family gathering in town since the coronavirus pandemic began three years ago. For over 20 years, the club has held the breakfast to raise money to help children near and far. Members of Oceanside High School’s Key Club; the Builders Club, at the middle

school; and Key Kids, from the elementary schools, helped out by organizing the event, serving food and helping with games and activities. “With the money that we raise with the pancake breakfast, we send children to an upstate camp, help needy children, sponsor a lot of activities through the Department of Community Activities,” said Nancy Baxter, one of the Kiwanis organizers. “We also serve veterans and seniors, and work with the hospital when they’re in need of things,” she

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THOuSANDS CAME TO St. Anthony’s throughout the day to eat a great breakfast and to support the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside’s fundraising efforts to help children.

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*HW 5HVXOWV 6LJQ 8S 7RGD\ Weighing the pros and cons of the Equinor wind farm Dozens offer comments about proposed project to Public Service 5' Commission $&7 12: Ɯ '($'/,1( $35,/ By KARINA KOVAC kkovac@liherald.com

More than 200 people listened in on a virtual meeting of the New York Public Service Commission on March 9 focusing on Equinor’s proposed South Shore wind farm and substation, and dozens of residents of Island Park, Oceanside and Long Beach voiced their opinions about the project. Equinor, an energy company based in Norway, plans to partner with BP, a British oil and gas company, to help New York state realize its goal of producing at least 10 gigawatts of offshore windpowered energy by 2035, and those plans have been a local hot topic of late.

The session started with Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford telling the commission that although Equinor submitted plans for the wind farm and substation years ago, the public is only now becoming aware of the project and its impact. That impact, Ford said has not been made clear, although she thanked Equinor for hosting an information session last year. Ford emphasized that she supports green energy, but said that more needs to be done in the way of environmental research. Ford asked for studies to determine the impact of the high-voltage cables that, if approved, would come ashore in Long Beach at Riverside Boulevard be routed to

a substation, not yet constructed, on Railroad Place in Island Park. The substation would replace a popular restaurant and the only marina in Island Park. From there the lines would run north, parallel to the Long Island Rail Road tracks, to the E.F. Barrett Power Plant and connect into the power grid. Vincent Randazzo, Island Park’s superintendent of schools, said he was very familiar with the history of the plant, and with feeling “slighted” by a public utility. Randazzo worries that history will repeat itself, he told the commission judges, explaining how a tax settlement between the Long Island Power Authority and Nassau County, which over the next five years

will drastically reduce the property taxes LIPA will pay on its E.F. Barrett Power Plant, will leave homeowners to make up the difference. He asked the Equinor be made to work together with the community. “The Island Park Union Free School District intends to conduct a thorough analysis of the developer’s gross annual revenue from this project and the percentage of total project costs to achieve the best outcome for our taxpayers, our schools and the community,” Randazzo said. Island Park bayman Chris Fabris said that he — and other residents — are reaching their breaking point at the Continued on page 5


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