Monday, March 5, 2012

Wang Property Meeting

Dear friends and neighbors:
    The Town of Oyster Bay posted a Legal Notice for the upcoming Scoping Meeting for Country Pointe at Plainview (Wang Property).  Per the Notice the Meeting is scheduled for March 13th at 7:00PM at Town Hall, 54 Audrey Ave., Oyster Bay. 
    The Scoping Meeting is the first of several opportunities for the community to participate in the Environmental Review.  All residents are welcome to attend the meeting and offer Public Comment that evening, or if you can't make it, written comments will be accepted until March 23, 2012 by TOB contact person, James Moriarty Jr., as listed below. 
    The purpose of this phase of the SEQRA Process is to establish a framework for the areas to be addressed in the Environmental Review.  Please review the information provided below in the Legal Notice and feel free to add your thoughts to the process either in person or directly to the Town. 
    Thank you for your attention.
Regards,
Carol
Carol Meschkow-President
Concerned Citizens of the
Plainview-Old Bethpage Community Inc.

POB Jr. Lego Team Wins Big!

 Five children from Plainview competed with 13 other teams this Sunday at the Jr. Lego Exposition held at the Longwood High School. The "BrainFreezers", composed of fourth graders: Ryan Norris , Spike (Rebecca) Ramhap, Allison Taub, Evan Hitsky and third grader Jennifer Zhu , coached by Jasmine Norris and mentored by Erin Norris presented research on how important it is during the manufacturing of food to keep bacteria out. They concentrated on the production of Ice Cream and even took a trip to the University of Connecticut, where they toured a small dairy farm, manufacturing plant and ice cream bar to study first hand the variety of safety precautions that are taken. Jr. FLL Lego considers and gives out a variety of awards, including: best model build, best display board etc. but it's underlying  theme is that of Gracious Professionalism, a spirit that embodies, team work, co-op-etition and an overall good research presentation. I am proud to report that the our team came away  with the Gracious Professionalism Award. A bystander at the expo remarked that it was amazing what great research and how together kids can be when they are excited about something. The BrainFreezers met for for 6 months and had such a great time, they plan on returning as a team to participate in the middle school version, next year.
More information on FLL can be found at: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/
AVeryplainview Blogspot applauds the hard work of the BrainFreezers and looks forward to hearing more from them in the future.