The Syosset Advance

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Friday, December 9, 2016

Vol. 76, No. 48

RED RIBBON WEEK

Syosset District proposes modified plan for property sale BY RIKKI N. MASSAND

Robert Seaman Elementary School’s Health Safety and Spirit Committee celebrated Red Ribbon week recently. Above, three girls get ready for celebration. See page 18.

Syosset family brings awareness to debilitating condition BY GARY SIMEONE

Syosset resident Kristen Haunss has been suffering with a debilitating condition called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome for most of her life. Now she and her family have brought awareness to the condition which causes chronic pain throughout the body, to the Nassau County Legislature. On November 7th, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, issued a Proclamation naming one week in November “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Awareness Week.” The week of Nov. 7 will recognize the condition which causes continuous, intense and often burning pain. Kristen accepted the Proclamation along with her parents Patricia and Richard Haunss. Kristen said she wants to spread the

word about this poorly understood condition through the ‘Color The World Orange’ campaign,” said Haunss. Color the World Orange is a day of worldwide awareness for CRPS also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. November 7 was the third annual Color the World Orange Day and it was the first day that the condition was listed on the National Day Calendar. As a way to commemorate the day the dome of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola was illuminated in orange. CRPS/RSD is classified as a rare disorder of the sympathetic nervous system that is characterized by chronic, severe pain according to the colortheworldorange.com website. Excessive or abnormal responses See page 5

At its upcoming meeting on Monday night, December 19 at South Woods Middle School, the Syosset Central School District’s board of education will consider a revised agreement for a sale of the district’s 3.679 acres “Woodbury property” at the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Woodbury Road, adjacent to Walt Whitman Elementary School, for a total $6.75 million to Basser-Kaufman Development Co., Inc. of Woodmere. The company developed the Jericho Commons shopping Center in Jericho, highlighted by CVS and Whole Foods. Under terms of the agreement,

Basser-Kaufman will pay for new school district facilities including a new athletic fields (including the Little League field) plus new blacktop-surface basketball courts or an alternate play area, to be decided by the school board; construction of playground with equipment, and abatement of asbestos at the property site to a maximum of $250,000. At the district property for Walt Whitman School 66 parking spaces currently exist, and that amount would more than double to 136 spaces with the proposed plans. Significant changes have taken place with the property’s size and See page 5

Students and staff surprised at school’s closing BY GARY SIMEONE Oscar Guevara of Hempstead was one of the 97 students who attended the Culinary Academy of Long Island in Syosset. He was just as surprised as the rest of the student body and faculty members to hear about the professional cooking school’s sudden closing in November. The Culinary Academy of Long Island was Long Island’s only private professional cooking school. “I went there as usual last month to attend one of my classes and signs were posted that the school had officially closed down,” said Guevara. “I never got any notice in the email or online about it. It was quite a shock because I didn’t think the school had

any problems.” Guevara was looking to achieve a certificate in the school’s pastry program and now he will have to look elsewhere to achieve his dream of being a baker. “I’m going to have to start searching online for other schools and to see if I can get my credits moved. What else can I do.” The Culinary Academy of Long Island was founded in 1996 by Michael Levitt. It was first located in Westbury than in 2004 moved to larger quarters in Syosset when it was then acquired by the Star Career Academy . The Academy operated eight campuses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York and all of the schools See page 5

Town opens new planning annex PAGE 7 Robert Seaman School Fall Festival PAGE 10


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