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Garden City hires new Water Superintendent BY RIKKI MASSAND

Cub Pack 55’s Screaming Eagles won first place in the annual Shelter Rock Klondike Derby, a showcase for the skills the Cubs have learned. See page 39

For the first time in almost eight years, the Village of Garden City has a superintendent for the Water & Sewer Department, as the Board of Trustees confirmed the appointment of Stanley J. Carey, a former employee of consultants H2M Architects + Engineers. Carey has been serving as a senior Water Plant consultant for H2M and previously he served as superintendent of the Massapequa Water District between 2010 and 2021. The last Water superintendent to serve the village was Frank Koch, and the position has remained vacant since his departure in April of 2015. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi briefly reviewed Carey’s credentials to the board during its meeting, and noted the importance of the hire. In his role with H2M, Carey has worked with Garden City’s Water Department for the better part of the past year. “He has provided the much-needed expertise and support for the many interrelated activities that make up day-to-day water operations, including the New York State Department of Health and Nassau County Department of Health regulatory requirements, as well as input into the many capital projects we have been working through. With the appointSee page 37

Famous step-dancer to perform EAB hears about Adelphi geothermal energy plant BY GARY SIMEONE

A famous American step-dancer and choreographer, will take to the stage of Adelphi University on Saturday, March 11th, to show off her elaborate Irish dancing skills. Cara Butler, who grew up in Mineola and attended Wheatley High School, is part of the StepCrew, an Irish dance crew featuring a combination of Irish, Tap and Ottawa Valley step-dancing. Butler said the group is

the only show of its kind to feature all three dances intertwined into one show. “I’m very excited to bring this show home, it’s been a long time coming,” said Butler, who lives in Ontario, Canada. “We started our tour in 2008, and besides the Covid years, we have brought our show to all of Europe, Japan and the Canadian provinces.” Butler said that her mother, Josephine, hailed from Ireland, and was instrumental in getting her and her older sister, Jean,

involved in Irish dancing from a young age. “I started dancing with the Donny Golden Irish Dancing School, located here on Long Island, when I was six years old. I competed in and won five regional and six national championships in my early dancing career.” She started touring professionally in the dance world after high school, and eventually linked up with the Chieftains, a traditional Irish folk-band, who have See page 44

BY RIKKI MASSAND At the Garden City Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) meeting on Wednesday February 15, Adelphi University’s Assistant Vice President for Facilities Management Robert Shipley, a resident of Garden City, presented news and updates on the university’s geothermal energy projects and initiatives. In 2000, Adelphi was planning to build its first new, three-story residence hall – the first to go up on campus since the 1970s. It was then that the opportunity came up for the university to include geothermal heating and cooling measures and new energy-efficient HVAC. Shipley said Adelphi partnered with LIPA (which is now PSEG Long Island) as the power company funded the research and engineering study to highlight capital costs in doing geothermal over conventional HVAC. See page 38

GC Fencers compete in Junior Olympics PAGE 52 GCJC hosts director of new documentary PAGE 26