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Friday, September 27, 2024
Vol. 84, No. 39
Oyster Festival to Return
Chamber celebrates 2024 business leader BY RIKKI MASSAND
The East Coast’s largest waterfront festival will return this fall to the streets of Oyster Bay. Supervisor Joseph Saladino, his colleagues on the Town Board and organizers and sponsors of the 41st Oyster Festival announced the return of the iconic seaside festival this October 19th and 20th. Supervisor Saladino, together with Councilwoman Michele Johnson, Councilwoman Vicki Walsh, Town Clerk Rich LaMarca and Receiver Jeff Pravato; Oyster Festival partner the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Chamber of Commerce President Ryan Schlotter and Las Vegas Sands Senior Vice President Tracey Edwards made the announcement along the waterfront at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park.
JHS student is ballboy during US Open BY GARY SIMEONE It was a great end to the summer season for Anvit Vemuri, a senior at Jericho High School.
The seventeen year-old student, was chosen as a ball-crew member at the 2024 US Open Tennis championship in Flushing Meadows, Queens. He was one of a
three hundred-twenty ball-crew members to work at the event, which took place from August 26th to September 8th. See page 10
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Kenya Zachary, the treasurer of the Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce and branch manager of Jovia Financial Credit Union on Jackson Avenue, has been named the 2024 Businessperson of the Year. She was honored with a plaque and applause from fellow professionals during the Chamber’s September meeting at the Mid Island Y JCC in Plainview. In addition to her role as treasurer, Zachary co-chairs the Women in Business networking and professional development group within the Chamber. “When I was a student and working as a teller, I met colleagues and looked into the sales part of the industry. I worked on the floor, and I learned to perform several tasks like the work of an ATM custodian, plus being a supervisor of operations. Soon, I found out that it’s a cool job being a branch manager,” she explained. Chamber President Russell Green announced the award, praising Zachary’s contributions. “Kenya, I believe, with her warm and friendly personality, epitomizes everything that is important to being the Businessperson of the Year. She stepped in to serve as co-chair of the Women in Business group this year and it’s been an unqualified success. On behalf of the entire Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce I am honored to present her with this plaque,” he said. Zachary will be recognized alongside other honorees at the Nassau County Council of Chambers of Commerce’s 39th Annual Businessperson of the Year and Legislative Breakfast on October 25 at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. Green anticipates strong support from the Chamber and local business community, with expected attendance from officials including Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker and Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino. Tami Racaniello, vice president of the Chamber and chair of the Syosset Street Fair, was named Businessperson of the Year in 2023. Membership committee chair Alan Goldberg, a twotime recipient of the award, joined Racaniello in congratulating See page 10
Scholarship recipients announced PAGE 9 Jericho's Unsung Heroes celebrated PAGE 11