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Glen Head residents push against Propel approval process. John Fabio, president of the Greenvale Civic Association, Glen Head residents Chris- said he organized the meeting tine Panzeca and George Pom- to fill an information gap left bar helped rally opposition to a by the absence of a local champroposed lithium battery stor- ber of commerce. “Recognizing that there was age facility on the Glenwood somewhat of a L a n d i n g w a t e rvoid as to how do f ro n t l a s t ye a r. we get this inforNow the two have turned their attenmation to our busition to another ness community,” large-scale energy Fabio said, “I have initiative: the Probeen reaching out pel NY transmisand educating our sion project. residents through Panzeca and our civic associaPombar, who were tion.” central figures in He told attendthe successful ees that the transeffort that pushed mission proposal, Jupiter Power to led by a joint venwithdraw its Oysture between New ter Shore Energy York Transco and Storage proposal, t h e N e w Yo r k are now working CHRIStINE PANzECA Power Authority to educate resi- Glen Head known as Propel dents and business NY Energy, could owners about the af fect not only multi-year transmission line homeowners but also the local project planned for Nassau economy. County. The two joined mem“When I looked at the harm bers of the Greenvale Civic that this project is going to perAssociation and local business petrate on our entire communiowners on Tuesday to present ty,” he said. “It goes way information about the project’s beyond the residents, and it scope, timeline, and regulatory
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Assemblyman Charles Lavine, left, organized the evening’s vigil at the Glen Street Long Island Rail Road station, where ICE arrests took place early this year. Angel Reyes Rivas, right, spoke about immigrant families living in fear of leaving their homes. Beside him is his daughter, Zoe, 6.
Vigil held opposing ICE raids By RoKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
When Angel Reyes Rivas approached the microphone at the Glen Street Long Island Rail Road station last week, he barely got a few sentences out before his voice cracked. The 35-year-old Glen Cove resident — known to many as “the phone repair guy” — wiped away tears as he looked over the crowd of neighbors, faith leaders and advocates gathered under the station lights. Rivas has lived in Glen Cove since he was a teenager. He came to the city from Peru to reunite with his mother and brother, and enrolled at Glen Cove High School “I came to Glen Cove High School started as an ESL student, level one,” he recalled. “It took me a couple years, but I always fell in love with the language. And that’s also why I became an English major.” Rivas’s life here, however, has been shaped
by the precariousness of immigration status. He arrived with a visa at age 15, and later overstayed it. For years, he said, he had “no sort of notion of what it means to be undocumented” — until the system crashed into his family. His mother, who had missed court dates for traffic tickets out of fear of being deported, was ultimately arrested, detained at the Nassau County jail and sent back to Peru. Angel was 18, a junior in high school, when it happened. “That was the first big thing that opened my eyes to the system,” he said. Forced to support himself and his 13-year-old brother, Rivas left school, later earning his high-school equivalency diploma and a math degree from Nassau Community College. When the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, was created in 2012, he finally gained work authorization. He worked in a supermarket meat department, then at AT&T, where he was promoted to store manager and ContInuEd on pAGE 6
hen we think about what’s happening here on Long Island, you can’t look at any one of the projects that’s going on in isolation.
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