Let’s make our dreams a reality to save our Earth. Make a commitment on Earth Day 2019.
Would you walk three blocks in total to preserve our Earth?
Would you save our fields, better our Earth environment and save our resources if you could?
As we celebrate and honor Earth Day in Great Neck, let’s honor and stay true to our words to take more responsibility to save our Earth starting here and now.
We are paving over a soccer field at Great Neck North High School for industrialization — a parking lot for 100 more cars.
To quote Dr. Theresa Prendergast, GNPS superintendent, and Mr. Powell, assistant superintendent of business, this has been the dream of the school system for 12 years now, but they lacked the funding until this past year’s bond vote.
This is not a result of a swampy field but a result of not respecting our Earth. We could utilize the Parkwood parking lot two blocks away with over 250 parking spots.
Instead, we have cut down healthy trees and will demolish our soccer field for pavement, tar and increased congestion.
We will waste close to a million dollars dedicated to school funding to educate our children to do this.
Why not educate our children to save our field, walk two blocks and be responsible citizens of Earth?
What good is recycling if we cannot even care for our own backyard? Save the speeches and the verbiage and act now and speak against this to Albany and to the BOE as it is not yet state approved.
If you truly believe in saving the Earth, you can make a difference here and now.
This is up to you, every citizen young and old in Great Neck, to save our soccer field.
We can always improve it, why destroy it?
Speak up and advocate for Earth Day, Earth week, Earth year.
Ruth Gabay
Great Neck
The Great Neck Public School is environmentally unfriendly and behind the times. Any other school system would be embarrassed by this policy of ruining a beautiful field that can be used for better purposes than an unneeded parking lot. Shame on you board of education.
This is a joke right? That soccer field has not been used in 10+ years. The school has a plethora of other amazing, new fields that they use. I would rather see them “demolish” an unused swamp than see these poor children parking in 2 hour parking spots and cutting class to go mover their car before they get a ticket. You obviously are an outsider on this issue, next time learn all the facts before writing an article glorifying a field, that is no where near flat, and full of mosquitos.