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Post Office Box 050328
Staten Island, NY 10305
718-873-4291
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Winter 2016
Executive Director
Ida Sanoff
CAWD
Recording Secretary
Daniel Ingellis
NRPA
Treasurer
Membership
Newsletter
Richard Chan
NRPA
East Shore Coordinator:
Dominic Cenatiempo
NRPA
Trustees
Executive Trustee
Jim Scarcella
NRPA
Friends of Clearwater
John Malizia
S. I. Yacht Club,
S. I. Tuna Club, FCA
Cindy Zipf
Clean Ocean Action
Charles Perry
Protectors of Pine Oak
Woods
Tony Rose
Staten Island Sport Divers
Andrew Willner
NY/NJ Baykeeper
(Ret)
Dr. John T. Tancredi
Molloy College
Dr. Martin Schreibman
Brooklyn College AREAC
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Page 1 A Message from NRPA
Page 1-3 South, East and North
Page 3-4 Louis Figurelli
Page 4 Miller Field
Page 4-6 Cheap Gas: What’s Behind it, Will It
Last, How Will It Affect Us? Part II
Page 6-7 Circumnavigation of Staten Island
In Memory of Edward “Kerry” Sullivan
Please join or
renew your NRPA
membership
TODAY
See page 8
A MESSAGE FROM NRPA
By Ida Sanoff
At this time of year, we like to offer thanks:
We are thankful that we have been able to
remove hundreds of pounds of trash from
local shorelines. We are thankful that we
have been able to remove tangles of discard-
ed fishing line that can trap shorebirds. We
are thankful that our board members have
been able to participate in dozens of meet-
ings about shoreline issues including flood
control projects, water quality improvements
and brownfield clean ups. We are thankful
that we have been able to join with other
groups to support each other in common in-
terests. We are thankful that because of peo-
ple like YOU, people can enjoy watching
shorebirds foraging at the water’s edge and
maybe get in a good day of fishing too.
We are always there – for clean water and
clean shorelines and we’ve been there since
1977. Well, actually even before that, if you
count in the efforts of our late founder Lou
Figurelli.
But we have to ask you to join us. And you
need
to join us!
Yes, we know that you contribute to many
large, well known organizations. Don’t get us
wrong, we want to save the whales and the
wolves and the rainforests too! But even
though those big organizations do a lot of fine
work, they don’t get involved in the local is-
sues.
That’s where NRPA comes in.
We are there to help communities when they
need advice on how to fight a project that
threatens to pollute the whole neighborhood.
If there is a shoreline project coming to your
area and you don’t understand all of the docu-
ments that have been made available, we’ll
help you figure them out. If you are getting the
run around with an environmental problem,
we can help direct you to the proper agency.
We are an
ALL VOLUNTEER
organization.
No one gets a salary. We don’t have big mon-
ey sponsors. We don’t get member item mon-
ey from elected officials. We meet in donated
space. We use our own phones and our own
computers and our own transportation. But we
still need to pay for insurance, permits and
various other necessities.
But we can’t do anything without
YOU
.
Please join or renew your membership
TODAY
!
Thanks and we wish you the best of every-
thing in the coming year.
Your Friends at NRPA
SOUTH, EAST AND NORTH
By Jim Scarcella
The NRPA had a beautiful, active and amaz-
ing autumn season and we went to all quad-
rants of Staten Island and our estuary. What
follows is a synopsis of the events:
South
We had a couple of events on the south
shore.
First, on September 19, we organized and
executed a nice clean up at Lemon Creek
(Lou Figurelli) Park.
Lemon Creek Park is at the east end of Se-
guine Avenue, part of Seguine Point, perhaps
