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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Back to school barbecue bring community together
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
Newburgh residents end summer on a
good note after the Back To School BBQ,
hosted by We Are Newburgh. Downing
Park was packed with nearly 3,000
people on Sunday celebrating the new
school year, with food, music and their
community.
With the help of about 60 organizations
We Are Newburgh made the event happen.
The group had 32 vendors register for
tables at the Barbeque. Various groups
donated services and items to show their
support.
Kiwanis, a nonprofit organization in
Newburgh donated 600 “study buddies”
or stuffed animals for kids too young to go
into school yet. The Newburgh Enlarged
School District and the Newburgh Rotary
Club donated about 4,000 backpacks and
school supplies for students. Food Bank
of the Hudson Valley provided a truck
load of groceries with a promise to bring
more food for next year after running out
of food within two hours. Blacc Vanilla
Cafe brought hot and cold brew coffee for
all the volunteers in the morning.
The
Orange
County
Sheriff ’s
Department created ID’s for children and
took down fingerprints and information
for the amber alert service. If a child goes
missing their information will be on file
to help find them as quickly as possible.
“It wouldn’t be as great as it is without
all the support of the organizations that
rally behind us,” said Damian DePauw,
Director of Operations at We Are
Newburgh.
Joe Alvarez, founder and president of
We are Newburgh sees these types of
community events as a place to show the
true colors of Newburgh. An event that
takes around 6 months to plan took an
Photos provided
Members of the community hopped on stage to dance and sing to music.
The Newburgh Enlarged School District and the Rotary Club donated school supplies handed
out by volunteers.
entire community to pull off.
“This is what unity in our community
looks
like,”
said
Assemblyman
Kevindaryán Luján. “I could not be
Danskammer Plant to be replaced
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“heat rate will be among the lowest for combined cycle
combustion turbine projects, which means less fuel is
combusted to produce a given amount of electric power
output. Carbon emissions from the project could be as
low as 50 percent of the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation’s [NYSDEC] recently
proposed limits for existing power plants.”
The new plant incorporates an air-cooled condensing
system that would eliminate the need to use Hudson River
water for cooling. In addition, because the site already
has electric and natural gas lines, no new transmission
lines are needed at the plant.
Tiger Infrastructure Partner s predicts the plant’s new
efficient design will allow them to produce electricity in
a far more cost effective manner than other plants. In
turn, they expect they can bring cheaper electricity to the
marketplace that will lower overall electricity costs.
Lacey pointed out that although New York State is
pushing to have 50 percent of their electricity coming
from renewable sources by 2030, the reality is that
presently wind and solar power is unable to meet the
demand and spikes while the new Danskammer plant is
designed to provide support when it is needed the most.
The Public Accountability Initiative [PAI], a non-profit,
non-partisan research and educational organization
focused on corporate and governmental accountability,
A young boy gathered his donated school
supplies.
more proud of our city than I am in this
moment.”
The food for the event was donated and
cooked by members of We Are Newburgh
and people in the community. They had
800 pounds of chicken, and 3,000 hot
dogs and burgers, to prepare and cook.
McDonald’s donated unlimited Ice Tea for
the event, and Arctic Glacier donated 100
sleeves of ice and 72 cases of water.
“People need to realize Newburgh is a
great place to live,” said Alvarez. “People
have so much love for our city and we are
just bringing the community together. We
Are Newburgh is a reflection of it’s people
that love the city and by people getting
together it makes you believe that our city
is turning up.”
We Are Newburgh will hold their next
event in November for Thanksgiving. To
find out more information about We Are
Newburgh or how to volunteer, visit their
Facebook page.
has countered many of the assertions made by Tiger
Infrastructure Partners in an in-depth and multi-sourced
published document on the company’s investors and the
proposed new plant.
PAI states that the new plant would produce pollution
that would impact both local and regional air quality, in
particular, “large emissions of climate heating pollutants,
including carbon dioxide and methane, a particularly
potent heat-trapping greenhouse gas.”
PAI categorized this project a “money-grab” by
wealthy Wall Street investors, multi-millionaires and
billionaires who are intent in locking in high profit
returns while the local air is polluted and the public’s
health and the environment suffers.