WHITE HOUSE AWARD - NAVAIR Depot North Island recently received the White House’s 2002 Closing the Circle Award in the Environmental Management Systems category during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Capt. Pete Laszcz, NAVAIR Depot North Island commanding officer, and Larry Lausin and Ray Paulson, with the Depot’s Environmental Office (third, fourth, and fifth from right respectively) accepted the award. With them are (from left) John Woodley, assistant deputy under secretary of defense for environment; Don Schregardus, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for environment; John Howard Jr., with the Federal Environmental Executive, White House Task Force on Waste Prevention and Recycling; Rear Adm. Stephen Heilman, NAVAIR assistant commander for aviation depots; and Hansford Johnson, assistant Navy secretary for installations and environment. Official U.S. government photo