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Playing with LEGOs Makes History Fun at Village Chabad

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Local children and their family members had some fun with plastic building blocks while learning about one of the oldest cities in the world.

Using 70,000 LEGO pieces on a 20-by-20foot mat, members of Village Chabad in East Setauket created a replica of the Old City of Jerusalem Feb. 3. The LEGO model included many points of interest, such as the gate entrances to the city, the Tower of David, the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and more.

Rabbi Shalom Ber Cohen, from Village Chabad, said the goal of the program was for those involved to leave the event with an admiration for the holy city.

The Jewish center brought in architect Stephen Schwartz of New Jersey-based Building Blocks Workshops to lead the children, parents and grandparents in constructing the model. On the mat were lines to help guide the building efforts. While some sat on the mat constructing walls and towers, others on the sidelines started putting together the buildings, grabbing LEGO pieces from bins.

Dozens of children helped to erect the Old City of Jerusalem using LEGOS. Photo from Village Chabad

During the program, Schwartz was constantly engaged with the children and adults, directing them to the proper location if they went astray.

Cohen said Village Chabad had heard about Schwartz’s work from different schools and institutions. The architect has also offered several programs that focus on the historical buildings in Stony Brook for The Ward Melville Heritage Organization.

Schwartz said he has been conducting the LEGO projects for 25 years. It began when his

daughter, an elementary school teacher in the Bronx, asked him to show her second grade students how a city is designed.

“When I saw that with LEGO you could teach second-graders about zoning, and they understood it, I saw that this was an amazing teaching tool,” he said. Schwartz said in the past he has worked with LEGO pieces for different Jewish history programs, including Jerusalem, Masada, the Warsaw Ghetto and the world’s tallest LEGO menorah.

The architect said the projects are usually completed in two hours due to working around a school’s schedule. The Village Chabad program ran from 4:30 to around 6:30. Schwartz said after every program he aims for a 15-minute educational tour.

“I am an architect, so everything is exactly to scale,” Schwartz said. “The program gives people a ‘visual image’ of the shape and location of all the important elements in and around Jerusalem. It is a much more dynamic way to teach than just looking in a book or on a screen.”

Smithtown resident Gail Declue said she had no idea what to expect when she arrived for the build. “I think it’s great,” she said. “The kids are really involved, and they are going to learn a lot about what Jerusalem looks like without even going.”

Elina Rukhlin, also of Smithtown, said her 10-year-old son was among the children building with LEGO pieces, and the family had traveled to Israel last year.

“My son is actually saying I remember we went to the Tower of David light show,” she said. “So, it’s really cool to be able to look back on our experience and then to see this, because we were actually there.”

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Suffolk Looks to Tackle Recycling Issue with Regional Task Force

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Suffolk County is looking to tackle a pressing environmental issue on Long Island with the creation of a Regional Recycling Assessment Task Force.

The legislation, sponsored by Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), was passed at the end of 2019. The task force going into 2020 will look to address the recycling burden found throughout the county.

Hahn said towns and villages throughout the county are struggling to handle the increased recycling burden.

“Recycling and waste management is a global problem not just a regional one,” she said.

Since China’s 2018 decision to ban the import of most plastics and other materials used by its recycling processors, a number of municipalities have altered programs and in cases have reduced or eliminated recycling.

Hahn said currently recycling in Suffolk County is handled through a patchwork of programs.

“We need to come together to help each other, and come up with ideas and encourage other solutions,” the legislator said.

Suffolk Legislator Kara Hahn is spearheading the new intiative to resolve the county’s recycling problem. File Photo

In Brookhaven as a result of the market crash and the town’s recycling contractor, Green Stream Recycling voiding its contract, the town has switched from single-stream to dual-stream recycling and has asked residents to drop glass off at 21 points in the town instead of picking it up at curbside.

Ed Romaine (R), Brookhaven town supervisor, said he applauds Hahn’s and others efforts to solve the current recycling issue.

“It is a very good idea, we have to do something to solve the solid waste crisis in the near future,” he said.

Romaine said with current plans to close the landfill in 2024, and there being no market to send glass, only compounds the issue the town and municipalities face.

“I wish the DEC would be more involved but I’m glad someone is looking into realistic solutions to this problem. We look forward to participating [in the task force],” the supervisor said.

Similarly Smithtown was also affected by the departure of Green Stream Recycling, as it had a recycling contract with Brookhaven. Smithtown had an agreement to sell all its recyclables through Green Stream for a $180,000 annual profit. In January 2019, Smithtown residents were told to separate their recyclables when the town switched back to dual-stream recycling.

Hahn, the chairwoman of the Legislature’s Environment, Planning & Agriculture Committee, plans to put together a 17-member advisory group made up of municipal recycling professionals, county agencies and environmental advocates. Members have not been officially

announced and meetings are scheduled to begin sometime later this year.

The task force’s aim would be to review existing recycling programs, develop strategies for increasing the efficiency of recycling regionally, and to develop mechanisms to encourage the streamlining of the local recycling process.

Hahn stressed the continuation of educating the public on the benefits of recycling and reducing plastic waste in their everyday lives.

The 5-cent minimum fee for plastic bags in stores, which took effect in January 2018, has been successful — with reports showing a 70 to 80 percent reduction in the use of the bags.

Hahn also sponsored a bill that would create a plastic straw ban in restaurants that took effect last month. In addition, the Styrofoam bill bars businesses from using items such as cups, trays and containers that are made from polystyrene, as well as ban retail stores from selling those products. It will require businesses in the county to use biodegradable products.

“They go hand in hand — the success has been apparent in reducing plastic waste in the county,” she said. “I’m hoping we can work with Brookhaven and other municipalities in finding a way to properly handle this and do the right thing for residents.”

Trailblazing Women Coaches to be Honored at Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Two women from the Port Jefferson and Three Village school districts have been posthumously named to the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2020 for their work organizing girls sports athletics.

Dr. H. Jean Berger and Ruth Gracey were named along with two other women for developing and organizing the Suffolk County Girls Athletic Association in 1949, 23 years prior to federal Title IX legislation, which established no discrimination of participation based on sex.

The hall of fame is naming them due to their “persistence and dedication,” which effectively jump-started women’s ability to participate in and coach school athletics throughout the county.

Berger and Gracey, along with Annamae McKeever-Kress and Jeanette Rogers, developed the constitution, policies and rules, guidelines for scheduling and officiating games for the SCGAA. They envisioned and created a senior athletic awards program and developed the coveted Gold Key Award to recognize senior high school athletes.

“The Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame is honored to induct these four trailblazing women for all they accomplished in building a path and plat-

Left to right: Dr. H. Jean Berger and Ruth Gracey are two of four pioneering women who will be honored May 26.

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form for girls to success in sports in Suffolk County,” said Chris Vaccaro, the executive director of the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame. “What they achieved, long before the passing of Title IX, is remarkable and hundreds, if not thousands, of women have dedicated their lives to athletics thanks to what they built more than 70 years ago. This is a posthumous honor for these inductees, but we know they will be with us in spirit that night.”

All four women are being honored at a ceremony May 26 during the hall of fame’s 30th anniversary celebration at Watermill Caterers, 711 Smithtown Bypass in Smithtown. Tickets are $125 for an adult and $75 for a child. More information can be found at suffolksportshof.com.

Ruth Gracey

Gracey was born in Syracuse in 1906 and attended Syracuse University from 1926 to 1929,

majoring in physical education. After, she received a master’s degree in physical education from Adelphi University.

In 1944 she began her career as the single female physical education instructor at Port Jefferson High School. During this first year at the school, she started the Girls Leaders Club and a year later she was instrumental in creating intramural sports for girls. By the 1948 school year, she was named director of girls physical education and coached soccer, hockey, volleyball, basketball and badminton.

In 1949, she helped create the Suffolk County Girls Athletic Association, specifically the constitution and by-laws, and helped to establish a girls sports awards program. She retired from Port Jefferson in 1971 and in 1996 was inducted into the Port Jefferson district’s Wall of Fame. She passed away in 1990.

Elizabeth Schwartz, Gracey’s granddaughter and former student, said her grandmother, along with her contemporaries, pioneered the sense that girls and women were just as capable in sports as anybody else. Gracey was one of the first to make field hockey an institution of Long Island sports, Schwartz said, and she also introduced programs for women in basketball and track and even an archery club.

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Trump Supporters Rally in Port Jeff to Support Frigate Sign

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

For a village that has largely tried to stay out of the national political arena, said circus has come knocking in a big way the past few weeks.

A banner stretched over the second floor above a premier Port Jeff shop takes the official motto of the United States, “In God We Trust,” instead replaces “God” with “Trump,” hung to support the president during the impeachment trial.

More than a week after the owner of Roger’s Frigate building, George Wallis, hung the sign reading “In Trump We Trust,” well over 50 presidential supporters rallied in front of the ice cream and candy shop Feb. 2 to show their solidarity for the business and President Donald Trump (R). Village of Port Jefferson officials had

ordered that the banner be removed, saying the owner did not even apply for a permit to hang the sign.

People at the rally came with large American and “Trump 2020” flags, and many heads were adorned with the red “Make America Great Again” caps. Several shouted slogans first heard during the 2016 campaign, such as “Build the Wall” and “Drain the Swamp.”

Supporters of the president took the village’s order to remove the banner as a sign of bias, with many saying such an act was suppressing free speech. Wallis even came down to stand alongside the protesters in support.

The rally was joined by U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) who publicly showed support for the sign and assailed the village for its stance against it.

Village Attorney Brian Egan said the business could be fined up to $2,000 if they did not remove the sign five days after it received an order to remedy from the building and planning department. Though the owner could be fined for each day he keeps up the sign after those initial five, Egan said that would be determined by a village judge. He added the total of $2,000 has been thrown around too easily, and as of now they are ticketing it for the first five days, and then after another five days.

“The goal of village code … is compliance, not punishment,” he said.

Though Zeldin, in comments to the crowd, repeated the message the village was wrong to fine Wallis. “How crazy is it you would have a small business owner put up a sign, and you have local elected officials fine that small business

owner $2,000 a day just to say they support the president,” Zeldin said.

Village officials continued to maintain in the days before and since the rally that the order to remove had nothing to do with the message on the sign, instead that the owner had violated code.

Wallis had hung the same exact sign back in January 2017, after Trump’s election into office.

The village had ordered the sign down then as well, but it had been taken down within a few days of being put up. This time, the sign had been up since Jan. 21, but had been temporarily taken down Jan. 28 before being put back up the day before the rally. Despite the sign being briefly taken down, the village attorney said they would still have the ability to prosecute as if it were up continuously.

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Roger Rutherford, the general manager of Roger’s Frigate, said he has no control over whether Wallis puts up signs on the building he owns, however he, “support[s] his right to freely express his support for our president.”

Wallis’ intent, Rutherford said, had always been to remove the sign by the end of the impeachment trial, which was expected to end Wednesday after the U.S. Senate voted on party lines last Friday to hear no witnesses or receive any new evidence.

Zeldin had been named to Trump’s legal defense team for the trial in the Senate.

The Roger’s Frigate manager said while he supports Wallis in his rights for free speech, he also understood the village’s position. “I’m not going to knock the mayor — I believe she was showing her committed support that the law is handed down to the fullest,” he said.

Supporters of the sign have said that the village does not take the same stance with other signs in the village, pointing to banners hung by the village itself to advertise events like Paint Port Pink and the Charles Dickens Festival.

Trustee Kathianne Snaden has said the village is not bound by the same requirements as businesses regarding banners or signs. “That would

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“She was one of the first to have the overriding idea that sports was a way to take positions of leadership,” Schwartz said, adding it was “a long time coming” to see the names of her grandmother and the other woman added to the wall.

Port Jefferson board President Ellen Boehm said that while she came into the district right after Gracey had retired, she was the one who took girls sports to the next level within the district. She said that before women like Gracey pushed for equality in sports, girls would often play just a few innings of a sport like softball with another school.

“She was one of the trailblazers in bringing recognition to girls sports,” she said.

Schwartz remembered her grandmother’s memorial, how in a packed house with “people in the rafters” all saying the same thing, that “Ruth was a special person to them, and they were a special person to her.” They all realized, “she had that quality — to make you feel you were the most important person in the world.”

Dr. H. Jean Berger

Berger was originally from Nebraska but moved to Erie County with her family in 1930. She graduated from Springville-Griffith Institute High School in 1941 and then from SUNY Buffalo State College in 1945 where she majored in physical education.

She later attained her doctorate of education degree from New York University.

as unfair for the rest of the village’s shop owners.

“It’s in interest of fairness for all business owners,” she said. “Whatever side of the aisle you’re on, it’s creating a huge rift in our community, it’s making people say things online they would not say to one another’s faces … this is not a matter of free speech, it’s a matter of a sign.”

Other businesses have tried to stay out of the mess, but the national attention has also vicariously put the light on shops who want no part in the controversy.

The Port Jefferson Ice Cream Cafe, which is located on the other side of Main Street, posted to its business Facebook page, saying it had “received numerous calls and messages regarding this.”

A throng of Trump supporters rallies in front of Roger’s Frigate Feb. 2 to support a banner the Village of Port Jefferson has “We respect everyone’s right to free speech as said is against the code. Photo by Courtney Biondo long as it does not infringe on others and follows be the government asking the government for Margot Garant said. “As an elected, that’s a real the law and village codes,” the post further said. bad posture to do toward a local community and “This is not up to us to decide and is a matter for permission,” she said.

Zeldin also claimed the village board had some other local officials in that community.” the village.”

Snaden said she thinks Zeldin understands the kind of bias against the president, that if the sign Rutherford said he was sorry that another had said something negative about him than vil- village is attempting to enforce the code. business had got mixed up in the controversy. “It “He’s ignoring the real issue to make his own wasn’t our intention to affect any other businesslage officials would have supported it. “[They] would be paying for that sign if it was point,” she said. “He’s not a stupid man, and he’s es,” he said. not ignorant, he knows what the real issue is.” against the president,” the congressman said.

The sign was still up at the location by press Rebecca Kassay, who owns the Fox and Owl time, but even with the assumption it will be taken The mayor and trustees were largely incredulous over Zeldin’s comment, saying he is using Inn in Port Jefferson along with her husband An- down, officials are worried they could go through the national attention the sign has received to score drew, said she had also before applied for a permit the same song and dance come the presidential for a banner in Port Jeff, and saw the process as election in November. “It’s not the first time, it political points.

“I think they’re using it as a platform,” Mayor “rigorous.” She sees Wallis’ disregard for the code won’t be the last,” Snaden said.

Her career started in Springville in 1946 before moving on to Bay Shore in 1949, where she developed sports activities for girls at a time when girls athletics was frowned upon.

She would spend most of her career at the Three Village Central School District, and from 1966 to 1980 she worked as teacher, athletic coordinator of girls sports, leadership teacher and clinical supervisor for the K-8 physical education, volleyball coach and adviser to the Girls Leaders Club and Girls Athletic Association.

In 1949 she was the first president of the Suffolk County Girls Athletic Association, and in 1975-1976, she was the president of NYS Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. At various times between 1966 and 1980 she was very involved with Section XI, Suffolk County athletics: vice president, multiple committees, board of directors, volleyball chair, athletic council and Gold Key committee.

Berger passed away in 2003.

Michele Dougherty was a coach and administrator in the Three Village school district from 1973 to 2007 and worked with Berger for several years until her retirement in 1980.

Dougherty said she “had a profound influence on me professionally and on a personal level.”

She added, Berger, or Dr. B as she and the students called her, not only fought for the Gold Star Award that she and other women helped introduce in 1953 but helped expand it to cover boys athletics as well.

“She has had a profound influence on girls sports through her historic efforts in developing athletic programs for girls throughout the county,” Dougherty said.

Police PJS Man Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash Jan. 30 Suffolk County police said a man was killed in Port Jefferson Station early Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash.

Police said Joel Almanzar, 35, of Port Jefferson Station was driving a 2014 BMW sedan on Green Avenue, off Bicycle Path, Jan. 30 when the vehicle veered off the roadway, hit a parked car and continued through a fence before striking a tree and a shed at around 1:30 a.m., Jan. 30.

Almanzar was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A Gofundme for Almanzar has already raised over $8,500 of a $20,000 goal for what is described as the man’s funeral costs and for his only son, Niko. The fundraiser can be found at www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser-for-joelalmanzar.

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Two mothers, one from Farmingville and the other from Merrick, may live on different parts of Long Island, but both had very similar experiences, watching their daughters abused in sex trafficking schemes that saw men use drugs to keep their children captive.

Lisa Principe and Maria Francavilla spoke of their experiences Jan. 31 at a Suffolk County Police Department press conference in Yaphank to round off National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

Principe said her daughter, Jenna, went to school at Wellington C. Mepham High School in Bellmore. She said her daughter fell in love with a man who ended up taking advantage of her in the extreme. She was gang raped at only 19 years old, as her “initiation.” She was kept in motels with a number of other girls as her pimps used her addiction to drugs to keep her under control. She would spend time in and out of jail, but as soon as she got out the traffickers were there to pick her up and bring her back into the fold.

“They took her soul,” Principe said. Even after the men keeping her were arrested, Jenna would later die at 27 from an overdose at home.

Though her hardship remains, she said she hopes new initiatives from the police will help combat the slew of sex trafficking cases happening all across the Island, targeting potential victims on the internet, in public places or even around schools.

Jennifer Hernandez, the executive director of the nonprofit Empowerment Collaborative of Long Island, which provides trauma services for victims of human trafficking and other abuse, said they have worked with more than 160 victims of trafficking just this past year. “Most of which were born and raised right here on Long Island — in Suffolk County.” she said.

Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said the biggest misconception about sex trafficking is that it’s men piling people, mostly immigrants, into the back of trucks and taking them away.

Modern sex trafficking happens to people of all walks, immigrants and native-born Long Islanders. Traffickers take vulnerable people, mostly young women, and use a combination of drugs, violence and other emotional manipulation to control these women. There’s no single

Photos clockwise from top: Maria Francavilla, left, and Lisa Principe speak about their daughters experiences Jan. 31; Francavilla and Principe’s daughters; Lt. Frank Messana of the police’s human trafficking unit speaks alongside commissioner Geraldine Hart. Photos by Kyle Barr

place, police said, whether rich or poor, that sex trafficking isn’t happening. The epidemic is tied to the opioid crisis that still rages in communities across the Island.

Since October of 2017, the police’s human trafficking unit has leveraged 417 charges against individuals, with 186 she said were specifically related to sex trafficking. The police has interacted with and identified over 220 women

involved with trafficking since the beginning of the initiative, with the youngest one being only 12 years old.

Still with those numbers, Detective Lt. Frank Messana, the commanding officer of the department’s human trafficking unit, said they have “only scratched the surface.”

On Jan. 25, Kings Park man and alleged Bloods gang member Abiodun “Abi” Adeleke was sentenced to 25 years in prison for multiple counts of sex trafficking. He allegedly participated in this ring from 2014-18.

Last year, Sound Beach man Raymond Rodio III was arrested for allegedly hosting a sex trafficking ring at his parent’s house on Lower Rocky Point Road. Police and the county

district attorney said he had preyed on more than 20 women over several years, most from Suffolk, with many floating in and out from the man’s basement apartment as his parent’s home located in a relatively middle-class neighborhood.

Rodio had pleaded not guilty and was next expected to appear in court Feb. 4.

Rodio’s investigation originally began in 2018 when an officer witnessed a suspected victim of trafficking in the alleged perpetrator’s car during a traffic stop. Hart said such awareness and education, for not only police officers but the general public, is doing much of the job of finding and arresting sex traffickers.

In October 2017, police first piloted its human trafficking program, which then became permanent in 2018. The commissioner said in the year prior to the unit being formed, there hadn’t been any examples of sex trafficking arrests.

In 2019, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office started a human trafficking unit to work inside the county jails.

Undersheriff Kevin Catalina said the team of officers look to identify human trafficking victims within the jail. While women are in jail for a stint, officers can get them to “open up.” Many, he said, could not even identify they were victims of trafficking, instead thinking these people were their “boyfriends.”

Francavilla had a similar experience to Principe. Her daughter, Tori, fell in with the wrong people early out of high school. She described it got to the point that her daughter was, “handcuffed to a bed and kept captive.”

She would eventually help put the perpetrator away but, like Jenna, the opioid addiction followed her even after her traumatic experiences. She died when she was 24.

Police said a person is at-risk or is already a victim of trafficking if they start to show behavior of chronically running away from home or having a history of unstable housing, demonstrates inability to regularly attend school or work, exhibits bruises or other physical trauma, withdrawn behavior, signs of drug or alcohol addiction, inconsistencies in their stories, inappropriate dress, a mention of a pimp, “daddy” or being “in the life,” suspected engaging in prostitution, history of pregnancies, abortions or sexually transmitted diseases, and looking as if they worked excessively long hours.

Identifying such a person, a resident should call 911 in an emergency, or contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 800-220TIPS (8477). Find more information and resources at the ECLI at www.empowerli.org.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Ward Melville fencing squad edged Centereach, 17-10, Feb. 3 to clinch the League II title and looks to maintain that momentum for the county finals.

Returning All-County and All-Long Island foilist Christopher Ancona, a senior, led the way for the Patriots, winning all three of his bouts as did sophomore épéeist William Lehr.

The win lifts the Patriots to a perfect 8-0 in league, 12-1 overall. The team now has its sights set on another county title. Championship match play is at Commack High School Feb. 5.

Results were unavailable at press time.

Photos clockwise starting top left: Centereach senior Kumpu Ide, right, scores a touch against Lehr; Centereach senior John Stopanio, left, with a weapon bending touch against Ancona; Ward Melville junior Ryan Schmidke, left, gets touched by Centereach senior épéeist Brian Taich.

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Newfield senior Mohab Ali celebrates with his family after his wrestling match. Photo by Sophia Vitale

Newfield’s Ali Notches 100th Win

BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Inspired by Art

Newfield High School art students went to the Heckscher Museum Jan. 30 to learn about the Long Island’s Best competition. On their own, these students will be creating works of art inspired by the art they saw. In March, their art will be submitted for a chance to be hung in a special exhibit at the museum. Photo courtesy of MCCSD

It was history in the making when Newfield senior and star wrestler Mohab Ali defeated Sachem East’s Luis Valdez Jan. 29 with an 8-2 decision to notch his 100th victory at 195 pounds. Ali’s current season record is 31-2 and his varsity career stands at 100-36. What makes the milestone

Kennedy Recognizes Four Eagles Taking Flight The Boy Scouts of America, Troop 349 of Smithtown, welcomed four new Eagle Scouts, having completed the requirements to attain the rank of Eagle Scout at the Cleary School for the Deaf in Nesconset.

Matthew Yopp completed the rank of Eagle, constructing a fence surrounding the park entrances at Commerdinger Park in Lake Ronkonkoma along with landscaping and cleanup of the area. Anthony D’Amore constructed benches and landscaped the meditation garden at Hope House Ministries in Port Jefferson.

Christopher Michael Mitchell added new landscaping to the garden area surrounding the Parish of the Holy Cross Church in Nesconset.

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garden with a retaining wall, plants and benches by the pet cemetery for the Little Shelter in Huntington.

Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset), along with other officials were honored to present each new Eagle Scout with a Proclamation highlighting each of their achievements, “to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout exemplifies the development of leadership, self- reliance and other qualities so sought after by young men, these new Eagle Scouts exemplify such character,” said Kennedy.

Pictured from right, Comptroller John Kennedy, Legislator Leslie Kennedy with Eagle Scouts Matthew Yopp, Anthony D’Amore, Christopher Michael Mitchell, Matthew Pickow and their families.

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all that more remarkable is Ali’s freshman year record was 3-21, according to Newfield head coach Douglas Lotten.

Senior Hunter Hughes who also won Jan. 29 at 152 pounds tied the Middle Country school district all-time career record at 132 wins. Both wrestlers are ranked number 1 in Suffolk County in their respective weight class. At the state level, Hughes is ranked fifth and Ali is seventh.

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Recognizing the Signs of Sex Trafficking

While many may equate the stereotype of human trafficking to immigrant communities being shuttled around the United States, sex slavery — of women being coerced and then forced into prostitution — happens right in our North Shore communities.

As difficult as it is to accept this fact, residents need to come to terms in order to help combat the problem.

Last week, Suffolk County police held a press conference to discuss the threat, especially to young women, and the role drug addiction plays in the exploitation. It’s important to take note that some of these victims didn’t start as drug addicts. Many are fed drugs by their pimps to keep them helpless and dependent on them.

We all know the general rules of safety in public to be wary of strangers trying to convince us to go to a secluded place. Other things to keep in mind are also the basics like to travel in groups at night or crowded events, don’t overindulge in alcohol while in public, be aware of your surroundings at all times, keep track of others in your group and never leave a drink unattended.

If you feel you’re being followed in a store, try to find an employee, who will ensure someone walks out to your car with you. If you are not the person being followed by someone, approach the individual you feel may be in danger. It’s better to look like a fool if you’re wrong than to hear that a person was abducted. Act like you know the person being followed. Greet them loudly as you approach and then get as close as possible and whisper that you think they are being followed.

But regarding sex trafficking, much of it is happening behind closed doors. Often young women around high school age — those going through an emotionally turbulent time — are targeted by men who manipulate them.

While police officers described efforts to become familiar with the signs of sex trafficking, Long Islanders need to become more aware of just what sex trafficking looks like, and they need to become more willing to step up and call police if they have suspicions.

Police describe women who are approached by men at public places, such as malls, parties or even schools. They endear themselves to the women, taking them out on dates and treating them like they are loved, before getting them addicted to drugs and using that addiction to control them.

In public, or even amongst your family, if you notice young women with unexplained bruises or signs of drug or alcohol addiction, look for them disappearing at odd hours and speech mentioning a pimp, “daddy” or being in the “life.”

Most victims of trafficking do not even understand they are being used in the way they are.

Trafficking activities can also be spotted at hotels, where more and more employees are being trained to spot victims, but you should never hesitate to notify a manager if you notice signs such as various men coming and going from one room. (This is something to take note of, even in your neighborhood when it comes to a house.) Other signs are of a person allowing someone else to do the talking for them or a young woman with a much older man as her “romantic” partner.

When it comes to voting, pay more attention to the judges elections. To save these victims, judges need compassion and to be able to spot when a person isn’t choosing to sell their bodies for money. They need to know what organizations to reach out to in order to help these victims.

An African proverb says it takes a village to raise a child. Keep all young people under your watchful eye to protect them from these predators.

Letters to the Editor COURTNEY BIONDO

Editorial

Zeldin’s Comments Are Demeaning

I have been watching the impeachment of Donald J. Trump with great interest. I have also noted some disturbing behavior exhibited by my representative, Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1). Zeldin is an ardent Trump supporter, eager to defend his most obvious and flagrant abuses. Like Trump, Zeldin has been using Twitter and Facebook to demean and insult opponents and disseminate false information.

He repeats lies, calling impeachment “a sham, rigged, based solely on hearsay.” He pretends that calling Trump to account for his lawlessness is “ripping the country apart.” When a journalist

asked him to name corruption pursued by the Trump administration other than Biden and CrowdStrike, he could not.

Instead, he called the journalist “a Schiff shill” who insulted her audience for asking the question.

Zeldin has plenty of time to appear on Fox News both day and night, tweet, carry two Facebook pages where he shadow bans, show up in Port Jeff to call its mayor a “far left anti-Trumper” while cheering a building owner who brazenly broke the Village’s sign ordinance but never has time to hold a town hall at night, when working people can attend.

He flits from firehouse to restaurant during the day where his audience sports gray and white hair.

It has been over three years since Zeldin engaged people of all political persuasions within his district. I want to know why he supports dismantling federal regulations that protect our air, water and land and cuts to Social Security and Medicaid and votes against our SALT deductions, to name a few. I consider all this cowardly and unbecoming of a representative of all the people. We deserve better.

Cristina Bono East Setauket

On Sunday, Feb. 2, a large group of concerned citizens gathered in front of Roger’s Frigate in Port Jefferson to express their outrage over the town’s highhanded threat to impose a fine of $2,000 per day on the building’s owner, George Wallis, for having the audacity to display a sign proclaiming “In Trump We Trust” on the front of the Frigate building. The happy crowd seemed to be in a festive mood and was blessed by fine weather, good fellowship and a salute from the P. T. Barnum as it left from the pier across the street, in the form of a loud blast from the ship’s horn and a wave from members of the crew standing on the bridge.

We were also treated to a few wellchosen words from Roger Rutherford, the manager of Frigate, who thanked us for our support and explained that the purpose of the sign was to express his displeasure with the unnecessary and desperate Democrat attempt to impeach the president, for which he received numerous rounds of applause and cheers from the enthusiastic crowd.

Following Rutherford’s remarks, we were pleasantly surprised by an unexpected visit from our great representative in Congress, Lee Zeldin [R-NY1]. Zeldin spoke

eloquently about our First Amendment rights, which guarantee free speech, particularly relating to political matters, and how it is entirely inappropriate for the Village of Port Jefferson to attempt to restrict them in this unconstitutional and unwelcome manner. He also enumerated many of the remarkable accomplishments thus far of President Donald Trump [R] and thoroughly denounced the ongoing Democrat impeachment fiasco, all of which was very well received by the cheering crowd.

I found the prospect of a punitive fine for the exercise of free speech to be yet another example of the double standard so often employed by liberal politicians and their friends. A mere 200 yards or so from Roger’s Frigate lies Rocketship Park. This is now the home of a Peace Pole, which was recently erected with great fanfare by a happy group of our community leaders.

At first, I thought this might have been inspired by the famous Pesky’s Pole, which is located at the end of the right-field foul line in Fenway Park in Boston and was so named because Johnny Pesky used to hit home runs that curved around it. But I soon learned that one of the sponsors of

the Peace Pole is our own North Country Peace Group, and the significance of this pole thus became clear. “Peace,” in this context, refers to peace by pacifism or peace by appeasement. This is the peace touted by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who promised “peace in our time,” contributing immensely to the imminent onset of World War II. It is decidedly not the “peace through strength” recommended by George Washington and employed by Ronald Reagan to hasten the welcome downfall of the oppressive Soviet Union. Thus, we are told that a Peace Pole in a public park is a wonderful addition to our beloved community, whereas a sign on private property favoring the achievement of peace by realistic means is not permissible and must be forcibly removed.

In November of this year, voters will go to the polls to reelect Trump and Zeldin. Perhaps, at the same time, they will remember that we seem to have politicians who favor one type of speech while imposing large fines on speech of the opposite polarity with which they may happen to disagree.

George Altemose Setauket

Punitive PJ Fine Is Example of Double Standard

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February 06, 2020 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • PAGE A19

Opinion

Misdirected Fear of New Virus Is Not Acceptable

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ear can be a great motivator. Fear of failing a test can lead someone to study harder, to pay attention in class and to do whatever is necessary to learn the material.

In many movies, the lead character has to face his or her fears to accomplish something. Luke Skywalker from the “Star Wars” films had to face his father, Darth D. None Vader, to become a Jedi. of the above Fear, however,

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF can also bring out the worst in people, especially when that fear is misplaced and misdirected.

Last week, the University of California’s Tang Center, in Berkeley, listed a set of

normal reactions to the new coronavirus on its Instagram account. Among other reactions, like feeling anxiety, worry or panic, the school suggested that xenophobia, or “fears about interacting with those who might be from Asia” was also normal. The Instagram post went on to add that having “guilt about these feelings” was normal, too. Chances are, if you’re feeling guilty about a feeling, it’s probably misdirected and uninformed.

Amid an enormous backlash from alumni at the school, whose current freshman class is about 43 percent Asian, the university has since apologized and taken down the post.

The school hopefully learned, and also offered a valuable lesson.

People in the United States are no more likely to contract a virus that currently has a 2 percent mortality rate from an Asian person than they are from anyone else who is sniffling and coughing.

In fact, at this point in the year, someone near you who is sneezing, coughing or looks sick is exponentially more likely to have the flu.

Yes, the vast majority of the almost 25,000 cases of the coronavirus — with about 3,200 critical — are located in China and, yes, many countries, including the United States, have taken strong steps to limit the possibility of turning this epidemic into a pandemic, causing the virus to spread to two or more continents.

Where someone’s ancestors come from, or where they themselves were born, is much less relevant than where they themselves have traveled in the last two weeks.

And, on top of that, even if someone — Asian, Caucasian, African American, Native American or otherwise — has been to Asia in the last month, if that person has been back in the United States for more than two weeks without showing any signs of illness, then he or she falls into the same category as anyone and everyone else with whom we ride the Long Island Rail Road, sit in a movie theater or stroll through a mall. The mandatory quarantine period for people returning from Wuhan, the Chinese center of the outbreak, is two weeks.

Fear of this virus shouldn’t encourage any

of us to avoid people with a specific heritage because the virus doesn’t care about the small genetic differences that create races. It only seeks the receptor in our cells that allow it to get inside and cause respiratory infections.

So, how do we manage our fear of the virus? We tackle it the same way we do our fear of getting a flu. We wash our hands regularly, we try not to touch our face, and we don’t shake hands with anyone who has a stuffy nose or is coughing.

We can also boost our own immune system by getting enough sleep and eating the right foods.

The coronavirus, for which there are currently no treatments or vaccines, has generated a steady drumbeat of horrible news, from the number of people infected to those who have died, which has climbed to almost 500 but with more than 1,000 recoveries.

Fear of the virus can be and is healthy, motivating countries to protect their citizens and limiting the spread of the virus. The fear, however, of any group will never be “normal” and certainly isn’t acceptable.

immediately at the end of the president’s talk.

As residents listened for the results of the Iowa caucuses, the first indication of voter sentiment in a presidential election year, the new app relaying the results that the Iowa Democratic Party planned to use broke down, and those trying to log in or download it had no training for the task.

Fortunately, there seems to be paper backup for the votes, but it takes time for the voting cards to be counted by hand. According to partial returns so far, still only 71 percent, former Vice President Joe Biden is trailing the other three leaders: Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the youngest candidate at age 38, has a slim and unpredicted lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Even as people await the final results, the scene is now shifting to the second voting site and the first primary in the nation, that of New Hampshire.

Back in Washington, the vote in the Senate to impeach the president was another historic and unprecedented news item. The partisan wrangling in the House and Senate between the two major parties has been constantly on display throughout the impeachment hearings the past

months. The drama was put forth with an eye to the coming elections and promises a hard and bitter fight from now until November.

A little bit of relief was provided by the annual football contest, the Super Bowl, this past Sunday evening. For those who watched, the fourth quarter provided much excitement and an intensity that blocked out even the loudest grim news.

Three cheers for the 24-year-old quarterback, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, who brought his team back from defeat and became the youngest winner of both a Super Bowl and a regular season NFL (2018) MVP award.

Then there is Harvey Weinstein and the trial that, for me, is too much in the news. The constant stream of rape details that are being eagerly reported is a nauseating backdrop for the aforementioned news. There will undoubtedly be a movie.

Speaking of movies, the Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are coming this Sunday, and they should provide distraction from the heavier events. And isn’t it interesting to learn from a recent news article, that there are probably more than 10 million American nudists? See, you can find happy news if you just try.

A Most Dramatic Week

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his was the week that was. And what a week of atypical news it was. Let’s start with the coronavirus and its progression toward a pandemic. The global death toll stood at 492 as of Wednesday morning, according to NBC News, and confirmed cases top 24,000 in mainland China. More than 185,000 people are currently under medical observation, Chinese health officials said.

Hundreds of U.S. nationals were removed from locked-down Between Wuhan and have arrived in the Unityou and me ed States, as two

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF more rescue planes landed at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. Passengers will be quarantined for 14 days before

being released. So far, there have been 11 cases in the U.S. Trailing China with confirmed cases are Japan with 35, Singapore with 28, Thailand with 25 and South Korea with 19. But the virus has definitely spread beyond Asia and has been found in Germany, France, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Finland and beyond.

There are even 10 passengers with the virus from a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan.

Another cruise ship, with 3,600 aboard, has been quarantined in Hong Kong.

While there is talk of work on a coronavirus vaccine, health professionals agree it will take up to a year before such a vaccine would be available to the general public.

A traditional news event with an unusual twist was the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night in the House of Representatives that had voted to impeach him. Extreme partisanship was on display at the start when President Donald Trump (R) did not shake hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) — second in the line of succession to the highest office next to Vice President Mike Pence (R). Then the speaker tore up a text of the speech as the cameras were rolling

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