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Ray and Jen diSanza, above, with their two children, including a healthy elisandra, on left, with whom diSanza was pregnant when she was diagnosed with HeLPP syndrome, a complication of preeclampsia. diSanza held a walk at Mount Sinai’s Heritage Park, where locals, on right, came to show support and help raise awareness and research funds.

Local mom hosts walk, raises awareness for preeclampsia

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4 to 12 percent of women diagnosed with preeclampsia develop HELLP syndrome.

Since giving birth to her perfectly healthy Families and friends walked to raise daughter, Elisandra, at midnight Feb. 4, awareness and funds to help put an end to a 2016, DiSanza has bounced back from a postbirth health crisis and become an active life-threatening pregnancy disorder.

Coram mom Jen DiSanza was 33 weeks volunteer with the nationwide Preeclampsia pregnant with her second child in early 2016 Foundation, an empowered community of when she started experiencing what felt like patients and experts that aims to raise public really bad heartburn, which she was told was awareness of the disorder and funds for research and a cure. a common symptom experiThe foundation is a drivenced at the end of pregnancy. ing force behind two biparEven though a recent visit tisan bills currently trying to to the doctor had assured her be passed in Congress that everything was going well, would support states in their in a matter of days, she was efforts to identify a cause for vomiting, her blood presthe disorder and use their sure was up to 188/110 and findings to improve health her liver was shutting down care quality and ultimately while in labor seven weeks inform change. ahead of schedule at Stony DiSanza, with the support Brook University Hospital. of several sponsors including “My liver enzymes were Macaroni Kid and Eurofins very high, my blood stopped NTD, organized the Promise clotting and my platelet count Walk for Preeclampsia June dropped — normal is around 17, where dozens of local 200,000 and I was at 27,000,” DiSanza said. “I couldn’t even ‘I couldn’t even walk residents affected by the diswalk down the hallway in the down the hallway in order in some way or another walked a mile and half around hospital because if I stubbed my toe, I could internally the hospital because Heritage Park in Mount Sinai bleed to death.” if I stubbed my toe, in support of disorder recognition and research.

She was soon diagnosed I could internally A goal for donations to with HELLP syndrome, the foundation was set at bleed to death.’ which is a complication of of which $3,000 was preeclampsia, an all-too— Jen DiSanza $5,000, raised before the event even prevalent but widely overstarted. Gift certificates to looked pregnancy disorder that threatens the lives of mothers and their local businesses were raffled off and a postunborn babies. HELLP is the acronym for he- walk workout session was offered by Energy molysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet Fitness of Miller Place, where DiSanza works as an instructor. Face painting was available count, which all characterize the disorder.

There is currently no direct cause, which for kids.

“A lot of people aren’t aware of what preaffects 0.2 to 0.6 percent of all pregnancies, with symptoms from headaches to nausea to eclampsia actually is, and how serious it can bleeding, according to the American Preg- be and how quickly it comes up,” DiSanza said nancy Association. Women in the United to the small crowd before the walk began.

States are at a higher risk for maternal death “There’s a lot that women just don’t know than women in 47 other countries, and about to look for. Being here, and telling all your

friends and family why we’re here, helps to share that message. [The foundation] sends out pamphlets to doctors’ offices and clinics around the country, they explain the warning signs and what to look for.”

Laura Moakley, a Seaford resident who helped DiSanza coordinate the event, and her 6-year-old daughter, Rowan, wore a pink shirt that read “Kick Preeclampsia to the Curb.” Moakley was diagnosed while 32 weeks pregnant with Rowan in 2011 after her midwife mistreated the signs.

Feeling scared and uncertain of what awaited her, having been told she or her child could die in labor, Moakley had an emergency Cesarean section and woke up with a photo of Rowan next to her pillow.

Her daughter spent 35 days in the neonatal intensive care unit.

“I felt robbed of a normal pregnancy ... why didn’t I have the picture perfect pregnancy that our society needs to see? My goal was for no other woman to ever have to go through this,” Moakley said as a happy and healthy Rowan hugged her. “Awareness is key — we must continue forward with all of our work, our walks, changes in the medical community and even Congress.”

She eventually discovered the foundation online and found a network of women and

men with whom to talk and get support.

“I feel more connected ... I feel like we’re not alone,” she said. “I feel like there’s a movement happening and there could be change in the future. I already see there’s more awareness and support ... not just for women, but men, who are just as deeply affected by it also. There’s the stress of coming home without a baby or of having to take care of a premature baby.”

DiSanza’s husband, Ray, could vouch for that stress.

“It was the single most horrifying experience of my life,” he recalled. “I didn’t know all that much about preeclampsia before it happened ... it was a good thing that Jen did, because if we had both been as ignorant of it as I was, we might not be here today.”

Dr. Terrence Hallahan, of Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics in Melville, spoke of a recently developed test screening for early onset preeclampsia at the lab, which is the only one offering the test at the moment.

“It’s something near and dear to our hearts,” Hallahan said. “We now have the ability to test pregnant women in the first trimester, and determine which are most likely to develop early onset preeclampsia. Not only can we detect this, we can now prevent it.

People need to know.”

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Village Chamber’s Green Fest draws environmentally conscious community members

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com Last weekend, Port Jefferson was a haven for those concerned about the environment and interested in making changes in their everyday life to help improve the health of the Earth. The Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce hosted its ninth annual Green Fest June 17 at the Village Center, where members of the community and representatives from nonprofits and companies with energy efficiency missions gathered to inform and help others learn about living a greener lifestyle.

Nearly 30 vendors were present, sharing messages and initiatives with attendees, including Direct Energy Solar,

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a company that specializes in installing solar energy systems for homes; PowerUp Communities, a Long Island Progressive Coalition project that offers free energy efficiency assessments for homes and offers financial assistance through state grants for efficiency improvements; Power Energy Solutions, a company that specializes in the installation and service of smart home equipment like efficient thermostats and smart lights, which can be utilized to drastically reduce a home’s footprint; and the Citizen’s Climate Lobby, an international nonprofit advocating for federal legislation for a carbon emission fee.

Crystal Woods, a representative from PowerUp Communities, explained the importance of the company’s work and why participation in events like Green Fest is vital, especially on Long Island.

“We help homeowners get a free home energy assessment that’s provided to them by the state through [the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority], so they can find out what they’re wasting on their utility bills,” she said. “I do get encouraged when people ask questions about things like this … It’s not just putting a solar panel on the roof of your house, it’s unplugging your cellphone at night or making sure your computer is shut off when you’re not using it — basic, simple things that can make a huge impact.”

Michael Ripa, the co-owner of Powers Energy Solutions, reiterated Woods’ encouragement with the turnout and interest of the community during the event.

He said the company was started by his partner Jason Powers when he was working for the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., because Ripa said Powers saw a void in skilled, trade labor working in the field to install and service equipment meant to Photos by Alex Petroski improve energy effiAbove, ranger eric Powers of ciency in homes.

“This is great,” he your Connection to Nature at said of the inquisitive Port Jeff’s annual Green Fest nature of visitors of the June 17. top left, representatives event and wide avail- from Powers energy solutions ability of important in- explain initiatives to visitors. formation. “Our office is in Port Jefferson. I’m hoping to see more and more of this — it’s very cool.”

Jeanne Brunson, the leader of the Long Island Chapter of the international organization Citizens’ Climate Lobby, stressed the importance of eliminating political bias from discussions about the environment.

“We all care about our natural resources — conservative, progressive, doesn’t matter,” she said. “That’s something that we all care about especially here on Long Island, where the impacts of climate change could be so catastrophic. I love to see people coming together regardless of political persuasion on that.”

Brunson added her mission in attending the event was to encourage visitors to ask their representatives in Congress to support legislation to enact a carbon fee, which would charge energy companies that use fossil fuels and would reimburse American taxpayers with the money.

“So it’s a price signal to the market to shift away from fossil fuels,” she said. “It’s a carbon tax, which we refer to as a fee because of the return of the revenue.”

Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce Director of Operations Barbara Ransome said the event was a success because it allowed visitors to speak one on one with vendors on ways to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle.

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Charter fishing boat donates 1,000 fish to Port Jeff soup kitchen

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com

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Fishermen and women catch porgies on the osprey Fishing Fleet June 12 to be donated to Welcome Friends, a Port Jefferson soup kitchen.

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For those less fortunate who require meals provided by a Port Jefferson based soup kitchen, fresh-caught fish is a luxury.

But thanks to the generosity and hard work of the crew of a charter fishing boat from Port Jeff and Welcome Friends, a soup kitchen that feeds as many as 75 people daily five times per week at local churches, that luxury became a reality.

The plan started with a phone call from Amanda Peterson, third-generation owner and captain of the Osprey Fishing Fleet. She reached out to Margaret Tumilowicz, president of Welcome Friends, and asked if her guests would enjoy fresh fish to be caught and donated by her customers on a June 12 fishing trip. The company offers seats on one of their two charter ships — the Osprey and Osprey V — for day trips into the Long Island Sound to catch fluke, porgies, bluefish, striped bass, sea bass and blackfish, depending on what’s currently in season. Typically a few dozen people are on board for a given trip, and they’re allowed to take home up to 30 fish each. This time, everyone on board was there to catch fish for people in need.

Peterson said in a phone interview she got inspiration from a trip she had taken with the Lady Reelers fishing club, a local group that at least once a year donates all of their catch from an outing to the food bank Long Island Cares. This was the second attempt at a massive catch-and-donate plan, after the first in the fall fell through due to bad weather. Peterson explained why she decided she wanted to hold a similar event to the Lady Reelers’ with her business.

“It’s such a great way to give back to the community,” Peterson said. “We’re a business that’s solely supported by the community. We want to find different ways to say thank you for keeping us in business.”

On June 12, about 35 fishermen and women lined up on the dock at the Port Jefferson Marina to help the worthy cause. Visitors of Welcome Friends weren’t alone in receiving a special meal though, as the participants of the trip were also instructed to bring $25 worth of nonperishable food items to be donated to Maryhaven Center of Hope Catholic Health Services or $25 worth of dog food for the Brookhaven Town Animal Shelter. The only other fee for prospective fish catchers was $10 to offset the costs of bait and fuel for the charter.

Members of Peterson’s crew were on board to donate their time to help catch the fish, as well as filet and debone them.

The trip yielded more than 1,000 porgies in about an hour and a half. The arduous task of prepping the fish for cooking took the crew of the Osprey about five hours.

“I understand going without, so it’s good to take that feeling away for somebody,” deckhand for the Osprey Fleet Travis McRae said in an interview. He joked it was easy to convince people to attend the event because everyone likes fishing.

Tumilowicz reiterated it is a rarity for her guests to have the opportunity to enjoy a dinner of fresh-caught fish.

“It makes me feel really good,” Peterson said when she heard Tumilowicz had said that.

The soup kitchen president tried to put into words what the generous gesture meant to her.

“Can you imagine — god bless them,” she said. “We cannot say enough to describe the incredible generosity of Captain Amanda and her outstanding crew as well as their customers.

Because the Greater Port Jefferson community supports our soup kitchen and other like-minded local organizations, we are able to provide for our neighbors in need.”

Tumilowicz said the bounty would provide about 500 meals for needy members of the community. Once the fish were caught and fileted, Welcome Friends’ team of volunteers, including cook Arty Shertzer, Mickey Cantwell and Tumilowicz’s husband Bob prepared the meals and bagged and froze fish for future meals.

One more positive outcome came from the June 12 outing.

A three-year-old pit bull named Bella who was in need of a home at the Brookhaven Animal Shelter was brought aboard for the trip and was since adopted by Eddie McRae, who was on the charter that night. Peterson said about 1,000 pounds of dog food and 500 pounds of canned goods were also part of the yield.

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Cops SCPD: Underage drinking, 400 at party in PJ Village

by Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com A party at a Port Jefferson Village home caused a commotion Saturday night, requiring Suffolk County Police to respond to break up a gathering of approximately 400 people, including some allegedly younger than the legal drinking age, according to police.

Sixth Precinct Patrol officers were called to a house on Crystal Brook Hollow Road June 17 by the Port Jeff village constables, according to the Port Jeff Code Chief Wally Tomaszewski. When police arrived, there were approximately 400 people at the residence at 12:45 a.m., and underage drinking was observed.

Police arrested and charged the host, Michael Malguarnera, 30, with violating the social host law. He was transported to the 6th Precinct, where he was released on bail. Malguarnera is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip Aug. 18.

According to Tomaszewski, a similar party was thrown at the residence the weekend prior. He said Malguarnera threw the party and charged admission at the door, and even offered valet parking for visitors. Members from the village’s “Whiskey Team,” a task force of two Suffolk County Police Department officers assigned to Port Jeff village for the summer months to assist the constables,

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A party at this home on Crystal brook Hollow road in Port Jeff attracted underage drinking and about 400 guests.

responded to the call, according to the code chief. This was the first weekend the Whiskey Team was available as a resource for the constables, and they will remain through the summer, Tomaszewski said.

The issue was addressed in a post on the village’s official Facebook page.

“Although I am sorry this happened in Port Jefferson — I’m also grateful to our code bureau and to SCP for arriving and doing their jobs!,” the post said. “Let this be a lesson — this will not be tolerated in any neighborhood!”

Attorney information for Malguarnera was not immediately available.

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by Desirée keeGAN Desiree@tbrnewspapers.com Centereach resident Edward Perkowski Jr. was found not guilty last month of all charges against him after he was indicted on illegal weapons possession following a raid at his former Mount Sinai home. During the raid, Nazi paraphernalia, drugs and cash were also seized.

Perkowski, 34, was the focus of a major Suffolk police news conference last June, but in court, the case unraveled because the jury did not believe detectives’ confidential informant. The informant, according to defense attorney Matt Tuohy, of Huntington, was Perkowski’s former girlfriend.

“They made my guy look really, really bad, and he was innocent,” Tuohy said in a statement. “He really suffered.”

A Riverhead jury found Perkowski not guilty on all eight counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one charge of criminal possession of a weapon. Other charges in the 14-count indictment were dropped three weeks before the trial began.

At the time, Police Commissioner Tim Sini said: “Today’s search warrant might have prevented a deadly, violent incident, like the one we recently saw in Orlando,” referring to the Pulse nightclub massacre.

Sini also said the house was “infected with a disease called hate.”

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“They all called my family Nazis,” said Edward Perkowski Sr., a Vietnam veteran. “All of the lies started because my son dumped their ‘confidential informant.’ And the police only took the German stuff we collected from World War II, nothing Russian or Chinese or any other country. It bolstered their story.

We’re collectors.”

The younger Perkowski owns a registered online military surplus company, registered in Riverhead. The money, which was the father’s workmen’s compensation funds, was returned to him.

“The jury said the police lied,” the elder Perkowski said. “Everyone thought my son was a Nazi, and he wasn’t.”

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A man’s body was found floating in the Long Island Sound about three miles north of Belle Terre Village at about 2 p.m. June 19, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Gregory Blanco, a 41-year-old Commack man.

Someone on board the Park City, a Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company ferry, spotted a body floating in

the water Monday afternoon. The Stratford Fire Department responded and recovered the body, which was transported to the Town of Brookhaven Port Jefferson Marina.

The victim had launched in a kayak from Northport. He was pronounced dead by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner who will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

On June 11, 24-year-old Huntington Station resident, Selvin Vasquez-Enamorado, launched his kayak from a beach near Crab Meadow Beach in Northport and never returned. His kayak was recovered, and the police have since called off the search.

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Nonprofit groups working to save the Long Island Sound Participants collaborate with Huntington residents to create water quality report card for harbors and bays

By Victoria Espinoza victoria@tbrnewspapers.com There’s team collaboration happening across Long Island to ensure the water in the Long Island Sound is as healthy as possible.

Save the Sound, a nonprofit organization based out of Connecticut, is working with local groups and volunteers to create a water quality report card for the Sound’s bays and harbors, in an effort to increase available data for residents to have access to.

Monitoring of the open Sound — the areas of the water body beyond bays and harbors — in the last decade has revealed the increasing presence of nitrogen pollution. The contamination leads to algael blooms, red tides, loss of tidal marshes and fish die-offs, and the incremental improvements brought about by wastewater treatment plant upgrades. But researchers have acknowledged that results found in the open Sound may not reflect conditions in the bays and harbors, where a large part of the public comes in contact with the Sound’s water.

In May, Save the Sound started conducting the Unified Water Study in 24 sites across the Sound, and participants will be testing the water twice a month through October, looking at dissolved oxygen levels, temperature, dissolved salt levels and overall water quality.

Organizers gathered at Huntington Harbor in Halestie to conduct a test June 13, and explained why the report card is so important for the future of all bays and harbors across Long Island.

The Long Island Sound Funders Collaborative funded a report card for the sound, with the first one coming out in 2015.

“Through the report card process we realized that most of the data we had collected to talk about water quality and the health of the sound was for the open Sound,” said Tracy Brown, director of Save the Sound. “And when we published the report card and showed the scores of water quality, but we didn’t go into all the bays and harbors, the public said, ‘well how about my harbor? How about my cove?’”

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clockwise from top left, a reading done after volunteers test the water quality in Huntington Harbor; tracy Brown shows the most recent report card for the water quality of the open Long island sound; and a volunteer conducts a water test.

The bays, harbors and coves are their own unique ecosystems. As a result, Brown said, “we realized we had a data gap.”

Certain groups have been doing their own studies in smaller areas, according to brown, but nothing uniform to have a comparative level. The report card focuses on the ecological health, not bacteria levels and risk of contamination for humans entering the water, but rather the creatures living in the water 24/7.

“The pollutant of concern is nitrogen,” Brown said. “This study was designed to get into all 116 little bays, harbors and coves that encircle the sound, and our goal is to get into each of them taking the exact same measurements for an assessment to say which of the bays and harbors are not handling the nutrient input well, which ones are really suffering from nutrient pollution, and then we can direct conservation resources.”

One of the leading causes of increased nitrogen is contamination from septic systems, according to Brown, as urine has high levels of nitrogen. She said efforts like Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s (D) initiatives to improve groundwater and limit nitrogen pollution are a step in the right direction.

“Nitrogen pollution has been identified as the single greatest threat to water quality, but for the first time in decades, we have a historic opportunity to turn the tide in our effort to reclaim our waters,” Bellone said in a statement when announcing countywide nitrogen-reducing initiatives for homeowners.

Brown reiterated some of the dangers of high levels of nitrogen.

“High levels of nitrogen feed growth, creating algal blooms, and when the algal blooms die they suck the oxygen out of the water in that decay process so you create these low oxygen zones,” she said. Algal

bloms are created as a result of a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems, and is recognized by the discoloration in the water from their pigments.

Low oxygen levels in the water because of these blooms means finfish and shellfish can’t live in the area, and high nitrogen levels also lead to the destruction of coastal wetlands, which not only serve as a habitat for animals but also are a defense for homes from destructive storms. Brown also said high nitrogen levels are being linked to high acidification levels, which prevent shellfish from forming their shells and reduce the population’s ability to reproduce.

About a year ago, Peter Janow, a Cold Spring Harbor resident, got in touch with Save the Sound after hearing about its efforts, and extended an offer to help if the group needed any hands for the Huntington and Northport bay areas.

“Once they created the Uniform Water Study, they got in contact with me and asked if I could help out, and I said ‘absolutely brother,’” Janow said of how he first got involved. He eventually ended up joining more volunteers to work together in the area. He said he was motivated to get involved to both make a difference and help become an even more of a contributing member in his community.

“Most folks, especially on Long Island we’re surrounded by gorgeous scenes, the harbors, all the water sports,” Janow said.

“We [the volunteers] share in the duties, and the role is covering the greater Huntington and Northport complexes including Lloyd Harbor, Huntington Harbor, Centerport Harbor, Northport Harbor and Duck Island Harbor, and each one of those areas has its own qualities. We have a total of 25 specific locations we’re testing water samples from.”

Janow said he and the others divide the areas up, spending about three hours over

two days testing water samples.

The combined efforts are for the benefit of all Long Islanders, and residents can help without getting on the water themselves.

“We really hope the public will see the significance,” Brown said. “If you want a better grade, you need to take care of your wastewater and reduce your lawn fertilizer.

The science community has identified nitrogen as enemy No. 1 to the Long Island Sound, and the philanthropic community said, ‘what can we do?’ and then they reached out to regional groups to execute their vision, and then we’ve reached out to local groups for help. That’s what’s so interesting about this study — the collaboration.”

The effort is far from over. Brown said there is still a need for more volunteers to do studies east of Huntington, including areas in the towns of Smithtown and Brookhaven, especially near the Nissequogue River and Port Jefferson Harbor.

This effort travels all the way to Connecticut, and one science teacher at a town in Dover took the initiative to volunteer himself and his Advanced Placement students to help contribute.

“One of the things that makes it possible for groups to organize to participate in this study, even if they’re not already a group, is that we provide the equipment, we provide the training, we provide the standard operating procedures, and Save the Sound is available to help them get off the ground and make sure they succeed,” Brown said. “If we’re going to reach all 116 systems around the Sound that we want to reach, we’re going to need more groups.

We’re going to need new groups that don’t exist yet to organize around the study and ask if anyone is in their bay or harbor yet.”

Anyone interested in getting involved with Save the Sound can reach out to Peter Linderoth, the Save the Sound water quality manager at Plinderoth@savethesound.org.

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Gold Award Ceremony Brookhaven Town Clerk Donna Lent recently attended the Suffolk County Girl Scout Gold Award Ceremony at East Wind Caterers in Wading River.

During the event, she honored 12 Gold Award recipients from Brookhaven Town, including Khadija Saad and Courtney Cronin from Troop 1331 in Shirley.

To earn their Gold Awards, Saad made cat houses for strays for the Pattersquash Creek Civic Association’s Operation Cat, or O-Cat group, and Cronin made fidget blankets for dementia residents at the Bristal of Lake Grove.

The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the United States Girl Scouts, earned by senior and ambassador Girl Scouts.

Only 5.4 percent of eligible Girl Scouts successfully earn the Gold Award.

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Vets day fun Councilman Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) was at Sachem High School North to present “Kids 4 Vets Day” in collaboration with the Sachem school district. The event benefitted Farmingville VFW Post 400, Centereach VFW Post 4927 and Ronkonkoma Amvets Post 48. This family fun day featured food, activities, games and more.

“I was honored to host the first ever ‘Kids 4 Vets Day’ because it’s very important that the community does its part to support our veterans and educate the youth about the sacrifices they have made to secure our freedom,” LaValle said. “It was great to see

so many community members, families, veterans and students come together for this worthwhile cause.”

The “Kids 4 Vets Day” was supported by the Selden, Centereach and Lake Ronkonkoma civic associations, and the Farmingville Residents Association. It was also made possible by Amvets Post 48, VFW Memorial Post 400 and VFW Post 4927.

“I commend Councilman LaValle for the work he did to help organize this event and for all that he does for our veterans,” Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine said. “We cannot thank these brave men and women enough for their service to our country and community.”

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Cecilia Curry

Cecilia Curry, 100, a homemaker, of Centereach, died May 15.

Born in Brooklyn in 1916, Curry was the daughter of Mathew and Anna.

Curry was the beloved wife of the late Francis; devoted mother of the late Jacqueline and late James, Richard, Cecelia, Francis, Theresa and Michael; mother-in-law of Geir, Jean, John, Jacqueline, James, Marion and Jaine; loving sister of the late Eleanor Wells and the late Genieveve Rup; cherished grandmother of Britt, April, Chandra, Keith, Cynthia, Shanan, Jami, James, Janya, Shawn, Jared, Brooke, Zak, Caitlin, James, Kaylee, Frank, Krissy and Dylan; and great-grandmother of Tyler, Daylin, Savannah, Bristol, Devin, Blake, Emaleigh, Quinn, Kelsey, Liam, James, Rylee and Madison; and great-great-grandmother of Elias.

Services were held at Moloney’s Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Lake Ronkonkoma. Funeral mass was celebrated at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church in Ronkonkoma.

Interment at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Arrangements were entrusted to Maloney’s Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station.

Helmut Kos

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Creating cornholes for cops Selden Middle School students Peter Marjowski, James Thomas and Kevin Swayze recently honed their carpentry skills while volunteering their time to build 12 “cornhole” beanbag toss boards.

The Middle Country Central School District students donated the boards to the Suffolk County Police Department 6th Precinct’s “Cops Who Care” community outreach program. The boards will be used for fundraising events to support local underprivileged families.

Helmut Kos, 86, of Lake Ronkonkoma, died April 29.

Born in Germany in 1931, Kos was the loving son of Oskar and Anna.

He was a field engineer for Lepel Corporation.

Kos was the beloved husband of Heidegard, devoted father of Ralph and Robert and cherished grandfather of four.

Funeral services were held at Moloney’s Funeral Home in Lake Ronkonkoma. A private cremation followed at Nassau-Suffolk Crematory in Lake Ronkonkoma.

Arrangements were entrusted to Maloney’s Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station.

Josephine Debler

Josephine Debler, 88, of Lake Grove, died April 29.

Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Debler was the loving daughter of Pasquale and Elvira.

She was a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside.

Debler was the beloved wife of the late Alfred; devoted mother of Paul, Lance and Krista; mother-in-law of Scott; and dear sister of Lou, Lucy, Concetta, Barbara and Gloria.

Services were held at Moloney’s-Sinnickson Funeral Home in Center Moriches.

Funeral mass was celebrated at St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church in Center Moriches.

Interment followed at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Center Moriches.

Arrangements were entrusted to Maloney’s Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station.

Emilyene Guifoyle

Emilyene Guifoyle, 82, a homemaker, of Selden, died April 27.

Born in Queens in 1934, Guifoyle was the loving daughter of James and Emily.

Guifoyle was the beloved wife of the late John; devoted mother of John and Karen; mother-in-law of Barbara; loving sister of Robert and Eileen; sister-in-law to Bunny; dear aunt to Margaret; cherished grandmother to Katherine and Vincent, Colleen and Kyle, John, Noreen and Candice; and great-grandmother of Trent, Ryan and Isabella.

Services were held at Moloney’s Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station. Funeral mass was celebrated at Infant Jesus R.C. Church in Port Jefferson. Interment followed at Calverton National Cemetery.

Arrangements were entrusted to Maloney’s Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station.

Brett Punzi

Brett Punzi, 47, of Lake Ronkonkoma, died April 24.

Born in Babylon in 1969, Punzi was the beloved son of Robert and Gail.

He was self-employed by Weatherguard Roofing.

Punzi was the loving brother of Robert and dear nephew of Richard.

Services were held at Moloney’s Funeral Home in Lake Ronkonkoma. A private cremation followed Nassau-Suffolk Crematory in Lake Ronkonkoma.

Arrangements were entrusted to Maloney’s Funeral Home in Port Jefferson Station.

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By Desirée Keegan Desiree@tbrnewspapers.com It has been quite a month for ShorehamWading River senior Brian Morrell.

After the right-handed pitcher helped lead his team to a Suffolk County title to close out May, he performed in the Blue Chip Grand Slam Challenge, leading Suffolk County to that win, too. Last week, he became the second player ever to receive the Yastrzemski Award twice in the distinction’s 50-year history. The honor is awarded to the top player in Suffolk County, which Morrell also became just the fourth junior to receive.

To top it off, now he’s also a Major League Baseball draftee.

The small-town star was taken by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 35th round, with the 1,043rd pick, just after 5 p.m. June 14.

Morrell batted .500 with seven home runs and 39 RBIs this season, and had a 10-1 pitching record with 93 strikeouts in 67 1-3 innings. The senior set numerous school records, including hits in a season (44), career home runs (27) and career wins (29). Morrell threw six no-hitters in his varsity career, including three this season.

“Brian works his tail off, and he does the right thing,” Shoreham-Wading River’s head coach Kevin Willi said. “The first couple times the scouts were out, the guys were a little awestruck, but Brian has always been team first.”

Morrell had one of his biggest showings in a no-hitter against Bayport-Blue Point

April 27. At least five scouts were in the stands to see him nail down 15 strikeouts with three walks while tossing the seven scoreless frames. He topped out at 95 mph on the radar gun. A scout who came from Massachusetts and got caught in traffic, according to Willi, only caught the last inning, though he still got to see Morrell comfortably throwing each pitch at 92 mph late in the game.

“It was good for the scouts to be there and see some of his best stuff,” Willi said. “[Being drafted had] been on his mind all season, but he never let it reflect on his performance or how he treated anyone else. He didn’t try to throw 100 mph and not care if he wins the game — he never had that attitude. He always did what he needed to do to win the game. He was never selfish.

He never tried to impress. He just wanted to win.”

An hour after Morrell went, 2014 Shoreham-Wading River graduate Tyler Osik was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 40th and final round. Tyler’s father Keith played seven seasons for the Pirates from 1996 through 2002. Tyler Osik played infielder and catcher, most recently for Chipola College in Florida.

This is the second time that two Shoreham-Wading River graduates have been selected in the same draft. The first time, coincidentally, was in 1990 when Osik’s father was drafted to the Pirates and Julio Vega to the San Francisco Giants.

Along with the Phillies, other teams that scouted Morrell closest included the

Chicago Cubs and New York Mets.

The 6-foot, 1-inch pitcher is committed to attend the University of Notre Dame, and was hoping to hear his name called in earlier rounds, according to Willi, but with the way the draft is set up with signing bonuses, especially in regards to college commits with big scholarships, it can be unpredictable when a player will be picked.

Players drafted have until July 15 to sign a contact. If Morrell opts not to sign and attend school instead, he will be eligible to be drafted again in three years.

It’s also the second straight year a Shoreham player was drafted. Mike O’Reilly, a 2012 graduate and former Yastrzemski winner, was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and is currently pitching for the Peoria Chiefs in Class A. The Phillies also drafted Hauppauge’s Nick Fanti, another Yastrzemski award winner, in 2015.

Ben Brown of Ward Melville was also selected by the Phillies Wednesday. The 6-foot, 6-inch right-handed pitcher was taken in the 33rd round.

“When I found out, it was such a relief,” Brown said. “I jumped up really high and I gave my mom a big hug. It’s such an incredible blessing.”

Brown amassed a 15-3 record over his career as a Patriot, and tied for second on the school’s all-time wins list. He went 7-0 during the regular season in his sophomore year, and after a loss in the playoffs, went 3-0 to start his junior year.

He hadn’t given up a single run, but then an unexpected challenge put his resolve to

the test.

Brown’s appendix burst, and he needed emergency surgery. He lost 20 pounds during his setback.

“It was a long road for him and he had to work hard,” Ward Melville head coach Lou Petrucci said. “Everybody roots for Ben. He’s just a good kid and he’s done a good job.”

Other Suffolk County players to be taken in this year’s draft include Mount Sinai’s Michael Donadio, a senior outfielder at St. John’s University, who was selected by the Miami Marlins in the 30th round, and Commack’s Jesse Berardi, a St. John’s junior, was picked by the Cleveland Indians in the 10th round with the 312th overall pick.

St. John’s appeared in the NCAA regional this year. Donadio posted a .374/.473/.547 with 24 extra-base hits, including four home runs and 38 RBIs starting in all 55 games this season. Berardi posted a .356/.456/.462 slash line and earned firstteam All-Big East Conference honors. Three years ago, the 5-foot, 10-inch, 185-pound shortstop was taken out of high school in the 40th round by the Phillies.

Petrucci is already dreaming up Ward Melville-graduates Steven Matz or Anthony Kay versus Brown scenarios.

“They’re making baseball relevant — it’s nice to see Long Island baseball get the recognition it deserves,” Petrucci said. “To see these kids pursue their dreams and have their dreams unfold right before our very eyes, that’s what you want to see. We all work to see kids realize their dreams, and Ben Brown was the next in line.”

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WORKING & LIVING IN THE THREE VILLAGES FOR 25 YEARS. Owner does the work & guarantees satisfaction. COUNTY-WIDE Lic. & Ins. 37153-H 631-751-8280

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SUNDAY 6/25 12:00-2:00PM MT. SINAI 19 Grassland Circle. 4 BR, 3 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, CAC, Full Bsmnt. SD #7. MLS# 2946565. $649,000.

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Father’s Day reflections

We can feel hopeless or hopeful

To commemorate Father’s Day last Sunday, our editorial staff wanted to take a moment to reflect and give thanks for the dedicated and caring fathers and father figures who have shaped our lives.

Rita J. Egan: Everyone gets one father but some get more than one, and on Father’s Day I remember all the men who stepped in and filled the void in a child’s life. After my parents separated, I moved in with my maternal grandparents, and it was my grandfather who provided paternal guidance in my life. I would spend hours following him around as he worked on his paintings or did his chores around the house and yard. A left-hander like me, he showed me how to write neatly and taught me how to draw — two things I never quite mastered as well as he did. He’s the one who bought my friend and me tickets to my favorite boy band’s concert, even though at first he and my grandmother told me I couldn’t go to their Nassau Coliseum show. He’s the one who went to the parent-teacher’s conference and drove me to religion classes and kickline practices. And, those memories and many others are what are cherished on Father’s Day. Desirée Keegan: Being a single parent, my mother had to be soft but stern, a protector and a provider, a patriarch and an exemplar.

Like many single moms, she has always been a guiding light, sacrificing for the betterment of her two children, but was always right there to be a shoulder to cry on or a handyman when needed too. She built a better life — her sacrifices led to greater rewards, and with limited resources, she ensured mental and emotional well-being, while always making sure there was food on the table. Through thick and thin my mother has supported me. She’s the biggest inspiration in my life, and she surpasses Superman in my mental list of heroes. Mom, you are powerful. You’ve been two parents in one. To my compassionate, loving, beautiful mother who has always been more than enough, Happy Father’s Day to you.

Victoria Espinoza: The first time I saw my dad teaching a science class at Hofstra University, I saw a man I had never seen in the 18 years we shared a roof — the excitement and passion in his eyes, the joy when his students raised their hands and participated in the lesson. It’s a memory I will never forget of Dr. Fernando Espinoza.

On my bedroom wall is a chalkboard with the phrase, “Just because it’s not intuitive, doesn’t mean I don’t have the capacity to learn it.”

Spoken from the brain of my father, the nutty professor, it’s a lesson I carry with me. It can relate to my dad’s travels to America from Colombia, his struggles learning English, his journey becoming a father of four, and the wisdom he hopes to instill in his students. One day I hope it will help describe my life as well. There are no words I would rather have define my life than the words of my father.

Alex Petroski: Being a baseball and hockey dad undoubtedly presents a number of challenges for most fathers. Striking a balance between focused direction in the hopes of achieving improvement and never failing to remember that you’ve all gathered to enjoy a kids’ game is surely no easy task. As I got older and the competition in the moment seemed more and more important, a third task presented itself for my dad. No matter how many times I kicked a ground ball that let a run score, or missed picking up a man cutting to the net for a goal, after some words of advice on how to do better next time, the conversation always went back to the positives. No mistake was large enough to dwell on and ignore even the most miniscule sign of improvement that his trained eye had picked up. He juggled those three things masterfully and as a result I have nothing but fond memories of the times my dad and I spent on the same field or rink as part of the same team. Many negative connotations associated with youth sports in our country would be demolished if there were more dads like mine out there.

Kevin Redding: I never feel less driven than when I’m around my dad. He’s a man of many talents, with a particular knack for building and cooking things. There hasn’t been a day I’ve known him where he hasn’t built some sort of elaborate piece of furniture or fun accessory and followed it up with a delicious home-cooked meal, a personal favorite being his Korean barbecue. Just a few years ago he went back to college to attain an engineering degree with hopes that it would bring him a new and exciting career … and it worked. He and my mom live in Florida now, where he works as an entertainment technician and lighting crew chief at Hollywood Studios in Disney World. Love ya, dad.

The other day a friend shared a statistic that heroin is now the leading cause of death in Americans under 50 years old.

It is reported that, today, 144 people will die from accidental overdose.

I have been working in health care for 30 years and watching our society become what I term “sicker and sadder.” The statistics are indisputable and show that too many people are living in despair.

When you add the 144 heroin overdoses to the 121 suicides completed every day, which includes 22 of our veterans, and acknowledge not only the noted increase of suicide rate in our children and teens but the fact that, for every one suicide completed 25 are attempted, there is no disputing the negative and/or hopeless feelings of so many people.

We hear a lot about accidental overdose — I thought it fair to include why people may start using drugs in the first place. Per Foundation for a Drug Free World, “people take drugs because they want to change something about their lives.”

It is evident that there are two categories of people — the ones who absolutely need rehab and

recovery and the ones who may be having a negative life experience that haven’t gotten to this point.

One more statistic — as per the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults age 18 and older. In addition, major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15 to 44 and affects more than 15 million American adults in a given year.

It breaks my heart that so many people live their lives in despair.

I believe community support will help in many ways, including helping those who feel depressed or alone or isolated. We can continue to fight “wars” or we can begin to provide proactive life and coping skills to use in our lives and our communities that will potentially circumvent the development of a negative life experience and the utilization of self-destructive behaviors.

I have many years of experience working in the field of quality improvement. As I continue to learn and to research, it becomes more than evident to me that we

are going about helping our people achieve quality of life the wrong way. We are “chasing our tail” instead of providing proactive skills and tools where our people may choose a better option to handling life situations, no matter how horrible they may be, versus utilizing self-destructive options. It is now evident to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that helping people learn what they need to enjoy life, helping people feel a sense of community, will undoubtedly help to stop the cycle we are currently experiencing.

The approach to find opportunities to love life, to help people with problem solving and resources so they don’t feel the need to use drugs to self-medicate may be a better solution.

Just imagine if we bring together people to share their talents — all people in our communities including our veterans, our seniors and our youth — so no one feels alone.

The goals to decrease social isolation and create a purposeful life additionally will, in turn, increase longevity and the quality of life of our people.

It is researched and proven.

Doreen Guma Time to Play Foundation Port Jefferson Station

Time to increase voter participation in NY As I begin writing this, it is Memorial Day. A day we honor the memories of those who gave their lives defending government of the people, by the people and for the people. Their sacrifices will be in vain unless we the living keep constant watch to see that democracy becomes a reality and not just a slogan.

Ideally, all citizens must have the opportunity to vote for candidates and public policies of their choice.

Sadly, we are very far from achieving that ideal in New York State. New York ranks 41st among the 50 states in

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voter participation.

Other states have shown that voter turnout can be increased by such measures as early voting, automatic voter registration, electronic poll books, allowing changes of party registration closer to election day (currently six months before in New York) and restoring parolee voting rights. Improvements such as these may have been difficult or impossible in previous years, but new information technologies now make them entirely realistic.

As a step toward modernization, an Early Voting Bill (S2950) and

Computer Generated Voter Rolls (S2788) have been introduced in the NY State Senate. Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has blocked both of these bills in his role as chair of the Rules Committee. Let us remind him that all of the people and not just half of us require the opportunity to exercise our duty as citizens and vote. Senator Flanagan’s Smithtown office phone number is 631361-2154. For details and to sign a petition, visit www. easyelectionsny.org.

O. Andrew Collver Stony Brook

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urry, hurry, hurry! You’ve got five minutes to get to the high school before your daughter’s graduation.

It usually takes six. You might have to go faster than the speed limit, but you’ve done it before.

Your daughter looks great and she’s so calm.

You push on the accelerator on the straight road ahead. Your daughter takes a deep breath.

OK, just a little faster and you’ll make it. Oh, no, no, no, a small car pulls in front

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“Dad, it’s OK,” your daughter insists.

“I don’t want you to be late,” you say.

You drive carefully around a curve and head for another straight part of the road. You reach a stop sign, where a BMW misses an opening to go. It was a small one, but you’ve got to make your own openings in this town. That’s what you’d tell everyone today if you were giving the speech your daughter won the right to deliver.

Your daughter did better in school than you did. That makes you proud, but you don’t have time to be proud.

All these people are slowing you down.

You just have a few more turns. A Girl Scout troop crosses the road in front of you. Your daughter was in Girl Scouts years ago, but you don’t like them now. They’re making you late for such an important day for the family.

Then the Girl Scouts, whose uniforms make you think of those mint cookies, cross the street. You’re a block

from the school and a sedan takes forever to park.

You grind your teeth and lift your hand to touch the horn. Your daughter puts her hand firmly on yours and shakes her head slowly.

The woman with streaks of gray in her hair and a green suit looks vaguely familiar as she gets out of a car.

Finally, you park, get in the school and, shockingly, your daughter’s friends have reserved you great seats.

You pick up your phone to start recording your daughter’s speech. The camera’s out of memory. You grind your teeth as you try to delete enough old pictures to record this magic moment.

“Good morning,” your daughter’s voice offers the room. Your wife tells you to stop fiddling with your phone and look up.

After your daughter shares memories of high school, she wants to offer advice to her class.

“I want you to remember to leave some margin for error,” she urges.

Right, you smile. Your daughter, who made so many fewer errors than you did, is talking to the other people about their mistakes. You nod to the other people.

“If we need to do something, to be somewhere or to accomplish anything, we need to accept that the route might include detours or unexpected obstacles,” she offers, sharing that crooked smile she developed in middle school.

“It’s not anyone else’s fault. If it’s important, don’t blame the obstacles. Be prepared for them. Planning means understanding them and giving yourself some extra time to reach your goals.”

You take a deep breath, the way she did so many times while she waited for you at the entrance to the house. You look around the room to see if anyone else knows she’s talking to you. You now recognize the woman on stage with streaks of gray in her hair and a green suit; she’s the superintendent of schools.

You realize how much smarter your daughter is than you.

Summertime, and we love all the freedoms

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uddenly it’s summer. Yes, the graduations from high school are still to come, and perhaps a sweet 16 party or a wedding, but by and large we are beginning to wind down into summer. How I have always treasured this time of year, with its anticipation of freedoms. There is freedom from unrelenting school schedBy Leah S. Dunaief ules with the early morning alarm clocks, freedom from making an unending line of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, freedom from coats and jackets and socks, freedom from cooking in the kitchen as we wheel out the barbecue. In short, we can celebrate freedom from routines and

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constraints of almost every kind.

Of course we still have to do things like take out the garbage and water the lawn and the plants, but those regular chores are so much easier when it isn’t winter-frigid or spring-wet. We’ll suffer spraying to keep the mosquitoes away, checking for ticks and smearing on countless layers of sunscreen as long as we can don a bathing suit, grab a towel and whip down to a beach. We might even bring some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with us, but somehow making them then doesn’t seem such an effort.

The first sense to awaken in the morning for me these days is my hearing. Before I even open my eyes, I delight in the bird songs.

Those birds have been up for hours, it seems, and they are heavily in conversation. Who knows what they are saying? Maybe they’re planning the day’s activities, or maybe they are just scolding each other. My best guess is that they are gossiping as they work, searching for food for

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their newborns and themselves.

Their sounds draw my eyes to the window before I rise. If the sun is bright, then the sky is a rich blue and the leaves dancing on the tree limbs are a lush summer green. A tiny white butterfly passes in front of the panes, followed by a swooping bird on a mission. I hear the birds again and I realize now what they are saying: “Get up, get up you sleepyhead. You’ve already slept half the day away.”

I jump out of bed. It is only a little past 7 o’clock, but it has long been light. I know that because these are the longest days of the year, and that makes most of us happy. And I realize that I don’t have to hurry. For most of us, summer is a time to slow down and kick back a little — unless we sell ice cream or are landscapers. It’s a time to read a book, socialize later into the day, go to an air-conditioned movie or otherwise just relax.

Do you wonder how people in California regard summer, in places like San Diego where it is pretty warm all year round? I think summer

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is a state of mind as well as a warm succession of weeks. Even residents of La Jolla must enjoy the freedoms that come with the season, spoiled though they might be by the pictureperfect weather.

I don’t know if children do this so much any more with the various enrichment activities available but, when I was a child, summer was a time to do nothing — or anything I wanted to do each day when I awoke.

Much of my time was taken up with reading. I would take stacks of books from the public library, with special dispensation from the neighborhood librarian who got to know me, and read them throughout the summer under a tree, on a chaise, at a pool before I fell asleep at night. I realized years later that I not only enjoyed the magic carpet trip that a book afforded me but especially the learning that came from its pages.

Here’s wishing us wonderful weeks ahead as we rejoice in the warmth, the light, the colors — and the freedoms of summer.

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