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Stony Brook doctors perform eyelid surgery for man from Galapagos

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM For one Ecuadorian native, attending a lecture by Stony Brook Medicine doctors changed his life.

Galo Del Hierro, 44, who works for the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos, was attending a lecture given by the Stony Brook Medicine team about skin cancer screenings and prevention in the archipelago.

After the lecture, Del Hierro approached Alexander Dagum, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Stony Brook, and showed him a lesion he had on his right eyelid that was not going away and had grown bigger in the last couple of years.

“He came up to me and said, ‘I’ve had this spot that has gotten larger for some time,’” Dagum said. “I looked at it and thought it was pretty suspicious and told him he should see one of our dermatologists.”

The team’s trip in March was part of a mission through Blanca’s House, a Long Island non-profit organization that works to bring much-needed, quality medical care to countries and communities throughout Latin America.

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Galo Del Hierro’s eye after surgery and a month later. Photos from Stony Brook Medicine

planned on providing screenings and other care for the local community. As they further examined Del Hierro, they realized they might have to bring him 3,051 miles away to Stony Brook for care.

Dr. Daniel Lozeau, a dermatologist and clinical assistant professor at Stony Brook Medicine, took a look at Del Hierro’s lesion

and determined that they needed to do a biopsy. After testing was done, Del Hierro was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma.

Lozeau said given the location of the melanoma it would make it difficult to remove.

“On the eyelid you have less room to work with,” he said. “It not like when it’s on someone’s back, where we have a lot more real

estate [to work with].”

Dagum said if people in the Galapagos had anything serious, they would have to go over to the mainland in Ecuador, which is quite far. Initially, he tried to find a doctor on the mainland to perform the surgery for Del Hierro instead of bringing him to Stony Brook as it was more convenient for Del Hierro, but he couldn’t find anyone that could do it.

Lozeau said the cancer Del Hierro had is aggressive, and he could have lost his eye and his life.

Dagum then got clearance to perform the surgery as a teaching case at Stony Brook Medicine and with help from the Darwin Foundation and Blanca’s House, Del Hierro was able to come to Stony Brook for the surgery in May. The Stony Brook plastic surgeon said the procedure takes several days and requires using skin grafts to reconstruct and support the lower eyelid.

“It was important they we got [the melanoma] out as quickly as possible,” Dagum said.

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Franklin Angeles, 550 Park Ave., Centereach, NY 11720 Location: Southwest corner Jefferson St. and Park Ave., Centereach. Applicant requests side yard and rear yard variances for above ground swimming pool; also, height variance for existing 6’ high fence located in front yard (Jefferson St.). (0200 46600 0100 009000) CASES WILL BE HEARD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD.

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund For Buildings and Grounds of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed ThirtyFour Thousand ($34,000.00) Dollars for the work, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such work.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution is subject to a permissive referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law.

This resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days unless in the meanwhile a mandatory referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

Commissioner Joseph Losquadro) Commissioner Stephen P. Corvaia, Jr.) AYES Commissioner Scott Jordan)

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BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN

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LEGAL NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, on the 25th day of June, 2019, subject to a permissive referendum as provided for

by Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law. An extract of the resolution is as follows: The CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Buildings and Grounds under Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law in which account there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, for new PA system for Headquarters, and it proposed to contract for such work in order to maintain the high standards of performance of the CENTEREACH FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said work is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred

Jennifer Gardner Secretary RESOLUTION NEW PA SYSTEM HEADQUARTERS WHEREAS, the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT has, by appropriate resolution established a certain Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund For Buildings and Grounds established pursuant to Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law, in an account for deposit of said Capital Reserve Fund in local banks; and WHEREAS, it is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT to install new PA system at Headquarters; and WHEREAS, the maximum cost for such work, including architectural and incidental fees is estimated to be Thirty-Four Thousand ($34,000.00) Dollars.

IT IS RESOLVED, that pursuant to the laws and regulations applicable and in particular, Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law, that said work be done, and that the cost and expense for the work shall be expended from the Capital Reserve Fund For Buildings and Grounds upon authorization of the Board of Fire Commissioners, at the maximum estimated amount of Thirty-Four Thousand ($34,000.00) Dollars, and

The adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly put to a vote and upon roll call the vote was as follows:

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

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of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars for the purchase, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such purchase.

This resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days unless in the meanwhile a mandatory referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

DATED: June 25, 2019 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN ATTEST: Jennifer Gardner District Secretary

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PURCHASE OF FOUR (4) LUCAS DEVICES

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, on the 25th day of June, 2019, subject to a permissive referendum as provided for

by Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law.

WHEREAS, the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT has, by appropriate resolution established a certain Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund For Equipment established pursuant to Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law, in an account for deposit of said Capital Reserve Fund in local banks; and

An extract of the resolution is as follows:

WHEREAS, it is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT to purchase Four (4) Lucas Devices; and WHEREAS, the maximum cost for such purchase, including incidental fees is estimated to be Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars.

IT IS RESOLVED, that pursuant to the laws and regulations applicable and in particular, Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law, that said purchase be completed, and that the cost and expense for the purchase shall be expended from the Capital Reserve Fund For Equipment upon authorization of the Board of Fire Commissioners, at the maximum estimated amount of Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars, and THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution is subject to a permissive referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of

The CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Equipment under Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law in which account there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, the purchase of Four (4) Lucas Devices, and it is proposed to contract for such equipment in order to maintain the high standards of performance of the CENTEREACH FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said purchase is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund For Equipment

the General Municipal Law. The adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly put to a vote and upon roll call the vote was as follows: Commissioner Joseph Losquadro) Commissioner Stephen P. Corvaia, Jr.) AYES Commissioner Scott Jordan) The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

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DISTRICT a sum not to exceed Forty Five Thousand ($45,000.00) Dollars for the purchase, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such purchase.

This resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days unless in the meanwhile a mandatory referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

DATED: June 25, 2019 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN ATTEST:

TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT:

MARION WARREN Secretary

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, on the 25th day of June, 2019, subject to a permissive referendum as provided for by Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law.

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An extract of the resolution is as follows: The SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Safety Devices, Medical Equipment Supplies, Uniforms and Firefighter’s Gear known as Capital Reserve #3 under Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law in which account there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, the purchase of two hurst tools and associated equipment and an air bag system, and it proposed to contract for such purchase in order to maintain the high standards of performance of the SELDEN FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said purchase is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund #3 of the SELDEN FIRE

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the fiscal affairs of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT for the period beginning January 1, 2018 and ending on December 31, 2018, have been examined by an independent public accountant and that the report of the external audit by the independent public accountant has been filed in my office where it is available as public record for inspection by all interested persons.

Pursuant to Section 181-b of the Town Law and Section 35 of the General Municipal Law, the governing board of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT shall prepare a written response and corrective action plan to the report of the external audit prepared by independent public accountant and file any such response/ plan in my office as a public record for inspection by all interested persons not later than ninety (90) days from the date hereof.

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BY DONNA DEEDY DONNA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM “It’s more than a pretty garden,” said Chris Clapp, a marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy. “It’s a biological process that relies on plants, wood chips and microbes to remove nitrogen in wastewater before it flows back into the environment.”

On June 24, County Executive Steve Bellone (D) joined Clapp with a conglomerate of representatives from both government and the private sector at The Nature Conservancy’s Upland Farms Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor to unveil a state-of-the-art method for reducing and eliminating nitrogen from wastewater.

The county expects the new system to be a replacement for cesspools and septic systems, which are blamed for the seeping of nitrogen into Long Island waterways, causing red tides, dead zones and closed beaches.

The issue is a serious concern, Bellone said, as he introduced the county’s Deputy Executive Peter Scully, who is spearheading the county’s Reclaim Our Water Initiative and serves as the Suffolk’s water czar. “Anytime a government appoints a water czar, you know you have problems to address.”

Scully, formerly the director for the Long Island region of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, said six other septic alternatives are currently approved.

Long Island is reportedly one of the most densely populated locations in the country without adequate wastewater treatment.

Currently, there are 360,000 antiquated cesspools and septic systems. The county expects to set nitrogen reduction targets for watershed areas where replacement holds the most benefit.

The technique, called a vegetated circulating gravel system, is composed of an underground network that essentially connects the drains and toilets of a home or office to plant life and microbial action. It works in two stages to denitrify the wastewater.

The first phase discharges wastewater into an underground gravel bed covered with a surprisingly small garden of native plants that takes up nitrogen through its roots. The water is then circulated into an underground box of wood chips that convert the remaining nitrogen into gas, before it’s circulated back to the gravel bed. Once the water is denitrified, it’s dispersed through a buried leaching field.

The county partnered with The Nature Conservancy to develop and implement the system for its Upland Farms Sanctuary.

The sanctuary is located a half-mile from Cold Spring Harbor, where water quality has worsened during the last 12 years to the point where the state is officially proposing to

A new method for handling toilet water and other wastewater promises to help cure Long Island’s troubles with beach closures and other water quality concerns. The Nature Conservancy completes the finishing touches on the experiment at its Upland Farms Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor. Left to right: Marykate Guilfoyle (Suffolk County), Bryan Grogan (P.W. Grosser), Chris Clapp and Victoria O’Neill (both from The Nature Conservancy). Photo by Donna Deedy

designate it an impaired water body.

“The Conservancy is proud to stand alongside the county and our partners to celebrate this exciting new system that taps into the power of nature to combat the nitrogen crisis, putting us on a path to cleaner water,” said Nancy Kelley, Long Island chapter director for The Nature Conservancy.

During the experimental phase the system

reduced by half the amount of nitrogen discharged from wastewater. A similar technique has been effective at removing up to 90 percent in other parts of the country. The system’s designers at Stony Brook University’s Center for Clean Water Technology aim to completely remove nitrogen from discharges.

The Upland Farms offices and meeting hall system, which encompasses 156 square feet,

A vegetated circulating gravel system is a new alternative to cesspools and septic tanks. The technique relies on plants and microbes to remove nitrogen. Illustration from The Nature Conservancy

serves the equivalent of two to three homes.

Suffolk County Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) said that denitrification efforts work. The Centerport Yacht Club’s beach was closed for seven years due to water quality issues and reopened in 2015 after the Northport sewer plant upgraded to a denitrification system. Improvements to the harbor storm drain discharges, and a public lawn care campaign about curbing the use of fertilizers, also reportedly helped.

The county has reached a critical juncture and beginning July 1, its new sanitary code for septic systems takes effect, which permits only denitrifying technology.

Justin Jobin, who works on environmental projects with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, said that he expects to gain approval for a pilot program to accelerate the vegetated circulating gravel system’s public introduction, which could be approved as soon as this summer. The design can be modified, its developers said, to serve single homes or large businesses. In addition to removing nitrogen, the system can also naturally filter out pharmaceuticals and personal care products. Its impacts on 1,4-dioxane are being studied.

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Congratulations

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Class of 2019

Centereach • Newfield GREG CATALANO

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Centereach Aidan Robert Adago Megan Patricia Agaliotis Robert W. Ahrens Christine Ann Alexis Kenny Alfaro Portillo Anthony Michael Alfeo Sophie Isabella Alois Amilcar J. Amaya Lesly Amaya Castillo Jenna Catherine Ambruso Laura Joan Ambruso Alanna Angelus Anthony Michael Apadula James Peter Arevalo Julian Armel Daniel John Ayala Devin Ayala Ivette Balcacer Thomas Charles Ballant Rayna Alyssa Barone Jennifer Elizabeth Barry Edward William Bassett Jonathan Sebastian Battaglia Kevin D. Becker William Thomas Belcher II Laelah A. Benitez Brianna Bennett Melanie Alejandra Betancur Natalie Blanco Kevin A. Bonilla Avelar Reina N. Bonilla Iscoa Junior Raul Bonilla Perez Patrick Borkowski Jeremiah Joshua Bradley Cierra Nicole Budke

Alexa Marie Burns Brennan James Busick Onicka Corinne Bustamante John Cacace Brian Caminero Nicholas Vincent Cancellieri Ryan Cancellieri Anabel Cando Juliette Paige Canzona Kyra Ruth Carlo Timothy Cameron Carpenter Stephen Andrew Cartolano Celso Castellanos Sophia Lyn Catapano William Christopher Cavallo Kiabeth Xailyn Cedeno Mark D Cenicola Kyle Chamberlin Allison M. Chang Jarod Jia-An Chang Lawrence Marcus Chiu Christopher Robert Ciavarelli Gina Marie Cicero Natalie Vanessa Cintron Kevin Peter Ciosek Anna Elizabeth Clark Aaron Class John Coffey Zachary Mark Cogliati Andrew Stephen Colletti Robert Glenn Cooper Jr. Rayanna da Silva Correia Madison Taylor Corso Christian Cortes Samantha Marie Cotes

Centereach High School class officers at the podium, left. Students receive their diplomas above and below. Photos by Bill Landon

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Madisen Taylor Crawley Nikki Victoria D’Agostino Lynda Anne D’Alessandro Jamie Ann D’Andraia Celine Dang Rachel Noel D’Annunzio Abir Das Gianna Raye DeBona Ryan John DeCoursey Giana Josephine DeForce Chasity L DeLeon Anthony Michael DelMasto Antonino DeLuca Gianna Michelle Demers Devin Christopher Demetres Daniel Joseph Dennis Jessica Helen DeSena Jose Manuel Diaz Menjivar Dylan DiCarlo

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A student celebrates graduation with his family after the ceremony, above. A graduate, right, receives her diploma. Photos by Bill Landon

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Students celebrate their graduation with their families, left and above. A student is all smiles while receiving her diploma. Photos by Bill Landon

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Newfield

Scenes from the Newfield High School graduation. Photos by Greg Catalano

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Scenes from the Newfield High School graduation. Photos by Greg Catalano

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Newfield graduates congratulate each other, left. A student receives his diploma, above. Photos by Greg Catalano

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School News

From left, Faiza Syed and Loui Chen are Middle Country Central School District’s valedictorians for 2019, while Samantha Cotes and Anaya Zaineb earned salutatorian status. Photos of Syed and Cotes by Bill Landon; photos of Chen and Zaineb from Middle Country Central School District

Meet Middle Country’s valedictorians and salutatorians

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Faiza Syed from Centereach High School and Loui Chen from Newfield High School are the valedictorians in the Middle Country Central School District for 2019. Samantha Cotes from Centereach High School and Anaya Zaineb from Newfield High School join Syed and Chen at the top of the class as the district’s salutatorians.

Superintendent of Schools Roberta Gerold commented on the students’ achievements in a statement.

“On behalf of the entire Middle Country community, I want to commend the incredible academic journey of these four remarkable students who have excelled due to their rigorous studies and determination,” Gerold said. “I wish continued success to our valedictorians and salutatorians — and all of our 2019 graduates — as they embark on their next chapters, whether that be college, vocational school, the military or joining the workforce.”

Faiza Syed

Centereach High School valedictorian Syed graduated with a weighted grade point average of 102.791 and completed 13 Advanced Placement classes and three college-level courses. Due to these accomplishments she earned the title of an AP Scholar with Distinction.

Syed, who has spent her entire school career in the MCCSD, was also elected by her peers to serve this year as the president of the school’s National Honor Society, was a member of the National Arts Honor Society and Italian Honor Society and was a competitor on the math team and Science Olympiad.

“I believe Centereach High School has

prepared me for my future because throughout high school I have learned information along with skills that will be applicable during college and when pursuing my career,” she said. “High school has also taught me the importance of collaborating with others and the necessity of combining knowledge with creativity in order to develop solutions to problems and apply what I have learned.”

In the fall, Syed will attend New York Institute of Technology, where she will be enrolled in its seven-year medical program to become a pediatric neurosurgeon, which she said has always interested her.

“It would be an honor to be capable of helping cure children who unfortunately suffer from neurological abnormalities,” she said.

us a step in the right direction, but still allowed us to take that step on our own feet so that we are able to continue walking on our own after we leave Newfield.”

Chen will attend Yale in the fall to study math, something he has loved since he was a child.

“I think I’m a very logical thinker and I love solving puzzles, so I always leaned toward math growing up,” he said. “As a major and a future career however, I am very undecided on what I want to do. The situation is more of me going to college to see what there is and see what I like rather than already knowing what I want to do. I am going with more of a blank slate and I am open to seeing all the possibilities that I may not have been exposed to in high school.”

Loui Chen

Samantha Cotes

As Newfield High School valedictorian, Chen graduated with 51 college credits and an unweighted GPA of 98.12. The valedictorian also has been a member of the pit orchestra, chamber orchestra, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and SCMEA All-County orchestra.

Athletically, he served as captain of the varsity fencing and soccer teams and helped lead the soccer team in his position as goalie to the Suffolk County League III title.

Chen said Newfield High School prepared him well for the future.

“I think the biggest lesson I took away from Newfield was being accountable for my own actions,” he said. “The teachers and coaches I’ve had have always allowed us to grow at our own pace and while they did push us to become better — a lot of the motivation had to come from ourselves as the students. They have taught us the importance of taking responsibility for our own actions and being accountable for both our successes and failures. Newfield has given

As this year’s Centereach High School salutatorian, Cotes has completed 11 AP courses and four college-level courses at local universities, amounting to three semesters worth of credit. She served as the General Organization president of her class, and she was integral in coordinating and running events, including homecoming, the food drive, the toy drive, Trick or Treat Street and the Senior Citizen’s Afternoon Tea. Cotes also was a Tri-M Honor Society officer, a member of the National Honor Society, math team and Science Olympiad, and was a varsity athlete on the track and field and cross-country teams.

“My time at Centereach has given me a lot of opportunity for personal growth through the people I’ve met and the activities I’ve been involved in, which is something that will help me succeed personally and professionally,” Cotes said.

The salutatorian, who took part in Stony Brook Medicine’s Science and Research Awareness Series, will attend SUNY

Binghamton where she will study medicine.

“I have always been interested in anatomy and medicine but attending the SARAS program at Stony Brook Hospital and volunteering there enforced my interests,” she said. “I don’t have a dream job, but ophthalmology excites me.”

Anaya Zaineb

Newfield High School’s salutatorian, Zaineb, graduated with nearly 40 college credits and an unweighted GPA of 98.1. Her success in AP-level courses earned her the title of AP Scholar with Distinction. She also was a member of the newspaper club, the book club, student government, environmental club, treasurer of the National Technical Honor Society, historian of the Foreign Language Honor Society and president of the National Honor Society. In addition, she was a member of the varsity fencing team, a homework helper and an assistant teacher at her Brentwood mosque.

“Attending Newfield High School has helped me find my true voice in the community,” she said. “I was presented with an abundance of clubs, activities and sports to discover myself at Newfield. The bonds I have formed with some of the teachers will forever be inseparable and have molded me into the person I am today.”

The salutatorian will be attending Stony Brook University’s eight-year dental program.

“From a young age, I always knew I wanted to study something in the medical field,” she said. “It wasn’t until volunteering and job shadowing that I discovered my true passion for dentistry. Thus, being accepted into Stony Brook’s Scholars for Dental Medicine program has been a true honor. The program’s flexibility and exposure to the dental community is perfect for my plans in becoming a dentist.”

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Stony Brook announces partnership with Eastern Long Island Hospital

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM On July 1, Stony Brook Medicine announced the newest member of the Stony Brook University Hospital health care system — Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport.

The 90-bed, acute care hospital has been affiliated with Stony Brook since 2006, and in 2015, talks began between the two hospitals to form a partnership. The Greenport campus will now be referred to as Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital.

Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president of health sciences and dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, said the partnership will allow SBELIH to work collaboratively with Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, which joined the health care system in 2017. He said the partnership with Southampton has been a successful one, and the same is expected with SBELIH. “This really has been a win-win for both the hospital and for the people on the South Fork so let’s do it on the North Fork,” Kaushansky said.

Stony Brook expects to help grow the Greenport hospital’s staff.

Residents of the North Fork, which SBELIH serves along with Shelter Island, now can receive additional resources, particularly specialized outpatient services. Kaushansky said another plus is the use of a telehealth program, which allows doctors and patients on the North Fork direct access to Stony Brook Medicine specialists.

Dr. Margaret McGovern, vice president for health system clinical programs and strategy at Stony Brook Medicine, said the affiliation is another step on the path of the health care system expanding.

She and Kaushansky said the behavioral health programs of Eastern Long Island, which include medical-surgical services, critical care, psychiatry and drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation services, are strong.

“We would anticipate that behavioral medicine will remain the core service at Eastern Long Island Hospital,” McGovern said.

Kaushansky added that with limited beds at the university hospital for behavioral health patients, it will be a benefit to be able to utilize SBELIH. Paul Connor, chief administrative officer of SBELIH, said a psychiatric residency started at the Greenport campus July 1 as a part of Stony Brook Medicine’s academic mission. The CAO said training physicians and health care professionals is important for future staffing needs, as a high percentage of physicians are more apt to remain where they spent their residency.

Connor said the hospital opened in 1905 and was the first hospital in Suffolk County and the second one on Long Island.

“This was really an effort to preserve the mission of Eastern Long Island Hospital and ultimately to create more local health care options,” he said.

The hospital’s board will be part of a joint advisory committee with Stony Brook Medicine, he said, and will meet on a regular basis to discuss topics such as finances and planning Connor said the ELIH Foundation will continue to exist and be independent of Stony Brook, which means any funds raised will go toward the SBELIH campus.

McGovern said while Stony Brook is a resource for other hospitals entering the system, providing services such as a burn unit, psychiatric emergency department and kidney transplant program, many patients prefer to be treated close to home.

“A lot of care is appropriate in a community hospital setting, so that’s the model we’re going with and complementing it with a robust outpatient ambulatory platform,” she said.

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Continued from A3 skin around the eyelid so Del Hierro could see properly and blink normally. He had a second procedure to adjust the eyelid.

The Ecuadorian native said through a translator that he was grateful and impressed with the care he received at Stony Brook.

Del Hierro said that he had first noticed the spot on his eyelid when he was 18 years old.

“It was a tiny little dot, and I didn’t really think much of it, I thought it was just a mole,” he said.

He admitted when he first got his diagnosis, he was worried for himself and his family, but trusted Dagum and the team.

With the procedures complete, Dagum said they are waiting for the swelling to go down and everything should settle in and heal up in the next couple of months.

Dagum expects Del Hierro to live normally; however, he recommends he should continue to get screened and have the eyelid area examined periodically.

Del Hierro’s case and the team’s experiences bring to light the importance of skin cancer screening and skin protection, especially during the summer season.

Lozeau said the Academy of Dermatology recommends sunscreen of SPF 30 or higher.

“Most important thing is to constantly re-apply frequently every couple of hours,” he said. “Hats are good to wear and make sure you have eye protection.”

The dermatologist said when it comes to skin cancer, if one notices a spot that hasn’t gone away or has grown in size, he or she should get it checked out. Also, he mentioned spots that constantly bleed or scab over.

“Galo was really fortunate. He was at the right place at the right time,” Lozeau said.

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Standing in our own well with soiled feet Recently, a professor was telling me about his annual trip to Kenya, where he visited a rural village. The remote community was without electricity, toilets or water.

The older children were charged with walking ––– about a mile ––– to fetch water from the nearest source.

Curious, he asked if he could join them and take photos.

Following behind the barefoot children, he noticed that they stepped into human feces along the way.

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the “well,” which was an open pit, a few feet deep, with a dark puddle at the bottom.

After handing me a photo, he said, “Notice that the children are standing in the water. The very water that the family will be drinking.”

I thought, didn’t these people, although humble and poor, have the good sense to not poison their own well with its lifesustaining water?

How could the elders not instruct the children to carefully avoid stepping in the waste when going to the well, or to somehow clean their feet before standing

in the water?

Then I had an afterthought. Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing to our precious Long Island water supply? We pour insecticide and herbicides on our lawns, farms and golf courses. We broadcast chemical fertilizer to make our greens greener. We flush unused antibiotics down our toilets. Our cesspools seep human waste down into our aquifer.

With soiled feet, we stand in our own well.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

Undoubtedly, you’ve heard or stated the phrase: “you took the words out of my mouth.” A letter to the editor in the June 20 edition of our local paper, “Enough is enough,” prompted me to utter that phrase, and publicly thank the co-writers for stating what is obviously the truth.

“Truth” not being something which is disseminated by most of the media these days. What Carol Florio and Lisa Pius stated in their letter is, almost verbatim, what I’ve been thinking and saying aloud for quite some time.

On a national level, and not locally by any means, the current Democratic Party is certainly not my grandfather’s Democratic Party. Hillary lost — thank God — get over it. There is only one truth; everything else that most of the media has been promoting is a vindictive, biased falsehood. My grandfather would turn over in his grave if he knew what that political party has turned into.

Our president tweets; so what? He can’t get his message out via a biased, vengeful media. Franklin Delano

Roosevelt utilized fireside chats. Many people who know me think that I write with a quill pen and ink on paper (well, sometimes I do).

People who can’t (or won’t) grasp what Ms. Florio and Ms. Pius had written should consult something that was written with a quill pen by one Thomas Paine and published in the year 1776. And they should focus on the meaning of the title of that pamphlet: “Common Sense.”

Art Billadello East Setauket

Congratulations 2019 In praise of the letter ‘Enough is enough’ high school graduates!

We congratulate each and every one the 2019 high school graduates in our circulation area. These students were born 18 years ago, at a time when planes deliberately took down the World Trade Center in New York City and crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a hillside in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. At around the time these children turned 8 years old, the U.S. and world economy collapsed after the financial industry bundled and sold bad mortgage debt. Currently, the nation and countries of the world are coping with election systems troubled with interference from foreign adversaries, whose interests aim to make people question the efficacy of democracy as a form of governance.

As we look forward, and put the past behind us, let’s make sure we take time to remind these graduates of the greater good of humankind. We should also celebrate the good nature within themselves to reassure these young adults that the future is perpetually full of hope and opportunity.

Over the last several decades, despite the tragedies, we have also seen many remarkable achievements. A nation elected its first black president, and we’ve seen women march for their rights and run and be elected to public office at historic rates.

Aside from politics, over the last 20 years, scientists have sequenced human DNA, which is helping to develop effective treatments for cancer and other potentially deadly diseases.

We’ve also watched the world change as the home computer and telecommunication turned mobile. Consequently, it’s become easier than ever to stay in touch. With the touch of a finger, we can access and enjoy the music, stories and performances of a world full of talented artists, writers and filmmakers.

Adversity and tumultuous times somehow, thankfully, spark creativity and inspire people’s inner goodness. Think of the ’60s, and how that peace and love-conquers-all theme galvanized a culture. It’s an age-old message, really, of biblical proportion.

High school graduates should know that as caring human beings they already hold the core qualities they need to thrive.

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Imagine your child there The moral imperative does not understand politics. The moral imperative does not know about political parties, religions or even the rule of law. The moral imperative demands that a person or a society do the right thing even when the right thing is hard. And when doing the right thing is not hard — taking care of children is not a hard thing for a government to do, or at least it shouldn’t be — it is unfathomable what the President Donald Trump (R) administration is waiting for. I do not understand an administration that is moving slowly or not at all as children are sleeping on the floor in unsanitary and unhealthy conditions. If the detention center were an animal shelter, it would be closed down.

Trump has said that the Democrats are responsible for not appropriating the money needed to take care of these children. There is a bill in Congress right now that would provide funds to help take care of these children. Let’s see if Trump

will sign it. However, this situation can’t wait for a bill to be passed.

Why doesn’t Trump sign an executive order, of which he is so fond, and find the money needed? Perhaps one or two less trips to play golf would more than provide the funds needed. He keeps saying the Democrats created this problem, but I guess he has forgotten about his zerotolerance program from last year. Well, why can’t he fix it? He doesn’t do it because he wants to use these children as political pawns to further his amoral agenda. It has been reported June 25 that most of the children have been moved to tents. I guess that means the problem has been solved?

Anyone of good faith — whether Christians or Muslims or Jews or no religion — who supports Trump and his lack of a moral center should be outraged and realize that they will have to answer for a silence that accepts the mistreatment of these children.

Yes, America needs a reasonable immigration policy, but this situation is not an immigration problem. It is a moral issue for which we are all responsible if we do not cry out against it. It should not matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican or even apolitical. To know this is wrong is just to be human.

It is time for us — all of us — to take a stand against children sleeping on cement floors, in unsanitary conditions while being constantly hungry. Americans have taken to the streets to protest wars, safeguard civil rights, protect the free media and call out amoral behavior by other countries. Can’t we do the same to help children? It is not an issue that needs political discussion. It is a given, if we are to consider ourselves a moral country.

Of course, if you are looking for a political solution: November 2020 is coming!

Ernestine Franco Sound Beach

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Opinion

Getting behind the wheel of our decisions

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e make them before we even get up. We lie in our beds, staring at our alarm clocks, where we are faced with the first of countless decisions. Should we get up now or can we afford to wait a few minutes before climbing out of bed?

Decisions range from the mundane to the mind blowing: Do you want pickles, lettuce and tomatoes and what kind of D. None bread would you of the above like; you’re taking

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF a pay cut so you can do what job exactly; are you sure

you want to sell that stock today when it may be worth more tomorrow?

We rarely take a step back from the decisionmaking process because we generally don’t want to slow our lives down, leaving us less time to make other decisions.

Some of the decisions we make are through a force of habit. We buy the same ketchup, take the same route to work, wear the same tie with the same shirt or call the same person when we are feeling lonely.

Just because we have always done something one particular way, however, doesn’t mean we made the best choice, or that we considered how the variables in our lives have changed over time.

As we age, we find that our needs, tastes and preferences evolve. Our bodies may have a lower caloric demand, especially if we spend hours behind a desk. We might also be more prepared to debate or argue with our priest or rabbi, or we might

have a greater need to help strangers or make the world a better place for the next generation. The way we make decisions today may be inconsistent with the way we made them for the younger versions of ourselves.

We may have some of the same tastes for movies or books that we had 20 years ago. Then again, we may place a higher value on experiences than we do on possessions.

Eating a particular food, calling a person who makes us feel inadequate or sticking with the same assignments or jobs is often not the best way to live or enjoy our lives.

Inertia affects the way we decide on anything from whether to vote Democratic or Republican to whether we would like pasta or salad for lunch. Sure, I could defy the old me. But then am I remaking a decision or remaking myself?

Ah, but there’s the real opportunity: We can follow the Latin phrase “carpe diem” — seize the day — and redefine and reinvent ourselves

as long as we do it with purpose and focus.

Sure, that takes work and planning and we might change something for the worse, but maybe we would make our lives better or leave our comfort zone for greater opportunities. We can decide to take calculated risks with our lives or to move in a new direction. After all, we teach our children to believe in themselves. And if we want to practice what we preach, we should believe in ourselves, too, even on a new path.

Why should we put our lives on automatic pilot and sit in the back seat, making the same circles month after month and year after year?

Some routines and decisions, of course, are optimal, so changing them just to change won’t likely improve our lives.

But for many decisions, we can and should consider climbing back into the driver’s seat.

For a moment, we might cause our paths to rock back and forth, as if we shook the wheel, but ultimately we can and will discover new terrain.

the number has increased by 3 to 5 percent in the last five years. Rosanna Hertz, a Wellesley College professor, who wrote the book, “Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family” (2006), has found that most of those mothers are college educated and earn roughly double the national household median of $110,000. But with rising salaries, not all single mothers are high-wage earners. Some have middle-class backgrounds and may even have more than one child.

What’s puzzling about this picture? Are we witnessing men being thrown away? I pray not.

To paraphrase “South Pacific,” there is nothing like a man.

It’s understandable that single mothers may be single because they never found the right person to marry. Or they may be divorced or separated. Or widowed. Or they may have chosen not to marry. All of those reasons have to do with themselves. But according to Hertz, “there has been a notable increase in the number of women opting for this family structure in the 13 years” since she wrote her book. Since

it takes both sexes to make a child, does a woman in good conscience have the right to knowingly deprive a child of a father because of an overwhelming maternal desire? Is it selfish or unselfish to procreate without a mate? Does boundless and unconditional love compensate?

There is a support group that deals with such issues. Called Single Mothers by Choice, it considers the emotional, financial, psychological and practical aspects of becoming a single mother.

It also provides others in the same situation to talk with. To choose single motherhood is a hard and, incidentally, an expensive route. That was the thrust of the WSJ article. Right from the first step, there is no one with whom to share costs. Initial costs can range from several thousand dollars to six figures, and insurance is spotty.

It is certainly true that life does not always work out the way one would like. In fact, it almost never does. Too many bends to see around, too many roads not taken, too many disappointments. But I would just like to add a last thought from “The King and I”: Most men “can be wonderful.”

In defense of men

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y parents married on July 4, 1925.

It might seem counterintuitive for them to join each other on Independence Day, but back then to marry meant independence from one’s nuclear family. They were now off on their own, together ready to start a new branch of the family. And they began to have children. They were doing what had been done for only a few centuries before them, marriage being a fairly recent construct in humankind’s history.

Given statistics Between today, almost a cenyou and me tury later, what they did seems almost

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF quaint. Tucked into the back pages of The Wall Street Journal’s Business & Finance section, amid such stories about carmaker Tesla’s

quarterly earnings and predictions about the future of tech stocks, is an article that would amaze my parents but speaks to our times: “Despite high costs, more women are interested in single motherhood,” by Veronica Dagher.

Not only are couples no longer feeling the need to marry before they have children. In today’s society, some women don’t need to be part of a couple before they embrace motherhood.

Increasing wages for women create economic independence, and the share of women earning top salaries in high positions exploded 500 percent between 2008 and 2012. Women have gone from 1.9 percent among the top 0.1 percent of highest earners to 10.5 percent.

In 2017, according to the WSJ article, four in 10 births were to either solo mothers or mothers living with nonmarital partners. Fifty years ago, the number was one in 10. That means these four out of every 10 children are being raised without a father. That has got to have profound effect on those children.

According to California Cryobank, a major sperm bank in the United States, about one-third of its clients are single mothers by choice. Further,

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Parting words

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