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Homelessness in Port Jefferson: A problem that won’t go away

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com

ing the issue in 1980. With 10 facilities, he helps serve groups and people in need. His first endeavor An Aug. 28 post by a user was The Community House in in a private Facebook group of Port Jefferson. about 1,300 Port Jefferson VilA 30-bed long-term facility, lage residents featured a photo the home on Main Street is still of two men sleeping at the Port in operation today for at-risk 16Jefferson Long Island Rail Road to 21-year-old males in need of station. Amidst a longer message a place to live. Almost 28 years attached to the image was the ago, Pizzarelli said he opened phrase: “I’ve had it.”

Pax Christi Hospitality Center on The post inspired comments Oakland Avenue after a Vietnam from more than a dozen users who veteran froze to death in winbegan a lengthy ter while living discussion about in what he dehomeowners’ conscribed as a cardcerns over propboard box village erty values as a in Port Jefferson. result of activity At least seven related to homepeople listed as less people in the undomiciled by area. Some rethe county posponses included lice department efforts to tackle were arrested on the issue of homethe morning of lessness after Oct. 4 for sleepthe main poster ing in tents in ’ asked: “Does anythe woods behind one know what is — Frank Pizzarelli the Comsewogue being done about Public Library on this?”

Terryville Road, Elected officials, local leaders according to police. and data from nonprofit organiAccording to the Long Island zations serving the state, Long Is- Coalition for the Homeless, a land and Suffolk County seem to nonprofit organization estabagree: Efforts exist to reduce the lished in 1985 that works with number of undomiciled residents, government agencies to secure but the problem is not going away funding and services for homeand more needs to be done. less people in Suffolk and NasHomelessness has been a topic sau counties, 3,937 people on of conversation in Port Jeff for Long Island were classified as decades, and Father Frank Piz- homeless as of January 2017. The zarelli, a Port Jeff resident and number includes people in emerfounder of the nonprofit Hope gency or transitional housing, as House Ministries, began address- well as those who are completely

‘Hope House Ministry lives and has lived for 38 years because of this community. I find this one of the most extraordinary communities when it comes to compassion and generosity.

unsheltered, of which there were 64, according to the group’s annual report for 2017.

In context, the number of homeless people living on Long Island hasn’t changed much over the last three LICH yearly tallies. In 2016, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (D) conducted an audit to examine the issue of homelessness in the state, which reached some discouraging conclusions.

Homelessness is on the decline nationwide, according to the report, though New York was one of 18 states to see an increase in the number of people without a permanent residence between 2007 and 2015. The number rose by 41 percent to more than 88,000 statewide during that span, which was the largest increase of any state in the country.

Much of the increase was attributable to New York City, though DiNapoli’s audit stressed homelessness as a state problem and not simply a city problem, saying homelessness is affecting “communities in virtually every corner of the state ... on a daily basis.”

“The homeless problem preexisted Pax Christi,” Pizzarelli said. The licensed social worker said the idea that his facilities attract the homeless to Port Jeff is a common refrain he’s heard cyclically over the years from people like the Facebook poster, though he said he has found those voices are few and far between and don’t represent the majority of the community.

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Clockwise from left, Pax Christi Hospitality Center in Port Jefferson; a volunteer at Welcome Friends soup kitchen prepares a meal; and a breakdown by race of long island’s nearly 4,000 homeless people, according to the long island Coalition for the Homeless.

NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 15 MULTIPLE AMERICAN INDIAN RACES OR ALASKA NATIVE 238 63 ASIAN 23

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cause of this community,” he said. “I find this one of the most extraordinary communities when it comes to compassion and generosity. Yes, there are always people that are super critical and, because of the socioeconomic nature of our community, would prefer certain things not be here.

They’re a very small minority from my experience.”

He said he receives no financial support from the government other than reimbursements from the county’s Department of Social Services to barely cover his costs for sheltering people overnight at

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Town Family and friends honor Shoreham musician, cop

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com

“It was comforting,” she said on rocking alongside her dad. “Now, if I ever have to sing the national anthem or anything and my Throughout his life Salvatore Mingoia dad isn’t with me, I’m going to get panicky. I brought smiles, laughs and music to those need him. He’s like a safety blanket.”

His daughters said while they both saw around him. And even though he’s gone, the impact of Shoreham’s “Superman” will sure- Mingoia as the best dad ever and knew how beloved he was by peers and colleagues, it ly resonate forever.

The Suffolk County police officer, Beatles- wasn’t until the wake that they grasped just loving musician, devoted family man and how many lives he touched. During the first friend to all died Oct. 9 following a two-year service alone, Samantha said nearly 800 peobattle with lymphoma at 56 in the company ple, maybe more, showed up creating a huge of friends and family at Mount Sinai Hospital line that wrapped around O.B. Davis Funeral in Manhattan. Although Mingoia had been in Home in Miller Place and stretched down the a great deal of pain as a result of his cancer, street. Even a friend of his from kindergarten, which was diagnosed in December 2015, from North Carolina, came to pay his respects.

“They all said the same thing — that he he never once let it show or get him down, treated them like they were the most imporaccording to his family.

“He was the nicest guy in the world,” said tant people to him,” Samantha Mingoia said. his oldest daughter Samantha Mingoia, 25. “He always made everyone feel so special.”

A graduate of “I want to be my dad when Centereach High School, I grow up. He was so caring, Mingoia, one of seven giving and understanding. children, played football and Anything he could do to help competed in track and field someone, he’d do it and he while excelling in math and never looked for praise.” science. An avid musician His trademark upbeatness from the moment he was and kind character prevailed able to hold a guitar, he even under the circumstances played in numerous bands — when nurses asked how throughout his life, the first he was feeling on a particular — Eydie Gangitano being a family band with his day, Mingoia always respondfather and brothers. ed with a chipper “I’m great!

“He was talented, handHow are you?” some, nice, always good to This, of course, was not at all surprising to people — he was just born special,” said his those who knew him.

“He was a sweetheart of a man,” older sister Eydie Gangitano. “And I’ve got to said Suffolk County Sgt. Arthur Hughes, tell you, I think Sal was my mother’s favorite, Mingoia’s colleague for more than 30 years. I really think he was. And we didn’t care, “Everyone loves Sal. You can’t say anything because he was all of our favorite.”

Mike Pollice, a friend of Mingoia’s for bad about him.”

Gina Mingoia, 19, said her dad was more than 40 years, met him in school and always “so strong and hopeful right up until said although they were on opposite ends the end.” She regularly shared the stage with of the spectrum — Mingoia being seemhim as a two-piece band, serving as lead ingly well-grounded while Pollice was a selfsinger while he played guitar during gigs proclaimed “troubled kid” — Mingoia saw throughout the area. They played everything past that, and initiated a conversation with from country to classic rock, from covers to him over music. The two had played in bands together ever since. songs they wrote together.

‘He was talented, handsome, nice, always good to people — he was just born special.’

Photo above and below right from SCPd; photo below left right from gina Mingoia

Clockwise from above, Shoreham’s Sal Mingoia, on right, was a musician from a young age, performing with many bands over the years; Mingoia was also a Suffolk County police officer, working in the Crime Scene Section when he died; but most important to Mingoia was his family, daughters Samantha and gina, and wife denise.

“He had a heart like nobody else,” Pollice said, who described Mingoia as the salt of the Earth. “I really would not be the man I am today if it weren’t for him. The path he led me down with music served me well and kept me out of a lot of bad things in my younger days. In school, he was the guy who stuck up for people getting picked on. He was a friend to everyone. A very rare kind of person.”

After high school, Mingoia wound up at the police academy even though being a cop wasn’t exactly what he had planned for himself. His childhood friend Kenny Kearns was a New York City police officer and planned to take the test to transition to Suffolk County and encouraged Mingoia to take it too. He ended up getting a better result than Kearns and decided give the occupation a try. He joined the police department in April 1987, spending his career in the 5th and 6th Precincts and was an active officer in the Crime Scene Section a day of work in his life, he never missed a when he died, an analytical field he much family dinner or birthday party either.

“He was Superman,” Gina Mingoia said preferred over issuing traffic tickets.

“He didn’t like ruining people’s days, he of her dad. “He always had his day full, but liked making people’s days,” Kearns said of made room for everyone.”

She often thinks of goofy moments now his friend. “If Sal pulled you over, and you had a good excuse and were sorry, that was when she thinks about her dad. Like when they were rehearsing a song good enough for him.” and she struggled to remember Kearns often visited with an entire verse.

Mingoia at Mount Sinai Hospi“He put his guitar down tal when he was sick, and was and rolled around on the present when he passed away. floor, then stood back up and “The last time I was in that grabbed his guitar again,” she hospital with Sal was 30 years recalled. “I was like, ‘Why did ago when he donated blood you do that?’ and he said, ‘So to my father who was undergoing cancer-related surgery,” — Mike Pollice you would never forget that line again.’” he said. “He’s been a constant For Samantha Mingoia, in my life. Someone I could she said she’ll simply miss always count on. He was the sitting around the house with her father. true definition of a best friend.”

“Every night we all ate dinner as a family Those who knew him best say, despite how dedicated he was to his job on the force and then just never left the table,” she said. or as a friend, his greatest passion in life “We’d sit there until 9 p.m. talking about was being a husband to Denise, whom he the day, philosophies about life, politics, married in 1990, and father to his two anything. The house is definitely quiet and daughters. Not only did Mingoia never miss empty now.”

‘He was a friend to everyone. A very rare kind of person.’

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At a home on Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Port Jefferson, a 38-year-old man, who lived in the home, entered the bedroom of a woman who lived at the home and stole her checkbook at about 4 p.m. Oct. 2, according to police. He was arrested Oct. 15 and charged with second-degree burglary.

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At about 8:30 p.m. Oct. 14, a 59-yearold man from Selden was driving a 2007 Toyota on Imperial Drive in Selden when he hit a parked, unoccupied 2015 Jeep, and fled the scene without stopping, according to police. His vehicle was identified by police and he was pulled over minutes later on Boyle Road in Selden, police said.

During the traffic stop police discovered he was driving the vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, police said. He was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident with property damage.

Book fight

A 30-year-old man from Coram punched another man in the head causing minor injuries while at the Comsewogue Public Library in Port Jefferson Station at about 5:30 p.m. Oct. 16, according to police.

He was arrested and charged with thirddegree assault.

Leave it at home

A 25-year-old woman from Ronkonkoma was arrested at the 6th Precinct in Selden for possessing heroin Oct. 13, according to police. She was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Do-it-yourself

At Lowe’s Home Improvement on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook Oct. 11 at about 3 p.m., a 27-year-old man from Ronkonkoma stole five rolls of electrical wire, spray paint and light bulbs, according to police. He was arrested and charged with petit larceny.

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The window of a 2010 Ford was broken while it was parked outside of a home on University Heights Drive in Stony Brook Oct. 16 at about 1 a.m., according to police.

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The front door of a home on Echo Avenue in Miller Place was damaged at about noon Oct. 14, according to police.

Sneaking out

A pair of sneakers was stolen from Payless ShoeSource on Nesconset Highway in Setauket at about 11 a.m. Oct. 15, according to police.

Caving in

Someone damaged the roof of a home on Green Meadow Crescent in Mount Sinai at about 6 p.m. Oct. 15, according to police.

Unlawful entry

At Tierney & Tierney law office on Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station Oct. 12 at about 4 p.m., someone broke in through a window and damaged desk drawers inside the office, according to police.

Appliance shopping

Appliances were stolen from a vacant home on Huron Street in Terryville Oct. 12 at about 7 p.m., according to police.

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A table was stolen from the porch of a home on Thomas Lane in Setauket Oct. 12 at about 7 p.m., according to police.

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A 38-year-old woman from Sound Beach stole assorted groceries from Stop & Shop on Route 25A in Miller Place Oct. 13 at about 10:30 a.m., according to police. She was arrested and charged with petit larceny.

— Compiled by Alex petroski

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SportS

Photos by Jen Holden

Clockwise from above, running back Chad Blaszky pushes through a tackler to gain yards; running back Terrell Thomas pushes up the field; the football team storms onto the field; lineman eddie Longo races downfield; and wide receiver anthony Cabral crosses into the end zone.

Wolverines fall to Huntington at homecoming

By Desirée Keegan Desiree@tbrnewspapers.com Huntington’s Eric Sands almost singlehandedly spoiled a second straight homecoming. After the Blue Devils running back racked up four touchdowns last week in a 28-23 edging of Smithtown West, he tallied two of three Huntington scores in a 21-14 win over Newfield Oct. 14.

Huntington 21 Newfield 14

“We played hard physically,” Newfield head coach Nick Adler said. “But we made too many mental mistakes and the game comes down to who makes the least mistakes. Today we were not that team and we shot ourselves in the foot.”

The Wolverines got on the board early when senior running back Terrell Thomas broke away with the ball in Newfield territory and covered 64 yards on his way to the end zone. Senior Jacob Newell successfully completed the point-after kick attempt to put his team up 7-0.

Newfield quickly racked up penalties to start the second, and Huntington quarterback John Paci capitalized on the costly errors with a 46-yard touchdown run.

“We left everything out on the field; we play really hard, we practice hard, our only concern is we’ve got to fix those mental mistakes, it kills us every game,” senior lineman Zachary Ferrari said.

With the game tied 7-7 heading into the halftime break, Newfield knew it needed to make some adjustments to come away with the homecoming win.

“All we need to do is focus better and we can’t choke like on a fourth-and-5,” Ferrari said. “We really need to improve on that in the next two weeks we are really going to see if we can get it going.”

Unfortunately, Newfield couldn’t get it going against Huntington, and Sands was too much for the Wolverines to handle. He scored on runs of 3 yards and 20 yards in the third quarter to put Huntington out front 21-7. He finished the day with 153 yards on 21 attempts.

“All these teams are good, and we’re not going to be able to overcome and win

a game against a team like that when we make that many mistakes,” Adler said.

“This is a great team we played, but we have to regain our focus. The season’s not over and I look forward to next week.”

Junior wide receiver Anthony Cabral scored the Wolverines’ only other touchdown late in the third on a 5-yard pass from Newfield’s sophomore quarterback Max Martin.

Newfield fell to 1-5 in the Division II standings while Huntington improved to 4-2 with its third straight win. Newfield hosts North Babylon (5-1) Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. before hosting Smithtown East (1-5) Oct. 27 in the last game of the season.

“We should come out the way we practice, with more energy and more focus,” senior lineman Chris Vidal said. “I was very confident, and I still am very confident in my team. I know we can make a comeback. It’s just all about how much we really want it.”

Jen Holden contributed reporting

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Welcome to the Wolverine den

Photos by Jen Holden

Clockwise from top, the Newfield football team steps onto the field; while cheerleaders rooted them on; the kickline team performed during halftime; quarterback Max Martin tosses a pass; a little cheerleader learns the ropes; and the Wolverine gets the crowd pumped up during Newfield’s homecoming celebrations during a 21-14 loss at the hands of Huntington Oct. 14.

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Homelessness Continued from page A3 Pax Christi. His entire budget, which he estimated to be in the ballpark of $5 million annually, is covered by donations and grants. He also said he believes homeless people who commit crimes or contribute to tensions in the Port Jeff community tend not to be the same people who are interested in getting help.

“Uptown is a complicated place,” he said. “The homeless have no fixed address and they also have no voice, so it’s easy to blame them. They’re a part of the issue, but it’s not that simplistic. I don’t think the larger community really realizes that.”

Pizzarelli pointed to insufficient funds from the county and state governments as his and other organization’s biggest obstacle in providing services for those in need. He said mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction, especially to opioids, are at the root of

Suffolk County’s homelessness problem. Once people are in treatment for substance addiction or any mental health affliction, he said more transitional housing needs to be made available to get people on the road to recovery.

Pizzarelli said Pax Christi does not admit any persons under the influence of drugs or alcohol, so they occasionally have to turn people away.

“We probably all need to take a firmer stand so [homeless people being aided by services] understand if they’re not going to take care of business — hanging out at the train station is not the answer,” he said. “I agree, people don’t need to be harassed when they’re getting off the train.”

DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville), presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature, in conjunction with the Welfare to Work Commission of the Legislature, arranged a public hearing Oct. 10 to discuss the impact that massive cuts in President Donald Trump’s (R) early budget proposals to funding for human services would have on local residents.

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based Association for Mental Health and Wellness said before the hearing he thinks the county fails to adequately invest in mental health services.

“We see a proportionate rise and increase in the number of people in our jails who have mental health conditions — untreated and under treated — and among our homeless populations,” he said.

Stoltz was representing one of the 13 agencies slated to speak during the hearing.

“The county and these agencies are facing a crisis of what could be unparalleled and unprecedented proportions,” commission chairman Richard Koubek said before the hearing. “We have watched with dismay and frustration the chronic underfunding of contract agencies that serve Suffolk County’s poor people.”

Suffolk and Nassau counties collectively are considered a Continuum of Care community, which is defined as a community with a unified plan to organize and deliver housing services to meet the needs of people who are homeless. Grants from the CoC are funded through the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is a federal department responsible for more than $10 million in CoC grants obtained each year to aid locals, according to its website. DiNapoli’s report found of the smaller communities with CoC programs, Long Island’s counties had the third largest homeless population in the United States.

Long Island’s relative lack of affordable housing can further complicate the issue, as housing units are priced to rent or own in Brookhaven Town according to HUD guidelines, which are dependent on the area median income of a region. In 2017, Suffolk County’s average household income was $110,800. To qualify to rent an affordable living space, household income must be less than 50 percent of this number, meaning in Suffolk, any family earning less than $55,400 annually has a right to reduced rent. Monthly rent for a three-person home for a family earning less than that, for example, by law cannot exceed $1,200.

Because of the relatively high average income in Suffolk, “affordable” rent is a term that most likely wouldn’t apply to someone sleeping on the street or residing in a homeless shelter. According to Pizzarelli and Brookhaven Housing and Human Services Commissioner Alison Karppi, there’s far less affordable housing available in the town and the county as a whole than demand would dictate.

“It is estimated that 42,500 renters spend half or more of their income on household costs,” Gregory said prior to the Oct. 10 hearing. “That startling figure emphasizes the need for cheaper housing our working families and young people can afford. We are here today to send a message that we simply can’t afford this budget.”

Last week Brookhaven Town announced a new initiative to acquire vacant “zombie” homes and make them available for veterans and first-time homebuyers at reduced costs as a way to expand the availability of affordable housing in the town. Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) estimated there are as many as 2,000 vacant homes in the town with many in a salvageable state.

Port Jeff has another resource in its backyard to help those in need, which reiterates Pizzarelli’s sentiment that on the whole, it is a compassionate community.

Welcome Friends Soup Kitchen in Port Jeff Village has been serving people in need, homeless or otherwise, in the area for 28 years. The group also has two locations in Port Jefferson Station comprised of about 200 volunteers and functions entirely on donations of money and food, oftentimes from a local Trader Joe’s. Five days a week, the soup kitchen opens its doors to serve as many as 100 guests free of charge each night. Unlike Pax Christi, Welcome Friends never turns away guests due to intoxication. The volunteers prevent entry to those who could be a danger to other guests, but even in those instances the person is sent away with a to-go meal, always well balanced and fresh. Multiple courses are available but served once a day Sunday to Wednesday and also on Friday.

Lorraine Kutzing, a longtime coordinator at the soup kitchen, said the organization’s sole focus is having as many meals as possible prepared each day, and hopes that she and others like Pizzarelli can continue to try to fix the problem highlighted by community members like those in the Facebook group.

“I think the need has always been there,” she said. “I don’t think that has changed that much.”

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OpiniOn Editorial

Letters to the editor

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Girls will soon be able to join the Cub Scouts and, in the future, have the chance to earn Eagle Scout status.

Scouting opportunities The Boy Scouts of America board of directors announced the organization will allow girls to join its Cub Scouts program beginning in 2018 and will create a Scouting program that will begin in 2019 for older girls, which will allow them to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout.

While the Cub Scouts will have gender-specific dens, we feel the move is a step in the right direction to providing more diverse opportunities for young women to learn about the world and develop life skills. The goal should be to give everyone choices, and for those options to be equal for boys and girls. Some girls may like hiking, camping or woodworking — more physically challenging than activities offered by the Girl Scouts. We would also implore Boy Scouts to want to educate themselves and strive for badges available to their female counterparts.

Becoming an Eagle Scout, which only one in 20 Boy Scouts attains, according to the Boy Scouts of America, is something every Scout should strive for. While we know a Gold Award was symbolically added to give girls something higher to attain, it’s nice to see the balance being done on this front to give the same weight to both achievements. In order to become an Eagle Scout, a child must earn 21 badges — 16 being in specific categories, so there’s a lot more that girls can learn when the badges are made available to them.

While we’re not pushing for girls to join the Boy Scouts, we think that there’s something that can be learned from making the choices and badges on both sides made available to all. There’s a benefit to learning how to tend to a garden and help animals, and there’s also good that comes from learning about architecture and astronomy.

Financial resources also play a part in leveling the playing field for both sexes. According to a 2013 Nonprofit Quarterly report, the net assets per member in the Girl Scouts are $54.54 compared to $333.61 per member in the Boy Scouts. More resources provide more opportunities for young people, and if both boys and girls can enjoy more activities due to this, our vote goes toward equaling this out.

We’re for gender-inclusive options. A couple of years ago, our Men and Women of the Year edition was changed to People of the Year. Currently, our editorial staff is keeping our eye on a situation in Commack where a male student at the high school is hoping to join the girls varsity gymnastic team. In New York state, there have been no boys gymnastics teams in schools since the early 2000s. The currently all-girl team would be his only option to compete in his chosen sport. While he has tried three times to become part of the team, Section XI has denied his request, claiming he holds a competitive edge over the girls.

We hope more can follow the Boy Scouts of America’s lead so that the power to choose remains in the hands of those interested in bettering themselves.

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Scenes from Unity Fest at Bethel Hobbs Farm in Centereach

A thank you for building bridges On behalf of the members of Building Bridges in Brookhaven, we would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in our inaugural Unity Fest at the Bethel Hobbs Farm in Centereach, which is owned by the Bethel AME Church of Setauket.

The Bethel Hobbs Farm is a volunteer-run, nonprofit farm that donates 95 percent of its produce to food pantries. We are so grateful for the many local nonprofit organizations that came to the festival and shared their stories about what they do

to make Brookhaven Town a better place for us all. We also appreciate the participation of the Herstory Writers Workshop, Stelios Stylianou from Studio E Art and the entertainment provided by the following musicians, all of whom donated their time: Deborah C. Smith, Claudia Jacobs, the Bethel AME Children’s Choir, Wayne Hart and Dirty Boots and Soundswell. Finally, thank you to Don Audio for the incredible sound production services. The day was a beautiful success, and we hope that it’s even bigger and

better next year.

To find out more about Bethel Hobbs Farm, including how you can volunteer as an individual or with a group, please visit their website at www.hobbsfarm.info/.

To keep up to date with Building Bridges in Brookhaven, please visit our Facebook page, and keep an eye out for our January Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.

Mark Jackett Writing on behalf of festival committee co-chairs Larry Corbett & Melanie Kiester

Long Island is the place for Amazon A letter to Amazon: There is a thirsty and smart young population that is settling down on Long Island. I see them every day at work. They’re the ones who live in their parents’ basements, have full-time jobs, side hustle and chase degrees. Your company represents an opportunity for these eager and employable folks. An opportunity that this demographic isn’t afraid to seize.

Across the United States there are similar populations and they make up a crucial part of the workforce. What differentiates this spot is the location. Besides the obvious geographical one, Brookhaven is home to a scientific marvel. I do not know exactly what a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is, but there are only two in the world. One of them is housed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. What I can

only assume is that Marvel-esque science is being practiced here. Talent sharing between the Amazon brains and the lab engineers at Brookhaven would surely produce breakthroughs in many areas.

Not five minutes down the road from the lab is the now defunct and vacant Dowling College.

This offers abundant land peppered with ornate preconstructed buildings and ample parking. The campus-style business center is perfect to promote the Amazon culture and perhaps encourage some civic pride.

To the south are the crisp waters of the Atlantic coast and further out east the glitz of the Hamptons. On the North Shore are vineyards and farms with a European vibe. Your distribution network could actually help these local businesses. Big picture, I see

Amazon drones and self-driving cars bringing local Long Island produce farm to table.

You guys deliver. You deliver on prices, on service, on goods and you unfathomably pack and ship within 48 hours. I know New York can deliver, too. The proximity to the economic capital of the world, by osmosis, has trained us from a young age that competition is good and that hard work pays off.

Amazon would thrive in this environment and the company would elevate the surrounding communities by introducing a new industry to the area.

Amazon, please consider the Town of Brookhaven for the location of your second North American headquarters.

Emmet Hawkins Wading River

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OpiniOn From Machiavelli to half marathons, relationships are limitless

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’m going to start with a headline relationship that would make Niccolò Machiavelli proud and work my way toward life on Main Street.

You remember Machiavelli? That’s the author who wrote “The Prince,” which was first published way back in 1532, about how to manipulate people to survive and use any means available.

Wait, please don’t go. There won’t be a test and that’s the last date I’ll put in this column.

Promise.

So, I’m thinking about relaBy Daniel Dunaief tionships because of the new and improved dynamic between President Donald Trump and his Best Friend for Now — BFN, anyone? — Sen. Mitch McConnell. After a few tough losses, the Republican leaders seemed testy in

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their exchanges.

No, no, they said earlier this week, that wasn’t so. They are buddies and they agree on everything. Well, almost everything. According to sources, the senior senator also wants two scoops of ice cream when he visits the White House, but the commander in chief has no intention of changing his ice cream policies, even for his BFN. Anyway, what brought these two older white men together? Did they talk about what it’s like to be misunderstood? Were they eager to find a friend in Washington, D.C., and did neither of them want to get a dog, as the expression goes?

No, they came together because they need to. It’s so much easier, they decided, to agree and to work together than to disagree. That sounds reasonable, but what would Machiavelli think? I suspect he’d be thrilled. After all, it’s about surviving, learning to fight another day and moving the chess pieces of life around on the board.

Fortunately, and I won’t put the date in here because I don’t want to break

my promise, chess was invented before “The Prince” was published. If you want to find it, you can look it up on the internet, which is the source of all information and misinformation in the universe. So, Machiavelli would have known about chess and the need to sacrifice the short-term humiliation of needing anyone and the mutually assured long-term gain of having allies in Washington.

OK, so let’s step away from the seat of our democracy and go out into the real world. Why do the rest of us need relationships and what can they do for us?

Are we like ants and bees, who need each other for specialized jobs?

Yes and no. Certainly, I would have a hard time building my own house.

I feel as if I have an incompetence allergy to the words “some assembly required.” I am also visual-arts deficient.

People offer all kinds of false modesty, saying things like, “I used to ski a little” or “I used to do a bit of singing,” when they almost made the Olympic team and were a few auditions short

of starring next to Julie Andrews on Broadway. I, however, am not being modest. If I were responsible for building walls and decorating them, we’d be living in caves and would be staring at uninspiring chalk drawings of woolly mammoths.

So, yes, our individual deficiencies suggest we do need each other. But, maybe, we benefit not just what we get from others.

One of my good friends is in a new relationship. He has always been in decent physical shape. He’s not much of a reader and has shied away from even the shortest of reading assignments.

Anyway, he’s dating a woman who is a regular runner and an avid reader. Lo and behold, he recently beamed after completing a half marathon and is happily building his own personal library.

Maybe the best and longest lasting relationships are those that push us to find the best in ourselves. It’s not exactly Machiavelli 101 and it doesn’t require a press conference, but maybe the right relationships are those that help us develop in unexpected ways.

The unknown prince and the world of imperfect children

T

he recently aired story of Queen Elizabeth II’s uncle forcefully reminded me of my mother. I was probably thinking of my mother, since it would have been her birthday this past Monday. She was born in 1906, one year after Prince John.

The sixth and last child of the then-Prince of Wales and Mary — by 1910, King George V and Queen Mary — young John was a handsome but unusually rambunctious member of the House

By Leah S. Dunaief of Windsor. That may have had something to due with his diagnosis of epilepsy at age 4.

From that time, Prince John lived increasingly out of public view, looked after by a governess, and there are no official portraits of him after age 8. He died from a severe seizure when he was just 13 years old. Only then was

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his illness disclosed to the general public along with his learning disability, and on some official family trees of the royals his name was erased altogether.

It was not at all unusual at that time and through much of the ensuing 20th century for families to hide their imperfect children. Often those were separated from their families and sent to institutions, where they died, perhaps from inattention or wanton neglect. Another such prominent family with a less-than-perfect child was that of Arthur Miller, the acclaimed writer of morality plays. He and his third wife had a mentally retarded son who was separated from his parents and sister, given over to the care of an older, childless couple and barely acknowledged, an apparent embarrassment to his cerebral father.

Into this world my younger sister, Maxine, was born in 1942. She was diagnosed with Down syndrome almost immediately, and my mother’s highly regarded New York City obstetrician advised my parents to “do yourselves a favor and throw her into the nearest garbage can.” We live in an entirely different world today, made so by much of

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the investigative reporting of journalists like Geraldo Rivera and his expose of terrible and unconscionable conditions at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island in the 1970s. The courageous outing of their disabled sister by the Kennedys in the 1960s was also a transformative moment in this change from hiding away children with handicaps to helping them develop as humans entitled to their lives.

Fully supported in her decision by my father, my mother fiercely insisted that my sister had every right to be loved and brought up alongside her other two children. She then devoted the rest of her life to caring for and teaching Maxine to the extent possible.

There were no public schools to help the mentally challenged at the time any more than there were facilities to aid those with physical disabilities.

But my mother, with infinite patience, taught my “profoundly retarded” (that was her diagnosis) sister to read and do simple arithmetic on perhaps a secondgrade level. In addition, Maxine was accepted into a private school for those with disabilities run by the Catholic

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Church in Brooklyn, which further helped her development.

My sister was a delightful member of our family with a wickedly good sense of humor and a heart full of kindness and love. She enriched all our lives and lived until 2008, something of a record for those with Down syndrome.

Maxine was unlucky to be born with a severe disability and in the first half of the 20th century. But she was incredibly lucky to have my father and mother as her parents. My mother completely ignored the stares of passersby on the streets and on the buses of New York who had never before seen a person with Down syndrome.

She valiantly withstood the ire of her sisters, who emotionally urged her to “put Maxine away,” the euphemistic phrase for institutionalizing, because she would ruin the good marriage prospects of the next generation if she were seen. And she integrated Maxine into her daily life to the edification of the neighborhood, whose residents came to greatly respect my parents and enjoy Maxine.

Happy Birthday, Mom.

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UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF

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His record speaks for itself.

Retained and/or created over 7,000 jobs and $600 million in investments.

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Aggressively pursuing Amazon's $5 billion dollar investment to employ 50,000 people in Brookhaven Town.

Kept the Town's operations within the Tax Cap, Debt Cap and Spending Cap. Supported funding and opposed cuts to Brookhaven National Lab.

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