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October 26, 2017

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A psychic in Port Jeff

Envision Crystal owner provides spiritual avenue for area residents

Celebrating Halloween on the North Shore

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Flooded McCleary Steet in Puerto Ricow.

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Help Brookhaven with Puerto Rico relief efforts

A police dog dressed up for the Barkfest Halloween pet costume parade last year.

The Town of Brookhaven is uniting to help Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Residents are encouraged to donate flashlights, batteries, portable lanterns, diapers, baby wipes, cases of water and feminine hygiene products in unopened, original packaging to the following drop-off locations: •Brookhaven Town Hall 1 Independence Hill in Farmingville

The Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County Legislature are hosting Halloweenthemed festivities this weekend.

•Henrietta Acampora Recreation Center 39 Montauk Highway in Blue Point •Brookhaven Town Highway Department 1140 Old Town Road in Coram •Rose Caracappa Senior Center 739 Route 25A in Mount Sinai

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•New Village Recreation Center 20 Wireless Road in Centereach •Mastic Recreation Center 15 Herkimer St. in Mastic •Brookhaven Parks Department 286 Hawkins Road in Centereach •Bellport Hagerman East Patchogue Alliance 1492 Montauk Highway in Bellport For more information about the Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico, or if you would like to make a monetary donation, visit www. ny.gov/empire-state-relief-and-recoveryeffort-puerto-rico/empire-state-relief-andrecovery-effort-puerto#donate.

Local Halloween events Barnyard Scare

Come in costume and join locals at the Longwood Estate barn to take pictures at a ghostly photo station, make Halloween crafts and bring child-sized clothes to create a scarecrow Oct. 28. The event, held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., is sponsored by the Brookhaven Town Department of Parks, Recreation and Sports and Cultural Resources. Children from 2 to 8 years old can attend the event. The cost is $10 per child. To register for the Barnyard Scare, at Longwood and Smith roads in Ridge, call 631-924-1820. Acceptable payments

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include check, money order and credit card. No cash payments will be accepted. All cancellations, except by the town, are subject to a 15 percent administrative handling fee.

Barkfest

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) invites community members to Barkfest 2017. Take part in Long Island’s largest pet costume contest and parade Oct. 29 at noon for the Suffolk County SPCA, Save-A-Pet and TBR News Media-sponsored event. Admission is free and there will be prizes given out to the best-dressed pets. The parade will begin at 3131 Nesconset Hwy. in Setauket. For more information call 631-471-8000.

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Centereach High School senior Hanna Hudson, Newfield High School senior Sydney Taub, Dawnwood Middle School eighth-grader Grace Miller and Selden Middle School eighth-grader Austin Pelissier were named Students of the Month for September and October.

Middle Country school district honors students of the month

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Middle Country Central School District recognized its September and October students of the month at a recent board of education meeting. Centereach High School senior Hanna Hudson, Newfield High School senior Sydney Taub, Dawnwood Middle School eighth-grade student Grace Miller and Selden Middle School eighth-grade student Austin Pelissier were all recognized for their success inside and outside of the classroom. “The district is incredibly proud to honor these four high-achieving students as they continue to thrive academically and serve as role models for their peers,” Superintendent

of Schools Roberta Gerold said. “The four students being recognized have led the way in ushering in an exciting new school year.” Hudson’s academic success will lead her to completing five Advanced Placement courses and six college-level courses upon graduation in June. As she challenged herself more, her grades have continued to improve — a testament to her determination and work ethic. She also currently serves as senior class president, was just voted homecoming queen and excels in softball and basketball. Hudson will be pursuing a degree in early childhood education and a minor in special education.

Taub has the potential to graduate in June with 40 college credits. This year alone, she is enrolled in six Advanced Placement courses and a college class. Newfield teachers often describe Taub as a well-rounded student who not only excels academically but has become an active member of the community. She is a member of the National Honor Society, vice president of the school newspaper, treasurer of the Glamor Gals Club and a member of the Mock Trial Team. She will be pursuing a degree in political science next fall. Grace, who was named September Student of the Month, has maintained high honor roll

since the first quarter of sixth grade. Her classroom achievements are matched by her musical talents. Grace has played leading roles in Dawnwood musicals, plays the guitar at local events and writes and records her own songs. Austin, an aspiring environmental engineer, was also recognized as a September Student of the Month. He has remained on the high honor roll since the beginning of middle school — earning a 97.15 GPA. He is a member of National Junior Honor Society, the school’s literary magazine and the Youth for Humanity club. — DeSirée KeeGAN

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Community news Middle Country

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Creating dresses for Africans

More than 30 volunteers came together at the Middle Country Public Library program, Crafting for a Purpose, to cut, pin, sew and design dresses to be donated to the organization Little Dresses for Africa, a nonprofit organization that collects and distributes clothing to girls in need throughout Africa. Because of the efforts of the volunteers who used donated pillowcases to create sundresses, the library will send 114 dresses to Little Dresses for Africa.

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Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) joined Boy Scout Troop 187 at the Ridge Fire Department for an Eagle Scout Court of Honor Ceremony to recognize Thomas Michael Hart IV Oct 1. Eagle Scout is the highest rank that can be earned by a Boy Scout, and only a small percentage of Scouts are granted this rank after earning 21 merit badges and undergoing a lengthy review process. “Only those who demonstrate true hard work, skill and commitment to the community earn this prestigious rank,” Anker said. In order to earn the rank of Eagle Scouts, Boy Scouts must complete a service project that creates a lasting contribution to the community. For his project, Hart built a lean-to for the Longwood Estate to store chopped wood. The wood is needed for the historic cooking demonstrations at the estate. These demonstrations allow participants to have a more accurate understanding of the 17th- and 18thcentury time period.

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Incidents and arrests Oct. 19–23 Crack down

At about 9 p.m. Sept. 11 on William Street in Port Jefferson, a 36-year-old man from Huntington sold crack cocaine and heroin, according to police. He also sold crack cocaine on Aron Lane in Port Jefferson Station Sept. 19 and on Middle Country Road in Coram Sept. 21, police said. He was arrested Oct. 19 in Port Jefferson Station and charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.

Hit-and-caught

At about 10:30 a.m. Oct. 23, a 27-year-old woman from Miller Place driving a 2004 Honda on Point Circle South in Coram was involved in a collision and left the scene without exchanging contact or insurance information, according to police. She was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

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A 20-year-old man from Selden was involved in a dispute with another person at a public park on Boyle Road in Selden at about 2 p.m. Oct. 22 and stole cash from the wallet of the individual, according to police. He was arrested in Centereach and charged with petit larceny.

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On Buckskin Lane in Selden Oct. 20 at about 11:30 a.m., a 54-year-old man from Coram was driving a 1997 Jeep with a suspended license, according to police. A 28-year-old man from Shirley was also seated in the vehicle and possessed a hypodermic needle containing heroin, police said. The Coram man was arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and the Shirley man was arrested and charged with unlawfully loitering for the purpose of using a controlled substance.

Lack of concentration

During a traffic stop on Main Street in Stony Brook Oct. 22 at about 11 a.m., police discovered concentrated marijuana within a car being driven by a 21-year-old man from Stony Brook, according to police. He was arrested and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Scratching the surface

A 2017 Audi parked on Piedmont Drive in Port Jefferson Station was keyed at about 8 p.m. Oct. 21, according to police.

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A woman shopping at Marshall’s on Route 347 in Stony Brook Oct. 21 at about 3:30 p.m. either lost her wallet or had it stolen, then her credit card was used to make purchases at another business, according to police.

Gone fishing

Fishing equipment was stolen from a boat docked at Mount Sinai Marina at about 5 p.m. Oct. 23, according to police.

Cashed out

Money was stolen from a 2006 Ford parked on Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Port Jefferson Station Oct. 21 at about 10 p.m., according to police.

Shattered

The window of a 2015 Lexus was broken while it was parked outside of a home on Old Town Road in Setauket Oct. 21 at about 3 a.m., according to police.

Special delivery

A television that had been delivered to a home on Carlisle Road in Miller Place Sept. 26 at about noon was stolen off the front porch, according to police. A police report was filed Oct. 20.

Lock it up

A cellphone, tools, a GPS and sunglasses were stolen from within an unlocked 2016 Hyundai parked on Sycamore Drive in Stony Brook at about 8:30 p.m. Oct. 19, according to police.

Rubber cutter

The tires of a 2004 Subaru were slashed at about 1 a.m. Oct. 19 while it was parked on Florence Road in Port Jefferson Station, according to police.

Wild shopper

Assorted groceries were stolen from Wild By Nature on Route 25A in Setauket Aug. 30 at about 9 a.m. A police report was filed Oct. 19.

Food drive

A 50-year-old man from Stony Brook stole items from Stop & Shop in South Setauket at about 9 p.m. Oct. 19, according to police. He was arrested and charged with petit larceny.

Gamer gaffe

An Xbox console was stolen from GameStop on Nesconset Highway in East Setauket at about noon Oct. 23, according to police.

False alarm

A 41-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station pulled the fire alarm at his home on Terryville Road when there was no fire or present danger, once Oct. 20 at about midnight and once Oct. 24 at 5:30 p.m., according to police. He was arrested Oct. 21 and charged with two counts of second-degree falsely reporting an incident. — Compiled by Alex petroski

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Port Jeff resident helps villagers communicate with the dead By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com Along East Main Street in Port Jefferson, tucked between a plumbing company and a parking lot, sits a tiny, two-story shop where Lisa McGarrity communicates with the deceased. A new age store stocked with spell and magic books, a variety of incense and herbs, and a private space for tarot card readings, Envision Crystal has provided a spiritual avenue for residents from Port Jeff Village and beyond since 1987 as both a place for healing and closure, as well as exploration of macabre curiosities. McGarrity, a psychic medium who first discovered her necromantical gift as a child when she witnessed spirits roaming around her house, is the shop’s third owner and said there’s a reason why there’s no shortage of customers coming to her for advice on how to handle and interact with members of the afterlife. “Port Jefferson is so filled with spirits,” said McGarrity, who recalled several encounters with former, deceased village residents over the years. “I feel that wonderful energy of sea captains, people who grew up and worked here, musicians, merchants. There are a lot of psychics in the village because the energy here is conducive. I think spirits want to be here because it’s home. They want to visit and hang out.” In fact, the medium said, as the occupant of a historic home in town, she “has had friendly conversations” and sometimes shares her morning coffee with the gentleman who built her house long ago. While she used to be able to see these spectral visitors crystal clear as a child, McGarrity said now it’s more of an impression, a feeling, a sense. She described the sightings as being “a little sharper and clearer than a mind-wandering daydream.” Coming from a family of psychics and intuition-driven people, McGarrity, who studied psychology at Stony Brook University, said she’s never found this field all that unusual, but, growing up, thought it best to keep her interests in it hidden from people. “When I was young, I learned to separate it and talk about regular world things with people and leave that other world alone,” she explained. “Things have changed now and we live in a world that’s much more open now. I was born with this

‘I think spirits want to be [in Port Jeff] because it’s home. They want to visit and hang out.’

— Lisa McGarrity

Photos by Kevin Redding

Lisa Mcgarrity, above, is the owner of envision Crystal, and works as a medium in Port Jefferson village. Below, candles offered to customers by the medium along with other items ideal for supernatural encounters. curiosity and a desire to explore. I mean, I think what I do is super normal and something anyone can do if they want to pay attention to it. Some folks can sing. I’ve cultivated, developed and expanded what was a natural gift.”

St. James resident Andrea Giordano, a longtime customer of McGarrity’s shop, who developed a strong bond with the medium during a reading session, spoke highly of her friend’s gift. “What she does is get people connected,” Giordano said. “It’s not about money here. It’s about spirit, love, compassion and open mindedness. It’s universal humanity at its best. If you have faith in anything beyond this world, she helps reinforce that faith. If you don’t have faith when you walk in here, you leave here with faith.” McGarrity said, especially around this time of year, people often come into the shop on a mission to encounter ghosts in and around the area. For the budding paranormal investigators, the medium offers tips and advice — she stresses the importance of exploring in groups and with an experienced guide, equipping one’s self with protective stones and sage, which work to cleanse negative energy and drive away darker entities, and, most importantly, displaying respectful decorum. “The same rules with any human in-

teraction applies when interacting with spirits,” she said. “Start out nice, introduce yourself. That works well. Don’t go to a haunted location and shout out derogatory and inflammatory things.” Only a few minutes away, on Barnum Avenue, is the site of McGarrity’s occasional spiritual seminars: an 1890s-built, gothic-style home full of “incredible, wonderful energy,” according to its owner, L.L. Cartin. During one particular seminar, a few Halloweens ago, McGarrity said she led a group of spiritually-minded participants with electronic voice phenomenon equipment through the house. The EVP, which picks up sounds caused by ghosts, went off when they stepped into the basement. “I remember in that particular moment, I was a little scared to sleep here,” laughed Cartin, who identified herself as a spiritual person who met McGarrity as a customer. “She’s a very gentle soul, she’s not pushy, and she definitely has a gift. She’s one to be admired and her delivery is very gentle so you can receive her information the right way. I love Lisa and I think she’s an asset to the community.”

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Something strange in a Smithtown watering hole Bar owner, its patrons recall multiple paranormal occurrences at Katie’s on West Main Street By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com If there’s something strange in your neighborhood bar, chances are you’re at Katie’s on West Main Street in Smithtown — where ghostly happenings are just as normal as ordering a drink. The two-floor pub and live music venue, which sits on the grounds of the old Trainor Hotel that burned down in 1909, has long been a hotbed for spooky sightings and experiences according to its staff and patrons. The bar’s high level of spectral activity has even been featured on episodes of popular paranormal shows like Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures,” A&E’s “Paranormal State” and the Biography Channel’s “My Ghost Story.” Dominique Maciejka, a former bartender at the establishment, said she had her fair share of brushes with the bar’s spirited regulars. “I was by myself closing up, the music was off, nobody else was around, and a beer bottle cap went flying from one side of the bar to the other, like, sideways across the room,” Maciejka said, recalling one such freaky occurrence at the end of a night shift in fall 2011. “I was the only person around so there was no explanation, nothing that could’ve triggered that … other than something supernatural,” she said. “On the way home, I called my mom and asked her to stay on the phone with me.” She was also working when a soda gun behind the bar seemingly flung out of its holster on its own and dropped to the floor, an incident captured on the bar’s security cameras. Gary Bates, from Smithtown, said he once saw what he described as “a big, gray, seven-foot tall” figure walk from one end of the bar counter to the other. Another time, Bates said he was walking in the empty bar and felt the sensation of stepping into a large spider web even though there was no physical one in sight, and was then suddenly poked in the arm.

“There’s definitely something weird going on there,” Bates said of the Smithtown nightspot. Over the years, folks who frequent Katie’s have reported a wide range of eerie activity: distorted faces taking shape in the bar’s mirrors, hearing voices in empty rooms, feeling like they were being watched by unseen presences, seeing transparent children in the background of selfies and group pictures and having whatever may be haunting the place follow them home. None of these reported occurrences come as a surprise to Katie’s owner. “The whole place is active,” Brian Karppinen, 53, who has owned the bar since 2000, said. He pointed out that while the bar’s lively upstairs tends to be occupied by mischievous and relatively harmless ghosts, the basement billiards area is where he thinks more sinister ones roam. “Down there is a darker feeling, a heaviness — not as fun. You feel, spiritually, like something is not nice down there.” Karppinen recalled a night in which a tough biker went downstairs to confront one of the malevolent spirits, stood in what was considered the basement’s most active spot by the pool table and was violently punched in the stomach by an invisible force. “If he faked it, it would be amazing, but that seemed real,” Karppinen said, making clear he takes a lot of people’s reports with a grain of salt. “He hobbled out of here and I’ve never seen him again.” While there are a number of theories from various paranormal and psychic groups that have explored the bar hoping to identify the ghosts, Karppinen said little concrete evidence has emerged from such explorations. Some say the ghosts are past Smithtown residents who may have died in the Trainor Hotel fire, while others are convinced the more evil spirits could be Jinns, a Middle Eastern poltergeist that has purportedly existed before any religion. However, one of the more mischievous ghosts that has become a sort of celebrity at Katie’s is widely thought to be Charlie Klein, a Prohibition-era bootlegger and part owner

Photos by Kevin Redding

Clockwise from above, the stairway leading to the basement of Katie’s bar in Smithtown, which patrons; and owner Brian Karppinen believe might be haunted; especially at the corner, where many patrons believe is the habitat of the bar’s more sinister spirits. of the Smithtown Hotel in the 1920s, which is now Croxley’s Ale House. According to members of the Smithtown Historical Society, Klein shot himself in his house in 1933 after serving a prison sentence. Klein’s house, Karppinen said, is directly across the street from the bar. Brad Harris, the historical society’s president, said even though he’s never personally experienced any of the bar’s hauntings, he doesn’t think they’re made up. “I don’t think it’s a figment of anybody’s imagination as there does seem to be strange occurrences happening there,” Harris said. “We have always had problems trying to explain why Charlie Klein’s ghost would be disturbing the bar, as he didn’t kill himself there, but it’s a strange world.” Even stranger, Karppinen said, was when members of the Pennsylvania State University “Paranormal State” group were investigating the basement and one of them pointed to the end of the bar and said, “that’s where your ghost died — right there.” “I said, ‘no he didn’t, he died across the street, he killed himself,’” Karppinen recalled. “And he said, ‘no … I used to be a DJ here in the early ’80s and there was an old timer who used to drink and would fall asleep at the bar. We would wake him up, get him a cab, and we would send him home every night. One night, he didn’t wake up and he died at the bar.’” Karppinen said weird and unexplainable occurrences have surrounded him all his life and “it really seemed like I was called here.” It was when the Lake Grove resident was driving to his girlfriend’s house one day, he said, that something told him to go visit his friend, Rich, who owned a struggling bar called Wolfgang’s Pub. Sure enough, his instincts were right and Rich was in rough shape, depressed that his business was losing money and claiming the place was “cursed.” He asked Karppinen to be his partner and help out. Rich retired from the bar business soon after and Karppinen renamed the place after his grandmother, Katie Dunagan. Naturally, for Karppinen, it didn’t take long before things got phantasmic. Once, while jostling with a rotted door at the top of a steep stairwell in the bar, Karppinen lost his balance and felt himself tee-

tering backward when, he said, “I felt two things grab my shoulder blades and upright me. I was like, ‘wow, whoever that is, thank you.’ I got the vibe it might have been my dad or a passed away family member. It was not a spooky vibe at all.” “I think it’s some kind of a package deal that maybe this place was active and they wanted me here,” Karppinen said, laughing. “[I think] the darker thing attracted me and likes that I never really thrive. There’s times when I’m behind in bills and I’m like ‘I’m selling the place’ and then something comes through and suddenly we have money for bills again. It almost seems like they love the torture, but don’t want me to leave.” Unless you own a corporate bar, Karppinen said, the bar business is a dying industry, but the ghosts have significantly helped bring traffic to Katie’s. “People love to talk about it, people know us all over, it has definitely helped,” Karppinen said. “That and our live music. Sometimes people are jerks and they’ll come in drunk from another place, like, ‘I wanna see the ghost!’ and, spiritually, I have no idea what’s going on here … so I try not to let that happen. I don’t want to torture these [dead] people more.” Asked what he would say to any skeptics out there, Karppinen said, “I would tell them I’m not here to debate you. I don’t believe a lot of the [stuff] people say happened here, but some of it is very hard to explain.”

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lt. katherine Biggs, above at center and below, went with other sailors aboard the Military sealift Command hospital ship UsNs Comfort treat patients from Centro Medico in san Juan, Puerto rico.

PJ Station native administering medical aid aboard Navy ship in Puerto Rico By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com A Naval emergency medicine physician from Port Jefferson Station is trying to provide comfort while aboard a ship named for it in Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria made landfall in September as a historic Category 5 storm, devastating Puerto Rico with sustained gusts nearing 200 mph. When Lt. Katherine Biggs, a resident at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia currently receiving training in military-specific medicine, was offered the chance to travel to the stormravaged island, the 2006 Comsewogue High School graduate said it was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up. Biggs is one of five from the residency program aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, which reached Puerto Rico Oct. 3 and does not have a scheduled return date, working on the boat’s casualty receiving area administering medical aid to those affected. Catastrophic flooding, damaged infrastructure and a lack of supplies, drinking water and electricity have created a dangerous situation for most Puerto Ricans trying to restore their regular routine. “We’ll be here as long as directed and as long as needed,” Biggs said in a phone interview from Puerto Rico. “I’ll stay here as long as they’ll let me.” She called the trip thus far a great learning experience, and said it’s been a change of pace helping people with severe respiratory and heart issues, for example, because

she’s used to providing medical attention to those with traumatic, combat-related injuries. Biggs has treated some with broken bones, but said many of the patients she has been tasked with treating are people with chronic issues that are flaring up because they’ve been unable to take their prescribed medicines for various reasons. The lieutenant said she knew when she was in ninth or 10th grade at Comsewogue that she wanted to pursue a career in medicine as a way to help people in need. After four years at Binghamton University as an undergraduate, she moved on to medical

school at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating in 2015. Biggs said she was able to afford the schooling thanks to the Health Professions Scholarship Program, a financial assistance offering from the U.S. military, which she heard about from a neighbor. She is in the third year of her residency in Portsmouth, and it is a rarity for residents to be asked to go on a trip like the one she’s on now, according to residency program director Navy Cmdr. John Devlin. “I say it’s win-win,” Devlin said in a statement. “The people of Puerto Rico are

getting more emergency medicine physician manpower than they would have had, had we gone with the original plan. And from the resident standpoint and the Navy’s standpoint, we are getting five junior physicians that, for their entire career, will have this experience base to carry forward to apply to missions in the future.” With the help of the “Sea Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Biggs and the other residents have been able to personally assist in medical evacuation missions around the island to return people to the ship for treatment via helicopter. “When I heard about Katie’s plans to head to Puerto Rico I was incredibly proud,” Biggs’ mother Laurie said in an email. “I remember reminding her that this is why she joined the Navy and wanted to become a doctor. This opportunity may be tough in the sense of the people struggling, but it is allowing my daughter to do what she was meant to do — help people in need.” Biggs’ mother added she knew from an early age her daughter, who is the oldest of four, was a caring and helpful person, ever aware of helping the less fortunate. “To us she will always just be Katie, the daughter and older sister that is always there when you need her,” she said. Biggs said her biggest takeaway from the mission thus far has been the dedication of responders on the ground to do whatever it takes to help both individuals and the island as a whole return to normalcy. To contribute to the relief effort, visit the American Red Cross website at www. redcross.org/donate.

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OpiniOn Letter to the editor

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Suffolk County’s elected officials and police officers should take a cue from Northport Village’s new contract.

Inspiring negotiations All taxpayers should be urging their Suffolk County elected officials and police officers to take a closer look at what’s happening in the Village of Northport. Officials announced this week they reopened their contract with the village’s police officers to negotiate a new 10-year contract. These changes will save the village at least $3.2 million, if not more. The Northport Police Benevolent Association admitted the previously agreed upon 5 to 9 percent annual pay increases set for the upcoming years were off base given the current economy, according to Chief Bill Ricca. The officers agreed to take a greatly reduced 2.75 percent raise each year for the next decade, with a series of $25,000 bonuses per officer for the next three years. This new contract offers long-term stability for both the officers and the village’s finances. Nearly every single candidate running for a county office this political season has pointed to upcoming negotiations of a new contract for Suffolk County Police Department officers between the PBA and the county executive as an important landmark for the future of the county’s finances. The current contract ends in 2018, and the rates set for officers’ pay may be critical in determining the solvency of Suffolk’s finances. The county is already in dire straights; and the police department accounts for a large portion of the annual budget. Suffolk faces at least a $160 million budgetary shortfall this year, according to the latest figures, with a total debt of more than $1.4 billion as reported to the media at the end of 2016. Standard & Poor’s Global ratings downgraded the county’s bond rating from A to A- in June, the second such hit in less than two years. Taxpayers need the county to start living within its means. Taxes are already high enough. It would be unfair not to recognize that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) announced last month that crime is down 26 percent since he took office in 2012. Our public safety is no doubt increased with more officers on the streets, but does it need to come at such a high cost? It might be possible to reduce the county’s costs by giving more overtime to younger officers who are at a lower hourly salary — just to start. We strongly encourage both our elected officials and the Suffolk PBA to take a closer look at the contract drawn up in Northport for possible ideas and inspiration as they prepare to step up to the negotiation table. Northport officials bragged about their last police contract, drawn up in 2011, which gave 0 percent salary raises for three years and increased the number of years to reach top pay from six to 12 served, and their boasting might have some merit. The current Suffolk police contract, signed in 2012, borrowed the idea of keeping salaries level for several years and increased the time period to reach top pay from five years to 12. It would be nice if both Suffolk officials and police did some research, looked at their colleagues’ agreement and once again found it a source of inspiration to act in the best interest of all.

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Safety is a key to enjoying Halloween, and Brookhaven’s highway superintendent has some tips.

Halloween safety tips from Brookhaven In preparation for Halloween, Brookhaven Town Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R) is offering parents some tips, courtesy of the American Academy of Pediatrics, to help ensure children enjoy the holiday safely. All dressed up • Plan costumes that are bright and reflective. Make sure that shoes fit well and that costumes are short enough to prevent tripping, entanglement or contact with flame. • Consider adding reflective tape or striping to costumes and trickor-treat bags for greater visibility. • Because masks can limit or block eyesight, consider nontoxic makeup and decorative hats as safer alternatives. Hats should fit properly to prevent them from sliding over eyes. Make-up should be tested ahead of time on a small patch of skin to ensure there are not unpleasant surprises on the big day. • When shopping for costumes, wigs and accessories, look for and purchase those with a label clearly indicating they are flame resistant. • If a sword, cane or stick is a part of your child’s costume, make sure it’s not sharp or long. A child may be easily hurt by these accessories if he stumbles or trips. • Review with children how to call 911 if they ever have an emergency or become lost. Carving a niche • Small children should never carve pumpkins. Children can draw a face with markers; then parents can do the cutting. • Consider using a flashlight or glow stick instead of a candle to

light your pumpkin. If you do use a candle, a votive candle is safest. • Candlelit pumpkins should be placed on a sturdy table, away from curtains and other flammable objects, and not on a porch or any path where visitors may pass close by. They should never be left unattended. Home safe home • To keep homes safe for visiting trick-or-treaters, parents should remove from the porch and front yard anything a child could trip over such as garden hoses, toys, bikes and lawn decorations. • Parents should check outdoor lights and replace burned-out bulbs. • Wet leaves or snow should be swept from sidewalks and steps. • Restrain pets so they do not inadvertently jump on or bite a trick-or-treater. On the trick or treat trail • A parent or responsible adult should always accompany young children on their neighborhood rounds. • Obtain flashlights with fresh batteries for all children and their escorts. • If your older children are going alone, plan and review the route that is acceptable to you. Agree on a specific time when they should return home. • Only go to homes with a porch light on and never enter a home or car for a treat. • Because pedestrian injuries are the most common injuries to children on Halloween, remind trick-or-treaters: • Stay in a group and communicate where they will be going. • Remember reflective tape for costumes and trick-or-treat bags.

• Carry a cellphone for quick communication. • Remain on well-lit streets and always use the sidewalk. • If no sidewalk is available, walk at the far edge of the roadway facing traffic. • Never cut across yards or alleys. • Only cross the street as a group in established crosswalks. Never cross between parked cars or out of driveways. • Don’t assume the right of way. Motorists may have trouble seeing trick-or-treaters. Just because one car stops, doesn’t mean others will. • Law enforcement authorities should be notified immediately of any suspicious or unlawful activity. Healthy Halloween • A good meal prior to parties and trick-or-treating will discourage youngsters from filling up on Halloween treats. • Consider purchasing non-food treats for those who visit your home, such as coloring books or pens and pencils. • Wait until children are home to sort and check treats. Though tampering is rare, a responsible adult should closely examine all treats and throw away any spoiled, unwrapped or suspicious items. • Try to ration treats for the days and weeks following Halloween. Have a Happy Halloween. Please remember to take precautions and be safe.

Dan Losquadro Brookhaven Town Highway Superintendent

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OpiniOn Wouldn’t-it-be-nice costume ideas for Halloween

alloween has always seemed like an opportunity to explore the creatively terrifying parts of our imagination. We put up ghosts, goblins, skeletons and spiderwebs around our houses; we dress our children as Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and zombies; and we jump out from behind bushes, yelling “Boo” or “Happy Halloween.” Maybe, instead of indulging the frightening side By Daniel Dunaief of life that seems present almost daily, we should take this opportunity to develop wouldn’t-it-be-nice costumes. For starters, we could dress our kids, or ourselves if we’re in jobs that allow us to come to work in costume, as giant, dirty hands. When asked to explain ourselves, we could suggest that we’re helping hands, willing to

D. None of the above

get our hands dirty to help those in need anywhere. This includes Puerto Rico, where people are still without power and are seeking to meet basic needs such as food and water. It also could include a co-worker dealing with an illness or death in the family, or an injured neighbor who can’t get his recycling to the curb. While we’re at it, we could dress as a door with a giant lever people could pull to knock. What are we? We could be opportunity. Every day presents an opportunity to become what we wish, whether that’s someone who can and will lose weight, or someone who sets an incredible example for our children and for other people’s children, or someone who no longer stays silent when he or she sees any type of injustice, whether that’s discrimination, harassment or bullying. Maybe, we could send our kids out as giant ears. They could become the great listeners. We have so many aspiring great speakers who share every thought in their head, whether that’s online, in a tweet or on a TV show,

scoffing, pontificating and secondguessing everyone and everything. What does a great listener do, besides absorbing the deluge of thoughts coming his or her way? That person imagines the ideas and motivation behind those words, considers the hurt or vulnerability that those ideas might convey, and thinks of ways to change negative thoughts and behavioral patterns into something positive and inspiring. Extending the auditory idea, we could also send our kids out in togas with a bucket of fake ears. Why the togas? They could be Romans. Why the ears? Just ask Shakespeare, whose Mark Antony exhorts a crowd in Act III, scene ii of “Julius Caesar” with the opening line, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” We could encourage children to listen and read one of the greatest and most often cited speeches from Shakespeare, helping them learn about the power of rhetoric and the passion of ideas. The older children might even suggest that they are a walking exam-

ple of praeteritio, the literary technique Antony uses when he suggests he’s not going to discuss that which he shares in great detail, namely, the recently deceased Caesar’s contributions to Rome and its citizens. For those who need something with a shriek component, we could create a costume in which someone dresses up in everyday clothing. An individual could hold a small cage or a tight box containing whatever horrifying image that person imagines in connection with a disease. He or she could suggest that the disease is contained and that this illness, which is locked in a box, is being taken for a walk. As a result, a horrifying disease is minimized and contained. Finally, we could cover our kids in the kind of headlines we’d like to see, including “Peace breaks out all over the world,” “Children cure cancer,” “Bullying takes a day off,” “Endangered species recover from the brink of extinction” and “Leaders agree to work together.” What would we call such a costume? Fake news.

My enduring love affair is celebrated this week

t some point along my ancestral chain, I must have been Italian. Or Chinese. How do I know? I have an unbelievable passion for pasta. That’s not a carbohydrate lust. While I have never met a carb I don’t like, I can take or leave rice or bread and the many other forms in which carbohydrates can be found. But my soul soars for pasta. It was World Pasta Day Oct. 25, and that got me to thinking about my affair with By Leah S. Dunaief love pasta. I suppose it started in my early childhood, as almost everything does. SpaghettiOs came in a can, and my mother occasionally served it to us as part of a meal. However, the story is not that straightforward. She felt the sauce was a bit sharp, and so she

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sprinkled the spaghetti with a little sugar. Now this is enough to make any self-respecting Italian restaurateur gag. Many did, as I would ask, “Can I have some sugar please?” of my waiter as I was served a bowl of steaming pasta. “Sugar? You mean Parmesan cheese?” he would ask. “No sugar, thank you, granulated sugar,” I would patiently explain. Then he would watch in fascination as I topped off my dish accordingly. It wasn’t until I visited Italy for the first time that I understood the miracle of pasta. The secret is in the sauce, which decidedly is not improved with the addition of sugar. Somehow the pasta itself tastes different there too, the same way water does depending on where it comes from. I remember that first trip very well, as I fell in love with the beauty of the country, the kindness of the people, the richness of its art. But what I remember best is the pasta, which I will tell you that I came to eat there three times a day. And it never tasted the same way twice because all chefs proudly make their own secret sauces. The high point occurred in

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Amalfi, in a small restaurant on the side of a mountain overlooking the sea. We were with a tour but unscheduled for lunch, and we wandered around the town looking for a likely eatery. They are all charming, you know, but one in particular attracted us and we went in to find that the luncheon special consisted of six different kinds of pasta. Six! I thought I had died and gone to heaven. The chef, who spoke no English and needed none, came out to explain that we should start with the mildest pasta on the huge plate, then work our way around much as an artist does with his paint palette, to the one with the strongest flavored sauce. The six pastas were each different and the experience was, as you can tell, exquisitely memorable. Although some think pasta was invented in Italy, others believe Marco Polo brought it back from his travels to China, where he supposedly tasted it at the court of Kublai Khan. There is record of the Chinese eating noodles as early as 5000 B.C. and, in fact, the Etruscans from western Italy seem to

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have made pasta in 400 B.C. There are bas-relief carvings in a cave 30 miles north of Rome depicting instruments for making pasta: a rolling-out table, pastry wheel and flour bin, according to the National Pasta Association. Anyway in the 13th century, the pope set quality standards for pasta. Thomas Jefferson fell in love with a macaroni dish he tasted in Naples while serving as ambassador to France and promptly ordered crates of the pasta, along with the pasta-making machine, sent back to the United States. Indeed, he may have been the one to introduce macaroni to this country. Cortez brought tomatoes back from Mexico in 1519, but it took two centuries before the marriage with pasta was consummated. There have been many imitation pastas, meaning not made from wheat, that have come along, but only one makes the grade with me, and I give it a shameless plug here for those who can’t or won’t eat the real thing. Manufactured by Tolerant, it is made of beans and called Organic Red Lentil Pasta. Buon appetito!

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