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PORT TIMES RECORD P O R T J E F F E R S O N • B E L L E T E R R E • P O R T J E F F E R S O N S TAT I O N • T E R R Y V I L L E

Vol. 33, No. 25

May 14, 2020

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What’s Inside

Data and experts say drug abuse is exacerbated by ongoing pandemic A4 Some businesses with federal PPP loans call the guidelines confounding A7 Acupuncturist in Port Jeff offers free services, shares her family legacy A11

Also: Jane Goodall: The Hope reviewed, Kindness garden grows in Port Jefferson

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PORT JEFFERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT

PJ Rotary Says: #TOGETHER WE CAN

School Budget Vote & Election Notice June 9, 2020 Pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Order 202.26, the 2020-2021 Budget Vote and Board Election will be conducted by an absentee ballot process. There will be no voting at polls. An absentee ballot with a postage paid return envelope will be mailed to all qualified voters in the school district whose names can be ascertained from the Suffolk County Board of Elections registration rolls. Absentee ballots shall be received by the Office of the District Clerk, Port Jefferson School District, 550 Scraggy Hill Rd, Port Jefferson NY 11777 no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020.

The annual budget Public Hearing for the fiscal year 2020-2021 will be held on June 2, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. virtually. The link for the meeting will be found on the District’s website at www.portjeffschools.org.

A qualified voter must be a United States Citizen, be at least 18 years of age, be a resident of the school district for thirty (30) days immediately preceding the election and not otherwise prohibited from voting under the provisions of Section 5-106 of the Election Law.

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If you are not a registered voter with the Suffolk County Board of Elections and are a qualified voter as defined above, please contact Kathleen Hanley, District Clerk at khanley@portjeffschools.org or (631) 791-4221 to receive an absentee ballot.

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County

A Tale of Two Epidemics Coronavirus Exacerbates Substance Abuse Issues

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

While COVID-19 has become the dominant catastrophe of the moment, other longstanding crises have taken a backseat in the public eye.

The opioid crisis, an epidemic that has taken many more lives over a much longer stretch of time, is seeing a new rash of overdoses since the start of the pandemic.

Data provided by Suffolk County Police shows overdoses have generally increased from the same months last year to this year. In March, police counted a total of 14 fatal overdoses compared to 27 in 2019. There were 108 nonfatal overdoses compared to 93 last year.

In April, the numbers jumped wildly from 15 fatal overdoses in 2019 to 30 in 2020. Nonfatal leaped from 67 to 113.

District Attorney Tim Sini’s (D) projections of overdose numbers tell an even more morose tale. With data that includes ODs that weren’t confirmed yet by toxicology reports, seeing a total increase of 19 percent of both fatal and nonfatal overdoses compared to the previous year.

Though those numbers include all overdoses, not just related to opioids.

While it may be too soon to determine a specific link between the pandemic and the increase of overdoses, drug counselors and rehabs say they have seen the marked connection between isolation, mental illness and drug dependence.

As time goes on and the country faces economic turmoil, some worry the situation may not improve for the rest of the year.

Addiction Relief Shifts to Remote Help

Dr. Carol Carter, the director of the Sunshine Prevention Center in Port Jefferson Station, works especially with youth and parents dealing with mental health and drug-related issues.

She said her center quickly had to scramble after the state first started closing down. Since then the center has been hosting most programs over Zoom or in Facebook Live sessions. They have especially tried to focus on appreciating diversity, the issues of isolation and other anxieties.

They have done children’s book reading and

puppet shows over the internet as well, looking for ways to maintain positivity. They have also connected with families by dropping off care packages and calling families each week.

But while such meetings may be a substitute for counseling sessions, Carter said the main difficulty is preventing people from getting on drugs, especially as so many remain cooped up indoors, many in unstable situations.

“We’ve seen an increase of response hotline, in depression and suicidal ideations,” Carter said. “We’re still collecting data, but we’ve heard of an increase in domestic abuse, an increase in substance use, alcohol abuse, as their way of coping with isolation.”

Director of Drug and Alcohol Counseling Services at the Smithtown Horizons Counseling and Education Center, Matthew Neebe, said it’s hard to gauge if there has been an increase in drug use since the pandemic as the center is not facilitating toxicology screenings. Yet, he added there is “anecdotal” evidence for the pandemic causing and increase in relapses and drug use.

“Two of the biggest risk factors for substance use are social isolation and stress,” he said. “Both are consequences of the stay-at-home orders.”

While the center itself is considered essential, they have continued to operate at a reduced level. However, with most staff working from home, all therapy sessions are done via telehealth. They have been conducting some group sessions virtually, though they have reduced the number of sessions from their regular schedule.

Anthony Rizzuto is the director of provider relations for Seafield, a drug rehab with inpatient facilities in Westhampton and outpatient facilities in Amityville, Medford, Mineola, Patchogue and Riverhead. He said they too have been hearing of the increase in overdoses and the increased use of alcohol and other drugs as more are quarantined at home.

“We know people will turn to drugs or alcohol, and God knows right now we have plenty of stressors — we have people who have lost loved ones, people who have lost their jobs, people who are in financial ruin, some are losing their businesses,” Rizzuto said. “We see an increase right now, and quite honestly I expect a huge increase as this continues going on and after this is over, if this ever happens.”

While there are obvious downsides to telehealth, the push is one that was in the docket for a while, and with the current pandemic, has finally pushed many institutions into taking it seriously, said Dr. Christian Racine, the senior director for clinics for the Family Service League Long Island. The nonprofit social services agency also runs the Diagnostic, Assessment and Stabilization Hub in partnership with Suffolk County.

The benefits, Racine said, include allowing

Places to Get Addiction Help DASH Center Hotline: 631-952-3333 Family Service League: 631-656-1020 Narcotics Anonymous Hotline: 631-689-6262 St. Charles Hospital Chemical Dependency Program: 631-474-6233 Seafield: 800-448-4808 Alcoholics Anonymous helpline: 631-669-1124 Hope House Ministries: 631-928-2377 Long Island Center for Recovery: 631-728-3100 Phoenix House: 888-671-9392 Addiction Campuses: 631-461-1807 LI Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence: 631-979-1700 Eastern Long Island Hospital: 631-477-1000 Villa Veritas Foundation: 845-626-3555 St Christopher’s Inn: 845-335-1000 Talbot House: 631-589-4144 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 Local Link Wellness: 631-909-4300 people who may have had mobility issues or other mitigating problems the chance to get into the system. People who call the hotline for the clinic or DASH center are now immediately put into the system, where they can connect with people to understand what the person is going through and what services they should get connected to.

It also allows for flexibility in time and location, no longer requiring a person to drive what can be a long distance to start the treatment process.

FSL’s Mobile Crisis Teams continue to operate, often going to a person’s home to talk through the door or even speak to a person through video chat or phone right on the person’s driveway.

“We didn’t see a drop in services, [but] an increase in services because of flexibility of being able to use telehealth,” Racine said.

“People are being frank about increased cravings or relapses.”

Though there still are several downsides to telehealth. Perhaps the most egregious is for those living in unstable home conditions, where the person on one of the calls may not want others to listen in.

“Even if you get along with the rest of the family, you’re worried about what you’re sharing or you’re hesitant to share certain details,” he said. “Some don’t have the best relationship with their families. It’s absolutely a concern, and we’re very conscious of that.”

While Rizutto acknowledged some of the benefits of telehealth, he said he preferred the in-person meetings where he said “a lot is being said nonverbal.”

Otherwise, with so many resources shut

down, from in-person AA meetings to churches to gyms, “Zoom really played a part to give people something,” Rizutto said. “People are in those meetings who had never been to therapy, before people from all over. It is definitely meeting a need.”

Government and Police Response

Suffolk County Police Chief Stuart Cameron said cops have noticed increased incidents of drug overdoses, though despite the emphasis on social distancing police are still able to administer Narcan, a life-saving drug that halts an opioid overdose.

But with treatment and prevention as the more important component of substance abuse, the pandemic presents its own unique challenges.

“It’s not just opioids — people are self medicating, people are isolated,” said Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai). Anker is the legislative chair of the Suffolk County Heroin and Opiate Epidemic Advisory Panel.

The trend is troubling, especially compared to Suffolk County’s previous models showing total overdoses are on the decline. In January, Suffolk released a report showing 2019’s projections of opioid-related deaths was 283, compared to 2018’s 380. Those decreased numbers of deaths were attributed, in part, to the greater use and availability of Narcan.

Anker said the numbers have caused real concerns among other members of the opioid advisory panel. In a meeting Friday, May 8, panel members discussed tapping into county forfeiture funding to create public service COVID-19 AND ADDICTION Continued on A11

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LEGALS Notice of formation of Silver Lining Wishes, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on April 23, 2020. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: 122 East Broadway, Port Jefferson, NY 11777.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

551 4/30 6x ptr Notice is hereby given that the annual inspection for 2020 of the Port Jefferson UFSD buildings for fire hazards which might endanger the lives of students, teachers, employees therein, has been completed and the report thereof is available at the office of the Port Jefferson UFSD 550 Scraggy Hill Road, Port Jefferson, NY 11777 for inspection by all interested persons.

561 5/14 1x ptr NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION PORT JEFFERSON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW YORK Notice is hereby given that a budget hearing for the qualified voters of the Port Jefferson School District, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, Port Jefferson, New York, will be held remotely on June 2, 2020 at 5:00 p.m., for the presentation of the budget; copies of the adopted budget will be available seven days prior to the budget hearing on the District’s website at www. portjeffschools.org.

Notice is hereby given, that the annual vote/election of the qualified voters of the Port Jefferson School District, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be conducted exclusively by absentee ballot voting for June 9, 2020 by 5:00 p.m., upon the following items: 1) Proposition 1: To adopt the 2020-2021 annual budget for the school district and to authorize the

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

2) Proposition 2: Shall the Board of Education of the Port Jefferson Union Free District be authorized to expend a sum not to exceed $3,000,000 from the “2015 Renovations and Upgrades Capital Reserve Fund” effective May 21, 2015 for the following purpose(s): replacement of certain sections of roof at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School and Edna Louise Spear Elementary School, including all ancillary and incidental work required to be performed as well as replacement of the Middle School heating system.

3) To elect 2 members of the Board for a 3-year term commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring on June 30, 2023.

And notice is also given that the petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education must be filed in the Office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., May 11, 2020. Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District and must state the name and residence of the candidate.

Nominating petitions filed by email, fax or mail will be accepted. The District Clerk’s email address is Khanley@ portjeffschools.org.

There is no minimum number of signatures required on the nominating petition.

And notice is hereby given, that in accordance with §2035 and §2008 of the Education Law, any referenda or proposition to amend the budget, otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the Board of Education at the District Office on or before May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. prevailing time, except for propositions which must be included in the notice of the annual meeting; must be typed or printed in English, must be directed to the Clerk of the school district and signed by at least 5% of the qualified number of voters of the District who voted in the previous annual election; and must state the name and residence of each

signer. However, the school board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition.

Notice is also given that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required by the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public moneys, may be obtained by any taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the annual vote/election on the District’s website at www. portjeffschools.org.

Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such ballot application or ballot. Military voter application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk of the school district no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 11, 2020.

No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received by the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.

And further, notice is hereby given, that the qualified voters of the school district shall be entitled to vote at said annual vote and election. A qualified voter is one who is (1) a citizen of the United States, (2) eighteen years of age or older, (3) a resident within the District for a period of thirty days next preceding said vote/ election.

Pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of 2008, Section 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report.

Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value of the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from

taxation, list every type of exemption granted by statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. In addition, said exemption report shall be posted on any website maintained by the District.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Port Jefferson Union Free School District Kathleen Hanley District Clerk May 7, 2020 May 14, 2020 573 5/7 2x ptr AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PRESUPUESTARIA, VOTO PRESUPUESTARIO Y ELECCIÓN DISTRITO ESCOLAR GRATUITO DE PORT JEFFERSON UNIÓN CIUDAD DE BROOKHAVEN, CONDADO DE SUFFOLK, NUEVA YORK Por la presente se da aviso de que una audiencia de presupuesto para los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar de Port Jefferson, Ciudad de Brookhaven, Condado de Suffolk, Port Jefferson, Nueva York, se llevará a cabo de forma remota el 2 de junio de 2020 a las 5:00 p.m. para la presentación del presupuesto; copias del presupuesto adoptado estarán disponibles siete días antes de la audiencia de presupuesto en el sitio web del Distrito en www.portjeffschools.org.

Por la presente se da aviso de que la votación/elección anual de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar de Port Jefferson, Ciudad de Brookhaven, Condado de Suffolk, Nueva York, se llevará a cabo exclusivamente por votación en boleta con una fecha de regreso del 9 de junio de 2020 a las 5:00 pm, de acuerdo con los siguientes puntos: 1) Propuesta 1: Adoptar el presupuesto anual 20202021 para el distrito escolar y autorizar que la porción requerida del mismo se recaude mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad im-

ponible del Distrito.

2) Propuesta 2: Se autorizará a la Junta de Educación del Distrito Libre Unión de Port Jefferson a gastar una suma que no exceda los $3,000,000 del “Fondo de Reserva de Capital de Renovaciones y Mejoras 2015” efectivo a partir del 21 de mayo de 2015 para los siguientes propósitos: reemplazo de ciertas secciones del techo en Earl L. Vandermeulen High School y Edna Louise Spear Elementary School, incluyendo todo el trabajo auxiliar e incidental que se requiere realizar, así como el reemplazo del sistema de calefacción de la escuela secundaria.

3) Elegir a 2 miembros de la Junta por un período de 3 años que comienza el 1 de julio de 2020 y expira el 30 de junio de 2023.

Y también se notifica que las peticiones de nominación de candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación deben presentarse en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm, 11 de mayo de 2020. Cada petición debe dirigirse a la Secretario del Distrito y debe indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Se aceptarán peticiones de nominación presentadas por correo electrónico, fax o correo. La dirección de correo electrónico del secretario del distrito es Khanley@portjeffschools. org. No hay un número mínimo de firmas requeridas en la petición de nominación.

Y por la presente se notifica que, de conformidad con §2035 y §2008 de la Ley de Educación, cualquier referéndum o propuesta para enmendar el presupuesto, de lo contrario para ser sometido a votación en dicha elección, debe presentarse ante la Junta de Educación del Distrito Oficina el 11 de mayo de 2020 o antes a las 5:00 p.m. tiempo prevaleciente, excepto las propuestas que deben incluirse en el aviso de la reunión anual; debe estar mecanografiado o impreso en inglés, debe dirigirse al secretario del distrito escolar y estar firmado por al menos el 5% del número calificado de votantes del distrito que votaron en las elecciones anuales anteriores; y

debe indicar el nombre y la residencia de cada firmante.

Sin embargo, la junta escolar no considerará ninguna petición para presentar ante los votantes ninguna propuesta cuyo propósito no esté dentro de los poderes de los votantes para determinar, o cualquier propuesta que no incluya una apropiación específica donde el gasto de dinero es requerido por la proposición.

También se da aviso de que cualquier contribuyente en el Distrito puede obtener una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para fines escolares, excluyendo el dinero público durante los catorce días inmediatamente anteriores a la votación/elección anual en el sitio web del Distrito en www.portjeffschools. org.

Los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del distrito escolar pueden presentar una solicitud para una boleta militar. Los votantes militares pueden designar una preferencia para recibir una solicitud de boleta militar o una boleta militar por correo, transmisión por fax o correo electrónico en su solicitud de dicha solicitud o boleta. Los formularios de solicitud de votante militar deben recibirse en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito del distrito escolar a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 11 de mayo de 2020. No se realizará una votación militar a menos que la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito la reciba antes de las 5:00 p.m. el día de las elecciones.

Y además, se notifica que los votantes calificados del distrito escolar tendrán derecho a votar en dicha votación y elección anual. Un votante calificado es aquel que es (1) ciudadano de los Estados Unidos, (2) de dieciocho años de edad o más, (3) residente dentro del Distrito por un período de treinta días después de dicha votación/ elección.

De conformidad con el Capítulo 258 de las Leyes de 2008, la Sección 495 se agregó a la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles y requiere que el Distrito EscoLEGALS con’t on pg. 6

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 5 lar adjunte a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención. Dicho informe de exención, que también pasará a formar parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cómo el valor total evaluado del rollo de evaluación final utilizado en el proceso presupuestario está exento de impuestos, enumera cada tipo de exención otorgada por la autoridad legal y muestra el impacto acumulado de cada tipo de exención, el monto acumulado que se espera recibir como pagos en lugar de impuestos (PILOTO) y el impacto acumulativo de todas las exenciones otorgadas.

Además, dicho informe de exención se publicará en cualquier sitio web mantenido por el Distrito.

POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN Distrito Escolar Libre de la Unión de Port Jefferson Kathleen Hanley Secretario del distrito 7 de mayo de 2020 14 de mayo de 2020 574 5/7 2x ptr NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed Bids will be received, publicly opened and read aloud at 11:00 a.m. in the Division of Purchasing of the Town of Brookhaven, One Independence Hill, Third Floor, Farmingville, NY 11738, for the following item(s) on the dates indicated: BID #20006 – VETERINARY MEDICAL AND PET SUPPLIES JUNE 4, 2020 Specifications for the abovereferenced bid will be available beginning May 14, 2020.

Preferred Method • Access website: brookhavenNY.gov/Purchasing: click on link for Bids.

• Follow directions to register and download document.

• Questions must be submitted in writing to the following e-mail: PurchasingGroup@ brookhavenny.gov The Town of Brookhaven reserves the right to reject and declare invalid any or all bids

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the proposals received, all in the best interests of the Town.

The Town of Brookhaven welcomes and encourages minorities and women-owned businesses and HUD Section 3 businesses to participate in the bidding process.

Further information can be obtained by calling (631) 451-6252 Kathleen C. Koppenhoefer Deputy Commissioner TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN 587 5/14 1x ptr NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN Please take notice that the Town of Brookhaven Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a virtual public hearing streamed live at Brookhavenny.gov/meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 2 p.m.

Interested parties may participate in the public hearing via chat at Brookhavenny. gov/join. Written comments may be submitted prior to the public hearing by going to the Board of Zoning Appeals online contact form at above referenced website pursuant to the provisions of Article IV, Sec. 8555 (B) of the Building Zone Ordinance of the Town of Brookhaven.

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5130 Nesconset Highway LLC, 5130 Nesconset Hwy., Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: East side Terryville Rd. 580’+/- North of Nesconset Pt. Jefferson Rd. (Rte. 347), Port Jefferson Station. Applicant requests relief from minimum lot width throughout (200 ft. required – 0 ft. provided) for proposed parking and storage of vehicles in conjunction with existing motor vehicle dealership on adjacent parcel. (0200 18100 0700 027000 & 028000) 3.

Eager Beaver Car Wash, 4935 Nesconset Highway, Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: East side Nesconset-Pt. Jefferson Rd. (Rte. 347) 799’+/- North of University Dr., Port Jef-

Village of Port Jefferson

ferson Station.

Applicant requests permission for existing detached ground sign located less than the required 22’ from Nesconset Hwy. (0’ existing) not built in conformance with permit #19B110682. (0200 20600 0100 039002) 4.

Philip Carlucci & Kenneth Carlucci, c/o Woodhull Expediting, 1013 Main St., Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: South side Hallock Ave. 100’ West of Sycamore St., Port Jefferson Station. Applicant requests division of a parcel into 3 plots, 1, 2 & 3, requiring lot area, lot frontage, rear yard & total side yard variances for existing one family dwelling on plot 1. (0200 13900 0200 043000, 044000, 045000 & 046000) 5.

Philip Carlucci & Kenneth Carlucci, c/o Woodhull Expediting, 1013 Main St., Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: South side Hallock Ave. 100’ West of Sycamore St., Port Jefferson Station. Applicant requests rear yard & total side yard variances for existing one story residence addition on plot 1.

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Philip Carlucci & Kenneth Carlucci, c/o Woodhull Expediting, 1013 Main St., Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: Southwest corner Hallock Ave. & Sycamore St., Port Jefferson Station. Applicant requests lot area, lot frontage (both streets), front yard setback from both streets, minimum side yard & rear yard variances for proposed one family dwellng on plot 2.

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Philip Carlucci & Kenneth Carlucci, c/o Woodhull Expediting, 1013 Main St., Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: West side Sycamore St. 100’ South of Hallock Ave., Port Jefferson Station. Applicant requests lot area and lot frontage variances for proposed one family dwelling on plot 3.

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East Suffolk Realty Management, Inc., 14 Gray Avenue, Middle Island, NY. Location: West side of Washington Avenue, 1282.28’ South of Canal Street, Port Jefferson Station. Applicant

The Sweet Taste of Freedom 101-year-old Joseph Lynch was given a standing ovation May 12 outside Mather Hospital. He had been in the hospital for four days and is being discharged to finish his recovery at home. Photo from Mather Hospital

Police

Man Allegedly Steals E-cigs from PJS Gas Station

Suffolk County Police are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly stole merchandise from a Port Jefferson Station gas station this month.

A man stole around 20 e-cigarettes from a display case at Shell, located at 1164 Route 112, on May 5 at 3:30 a.m.

— Compiled by Kyle Barr

LEGALS requests height variances for existing stone walls varying in height from 4 ft. to 6 ft. located in the front yard.

(0200 20700 0400 017000) 47.

Rodolfo Romero and Kashmere Paglinawan, c/o Woodhull Expediting, 1031 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY. Location: South side University Drive 286.94’ East of Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station. Applicant

Police said a man allegedly stole e-cigarettes from the PJS Shell. Photo from SCPD

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com requests side yard variance for existing shed located in the required side yard; rear yard variances for existing roof over and existing roof over patio.

(0200 20600 0100 034000) 50.

Craig and Gina Siegelbaum, 1 Greene Avenue, Port Jefferson Station, NY. Location: North side Green Avenue 150’ West of Bicycle Path, Port Jefferson

Station. Applicant requests rear yard and side yard variances for proposed inground swimming pool.

(0200 33700 0200 040002) CASES WILL BE HEARD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD. PAUL M. DE CHANCE CHAIRMAN 590 5/14 1x ptr

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Local Business Owners/Advisers Continue to Face PPP Loan Obstacles With No Indication of a Reopening Date, Businesses Try to Survive

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A federal program meant to help keep businesses afloat during the pandemic has caused more headaches than relief. Business owners are concerned they will be saddled with more debt and unclear guidelines have left them with more questions than answers.

James Luciano, the owner of the Port Jeff Lobster House and the Port Jefferson BID secretary, has received PPP loan funds, but expressed

concern of how the federal government will handle the forgiveness process.

“It [the PPP restrictions] has been so loosely written, it’s like reading a different language,” he said. “They have also changed the applications for loans two or three times.”

Luciano has begun to use the money for rent, others remaining bills, paying vendors and some payroll expenses. Though until he and other business owners receive the approval to fully reopen its businesses, he said he may struggle to comply with the forgiveness guidelines.

For the loan to be forgiven, 75 percent of funds must be used for payroll, keeping staff to pre-pandemic levels for eight weeks after the money is disbursed.

“The clock starts ticking once the money hits your account,” Luciano said.

The Port Jeff Lobster House owner reiterated the difficulty of bringing all employees back without the doors being open. Another obstacle is that some employees may opt to continue on unemployment as they are receiving considerably more money than at the restaurant, according to Luciano.

Bernie Ryba, director of the Stony Brook Small Business Development Center, said there has been a lack of clarity on the

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James Luciano, owner of the PJ Lobster House, said his experience navigating the PPP loans has been confusing and hazardous. Photo by Kyle Barr

forgiveness guidelines.

“Clients have expressed some concerns to us, we are looking to the [federal Small Business Administration] for guidance on the forgiveness provisions,” he said. “It has caused many questions from us, CPA firms and law firms. We are

hoping this is cleared up as soon as possible.”

Ryba said the center advises hundreds of clients and have received dozens of calls and emails from business owners on this topic.

“As a business center we try to do research and address their questions the best we can, but right now there is very little to refer to,” he said.

“There are some things that the current guidance doesn’t answer.”

Ryba pointed to one of the provisions of PPP that requires 25 percent of funds must be used on utilities.

“Can it be used for heat, power, internet and transportation expenses? No one knows because there are no specifics,” he said. “There are lenders who have already spent some of their funds.”

The director of the business center said that the federal government didn’t have much time to react and the SBA was not staffed to handle the influx of applications from the onset.

A recent report from SBA Inspector General Hannibal Wared detailed that many small businesses could struggle to meet the 75 percent payroll requirement.

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Overcoming Adversity, America Becomes Stronger

BY RICH ACRITELLI DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Andrew Harris’ therapy dog Ransey helped Stony Brook health care workers with a gymnastics routine, shown to nurses and doctors via video call. Photos by Andrew Harris

Pet Therapy Continues at Stony Brook Hospital ... Virtually

Ramsey and I look forward to our Tuesday saw was how so many staff members came by to evening visits at Stony Brook University Hos- say hello. One doctor told us that it was a particpital. We visit the Child Psychiatry Unit and try ularly hard day in that unit so she needed some our best to bring smiles to the young children cuddles too, which Ramsey gladly provided.

“Recently, the Stony Brook Medicine Dewho may be going through difficult times. We partment of Volunteer Services are part of their Volunteer Pet in conjunction with the RecTherapy program and Ramsey reation Therapy Department is a trained therapy dog certiworked together with pet therfied through Therapy Dogs Inapy volunteer Andy Harris and ternational. therapy dog Ramsey to bring “Pet Facilitated Therapy has Virtual Pet Therapy to de-stress been a practice at SBUH hosstaff on the units,” said York. pital for many years and has The next thing I knew we brought joy and peace to staff got a phone call from the folks and patients during stressful at Stony Brook asking if we times,” said Rosemaria York, could possibly do a virtual pet the recreational therapy supertherapy visit — this time for all visor at Stony Brook Universithe nurses, doctors and medical ty Hospital. staff at the hospital. I wasn’t Ramsey knows when Tuessure how it would go, but we day comes around and looks Andrew Harris were certainly willing to give forward to visiting. He gets so it our best try to contribute to excited once he sees we are on the campus, and he absolutely adores interact- those fine people on the front line. York told ing with the children who love him. Ramsey is us, “Volunteer Services and Recreation therapy used to working — especially with children. He staff thought why not try Virtual Pet Therapy if can be seen at the Comsewogue school district we couldn’t have the usual visits? Stony Brook often comforting and giving lots of love during Hospital felt that because their employees were stressful times like Regents exams and other all working so hard and long, and in such a stressful situation, that perhaps a virtual visit high anxiety situations.

The first time that we could not visit the hos- might help in the same way that our actual visits pital due to the Coronavirus situation, Ramsey benefitted the kids and staff.

“Due to the coronavirus pandemic when was in a sullen mood. I took him for a long walk in the woods instead, but it wasn’t the same. He the hospital was unable to continue business as missed going to the hospital and the adoration usual many practices became virtual, telehealth, from the children and staff members. We always etc,” York added. “So volunteer Services and get stopped on our way to the unit by staff mem- recreation therapy staff thought why not virtual bers, patients, and family members who want pet therapy if we couldn’t have the usual visits?”

I knew it would be much different then our to interact with the dog. Once, we had a special request to go visit a staff member’s friend in the normal in-person visits and had to come up with cancer unit. I was amazed by how much joy it some new ideas because we would be doing brought to her and how great he was nuzzling PET THERAPY Continued on A9 up to the bed and cuddling with her. What I also

It was a little over a hundred years ago that the Spanish Flu struck the world community during the height of the Great War, World War I. While the casualties and deaths were staggering on the Western Front, there was little talk about this flu until the outbreak of COVID-19 today.

As Americans prepared to fight the enemy in the form of the Central Powers, this silent sickness completely devastated the world with an estimated 200 million people killed from this pandemic. In cities across the U.S. from San Francisco to New York, 675,000 Americans from all walks of life were killed from the influenza. Like the concerns that we see today over the impact of the coronavirus, our country has always had the resiliency of rebuilding from many extremely low moments that have tested the will of our people.

The difficulties of handling this flu were seen during World War I under the leadership of then Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower. Outside of Get- Top, a sign on a streetcar in Cincinatti, Ohio, during the 1918 Flu Pandemic; below, tysburg, Pennsylvania American Red Cross nurses on duty during the 1918 Spanish Flu. Photos from CDC at a tank training center, he commanded 10,600 officers and soldiers who that they were not yet paid by the Continental were expected to be sent overseas to France. By Congress and reimbursed for expenses that were October of 1918, one third of Eisenhower’s owed to these officers. After learning of a possoldiers were sickened with the flu and a quar- sible revolt, Washington traveled to Newburgh, antine was established on the base neighboring New York, and only months before England town to contain its spread. As the war came to completely pulled out of New York City, he an end on Nov. 11, 1918, President Woodrow spoke with these dissatisfied men and persuaded Wilson sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to meet them not to ruin a historic victory by the army. with the victorious powers. While these figures With attaining the total defeat of the British at were determining the merits of the faulty Treaty hand, the presence of Washington prevented a of Versailles, he was diagnosed with the flu. It possible disaster towards independence.

By 1865, Abraham Lincoln was at the cusp was observed that Wilson was sick and fatigued from a deadly sickness that did not discriminate of defeating the South and preserving the Union.

He did not want any additional setbacks that against any one person. would allow the continuation of this war. LinThere is no one generation that has been completely immune from national hardships coln lost his son William in February of 1862 like that of the Spanish Flu. In March 1783, af- and in the same year there were the costly batter eight years of war that saw General George tles of Shiloh and Antietam. Up until placing Washington defeated on Long Island and New Ulysses S. Grant as the commanding general York City, preserve his army at Trenton and of all armies in 1864, Lincoln was constantly through its glorious victory at Yorktown in disappointed by poor direction of his northern 1781, there was a major threat by the officer generals who were charged with preserving the HISTORY OF ADVERSITY Continued on A9 corps. Many of these men were disheartened

below, CDC

COVID-19 AND ADDICTION

MAY 14, 2020 • THE PORT TIMES RECORD • PAGE A9 Suffolk County Police Department Reported Aided Overdose Cases for March and April of 2019 and 2020

PET THERAPY

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announcements on mental health and the Overdose March April different places to receive drug treatment. The panel also would look to advocate that the Type 2019 2020 2019 2020 federal government should allow people to use Medicaid funds for teleconferencing, which it Fatal 27 14 15 30 currently does not cover.

Sini said Suffolk County has not seen a decrease in drug-related activity despite the panNon Fatal 93 108 67 113 demic. This is mostly due to the nature of how drugs enter into Suffolk — smuggled into New The numbers of confirmed fatal and nonfatalOverdose overdoses comparing of 2019 to this year.

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York City then is sold wholesale to dealers on Source: Criminal Intelligence Monthly Report;March Dataand forApril Suffolk County Police District the ground, who usually drop it off to peoples’ houses or are picked up at select homes. number of hospitalizations declined, Rizzuto but we will see repercussions come out as we “We’re not seeing any drop except for pow- said now bed supply is better, but of more con- deal with pandemic.” dered cocaine, but we’re not seeing that same cern is funding for these facilities.

Maintaining the breadth of services, from situation with heroin or fentanyl,” the DA said.

“Either a state-funded facility, nonprofits or inpatient care to outpatient care to paying for Sini said while other crimes like break-ins private entities, I think the budget is going to nursing and other medical staff, the rehabs and have declined, the office has allocated more re- be ravaged and with the lack of being able to prevention centers requires a heavy dose of govsources to the narcotics bureau, now standing at collect, they will be looking to cut,” Rizzuto ernment funding. Racine said restructuring Med13 narcotics prosecutors, which works closely said. “I think they are going to have to cut in icaid could provide a necessary boost of aid. with police to track dealers and prosecute them. many different areas to meet the needs financial“The idea of state funding being reduced is The DA’s office is also planning to roll out ly. Historically behavioral health is one of the really a concern — a lot of services are expena new program that would work with a yet-to- things that gets slashed.” sive,” Racine said. be-named nonprofit and shuttle people in adDespite the efforts of both government, for Anker said members of the advisory panel diction to treatment providers. Sini said there have expressed their concerns for many differ- profit and nonprofit organizations, officials said will be more information on that program in ent programs’ funding, especially as New York they don’t expect numbers to return to the way the coming weeks.

State reports huge drops in income. Many non- they seemed to be heading only a year ago.

The initial rise in COVID-19 cases forced profit rehabs and centers rely on such funding.

“I think it would be very hard to end 2020 on the rehab facilities to cut back in bed capacity, “Drug addiction is not decreasing, it’s in- a decline,” Sini said. “We will see an increase in especially as hospital-based detoxes turned into creasing and they may be taking away those re- 2020, but we will all be working to bring those beds for COVID patients. Since then, as the sources,” Anker said. “We may not hear it now, numbers down in 2021.”

HISTORY OF ADVERSITY Continued from A8

Union. He was saddened at the 53,000 casualties at Gettysburg between the North and South and he desperately wanted to win the war and end the killing between the states.

In 1932, 25 percent of our population was unemployed, there was a lack of confidence under the presidency of Herbert Hoover, and Americans lived in a desperate state. Many of our citizens looked towards New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to guide this country during the Great Depression. Roosevelt was an unlikely figure — an extremely wealthy individual who had lost the ability to walk through the polio disease.

He became a major champion of reform and his decisive leadership created programs like that of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority and the Fair Labor Standards Act that established overtime and minimum wage.

Armed with a big smile, Roosevelt could be seen shaking the hands of farmers and miners and he was motivated to try new ideas. While he did not end the Depression, his presidential commitment demonstrated his resolve to present decisive leadership. Roosevelt guided this nation with determination during an extremely dark time.

Even before America fought in World War

An unemployed man on the street during the Great Depression. Public domain photo by Dorothea Lange

II, Roosevelt was the Commander in Chief of one of the weakest military forces out of the industrialized powers. Directly after this nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the so called “sleeping giant” was awoken and led by Roosevelt went on to defeat the totalitarian countries of Germany and Japan.

Roosevelt was at the helm of this global fight against these two brutal nations. “This date that will live in infamy,” he stated at the start of the war and quickly under his direction, Americans moved against the Germans in

North Africa and the Japanese at Guadalcanal.

Citizens from every part of our society pitched in at home and abroad to fight and gain a total victory. When Roosevelt passed away in the spring of 1945, many Americans recalled the saddest moments of the Depression and the war, and they descended in large numbers to pay respect to his coffin that was moved by train from Warm Springs, Georgia, to Hyde Park, New York.

Older Americans often say that they knew where they were when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated or during the moments that the U.S. was attacked by terrorists on 9/11. Now our people will recall and thank the health care workers that spent countless hours during the height of COVID-19 to aid all of those citizens, especially our local residents that were inflicted with this “silent enemy.”

Every generation has endured some truly terrible moments and right now, we have devoted people that are constantly looking to make each day a better one for those impacted with this current sickness. Like that of years ago, our nation has and will always bounce back from adverse moments to be a genuine example of pride to the current and future generations who will continue to make the United States a dynamic nation.

Rich Acritelli is a social studies teacher at Rocky Point High School and an adjunct professor of American history at Suffolk County Community College.

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our thing from the backyard of our house.

Simultaneously, the folks at Stony Brook would be working extra hard walking all over the hospital from unit to unit donned in full PPE gear.

Normally with the kids, we sit down, chat or read a book and just let the kids cuddle with the dog. We demonstrate how Ramsey has learned not to take food from people or off the floor unless he is given permission. We show how he sits, waits patiently and knows all the different commands. As a therapy dog he has learned not to “shake hands” because this and jumping up on them could compromise people with vulnerable skin conditions.

He is not allowed to eat any food because this could be a problem too if there are crumbs in the bed or on someone’s gown in a hospital or nursing home setting.

Sometimes the kids like to see the dog “work” and do some finds. They hide some articles of clothing like a glove or hat somewhere in the room as the dog patiently waits outside the room. As soon as he enters he sniffs it out and finds all the articles. Of course he always gets a reward each time he does a good job.

Since my yard is set up with plenty of things to do with the dog, we were ready to not only provide some therapy for the workers, but to entertain and show them what the dog could do. York said, “... so some recreation therapists armed with an iPad with Mr. Harris and Ramsey streaming live brought Ramsey and his athletic agility abilities along with a bark and a close up camera ‘social distanced’ kiss to the staff.”

First I had him doing the normal stuff, retrieve a ball and relayed the typical commands most people are familiar with. As I pointed the camera on my phone at him, I could hear some nurses getting a kick out of it all — so we decided to step it up a bit. The “ooo’s” and “ahhs” were noticeable especially when he climbed up the ladder to our playhouse and went down the slide. He then showed how he could run up the slide. His final performance, and the most difficult, was walking across a twenty foot ladder propped horizontally raised a few feet off the ground. For that he got a round of applause. When we went back inside he was very exhausted, lay down and took a long nap. We were happy to put a little smile to the wonderful staff at Stony Brook.

York said, “staff stated that they were happy for the opportunity to interact with the therapy dog even if it was brief and virtual as it brought a smile to their day.”

Andrew Harris is a special needs teacher at the Comsewogue school district.

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PJ Acupuncturist Provides Free Services During Pandemic

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBREWSMEDIA.COM In the lot of a small medical park in Port Jefferson, people relax in the drivers’ seats of their cars, the subtle smell of lavender wafting from barely cracked windows. In amidst the panic, both of the overriding senselessness of the world being turned upside down, and the smaller, creeping tide of waiting for things to get better, it was as close to an oasis as the current times could see.

Done up in mask, gloves and lab coat, acupuncturist Jennifer Hoang, the owner of Acupuncture Tradition in Port Jeff, has been providing small free-of-charge acupuncture sessions to people in the community. It does not matter if they were previous clients of her’s. All are welcome as long as she has supplies.

To her, it’s her way of giving back. As so many people are stuck at home, and many with chronic conditions unwilling to visit the hospitals and possibly contract the virus, the acupuncturist is offering whatever she can to aid people, especially those in pain who may not have access to prescribed painkillers during the crisis.

“So many doctors are overloaded in their work and have not been able to take care of

Mather operating room nurse Olga Turner receives acupuncture by Jennifer Hoang. Photo by Kyle Barr

the patients who are not COVID,” she said.

“There’s this whole population who are not being taken care of.”

The nature of the current pandemic makes it especially hard for practices like Hoang’s. Normally a procedure on different parts of the body could take upwards of an hour, but close proximity is not in the cards with the current crisis.

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“We are so used to caring for everybody else, and that’s one of my biggest issues because I have asthma so I couldn’t go into the city,” Turner said. “It just gets me that I can’t help more than I want to.”

Hoang knows of crises, and the impact such small services can have on the people experiencing it. She knows it from her childhood and from her father, Ngoc Hoang. When she was around 7 years old, her father and their whole family were caught up in the wave of Vietnamese trying to flee at the tail end of the Vietnam War in the late 1970s. Her father, who had a little acupuncture practice, set up shop and provided aid to the refugees leaving their home. She and her brothers and sisters watched their father help others when so few people could.

“There were people who were really sick, and there was no medicine — there were doctors there but without medicine, there was little they could do,” Hoang said. “[My father] was able to help so many people … I would see grown men crying in pain or suffering from something else, and after an hour they walked out, better. That was something so powerful to me. I knew from then I was going to be an acupuncturist.”

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Camp Owners Prepare for Possible Openings Palamara and Pagliari said some of the key points they are addressing are arrivals, dismissals, lunchtime, use of the pool at the Many parents, children and camp owners Hauppauge location, what to do on rainy days, have the same question on their minds — will sanitization and size of the groups. As far as camps open in 2020? the number of attendees, and campers in each While Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) made group, they said that will come either from the call to close schools throughout the state state or Suffolk County recommendations. for the rest of the academic year a couple With a large piece of property, they said of weeks ago, camp owners are still waiting groups, whether with 10 or 25 campers, will for the green light to open. While they wait, not be a problem for them. They also added that many remain hopeful, preparing for what will the lunch area is large enough to follow social be a new normal this year as more protocols distancing protocols of 6 feet or more, and there are put in place regarding the number of are enough covered areas for rainy days. participants in activities, cleaning processes “We work with 97 acres,” Pagliari said. and much more.

“We have tons of room. We can have a spread Tom Palamara, president of HPP Rinx out of arrivals, spread out our dismissal.”

At both camps, staff members and campers Inc., and Matt Pagliari, camp director at will have their temperature Hauppauge-based Hidden taken with touchless Pond Day Camp at The thermometers and be sent Rinx, said the American home if it’s elevated. Shaw Camp Association and said employees will also have the YMCAs of the United their blood oxygen levels States jointly have provided measured regularly to ensure educational resources that no respiratory symptoms are can be used by all day and present. overnight camps, as well as —Todd Shaw Both camps will clean by health departments and and disinfect more often, parents. The guide, which including the use of they are following, provides disinfectant fog machines, advice on topics such as communication of practices, health screening which Shaw said get into every nook and and prevention, cleaning and disinfection and cranny.

“We’re constantly evolving, and things we more.

While The Rinx offers hockey, ice skating, knew when we were planning a month ago we preschool all year round, it closed down March now know, okay, we can do more,” Shaw said.

16. They are optimistic about this summer and “We can add the safety protocol, we can add are already working on plans with the hopes this level of sanitizing.”

Since Kids Country Day Camp is part of of opening at the end of June.

“We’ve been very fortunate that we’re still Kids of Mt. Sinai, a New York state licensed getting enrollments, and less than a handful childcare facility and is deemed an essential of requests for money back,” Pagliari said. “I business, the camp will be able to open for think the parents are really looking forward to children up to 10 years old no matter what. In their kids going to camp and we know the kids the past, the camp has needed a waiver to have 11 or 12 years old attend camp, which means are looking forward to it.”

Todd Shaw, owner of Kids Country Day those over 10 may not be able to take part if Camp, said the Mount Sinai facility is also day camps aren’t allowed to open in 2020.

Shaw said employees are also looking at preparing to offer camp at the end of June. He said many thought the governor would have restructuring camp activities as some sports may not be able to be played, and more arts announced camp information by now.

“So, that kind of threw us all a curveball,” and crafts where campers can practice social distancing may take place or there may be Shaw said.

Yet, with knowing they will need to adjust more performances such as magic shows.

“We’ll be ready,” Shaw said. “We just practices for 2020, the staff has been getting don’t know — ready for what — yet.” ready for this summer.

To be ready at the end of June, Hidden “We’re planning each day as if we’ll have Pond Day Camp will be providing an online camp,” he said.

For the Mount Sinai camp, Shaw added orientation for counselors. The guidelines parents’ reactions have been mixed. While will be a big help for counselors in handling some have already signed up, taking advantage different routines, Pagliari said.

“The kids’ safety is paramount to us, that’s of its early bird rate, others said they’ll take a going to come first,” the director said. break from camp this year.

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‘We’ll be ready.

We just don’t know — ready for what — yet.’

Day camps will need to reimagine how they operate if they get the green light from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to open this summer. In addition to taking temperatures and implementing different cleaning practices, children’s activities may center around things such as arts and crafts where social distancing can be applied. Stock photo

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Continued from A7 ing the percentage of loan proceeds eligible for forgiveness and update requirements.

With uncertainty over the current criteria of PPP, local municipalities have stepped in to offer alternatives to businesses.

Brookhaven Town is offering $10,000 grants to small businesses as part of its Emergency Microenterprise Business Relief Program. It is aimed at microenterprise businesses within the town of five employees or less. The town received a special allocation of funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the CARES Act. The new norm for businesses could include being six feet apart and the use of protective dividers. Sean Hanley of LB Fabrication & Automation LLC., has begun making plexiglass social distancing dividers in an attempt to help his own business survive and also to allow any business to open up to full capacity. He has already installed dividers at Salon Blonde in Port Jeff, which is run by his wife.

Many who first applied for the PPP loans after the initial April launch did not receive funds before the first set of $349 billion ran out by April 16.

Hanley’s Smithtown-based business was shut down following Governor Cuomo’s executive order. A good portion of its business comes from work on construction and other job sites where its metal fabricator and masonry services are sought after.

Him and his wife both missed out on the first round of the PPP loan applications but were able to get through in the second batch

of applications.

“We’re still waiting to hear back, but we would look at paying the rent first,” he said.

Hanley is hoping the state will begin to relax restrictions so his wife and himself can reopen their businesses and bring back their respective employees.

While owners are anxious to reopen, there has yet to be any indication in what capacity businesses will be able operate. Social distancing guidelines will also play a factor.

Luciano said it would not help his restaurant at all if he is potentially forced to reopen with significantly fewer customers.

“We’re used to filling the place up, it would be hard for us with less capacity,” he said.

In addition, Luciano expressed concerns on how social distancing could affect the day to day operation of the restaurant and impact the customer experience.

“I think right now it is better to do the takeout services, we have been taking full advantage of the village’s delivery program,” he said.

He said this is time when many businesses reap the benefits of increased foot traffic in the village and use funds to pay bills from the offseason in the winter.

“We start to break even during May and in the summer is where we make a lot of our money, Luciano said.

Close to two months into the pandemic, Ryba said they are still “early in the game}” and even as the crisis ultimately ends it could have wide-ranging effects.

“There are a lot of difficult things that need to be sorted out, you could have millions of individuals who will be without a job,” the director of the business center said.

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Port Jefferson School District

Port Jeff Student Selected as National Merit Battelle Scholar

Earl L. Vandermeulen High School senior Giuseppina (Pina) Than has been selected as a winner of the National Merit Battelle Scholarship. She is one of approximately 1,000 distinguished high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, financed by various corporations, company foundations and other businesses.

An exceptional student, Pina has taken every math course offered in the district and enjoys being on the Mathletes team, where she has been a member since middle school. Her diligent work in class and her participation in a variety of clubs include her involvement in the district’s Latin Club since seventh grade — a language and culture she is fascinated by and loves to study. Last year, she was honored with an Oxford Classical Dictionary by the National Latin Exam committee in recognition of a four-year, consecutive Gold Medal streak, a prestigious accomplishment. She was also a Simons Research Fellow at Stony Brook University last summer when she worked in a pharmacology lab at the university with two

From left, sophomore Alex Carlson (with Bella), middle school special education teacher Christina Carlson and sophomore Kate Carlson (with Lady) participated in a virtual walk for the EJ Autism Foundation. Photo from PJSD

High school senior Giuseppina Than. Photo from PJSD

mentors on their ongoing research into mechanisms of gene regulation.

Obituary

Earl L. Vandermeulen High School sophomores and sisters Alexandra Carlson and Kate Carlson took to the streets for a four-mile virtual walk in recognition of Autism Awareness Month. Joined by their mother, Port Jefferson Middle School special education teacher Chris-

tina Carlson, they did it to support the EJ Autism Foundation. More than 300 people participated in the event to bring recognition to the organization that works to create autism awareness and helps support schools and programs on Long Island that teach students on the spectrum.

ACUPUNCTURE

John Dakers

John Dayton Dakers, of Port Jefferson, died Jan. 31. He was 74.

He was born Nov. 24, 1945 in Southampton and was the son of Caroline and Norman Dakers.

John, AKA Jack, was a retired chemistry teacher and chairman for the Sachem School District. He was a lifetime member of the Port Jefferson Volunteer Ambulance Corp.

He enjoyed golf, boating, fishing, clamming and skiing, and was an avid New York Mets and Giants fan. In addition, he was a big dog lover and enjoyed spending time at the beach.

He was a man who loved teaching, had a great sense of humor, was a great father, great husband and will be deeply missed.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Diane; sons, Jonathan (Allison) and Scott (Jaime); grandchild, Charleigh; along with many other family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Linda.

Services were held at Bryant Funeral Home Feb. 3 with Father Richard Visconti officiating. Interment was at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

Arrangements were entrusted to the

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Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. Please visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guestbook.

Contributions made to St Jude’s Children Hospital www.st.jude.org in his memory would be appreciated.

The small Port Jeff team seems to have the process down. After filling out paperwork, Hoang performs the procedure, putting the needles in five points in the ear. The person then relaxes for a time after, normally around 15 minutes. On their cars is placed a small sign calling the car a “waiting room.” Each person is given a mothball scented with lavender, plus a small bag containing tea supplies.

Mount Sinai resident James Labriola has started to volunteer and help Hoang during these sessions. First reading about it, he simply called up Hoang and said, “You helped me, how can I help you?”

Labriola said his dad had been to several sessions with Hoang before the start of the pandemic. His father, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, would limp into the acupuncture’s office, but the man would leave with a steady gait after treatment. After a few days, the pain would come back, but Labriola said seeing him move freely, even for such a short time, was worth it.

“It would usually last only two days, but it gave him two days of freedom, and that was amazing,” he said.

Jennifer Hoang and James Labriola at the Acupuncture Tradition in Port Jeff. Photo by Kyle Barr

The acupuncturist has seen an average of 10 cars each day they’ve done the free procedures.

Saturday, May 9, she treated a total of 17. Each is done for free, though she has accepted donations to help her afford the materials, especially needles. As long as she has the time and resources, she said she will continue to offer the service as long as the crisis mandates it.

“People are losing their income or falling back into their addictions,” Hoang said. “It’s wonderful to stay connected to the community, to my current patients, and offer some kind of relief.

Acupuncture Tradition, located at 640 Belle Terre Rd. Building D, is hosting another sessions Saturday, May 16 from 1 to 4 p.m

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Small businesses are the Atlas of the economy. Too often attention is paid to the huge corporations, whose employment numbers are cited for why they need stimulus in times of crisis.

However, when money circulates at the ground level, it tracks among the small businesses, our friends, our neighbors.

That’s why it’s so disheartening to see a program meant to support those same small businesses first be shuttled through banks who simply weren’t prepared for it, then being abused by large companies it wasn’t made for, and now is seeing constant changes which may make using the loan a kind of poisoned chalice, one that looks appetizing but may just be a death blow to any who drinks from it.

The fact the Payment Protection Program was shunted through banks in the first place was a misstep. Many small business owners complained clients of the banks were given preference (and even among those, larger companies were prioritized). Smaller-sized banks themselves found they had to establish a whole new infrastructure for handling and dealing out these loans.

And then, companies with many more employees nationwide than the requisite 500 or under had received such loans because of loopholes in the lending requirements. Approximately 94 loans were made to publicly traded companies, totaling around $365 million. Reuters reported that well over 70 of these companies which received aid had months of emergency cash on hand to get them over the hump. The loans of up to $10 million were designed to tide over small businesses for eight weeks, rehiring staff in the process.

A program that started with $349 billion has grown to $669 billion after thousands were left high and dry after the first round of loans. This program that was meant to support small businesses has contorted into a mess of paperwork that has many concerned it will saddle them with debt long term.

Some owners find they have no reason to take on their furloughed labor if none of them wish to return to work anyway. With many fearing the economic impact could last much longer than eight weeks, even more are concerned they may have to lay off employees once again just a short time after spending the funds.

Some businesses have reported anxiety at using the funds at all, fearing that they will somehow make themselves ineligible for the loan turning into a grant. Many businesses rely on independent contractors, but according to loan rules, none of the money received can be used for contract labor.

Politico wrote May 8 that the watchdog agency of the Small Business Administration (the SBA administers the PPP loans) reported the federal agency has strayed away from the original language of the law in creating new restrictions. PPP requires businesses to spend 75 percent of the loan on payroll to get forgiveness and that the balance must be paid back in two years.

Both of these bylaws were absent from the original bill.

But questions still weigh heavily on the minds of business owners. Everything most people understand about the loans can still change.

All this goes to show PPP was unleashed too hastily and clarifications have been much too slow to roll out. Small business owners need specifics and they need guarantees. Guidelines need to be strict enough to avoid scams while keeping in mind the reality of modern day small businesses.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) has already called for easing restrictions. Our other local federal representatives must hear owners’ concerns, and then relay those fears to the U.S. Treasury Department and SBA. These small businesses need that help, because if we lose them, some of the best parts of our communities go with them.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) continues to blame Washington for all of our problems just like his political ancestors from past decades. His most recent complaint is distribution of trillions in federal COVID-19 funding between the states. He has an insatiable appetite for more and more federal assistance with no concern about increasing the confiscatory level of taxation to generate the revenues along with increasing long term borrowing to pay for this or how the billions of dollars are spent. He believes throwing more taxpayer dollars at problems will solve all of society’s ills.

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan documented how New Yorkers sent more money to Washington than we get back. Many of the 50 states could make the same argument.

This imbalance also holds true in the distribution of state aid from Albany to the 62 counties of our state. Within NYC, residents of Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Bronx and Manhattan (or each of the fifty-nine community planning boards) don’t always get back the same amount of money sent to City

Hall, Albany and Washington. Within any of our 62 counties, you could take this analysis down to every town, village and local census tract. Cuomo should practice what he preaches when distributing billions in state dollars.

Larry Penner Great Neck

It’s unsettling to see the backlash in this country as protestors take to the streets claiming a right to not wear masks or maintain social distance. In a 100-year storm of ignorance, they miss the fact that cloth and paper masks do not offer much protection to the wearer. They protect other people from the wearer. In this crisis, it is our obligation to others to wear a mask and maintain distance.

As a baby boomer, I have taken great comfort in the ascendancy of science: space shots, a moon landing and joint replacements for the asking. My father was the first person in New York City to survive diptheria because my grandfather, a new physician with time on his hands, treated him with an experimental drug —

an antitoxin. As a child, my older siblings had sheltered in place at our summer home in Quogue to keep us safe from the polio epidemic. I knew several students in the high school class just ahead of us who were crippled by the disease from which we and everyone who came after us were spared.

The advent of the Salk vaccine plus penicillin and pasteurization assured us that we had conquered infection and had only heart disease and cancer left to fight. I have lived my life in a new age of light and science and now bear witness to a world where some people seem determined to reverse all advances and march willingly into darkness led by the badly misinformed.

President Donald Trump (R) has legitimized selfishness and meanness of spirit, but he hasn’t yet taken away courage and self-sacrifice. Upstate and out-of-state health care workers flocked to NYC to help, at great personal risk to themselves, just as NYC firefighters refused orders to stand down on 9/11 and ran into buildings to get people out. The good news is that cops, first responders, health care workers and emergency personnel keep showing up for work. Essential workers still drive the trucks, deliver the mail, dole out necessities for the rest of us.

Thank you all, and special thanks to those of you who run toward the fire.

Timothy Glynn East Setauket

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Badly Misinformed Leading Country into Darkness

Idiocy of Some Youth During Coronavirus We have young people in Commack protesting the COVID closures, saying they would prefer to have more people die from COVID-19 if it would put money back in their pockets. We have young people on the beaches in Florida saying things such as, “let those old people die so they can’t vote.”

With all of the heroes, risking everything

to save so many of us, who do these idiots think they are? No, I am not out of work and, if I were, I would be in a desperate situation. I have, however, been in a situation where medical bills brought me to the edge of losing everything. I fought through it. I didn’t blame those who didn’t have my problems. I took every menial, down in the dirt job that I could find.

Eventually things got better, financially.

My sick wife, who I loved, died. Be careful.

What may look better isn’t always better.

To the young friends of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, all of Bernie’s free give-a-ways were to be paid for by those old folks the Floridian’s wish would die.

Francis G. Gibbons Sr. Terryville

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Unlikely Lawn Signs During Lockdown

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love my neighbors. I never knew who most of them were, but I do now. I see them almost every day and they are friendlier than most of the people I’ve ever worked with. Then again, they haven’t been sitting at their desks, waiting for me to file a story, to fix some error, or to explain how I could have ended the previous sentence with a preposition.

I don’t just love my neighbors. I love the trees that D. None reflect the differof the above ent types of spring

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF lighting that falls on them throughout the day, as I take my exhausted dog for yet another long walk. The singing of the birds?

I can’t get enough of it. In fact, the other

day, I heard three birds, all singing their repetitive songs. Meanwhile, a wood pecker was banging his head against a tree, searching for his insect prey while providing a percussion background to the sounds of the other birds chirping. Incidentally, why haven’t clever scientists studied wood peckers to see how they recover from nonstop concussions? How can they fly straight after all that pounding?

So, my neighbors can’t always update me on their lives, because A. they don’t always have time to chat with the guy who walks his big, white dog too many times a day, and B. they want to make sure they stay at least six feet away from me, which isn’t so easy when said big white dog pulls me and him towards them.

They do a fantastic job of updating me on their lives with the signs that grace their lawns.

I’ve read about birthdays, new babies, graduations, among many other milestones and celebrations limited by our red light, green light,

one-two-three game with a virus that doesn’t seem to have turned away long enough for us to do much moving.

Anyway, I was just thinking about the signs my neighbors don’t put on our lawns, but that might reflect their current reality. Here’s a list of a few: — No one told us we’d be entertaining three kids under 5 years old indefinitely.

— Yes, I’m working on the lawn again.

— Don’t make fun of my make up. Yours doesn’t exactly look great, either.

— Do you want to buy any knives from our cute and enterprising daughter who just finished college finals and needs something to do (okay, we might put that one on our lawn).

— I see you staring at my house, while you’re pretending to look at the trees.

— I’m celebrating nothing today. How about you?

— If you miss sports, too, try to hit this sign with a ball and win a lollipop.

— Lord of the Flies might have been fiction.

This is real. Don’t, under any circumstances, knock on our door.

— This invisible fence isn’t for a dog. Keep off the lawn.

— Does anyone know what day it is?

— Hopefully, this sign will distract you from the peeling paint on our shutters.

— We’ve been binge watching “Stranger Things” and can’t come to the door right now because we’re in the “Upside Down.” Please leave a message.

— No, wrong house. The neighbor down the street and to the left is the happy one.

— We know it sounds weird, but it’s our version of modern music.

Finally, I’d like to share an actual, handwritten sign that from a neighbor who had clearly had enough of the rest of us, with our stupid dogs on stupid leashes every day.

— No poop zone (I can’t believe I have to say this).

Zoom is A Miracle And A Cross to Bear

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ooming has become a verb in the same way xeroxing did many years ago. When a product assumes an important role in daily life, the manufacturer’s name sometimes becomes the name for the process. So it was for many years with photocopying.

And now, I don’t know about you, but for those of us who are working remotely even part of the week, participating in calls over the Zoom software platform is a regular occurrence.

Between Who ever heard you and me of Zoom before sheltering in place

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF began? Well, maybe I did, but only as a possible growth stock to invest in, and running

at $100 a share, it struck me as too expensive to be interesting. When I googled (another such example) the name, it was described as “an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It provides videotelephony and online chat services… and is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education and social relations.”

Until I actually went through “joining a meeting,” it had no relevance to my life.

Enter the pandemic and sheltering in place, and we all discovered that unlike some other high tech stuff, zoom was easy to use and helpful for work and play. We now have departmental meetings and community board meetings via zoom, and I enjoy weekly rendezvouses with my children and grandchildren. For now, seeing everybody is free.

Like all technical marvels, however, there are positives and negatives in connection with Zoom. After three Zoom meetings, each for two hours, in one day, I found that I was exhausted and feeling out of sorts. The first such day, I just assumed it had little to do with zooming. The next time, with a similar schedule and the same

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result, made me realize there was a cause-andeffect taking place, but I didn’t understand why.

Then I read, “Why Zoom Is Terrible,” a column in The New York Times by journalist, Kate Murphy, that made a lot of sense. Before I share the particulars, I want to rush to say that I don’t think Zoom is terrible. I think it is what it is, like all new inventions that change one’s life: a miracle. However difficult our lives are today, imagine if there were no video conferencing available to us. Even physicians have embraced telemedicine as a substitute for office visits for now, but surely as a way of communicating with remote patients who cannot get to the office in a life-or-death emergency in the future.

There are, however, some drawbacks, as Murphy’s article explains, and we should be aware of them. The way the video images are “digitally encoded and decoded, altered and adjusted, patched and synthesized introduces all kinds of artifacts: blocking, freezing, jerkiness and out-of-sync audio. These disruptions, some below our conscious awareness, confound perception and scramble certain social cues. Our brains strain to fill in the gaps and make sense of

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the disorder, which makes us feel vaguely disturbed, uneasy and tired without quite knowing why.”

This explains a lot to me. Just the audio delay alone tends to make me speak more loudly to the screen than I would normally in an unconscious attempt to get my words to the listeners faster and get their responses back more quickly. After six hours of yelling alone, I can feel pretty tired. And when I look at the others on the grid, in a manner reminiscent of the television show, “Hollywood Squares,” I am not looking them in the eye. There is no eye contact, and often people are actually looking at themselves—checking out their hair and whether their collar is covering their chicken neck.

We are, as the author points out, “exquisitely sensitive to one another’s facial expressions… and [that is] essential to our understanding of one another.” But such subtleties are frozen, smoothed over or delayed on the screen, however hard we might strain to see them, hence our fatigue and even a bit of alienation.

So now you know. And by the way, Zoom is now selling at $164.55 a share. I never bought it.

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