The Times of Huntington-Northport - December 15, 2016

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A bogey in Fort Salonga Potential golf course rezoning leaves residents up in arms

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Northport BOE looks at unity programs post swastika incident The Northport school district community is still figuring out the best path forward after swastikas were found spray painted onto a wall in the high school last month.

The administration condemned the act right away and said they intended to reach out to local resources to provide educational programs for their students that promote acceptance and unity. One parent suggested the district should turn to someone who lived through segregation in the South.

Rachel Friedman, a Northport resident, asked the board at last week’s meeting where they were on finding a program to bring to the district. She said she and other parents met with several administrators and teachers, including Superintendent Robert Banzer, to suggest speakers they thought would have a positive influence. “[It is our] desire to bring a piece of living history and a civil rights icon to our district to discuss her experiences as a child facing adversity, bullying, harassment, intimidation and discrimination, and that would be Ruby Bridges,” Friedman said at the meeting. She said she and other parents have discussed hosting Bridges for years.

Bridges, 62, was the first black child to experience desegregation at the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in the 1960s. She is now chair of the

‘This is a very, very upsetting incident that took place and it’s very disheartening. But at the same time we have many students who are doing so many positive things to enrich the community and to learn about our differences.’

— robert banzer Ruby Bridges Foundation, formed in 1999 to promote the values of tolerance, respect and appreciation of all differences. Scholastic, a publishing company, has an educational program called “Ruby Bridges: A Simple Act of Courage Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources,” which is available for students from prekindergarten to eighth grade. The lesson plans include classroomready slide shows, Common Core-aligned lesson plans, a student-created video, book lists and more.

Friedman said Bridges has visited Pulaski Road Elementary School, but there was no plan for her to visit the other schools in the district.

“We believe she would be highly appropriate, qualified and engaging [to] visitors who would cover and fulfill many things with the cooperation of the administrators and teachers of our district,” Friedman

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northport superintendent robert Banzer speaks at the board meeting. said. She also said she has spoken to teachers in other districts on the North Shore where Bridges has visited and learned of how positive the experience is.

Trustee David Badanes acknowledged Friedman has come to the board many times with this suggestion.

“I do think with the recent incident that happened … does the administration have a plan to have a speaker who will talk about these incidents?” Badanes asked Banzer.

Banzer confirmed the school is looking

at several different options.

“Certainly we’re looking at a number of resources and individuals that we might bring in,” he said. Banzer also talked about the possibility of Northport becoming a No Place for Hate School, a program that aims to create more harmonious communities and classrooms by reducing bias and increasing an appreciation for the richness that diversity brings.

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Santa checks out Northport’s best holiday houses

Photos by Victoria Espinoza

Scenes from the Northport Historical Society’s Holiday House Tour Dec. 12, where several families in the village opened up their homes to let residents see their Christmas decorations.

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Out with the old and in with the new candy shop in Northport

By Victoria Espinoza victoria@tbrnewspapers.com If you’re looking to treat your sweet tooth, Northport has just the spot for you.

Carl’s Candies, at 50 Main St., has replaced the well-known Harbor Trading, when it closed its doors earlier this year.

Sisters and co-owners of Carl’s Candies, Angela Nisi-MacNeill and Gina Nisi, are no strangers to Main Street. The Northport natives jumped at the opportunity to open a candy shop together and said they have had nothing short of a blast since opening in October.

“When we heard the former owner was retiring and the building was up for sale, my sister took that as an opportunity to take over and keep it as a candy store,” Nisi said. “Everyone loved Harbor Trading so much, and I think the village always should have a candy store.”

Her sister said she’s had so much fun since opening at the end of October.

“I honestly don’t think I will ever get sick of it,” Nisi-MacNeill said. “I won’t get sick of coming in here every day — no matter how many years I work here. I just think that it’s fun and it’s a good creative outlet.

I enjoy making candy and being creative with the window displays.”

Nisi-MacNeill was also able to get creative when a young girl came into the store suggesting they have a book exchange set up at the location.

“Her father came in with a little cardboard stand and asked if we could put it in the store, and I thought ‘I want to make it more special for her’ so we did this,” she said as she pointed to a large wooden shelf holding dozens of books and decorated with pages of other books all around it.

“It’s a really nice idea, and a lot of people are enjoying it,” she said.

Although this is the first joint venture for the sisters into co-owning a business, Nisi-MacNeill certainly has some valuable past experience as an employee of Harbor Trading back when she was a Northport High School student.

“I remember the smell of the candy store,” she said, thinking back of her time working there. “When we took over the candy store it was empty, so once we started to bring in the candy that’s when the reality hit and the memories really started coming back. Just that smell of all the candy together, it brings back really nice memories.”

Nisi-MacNeil said she is excited to get

northport Continued from page A3 “In order to be designated as a No Place for Hate School there are certain criteria that the schools have to meet in order to get that designation,” Banzer said. “So it allows for differences among schools to get to that point but it also has the standards each school should get.” The superintendent said there have been meetings at the middle school and high school, looking at moving forward with trying to achieve No Place for Hate designation.

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above, Gina nisi, left, and angela nisi-Macneill, right, are the co-owners of carl’s candies, the new candy shop replacing Harbor trading on Main street in northport; below, the front entrance of carl’s candies. back to work in her community. “[Northport] still maintains that old hometown feel,” she said. “That’s really hard to find.” Nisi said the shop already has a lot of regulars coming in.

The name Carl’s Candies is a tribute to the sisters’ late grandfather, Carl Foglia, another Northport native who worked at a butcher shop that used to be where Skipper’s Pub is now, as a limo driver for Northport residents, a real estate agent and more. He died in 2014.

Nisi said he would hang out in the village every day, stopping at many places like the Ritz Café.

“He was sort of like a fixture in town,” she said. “Obviously we miss him dearly, and when we saw the opportunity we agreed we had to name the shop after him.”

The co-owners said many shoppers have come in with stories and memories about Foglia. “We hear really funny stories that we haven’t heard before, which is fun,” Nisi-MacNeill said.

The sisters said there is plenty to come for the freshman candy shop. They plan to start making their own chocolate to sell in January, offer candy catering for events,

That’s just one of the options Northport is exploring in reaction to the incident, along with student-led efforts and other brainstormed suggestions.

“It’s a multifaceted approach we’re taking to this,” the superintendent said.

Banzer said administrators have spoken with the Anti-Defamation League as well.

“This is a very, very upsetting incident that took place and it’s very disheartening,” Banzer said. “But at the same time we have many students who are doing so many positive things to enrich the community and to learn about our differences.”

No final decisions have been reached.

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Fort Salonga residents clash on golf course

Local civic association writes letter to Huntington supporting rezoning, while

By Victoria Espinoza victoria@tbrnewspapers.com

‘We’re in a place we don’t want to be. We’re sort of fighting the FSA and we need to be fighting the developer. As we see it at the moment, there really is no difference.’

Fort Salonga residents are waging battles on two fronts. One fight is to prevent the rezoning of the Indian Hills Country Club, and the other to ensure their civic association is fairly and accurately representing them.

Earlier this year, Jim Tsunis, of the real estate agency Northwind Group, applied to Huntington Town to change the zoning for the property from one-acre single family to open space cluster district. The proposal includes plans to build 108 townhomes and two cottages in several areas on the golf course. Northwind refers to the townhomes as houses for a 55 and over community, and said their plan will preserve 120 of the 143 acres at Indian Hills, won’t impact the views of the club from Breeze Hill Road and Fresh Pond Road, and will preserve the character of the neighborhood.

But residents are far from convinced.

They fear the impact the development could have on the environment, traffic and safety during construction, and property value of the homes in the area.

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Division within the Fort Salonga Association

Members of The Fort Salonga Association and Fort Salonga Property Owners Association expressed these concerns, however, FSA sent Huntington Town Supervisor Frank Petrone a letter approving the plan at the end of November.

Frank Capaccio, president of FSA, said in the letter that reaching the decision was difficult, but he explained that preserving the golf course is most important for residents.

“Our organization, for 70 years, has always been an advocate for what is best for the community at large,” Capaccio said in the letter. “While some feel the golf course should remain untouched and others feel 100-plus single family homes are a better alternative than townhouses, we disagree.

The main purpose of establishing our organization was to preserve the quality of life and open space in our hamlet. Preserving the golf course does this.”

The president acknowledged in the letter that the decision wasn’t unanimous among board members, and unknown decisions could still affect the plan.

“This was not an easy decision, and the ultimate configuration of development, including size, type, and quantity of homes, is yet to be determined,” Capaccio said.

Many residents are wondering why the association was compelled to make a decision so soon, before analysis was complete and a plan was finalized.

FSA director, William Berg said the board had initially planned to create a special committee to conduct an in-depth review of the plan’s environmental impact before any decision was reached.

“I volunteered ... and [Capaccio] said he was going to contact other people, and then we never heard about a meeting or anything,” Berg said in an interview. “And then [25 days later], he emailed, saying it was time to have a vote.”

the proposed plan for the indian Hills country club.

Berg said a fellow board member made a motion to delay the vote until the special committee was formed and able to share their findings, but it was declined, and the vote was carried out via email.

“One of the largest not only developments, but changes in zoning to occur in Fort Salonga’s history, there was no debate, there was no discussion,” Berg said.

According to Berg, 10 board members voted for it, two voted against, and one abstained. He said he doesn’t have the names of any of the members who voted for it.

“It’s a secret,” Berg said.

At the last town board meeting, Petrone said the proposal was still in the early stages and the Huntington Zoning Board had not yet fully reviewed the plan to even schedule a public hearing.

John Hayes, president of the FSPOA and member of the FSA, said he doesn’t understand why a decision had to be made so quickly.

“It’s almost unprecedented for a civic

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association to go basically against the residents who clearly oppose it, at this stage of the game,” he said. “It is beyond any comprehension; we’re just scratching our heads. What’s the motivation here?”

Berg agreed the email vote was unusual.

“They can have email votes on minor issues, but when you have something like this, you normally would have a meeting and vote on it,” he said. “And it wouldn’t be done over a holiday weekend, in a rush.”

The FSPOA held a meeting a week earlier to explain the downzoning issue to their members, and Capaccio was present. Andrew Rapiejko, an FSA and FSPOA member who worked on the presentation, said it was announced at the end of the meeting that the FSA had posted a letter supporting the downzoning.

“There were gasps in the room,” Rapiejko said. He added it was also announced Capaccio was in the room, if he wanted to make a statement. Hayes said he declined, which they understood, since he was at the meeting as a

private individual, but the president assured residents their questions would be answered at the Dec. 6 meeting.

Three days after the letter to Petrone from the FSA was posted on their website, the civic association announced they were cancelling the annual general meeting slated for Dec. 6.

In the letter, Capaccio explained the FSA voted to support the zoning change, but not the specific plan put forward by the club owner. He acknowledged the FSPOA’s disapproval of the plan, and the reason behind cancelling the meeting was an issue with three FSPOA members seeking positions on the board of the FSA. “We determined that their initial independent nominations did not meet our requirements, which means their names would not have appeared on the ballot,” the president said. “In at least the last 40 years, this is the only time the FSA has had to prepare for a possibly contested election.

While our by-laws allow for independent nominations and provide a process for a contested election, this is essentially a new process for us. As a result, the FSA board has decided we must postpone our annual meeting and election for 45 to 60 days so we can process an open and fair election.”

Rapiejko said this came as a shock to FSA members.

“These nomination petitions were sent in end of October, so they had them for a month,” he said. “All three candidates were sent certified letters saying that they were disqualified from the election. And the reasons given were confusing.”

Rapiejko said members who hadn’t paid their annual dues made the nominations, thus the disqualification. Rapiejko was one of those members, according to the FSA, and when he reached out to correct them, that he had in fact paid his dues, they acknowledged the error, but the disqualifications stood.

“I got a response that said ‘Well, at that time of year we get a lot of checks and there was an error inputting your data that has been corrected’ and that was it,” he said.

“No apology, no saying that we’re going to undisqualify the candidate. That was it.”

No new meeting has been posted to the FSA’s website as of publication, and the organization did not return request for comment.

“The rezoning does not compromise our one-acre zoning,” Capaccio said in the letter. “Any homes, cluster or single family, will not exceed the one-acre yield of the property. The purpose of the cluster zoning law is to preserve open space.”

He also stressed the FSA intends to continually represent the interests of the com-

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rezoning, fear environmental impacts to area property owner’s association disapproves of plan, leaving residents divided munity at large.

“We have never been a single issue organization, representing only the few,” Capaccio said.

Rapiejko said the FSA and FSPOA have worked hand in hand on issues before, and he had hoped this time would be the same.

“It really worked very well,” he said of the partnership, recalling another zoning issue from 2003. “After that issue was over, the [FSPOA] was dissolved and we re-established spring of this year. We fully expected this to work the same way, to have that relationship. It wasn’t a competition.”

He said the FSA does great work, and almost all of the FSPOA members are also members of the FSA. Hayes said the current situation is far from ideal.

“We’re in a place we don’t want to be,” Hayes said. “We’re sort of fighting the FSA and we need to be fighting the developer.

As we see it at the moment, there really is no difference. The only party that has benefited from their decision is the developer.

It’s hard to split them at the moment. To say it’s unusual is an understatement, I think.”

Northwind didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Opposition to the rezoning of the golf course

Beyond the issues within the FSA, residents have major concerns with the impact rezoning could have on the Fort Salonga community.

Hayes said some support the rezoning but not necessarily the site plan.

“Once you concede to the change in zone, now you’re talking about negotiating where you’re putting the deck chairs on the Titanic,” Hayes said.

Rapiejko agreed the decision was a bit premature.

“For the FSA to pull out one piece of what this project is, and the downzoning is just one piece of the whole plan, and say ‘Well, this we believe is going to be good and is not going to have an impact,’ it’s just irrational,” he said. “It’s not logical, and that’s why you never want to do it. You always want to look at the whole plan to

make a decision on the whole plan and the impacts of the whole plan.”

The proposed plan from Northwind calls for two areas of 46 town homes on the golf course, one area with 16 town homes, and two cottages. According to Hayes, the plan would also call for the use of a narrow private road in Fort Salonga as access for residents of Northwind. According to the company’s website, the plan will preserve 120 of the 143 acres of land at Indian Hills.

Rapiejko has worked in the Suffolk County Health Department for close to 30 years, where he has gained experience in dealing with environmental issues, and he said the title of the new project is insulting to people’s intelligence.

“He’s changed the name to The Preserve at Indian Hills, and he’s billing this as a preservation effort,” Rapiejko. “When I look at this golf course, I don’t see a preserve.

What I see is a developed piece of property.

When I look at this proposal, I’m seeing it as a tremendous increase in development.”

Rapiejko is worried about nitrogen pollution in drinking water.

“Nitrogen in our area is a huge, huge issue,” Rapiejko said. “And I see a very intense nitrogen use here.” He said the golf course is basically a peninsula surrounded by the Crab Meadow Watershed, the Long Island Sound and the Fresh Pond — and each would be sensitive to nitrogen and pesticides.

Rapiejko said the Suffolk County Health Department has been conducting a study on golf courses. A monitoring well for the Indian Hills Country Club found the current nitrate levels are more than five parts per million.

“That is prior to 32,000 gallons per day of sewage that he is going to be discharging as a result of his development, and discharging on site,” Rapiejko said. He added the plan calls for septic systems for each of the clusters, which will be recharged on site close to the water bodies. That could add more nitrogen to the waterways, as well as other things discharged from septic systems, like pharmaceuticals and personal hygiene products.

In the environmental proposal, nitrogen and phosphorus levels were tested at Fresh Pond in May and August — where most of

‘You do an environmental impact statement to asses the impact of what you’re proposing to do and to see if it’s significant. It’s obvious that there is already a significant impact with what is already here that needs to be addressed, no less worrying about impacts of a proposed development.’

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Andrew Rapiejko speaks out against the rezoning at the last Huntington Town Board meeting. the water from the area is discharged. Total nitrogen levels were 6.03 milligrams per liter, and 1.75 milligrams per liter for phosphorus. Rapiejko compared the numbers with Environmental Protection Agency water quality criteria recommendations, which recommend surface water nitrogen levels at 0.32 milligrams per liter and phosphorus levels at 0.008 milligrams per liter.

‘It’s kind of curious, because you do an environmental impact statement to asses the impact of what you’re proposing to do and to see if it’s significant,” Rapiejko said. “In this case, it’s obvious that there is already a significant impact with what is already here that needs to be addressed, no less worrying about impacts of a proposed development.”

Rapiejko said storm water runoff could also significantly impact the water quality at Fresh Pond.

Residents are also worried about the septic systems.

According to the proposal, “each of these subzones will utilize a tertiary treatment system that is recognized by SCDHS, or one that may be approved as a pilot installation through SCDHS Board of Review approval.”

Rapiejko said this means the builder plans on using one of the new, innovative septic systems the county has been researching, which have not yet been approved and would require a variance from the town to use. The builder proposed The Preserve be used as a test site for one of the new systems.

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“We don’t even know if these systems work or not,” he said.

Rapiejko compared this project to a similar development in Southampton — The Hills — which used the same engineer group as The Preserve. That project, if approved, would entail a golf course with more than 100 townhouses on the property, and Rapiejko said when he looked at the environmental proposal for that project, it came with seven alternatives.

The Preserve currently has two alternatives, one is no action, and the other is single-family, one-acre homes across the entire golf course, which would require eliminating the ponds and building on steep hills and slopes.

“Here he gave us one non-reasonable alternative,” Rapiejko said.

The plan calls for work from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, with 32.75 acres needing to be cleared. Residents cite increased traffic and possible safety problems for bikers and walkers as other concerns.

According to the proposal, the average selling price per unit is about $800,000, which would total more than $85 million if all units were sold. The property was sold for $13.5 million.

A petition condemning the rezoning, with more than 400 signatures of Fort Salonga residents, is circulating.

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Huntington Hospital unveils new emergency dpt.

Larger ED implements new system with emphasis on patient care and efficiency

By Victoria Espinoza victoria@tbrnewspapers.com

is flashing that means vital check is complete. When the light is yellow, a provider is in the room and when flashing yellow, For Huntington residents, going to the the provider completed their exam and the emergency room just got a little less painful. patient is ready to move. A green light indiHuntington Hospital unveiled its new cates the room needs cleaning and flashing $53 million emergency department Dec. green means the room is clean and ready 13, which is capable of handling 64,000 for the next patient. When flashing blue, patient visits per year. The department the patient needs an EKG test done. starts treating patients Jan. 3.

“It’s really amazing,” Recupero said.

The new ED is more than double the “With visual queues, we don’t even have size of the old. In total it’s 28,000 square to have a conversation. [A doctor] can see feet, with 47 treatment spots and 12 pri- what’s happening in each room without vate waiting stations where patients re- anybody telling [him or her].” ceive results. The facility was designed On the wall of every intake room is a with a mission to significantly whip-off board improve patient care. with a checklist of “Efficiency is the idea behind ‘This is just a wonderful certain tests a docthis whole department,” Michael example of what you tor may order.

Recupero, director of patient “Within the first care services in the ED said at can do when a lot five minutes you’re the opening. getting orders done,” of people put their An entirely new system Recupero said. was put in place for dealing efforts together and He explained with patients from the mo- have the communities the ED is spilt into ment they enter the building, half of an emerto ensure their stay is as short and patients interests gency department and effective as possible. and half of an urforefront.’

Under the new method, pagent care center.

— michaEL DowLing Patients with less tients are immediately seen by a nurse to determine if they serious illnesses need instant treatment in the main ED or are taken to “super track” spaces where they treatment in one of the four intake rooms. quickly get antibiotics, or an X-ray, and are The intake rooms are what Recupero calls then sent to one of the 12 results waiting ar“the game changers.” eas, which are private cubicles with loung“Traditionally you’d come in and be ing chairs and floor to ceiling windows. seen by a triage nurse, then you’d sit and The main part of the department will be wait in the waiting room for an undisclosed divided into an east wing and a west wing, period of time, and then be brought to a with a nurse’s assistant, doctor and three room where you would wait some more,” nurses on each side. Another doctor is deshe said. “Finally you’re seen by a doctor. ignated to the trauma area, which deals exBut with this model, you’re seen by a nurse clusively with patients in extreme conditions. and then immediately placed in one of the Recupero said other standout features intake rooms where a doctor will see you.” in the new ED are a pediatric wing that can The intake rooms feature a brand new treat up to nine children at once, a radiollighting system that helps staff learn what ogy section exclusively for the ED — meanstep of care each patient in a room is at. ing no other departments are allowed to The system, created by the University of take time away from ED patients to use the Colorado, runs similar to a traffic light, but machine — a dedicated Ob/Gyn area and with four colors. If the light above an intake a behavioral health area. room is red, the patient is in the room and Michael J. Dowling, the CEO of Northneeds their vitals checked. If the red light Well Health, of which the hospital is a

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clockwise from above, the new front entrance of the emergency room; Michael recupero shows how the lighting system will work; one of the private waiting results stations. member, said the hospital plans to apply for level three trauma designation in 2017.

“It’s a new beginning here,” he said at the opening. “This is just a wonderful example of what you can do when a lot of people put their efforts together and have the communities and patients interests forefront.”

Leonardo Huertas, chairman of emergency services for the hospital, said the new treatment style at Huntington Hospital will be a win for patients.

“The emergency department leadership has envisioned a way to best care and manage our patients,” Huertas said. “The new ED was designed with an eye for innovation. We wanted to change the traditional sequential process which is riddled with bottlenecks and delays.”

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Students showed off their 50th anniversary T-shirts.

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Bellerose Avenue celebrates 50 years The Bellerose Avenue Elementary School community joined together for a special celebration to honor the school’s 50th birthday Nov. 18. The schoolwide event was held in the auditorium, where special guests included former faculty members and administrators.

Principal Lori Beekman hosted the celebration and the PTA provided the decorations and cake. Fifth-graders and former Bellerose students kicked off the event with a performance of the “Star Spangled Banner.”

Beekman spoke to the crowd about what she imagined the building was like 50 years ago and how proud she was to be a part of the school.

“It’s such a good feeling to belong to a place that has such a rich and proud history.”

In honor of the special anniversary, the school recently opened a time capsule that was placed inside the cornerstone of the building 50 years ago by Bellerose’s first principal Dan Frumerin. Through a slideshow presentation, Beekman shared photos from the day they removed the time

capsule and played old audio clips that were found inside. In the clips, former Bellerose students from 50 years ago spoke about the new school, what was happening in the world and what their lives were like.

Students recently wrote their own essays and cards to put in a new time capsule for future generations to read. Some of the stories will be recorded and included in audio clips as well.

Art teacher Shannon Murray discussed the schoolwide art project that the students worked on to commemorate the special occasion. They created a big 5-0 plaque that will be placed in the main stairwell. The crowd also viewed a slideshow of photos of Bellerose throughout the years, which was presented by senior teacher Jon Meyers.

Students cheered when they recognized faculty members and students.

To end the big event, Bellerose graduates, which included students and teachers who returned for the special event, led the room in a rendition of “Happy Birthday” and the Bellerose school song as the cake was presented.

obituaries Linda Marinelli

dustries for more than 20 years and helped launch and then managed The Whales Tale.

Linda is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Joan M. and Derek J. Benham; loving cousins in New York, Florida and California; and her dog Tallulah.

Linda will be remembered by all who knew and loved her as spontaneous, energetic, funny, irreverent and full of love. She made each person she met feel they were the most important person in the world.

A memorial celebration to honor Linda will be held at The Whales Tale in Northport in the spring of 2017, where the culture and atmosphere best represents Linda’s infectious personality and to ensure that her legacy will live on.

Middle School student makes her mark through community service Eighth-grade student Lauren Pisano from Oldfield Middle School has recently been selected as the school’s annual Prudential Spirit of Community Award winner. The Prudential Spirit of Community Award program is the largest youth recognition program based primarily on community service. It honors middle and high school students for outstanding service at the local, state and national level.

To apply, Pisano completed an application process and submitted a 750-word essay detailing her volunteer work. The school reviewed her application and selected her as an honoree to continue on for state-level judging.

Pisano will find out in February if she qualifies to be a finalist, as only one middle school and high school student from New York can be deemed a state honoree. Those students who continue on have the chance to receive cash rewards, a trip to Washington, D.C. for national recognition events and a $5,000 grant from the Prudential Foundation for a nonprofit charitable organization of their choice.

Pisano decided to apply to the program after hearing about it from a friend. As an active member of her church, she’s dedicated more than 500 hours to helping others.

Pisano volunteers daily at the church food pantry, which helps feed 75 families, and recently took part in coordinating the church’s holiday giving tree, which provides items to less fortunate families during the holiday season. She also participates in Project Hope, making sandwiches to feed the homeless every month and is involved in Respite, a club that works with those with special needs.

“I really enjoy giving back,” said Pisano.

“I get excited when I get to help others.”

In addition to volunteering, Pisano is highly involved in the school community. She is an active member of the soccer and track teams and is a chorus and orchestra student. Pisano is also a member of the Student Recognition Club, which spotlights students that are doing the right thing and are excellent examples of the school’s character trait of the month.

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SportS Kyree Johnson stays sharp as track season is underway Kyree Johnson isn’t missing a beat, even though he is without beloved teammate Infinite Tucker, who graduated last June and is already winning fans over at Texas A&M University.

Johnson won county, state and national indoor and outdoor titles last year as a junior on Huntington’s track and field teams, and he’s already well on his way to another stellar campaign with the Blue Devils.

The indoor team’s season kicked off last week with a crossover meet, between different leagues, and a trip to Staten Island for an invitational against some of the best from the metropolitan area.

During the crossover meet, Johnson won the 55-meter dash in 6.43 seconds and captured the long jump with a leap of 22-10.00 feet, edging teammate Lawrence Leake who jumped 21-08.25.

Leake went on to win the 600 run in an exciting finish. The senior nipped Hauppauge junior Nick Crociata by 14/100ths of a second with a time of 1 minute, 24.31 seconds.

The 4 x 200 relay team of Johnson, Leake, Kei Ron Byrams and Jared Leake finished first with a time of 1:34.31 seconds.

Sam Bergman (43-00.50), Clay Jamison (41-00.00), William Newton (40-07.00) and Shateek Parler (38-11.00) were all strong in shot put. Shane McGuire finished third in the 1,000 in 2:46.

“He was tripped up in final 20 meters of the race,” Huntington head coach Ron Wilson said. “Our 4 x 400 meter B-team relay of Brian Pierre, Arkim Pierre, Will Vollack and McGuire placed second in 3:51.”

Freshman Brendan Roller was 14th in the 3,200 in a time of 11:38.04.

Huntington also saw some sensational efforts by a cast of newcomers.

“We were quite pleased with some of our underclassmen’s performances,” Wilson said.

Eighth-grade sensations Nasir Youngblood and Anthony Joseph finished the 55 dash in 7.20 seconds and 7.47 seconds, respectively.

Eighth-grade distance runners Isaiah James and Aidan Heller also ran well in their high school track debuts. James impressed in the 1,000, finishing in 3:11. Heller was timed

Soccer player scores big Stephanie Rapp has been selected to play for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America High School Girls Soccer All-East Region team.

To be chosen for the All-East Region team, top Suffolk County players are voted on by Suffolk County coaches and then selected for All-State by a committee. The top All-State players are then selected for AllEast Region.

“She plays with more composure than any player I have ever coached,” Northport head coach Aija Gipp said. “She has been the anchor to our defense for the past three years and is going to be missed in the years to come.”

Rapp was a four-year varsity player and three-year starter as a center back for Northport’s girls’ soccer team. In the three years that she has played as a starter, the Tigers were only scored on 13 times with Rapp in the game.

This past season, the Tigers went 18-2-1 overall, and won the Suffolk County Championship with a 3-0 win over Smithtown West, before falling to Massapequa, 3-2, in the Long Island Championship game.

“I am incredibly proud of all that she has accomplished,” Gipp said. “We could not have won the county championship without her.”

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Stephanie Rapp was chosen to play on the All-East Region Team.

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Kyree Johnson, above center, is one of Suffolk County’s top sprinters this year. left, Johnson waits for the handoff from lawrence leake during an outdoor relay event last season. at 12:29 in the 3,200.

The Nassau County Invitational at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex drew hundreds of athletes from a long list of high schools. Johnson won two events in impressive fashion, leaving competitors and opposing coaches speechless.

The Blue Devil star bested a field of 255 in the 55 dash with a blistering performance that saw Johnson cross the finish line in 6.52 seconds. He followed that up by winning the 300 run in 34.65 seconds, easily eclipsing the field of 256 runners.

“Kyree was really splendid on Saturday,” Wilson said. “He’s working hard and already looking sharp. Infinite really pushed him and

he’s going through an adjustment not having him on the team, but so far he’s doing great.”

Jamison, a junior, finished fifth among 91 competitors in shot put with a toss of 40-02.50 feet. Newton placed eighth in the event with a throw of 39-01.00 feet. Jamison also took 11th place in the weight throw with his best effort being measured at 32-09.50 feet.

Many of Huntington’s top performers were unable to make the trip and compete, taking the ACT, but from what’s already been seen, the team could continue its winning ways.

Huntington will be back on the track again Dec. 16 at the St. Anthony’s High School Christmas Classic.

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Northport volleyball leader named Coach of the Year Northport girls’ volleyball head coach, Chris Fritch, has been named Varsity Coach of the Year by the Suffolk County Girls Volleyball Coaches Association.

Fritch has been with the Tigers for 11 seasons, including six seasons of volleyball, and was at the helm of the program for the first time this past season.

“This is a tremendous accomplishment,” Northport athletic director Paul Klimuszko said. “Especially since this is his first year of coaching in the varsity program here at Northport.”

The award came as a surprise to Fritch, whose Tigers went 2-9 last season.

“I was really taken back,” he said. “It is a great honor to be the recipient of the Varsity Coach of the Year, considering the company that I was in. The girls’ volleyball program is very lucky to have the full support of the Northport school community.”

Fritch thanked Klimuszko, his coaching staff, parents and the girls on his team for all their hard work and dedication.

“I think this award is a testament to everyone that is involved in our program,” he said.

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Northport girls’ volleyball head coach Chris Fritch was named Coach of the Year.

In addition to coaching, Fritch is also a part-time adapted physical education teacher at Dickinson Avenue Elementary School.

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Cleaning ENJOY COMING HOME TO A CLEAN HOUSE! Attention to detail is our priority. We promise you peace of mind. Excellent References. Serving the Three Village Area. Call Jacquie or Joyce 631-871-9457, 631-886-1665

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Electricians FARRELL ELECTRIC Serving Suffolk for over 40 years All types electrical work, service changes, landscape lighting, automatic standby generators.

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We enjoy holiday lights, but do trees?

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Toy drives across the North Shore are a good opportunity for community members to give back this holiday season.

Give a gift to those in need Holiday spending is expected to reach its highest point since the Great Recession.

According to PwC’s 2016 Holiday Outlook, consumer shopping will likely increase 10 percent compared with the 2015 holiday season. Digital sales are expected to increase 25 percent.

With larger holiday budgets — an average increase of $1,121 per household — why not use some of that extra cash to spread a little holiday cheer to those less fortunate?

The North Shore has a myriad of options for food and toy drives this holiday season. Suffolk County, our local towns, hamlets and even some of our neighbors are asking for nonperishable food items or gifts to make the season a little brighter for those who can’t participate in that extra spending.

If there’s a willingness to spend, a willingness to share should come with it.

Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) is working with Operation Veronica to collect care package supplies at her district office in Mount Sinai for military men and women.

She has also teamed up with Rhonda Klch, a Miller Place resident and founder of the Equity First Foundation, to help Klch collect toy donations for the annual Holiday Dream event.

To donate items to Anker’s drives, drop-offs can be done at her district office, located at 620 Route 25A, Suite B in Mount Sinai. For more information about the drives, contact her office at 631-854-1600.

The Town of Brookhaven is also hosting an INTERFACE toy drive, sponsored by the Town of Brookhaven Youth Bureau, which will help provide presents to more than 7,000 children this holiday season.

The Town of Brookhaven toy drive event is Dec. 16 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at four separate locations: the Brookhaven Town Highway Department, at 1140 Old Town Road in Coram; the New Village Recreation Center, at 20 Wireless Road in Centereach; the Rose Caracappa Senior Center, at 739 Route 25A in Mount Sinai; or the Brookhaven Calabro Airport, at 135 Dawn Drive in Shirley.

For more information or other drop off locations, call the Town of Brookhaven Youth Bureau at 631-451-8011.

The Friends of Huntington Station Latin Quarter will host a toy drive event Saturday, Dec. 18 from 1 to 4 p.m. Residents are encouraged to drop off toys before that date at 1399 New York Ave. in Huntington Station. Gently used clothing is also being collected.

Councilwoman Susan Berland (D) is hosting a holiday pet drive, with six locations in Huntington where anyone can drop off items, including the Huntington Animal Shelter at 106 Deposit Road in Huntington, Selmer’s Pet Land at 125 E. Jericho Turnpike in South Huntington and more. You can contact 631-351-3173 for more details.

The Salvation Army has representatives collecting money outside of supermarkets and other shopping centers throughout the holiday season.

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Many people buy and hang Christmas tree lights and regular tree lights for special occasions and holidays, but studies have revealed that the bright tree lights hanging on trees all the time is harmful for the trees.

As most of us know, trees and plants survive and function using photosynthesis, and sunlight is a part of photosynthesis.

When the lights on the plants and trees are constantly active, it seriously affects the plant cycles.

It confuses the plants, animals and organisms around it as well.

The normal growth and development for trees depends on the light’s quality. William Chaney of Purdue University, says the continuous lighting is even more damaging than lighting that is turned off late in the evening.

This is because the foliage of trees grown in continuous light-

ing would be larger in size and more susceptible to air pollution and water stress due to the stomatal pores in leaves remaining open for longer periods. The artificial lighting extends the day length for the plant when it is always being exposed to light. It can change flowering patterns and the continued growth. The lights can prevent the plant from flowering and reproducing, and it prevents trees from developing dormancy, which allows them to survive the harshness of the winter weather.

The bright lights everywhere can disrupt the animals around as well. For instance, the lights disrupt the navigation systems of migrating birds who calibrate their flight patterns by the moon and stars. The birds (when passing brightly lit areas) then become disoriented and might

even fly into the lit buildings.

Some people are starting to use fake Christmas trees for decorating, instead of using real ones, but many people still decorate the environment around them and during the winter season, hundreds of towns and cities are filled with trees and bushes doused with lights which really throws off the plants and their cycles. Imagine if someone covered the entire earth with lights and we never knew if it was morning or night. It would really throw you off, wouldn’t it?

So this Christmas and for future reference, think about how your decorating affects the environment and organisms around you.

For my family and me, having one artificial lit tree is enough.

Sapphire Perera Port Jefferson

Black Lives Matter and racial injustice Recently a letter appeared in Times Beacon Record Newspapers protesting coverage of a Black Lives Matter rally at the Stony Brook LIRR station. The writer, Robert Sandberg, calls BLM a “vicious gang of thugs.”

He calls George Soros “the world’s most evil billionaire.”

First, about George Soros. He’s a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union he provided financial support to anti-Soviet movements and activists in Eastern Europe, including the Solidarity Movement in Poland and Andrei Sakharov in Russia. This was the beginning of his philanthropic organization, the Open Society Foundations, the stated purpose of which is to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to its citizens. In the U.S. Soros has given to civil rights groups and left-leaning political causes. This makes him no more “evil” than giving to right-leaning political causes makes the Koch brothers “evil.”

Calling Soros evil only reveals Mr. Sandberg’s profound ignorance of the nature of true evil.

Far from being a “gang of

thugs,” BLM is a loosely connected movement of groups responding to a single issue: racial injustice. The crocodile tears Mr. Sandberg cries about BLM not providing scholarships or helping start businesses are entirely irrelevant. To understand why there are BLM protests one needs only recall a few recent incidents.

An unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, is confronted and shot dead by a self-appointed vigilante near where he lives. The killer is acquitted. Several months afterwards he sells the gun used to kill Martin for $250,000.

A distinguished Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, who is black, is handcuffed and arrested outside his home when he returns from vacation and forces his way into his own house, where the front door was jammed shut. The arrest occurs after Gates provides ID to the police.

A black motorist, Sandra Bland, is arrested and jailed after being pulled over for failing to signal when changing lanes.

A few days later she is found hanged dead in her cell under mysterious circumstances.

What all these incidents have

in common is the theme of racial injustice. It is very reasonable for black people to protest both the additional risks they are exposed to simply because of their race and the lack of consequences when serious harm or death is inflicted on them for reasons that are entirely disproportionate. By ranting against BLM Mr. Sandberg only shows his own woeful lack of empathy.

Do I agree with every statement made by every spokesperson for BLM? No. But I certainly understand their grievance that justice is not being done. Mr. Sandberg caricatures BLM as “beating up people and burning cars.” But when BLM stages a peaceful protest at the Stony Brook station (with the support of such “radical” groups as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship), Mr. Sandberg is “offended” that this paper covers it. I guess he prefers to live in a Long Island bubble and not be reminded of continuing racial injustice in this country. Maybe he thinks that if we all just stick our head in the sand it will go away.

David Friedman St. James

Correction The Dec. 8 editorial, entitled “Pearl Harbor: A turning point for America,” contained incorrect information about the USS Arizona. It was a battleship, not an aircraft carrier, as labeled. We regret the error.

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opinion Reflecting on a legacy while awaiting a birth

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lmost seven years ago, I wrote my first email to request an interview for a story. In between now and those seven years, the correspondent and I have dropped many of the formalities of our exchanges and have shared personal details.

She’s known about big events in my life, mostly related to my kids, while I was aware of when she was getting married.

Recently, she shared the exciting news that she is pregnant.

By Daniel Dunaief I am thrilled for her and the husband I’ve never met because parenthood is such a spectacular experience, opportunity, and challenge.

Less than a week after hear-

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ing about her pregnancy, I spoke with someone for another story I’m researching. When this person heard my last name, he immediately asked me if I was related to someone. Most of the time, that someone is my mom, who works visibly and tirelessly in the communities these newspapers serve.

When I was younger and people asked me about my mother, I would look down or look away, because I couldn’t answer questions about the way my mom’s paper covered something or because I was far too busy reading the batting averages for the latest Yankees to share insights about someone who was and is such an inspiration.

As I’ve grown, I’ve become more appreciative of the questions and more prepared to look people in the eye — yes, mom, I’m teaching my kids to do that, too — to hear what they have to say and to provide a thoughtful answer.

But, this person wasn’t asking me about my mom. He wondered if I was

related to Dr. Dunaief, his former ophthalmologist. Hearing the question surprised me. My father died almost 30 years ago. We talk about him regularly amongst ourselves, wondering what he would have thought of the people he’d never met, including my wife, my brother’s wife and his grandchildren. We tell our children stories about him so they know who he was and they appreciate their heritage.

The person said my father was a great doctor. I told my children about the interview and the mention of their grandfather. I asked them what they thought the conversation meant.

Both of them looked me in the eye for a long time as they considered their answers. “He must have been a good doctor,” my son said.

“Wow, that’s amazing. He made that connection all these years later,” my daughter offered.

Yes, I thought, they’re right. And, they had an idea of what it means to make meaningful and lasting connections. Whatever we do, whoever

we see on a daily basis, we have an opportunity to create a legacy that extends long after we’re no longer involved in the same routine.

Some parts of who we are, or who we were, remain, whether that’s through our children or grandchildren, or through the memory of an action or interaction. I remember sitting in my father’s office one day when he took me to work and watching as he pulled glass out of the eye of a patient who had been in an accident at a construction site. The patient, a man much more muscular and stronger than my father, fainted in the chair. My father calmly removed all the equipment and revived him. He demonstrated such incredible grace, control and professionalism.

So, as I think about the connection between the expectant mother and the memory of my father, I hope she creates positive, lasting memories for her unborn child, even as that child grows and develops a meaningful legacy.

The joy of news — real, ‘true’ news “News” is one of my favorite fourletter words. Since I was a kid and watched the newsreels that preceded the feature films at movie theaters, before television, I have been engaged by the events that unfold around us on a daily basis.

When they installed the public address system in my elementary school, instruction would stop a half hour

By Leah S. Dunaief for every Friday morning as “Let’s Look at the News,” a New York City-sponsored program, was transmitted to all the classrooms. The format involved student panelists each week, and I listened with great interest. I was even on the panel at the radio station when I was in fifth grade, which necessitated my reading the daily newspapers throughout

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the week. So in hindsight, I guess it is not so surprising that I wound up being a newspaper publisher, despite my teenage plans for a different direction. Hearing the news and interpreting its implications are as much a habit for me as breathing.

So you can understand my distress at the current tsunami of fake news that has overtaken us. News, by definition and tradition, must be factual. If not, it is either a parody in the guise of news; or it is opinion or partisan, clearly presented as such; or it is propaganda, to be thus evaluated by the viewer. Now, those in the business of offering the news can certainly make mistakes, sometimes colossal ones, as in telling us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction rather than emphasizing the fog and controversy surrounding that conclusion.

Respected journalists told us that as fact, and though they believed what they were sharing, they were wrong.

That is different, however, from the plethora of so-called news stories that are deliberately fabricated and shared every day with millions

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thanks to access to social media. Everyone with a digital device can now become a publisher and disseminate half-truths, conspiracy theories and flagrant falsehoods as news, without any form of vetting. The more gullible or, perhaps, less informed, or those enjoying the partisan slant, like tabloid readers, are rapt viewers. Sometimes they respond, as did the North Carolina guy we heard about who shot up a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. because he heard that there was a child-abuse ring operating there. While extreme, it is not any more false than the news that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump before our recent election. Regardless of one’s political orientation, that sort of phony and hyperpartisan stuff is alarming — or should be. Further troubling is how to deal with the question of vetting versus censorship.

Worst, as a result of the proliferation of so much fake news, is the confusion it sows about all news.

What’s true, what’s a lie? Whom and what to believe? The marvel of the internet and mobile phones to bring

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Desirée Keegan EDITOR Victoria Espinoza

LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton SPORTS EDITOR Desirée Keegan ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ellen Recker ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia

inside news about brutality of dictatorships or other previously secret horror stories to the world’s attention and thereby reduce their occurrence has now been inverted. All sorts of false horror stories can now be broadcast as truths. The impact on the real news is to diminish the effect and value of good reporting.

As Thomas Jefferson preached, without an informed public, democracy is not possible.

Ironically, speaking of Jefferson, he or his supporters placed deceitful and, in today’s view, libelous stories in early newspapers when he ran against John Adams for president, and Adams’ followers did the same. So this fake news epidemic is not something new; only having so many decentralized outlets for transmitting the lies is. Somehow we will sort this out, just as they did two centuries ago.

Meanwhile, read the hometown newspaper. We never lie and while we are not always accurate, publishing corrections for our inadvertent mistakes in the following issue, we hold fact to be sacred.

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CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Ellen Segal BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo

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