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Nonprofit organizations interested in providing film and/or cultural arts programing to the people they serve have an opportunity for grant dollars from Suffolk County. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) announced this week three film and cultural arts grant opportunities for 501(c)3 organizations in Suffolk County. In partnership with the Cultural Affairs Citizens Advisory Board and the Suffolk County Film Commission, Suffolk County is now accepting applications for three distinct funding opportunities: the Cultural Competitive, Destination Downtown and the Emerging Film Festival grant programs. The application deadline is Oct. 19 at 4:30 p.m. Grant applications are now available to applicants at www.suffolkartsandfilm.com under the Grant Opportunities and Info tab. It is recommended that applicants carefully read the grant priorities and guidelines. Eligible applicants must have 501(c)3 tax exempt status. Funding requests for all applications must be at least $5,000; applications will be scored via a competitive, merit-based grading system. All grant programs and funding levels are subject to budget availability and approval

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Whelan defeats Scully in Surrogate’s Court primary BY ALEX PETROSKI ALEX@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Their first race is in the books, but the more important one is yet to come. Family Court Judge Theresa Whelan defeated attorney Tara Scully in the Democratic primary Sept. 13 to secure a spot on the November ballot in the race to preside over Suffolk County’s Surrogate’s Court. Whelan received nearly 65 percent of the vote, besting Scully 38,674 to 21,040 votes. “Last night was a great victory for Democrats,” Whelan said in a statement Sept. 14. “I want to thank the voters of Suffolk County and Democratic Chairman Rich Schaffer for having confidence in me and my credentials. I’m looking forward to presenting my 10 years of judicial experience and 30 years of courtroom experience to the voters in November.” A spokesperson for Scully’s campaign characterized the primary result as a win for the candidate. “Tara scored her first victory in July, when her entrance into the race forced party leaders to scrap their plan to make a Conservative the candidate of the Democratic Party and scurry to find a Plan B,” campaign spokesman James

Walsh said in a statement. “Today, more than 21,000 Democrats who voted to make Tara the candidate of their party sent a clear message to the party bosses that they are fed up with cross-endorsement deals. Tara is still the only candidate for Surrogate nominated by the people. No other candidate gathered a single signature to get into the race. We are confident that she will have broad support across party lines in the general election.” The nearly 60,000 voters in the closed primary represented a significant turnout jump from the last time Democrats went to the polls. On June 26, a little more than 32,000 Suffolk County residents registered as Democrats voted in Congressional primaries for the 1st and 2nd districts combined, though the Sept. 13 primary also featured New York gubernatorial, lieutenant governor and attorney general candidates. The Surrogate’s Court race came under scrutiny after Newsday ran an editorial publicizing the political patronage and cross-endorsement agreements that highlighted the race. Newsday reported earlier this year District Court Judge Marian Rose Tinari, who is married to Suffolk’s Conservative Party chairman, Frank Tinari, and is a Conservative herself, had secured the

Democratic Party line in the Surrogate’s Court race as a result of a deal with Schaffer. As a result, Scully said she gathered enough petitions to run on both Democratic and Republican lines in July to offer voters an alternative. When presented with Scully as a primary challenger, Tinari dropped out. The Democratic Party then nominated Whelan, who calls herself a lifelong Democrat. Despite Thursday’s primary defeat, Scully has secured the Republican Party line in the race for Surrogate’s Court and will face off Whelan again at the polls in less than two months. Judge John Czygier Jr., who currently oversees the county’s Surrogate’s Court, is nearing the mandatory retirement age, leaving a vacancy Scully and Whelan are competing to fill. The position, which yields a salary in excess of $200,000, carries a 10-year term, and the occupant may serve until age 70. Surrogate’s Court is responsible for handling all issues involving wills and the estates of people who die. The court also handles guardianship hearings and some adoption cases for children whose parents are deceased. Each of New York state’s 62 counties has one surrogate judge except New York and Kings counties, which have two each.

Statewide primary results BY ALEX PETROSKI Incumbent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) easily defeated Democratic primary challenger activist and actress Cynthia Nixon Sept. 13, securing a spot on the November general election ballot. Cuomo secured nearly 65 percent of the vote statewide, besting Nixon by about 460,000 votes, according to the state Board of Elections. Locally, the two-term governor seeking his third performed even better. Almost 48,000 Suffolk County residents cast their ballots for Cuomo, according to the Suffolk County Board of Elections. Former state assemblyman, Marc Molinaro (R-Red Hook), awaits Cuomo in the general election. Cuomo’s ticket pulled off a clean sweep in the Democratic primary, as incumbent Lt Gov. Kathy Hochul defeated challenger Jumaane Williams, who campaigned with Nixon. Hochul garnered votes from about 48 percent of New Yorkers, and 57 percent of Suffolk County residents. Her general election opponent will be Julie Killian. In the four-way race for the vacated state attorney general position, Cuomo’s preferred choice Letitia James came out on top with about 38 percent of the vote both in the state and the county. She will face Republican Keith Wofford Nov. 6.

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Port Jeff Dragon Boat Race Festival packs out Harborfront Park BY ALEX PETROSKI ALEX@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

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The annual racing of the dragons took place off the shores of Port Jefferson’s Harborfront Park under sunny skies Saturday Sept. 15. For the ﬁfth time, Port Jefferson Harbor was the scene and The Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce played host for Port Jeff’s Dragon Boat Race Festival. The day-long festival featured 34 teams competing in heats with

dragon boats provided by High Five Dragon Boat, numerous performances including the famous lion dance, taiko and Korean drum performances, martial arts demonstrations and Asian singing and instrumentals. New this year was a special ribbon dragon dance and musicians playing the traditional Japanese stringed instruments, the shamisen and koto. The event also offered food, children’s activities, displays set up by various vendors and much more.

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University

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Clockwise from left, SUNY students work together with the nonprofit NECHAMA to repair roofs in Puerto Rico; a SUNY student helps on the ground; and Joseph VanderWaag repairs a crack on a roof.

College students stand with Puerto Rico, join relief efforts

‘They are a mixture of upset, angry and feeling just almost betrayed.’

volunteers then primed and sealed the new roofs to make them waterproof. “I wish there was more that we could do,” Mueller said “But I think that the main goal for the organization, while we were there, was to make it livable at that point. Because they couldn’t even live in the houses because every time it rained water was pouring through the ceiling.” Mueller said she also helped to clean out one man’s bedroom that was unlivable after water damage from the storm. The room had mold and bugs, and his bed, clothes and other items needed to be thrown out. VanderWaag said the homeowners he met didn’t have a lot of money so whenever there was a leak they would go to the hardware store for a quick fix to patch the roof. When the students weren’t working, he said they would talk to community members about the hurricane’s devastation and the response from the U.S. “They are a mixture of upset, angry and feeling just almost betrayed,” he said. VanderWaag said he’ll always remember how appreciative the homeowners were and how one woman cried after they were done. Her husband who was in his 70s would try his best to fix the leaks by carrying bags of concrete up a ladder and patching the leaks. “It was a huge burden lifted off their shoulders,” VanderWaag said. Mueller said one family cooked lunch for her group and others working on the house next door every day. She said the students had time to sightsee, and when one tour guide heard what they were doing, he offered to take them on a free tour of the south side of the island. Both she and VanderWaag also visited Old San Juan and saw historic military forts during their trips. “It really was a life-changing experience,” Mueller said. “Even the people I met from

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students, was working in the homes with the homeowners and providing them shelter.” Rebecca Mueller, one of 21 Stony Brook As Puerto Rico continues to recover a year University students who volunteered, traveled after Hurricane Maria left devastation in its to the island in July, as did Joseph VanderWaag, wake, some college students reflected on lasting who attends Suffolk County Community Colmemories of their missions to the island to offer lege’s Ammerman Campus. help and support. Mueller, 23, of Coram, a graduate student This past summer more than 650 State Uni- working toward her master’s in social work, said when she received an email versity of New York and City from SBU looking for students University of New York students to travel to Puerto Rico she knew along with skilled labor volunshe had to help. teers helped to repair homes on “I knew things there still the island through Gov. Andrew weren’t that great from hearing Cuomo’s (D) New York Stands different stories, and I felt like with Puerto Rico Recovery and not as much help was given to Rebuilding Initiative, according them as it should have been,” to the governor’s website. During she said. “So, when I saw an opa 10-week span, five deployments portunity where I could actually of volunteers worked on the help to do something, I knew I island with the goal of repairing the roofs of 150 homes. By the — Joseph VanderWaag couldn’t pass it up.” VanderWaag, 20, of Smithend of the summer, the volunteers town, who is in his last semester at fixed the roofs of 178. SCCC, echoed those sentiments. Peter Velz, SUNY assis“It was so devastating to see that these were tant vice chancellor for external affairs, said since October 2017 the university system was our citizens not really getting any help,” he said. Traveling to Catano and surrounding towns working on engagement with Puerto Rico. On March 16 students from SUNY Alfred State where her group was working, Mueller said she saw houses with no roofs, windows or doors. She and Geneseo went down for a week. He said he believes the interaction with the worked on three homes during her stay, and said homeowners was probably the most impactful the students would climb to the top of roofs and for the students, and the residents they met in roofers with the nonprofit NECHAMA–Jewish Puerto Rico tried to pay them back the best Response to Disaster showed them what to do. Two of the buildings she worked on had secthey could. “It wasn’t paying them back financially,” ond stories before Hurricane Maria, but the upper Velz said. “Kids would make them bracelets levels were destroyed by the storm, and the volor kids would make them pictures or the fami- unteers had to turn what was left into roofs by lies would make them lunch. I really think that scraping up tiles, finding cracks, grinding them to was probably the most lasting impact for the open them up and then sealing with cement. The BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

the other SUNY schools, we became so close so quick.” Pascale Jones, SBU international programs director, joined students for a week to help out. She said when she saw the students in action, she was amazed at how much they already knew about construction and found the whole experience to be humbling. Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jones said she is used to seeing a certain level of devastation but was surprised to see the state of some of the homes. “It’s Puerto Rico and these are U.S. citizens,” Jones said. “So, I did not expect this devastation so long after the hurricane’s passing. To think, U.S. citizens are living in a way that I would almost equate to a third world country.”

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Police Blotter Incidents and arrests Sept. 11–16

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A 40-year-old man from Sound Beach driving a 1998 GMC on Miller Place Road in Miller Place Sept. 12 was pulled over by police and determined to be allegedly driving under the influence of a drug, according to police. He was arrested and charged with first-degree operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.

Restaurant crash

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At about 2 a.m. Sept. 12, a 52-year-old man from Rocky Point allegedly drove a 2016 Ford into Rocky Point Ale House on Broadway in Rocky Point, according to police. It was determined he was allegedly operating the vehicle under the influence of alcohol, police said. He was arrested and charged with third-degree criminal mischief and driving while impaired.

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During a traffic stop Sept. 12, a 31-year-old man from Medford driving a 2006 Audi on Broadway in Rocky Point allegedly possessed marijuana and heroin, according to police. He was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

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On Sept. 15, a 31-year-old man from Centereach allegedly sold a quantity of heroin from a home on Pleasant Avenue in Centereach, according to police. He was arrested and charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.

Game over

A 36-year-old woman from Wading River allegedly stole five video games from Walmart on Middle Country Road in Middle Island Aug. 14, according to police. She was arrested Sept. 12 in Selden and charged with petit larceny.

Missing mail

Several pieces of unopened mail were stolen from within a 2017 Smart car parked on Old Field Road in Setauket Sept. 16 at about 8 p.m., according to police.

Car door pried open

Someone pried open a door on a 2018 Ford parked on Old Town Road in East Setauket Sept. 6 at about 9 a.m., but didn’t take anything from within, according to police. The incident was reported Sept. 16.

A 25-year-old man from Rocky Point driving a 2004 Jeep on Rocky Point Landing Road in Rocky Point near the intersection of Apricot Road Sept. 11 allegedly possessing heroin and was driving without a valid driver’s license, according to police. He was arrested and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Purse taken from boat

Stealing a supplement

Glass broken

At LA Fitness on Middle Country Road in Centereach Sept. 15, a 25-year-old man from Centereach allegedly stole a detox supplement, according to police. He was arrested and charged with petit larceny.

A purse was stolen from within a boat parked at a home on Corie Court in Port Jefferson Sept. 14 at about 10 p.m., according to police.

Beer taken

Beer was stolen from Stop & Shop on Route 25A in Miller Place at about 8 p.m. Sept. 14, according to police. The glass door of a home on Sycamore Circle in Stony Brook was broken but no entry was made at about midnight Sept. 14, according to police.

— Compiled by Alex Petroski

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Brookhaven partnering with nonprofit, seafood restaurants to boost shellfish population BY ALEX PETROSKI ALEX@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

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a concern,” said Anthony Graves, Brookhaven’s chief environmental analyst. He said taking the shells out of the town’s solid waste stream and using them to improve water quality by staving off erosion and stimulating shellfish growth is a “win-win-win” for the environment. “It’s tremendous how far we’ve come,” Carrano said, reflecting on the evolution of the operation of shellfish seeding in the town from when he took up his role. “When I started we were growing 100,000 clams. Now we’re growing a million and a half, close to 2 million clams this year and 2 million oysters. The town has been very generous and forthcoming in pushing this program and allowing it to move forward.” Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said he would like to see New York adopt a similar law to the State of Maryland’s, which prohibits discarding shells in landfills. “We’ve made a major commitment to restocking our bays, our harbor ways, our Sound, doing what we can do to restore the balance of nature,” he said. “It’s a cumulative battle, but it’s a battle that we’ve joined, it’s a battle that we intend to continue to fight because we think it’s important not only for the health of the bay, but also to ensure that the bay or harbor can support clams and oysters.” Several restaurants have signed on to participate in the program — including Catch Oyster Bar

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Restoring Long Island’s coastal waters as a haven for shellfish to thrive has been a multidecade battle for the Town of Brookhaven. This year, it has added some artillery to the fight in the form of a public-private nonprofit partnership born in the spirit of sustainability and recycling. In the 1800s, Long Island was considered the oyster capital of the world, according to Maureen Dunn, water quality scientist at Seatuck Environmental Association, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Long Island’s wildlife and environment. “So, to think that there’s virtually no wild oysters in the South Shore is incredible, but it’s really something that we can fix,” Dunn said Sept. 7 at Brookhaven’s shellfish hatchery located on the shores of Mount Sinai Harbor. For more than 30 years, Brookhaven has been buying juvenile clams and oysters when they are just a millimeter in size, partially maturing them at the town’s hatchery and strategically returning them to North and South Shore waters in an effort to boost the population. Tom Carrano, the town’s assistant waterways management supervisor who has overseen this process since taking the position in the early ’80s, is set to retire imminently. “Realistically, clams and oysters are the only natural resource the town actually owns because

we own the bay bottom,” he said. “It’s our responsibility to make sure that there is sufficient quantities of these animals.” To aid in fulfilling that responsibility, beginning this year the town has partnered with Seatuck and so far five restaurants to spearhead a program called Half Shells for Habitat. The program entails the restaurants setting aside shells from eaten clams and oysters; collecting them; delivering them to the town’s composting facility in Manorville where they are aged in the sun for six months to a year to ensure viruses and bacteria are not inhabiting the discarded shells; bringing the shells to the hatchery to allow the tiny shellfish to adhere to the larger shells, building what essentially amount to shellfish reefs; and then returning them to the water in the hopes of growing new shellfish. The town has the capability to grow more than 3 million shellfish in its hatchery per year, and officials believe the use of mature shells will give them a better chance at maturation and warding off predators. Creating the shellfish reefs has several other benefits. The juvenile shellfish require a hard bottom to survive, which the reefs can provide. The shellfish can work as erosion control if placed properly, can counteract the effects of water acidification spurred by climate change and also help to filter algae from the water. “As CO2 levels in the atmosphere go up, ocean and coastal acidification become more of

Juvenile clams maturing in Brookhaven’s hatchery.

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LEGALS

734 8/16 6x tmc SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Selden Fire District will hold its regular September 25, 2018 meeting at 7 PM, time then in effect, at the main Firehouse, 44 Woodmere Place, Selden, NY on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 6 PM. Dated: September 12, 2018

Selden, New York BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS, SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT Marion Warren, Secretary 834 9/20 1x tmc NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION SUBJECT TO PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF LAND FROM THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK TO THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN AND FROM THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN TO BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES, INC. TO PROMOTE THE AVAILABILITY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR PROPERTY LOCATED IN SELDEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, at a regular meeting thereof held on September 13, 2018, duly adopted a resolution subject to permissive referendum, the purpose and effect of which is to authorize the transfer of a parcel of property more particularly

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described as follows: SCTM# 0200-393.00-03.00026.000 ADDRESS 249 Dare Road Selden, NY 11784 NOT-FOR-PROFIT Building Homes for Heroes, Inc. from the County of Suffolk to the Town of Brookhaven and subsequently from the Town of Brookhaven to Building Homes for Heroes, Inc. to promote the availability of affordable housing. The subject resolution is available for public inspection between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Brookhaven Town Clerk’s office located at One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York. Dated: September 13, 2018 At: Farmingville, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN DONNA LENT, TOWN CLERK 843 9/20 1x tmc

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Students remember 9/11 heroes

Student musicians from Middle Country Central School District’s Centereach High School and Newfield High School recently participated in two local September 11 memorial ceremonies. The students performed patriotic music to commemorate the lives lost on that day. The Centereach High School Women’s Choir, above, performed at the Centereach Fire Department under the direction of Brian Hough. On the other side of town, Newfield High School senior, Kathleen Flaccomio, center right, sang to attendees at the Selden Fire Department memorial ceremony and was joined by her music teacher, James Lowe. The District participates in annual community-wide events that serve as an opportunity for the student body, most of whom were born after the terrorist attacks, to learn about the events of that day and the sense of community and patriotism that followed.

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Town China’s recycling policy creates mountainous problem for Brookhaven It’s a rubbish time to be involved in the recycling industry. The Town of Brookhaven’s recycling plant Page A26 is grappling with unprecedented mounds of bottles, used paper goods and trash. Ever since China implemented its “National Sword” policy in January banning the import of various nonindustrial plastics, paper and other solid wastes, Brookhaven’s had a hard time selling off collected recyclable materials. As China was one of the top buyers of U.S. recyclables according to NPR, this move has left many Suffolk townships unsure what to do with their residents’ recycled garbage. “While it hasn’t stopped it, China’s new policies have significantly slowed down the ability of recyclers to move material to market,” said Christopher Andrade, commissioner of Brookhaven Town’s waste management department. “There are domestic mills and domestic markets [but] the thing is just finding them, negotiating them and moving the material.” An aerial view of Town of Brookhaven’s Green Stream Recycling plant in Yaphank is surrounded by recyclables in August. That is easier said than done, according to earlier this year, though he said the situation to Andrade. Andrade, as many recycling plants across the This crisis is not only affecting the Town of has since been brought under control. Denation now have fewer options of where to sell their collected goods. China has publicly Brookhaven, but other municipalities on Long spite these international issues, Andrade said Island which sell their col- Brookhaven remains committed to recycling. claimed the decision has to do Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine lected recyclables to Suffolk with the quality of the materi- The markets are County’s largest township. (R) “and the board believe very strongly in recyals, as low-quality newspaper print or thin PVC plastics being overwhelmed; In 2014, the Town of Smith- cling, and we’ll bounce back from this,” he said. Russell Barnett, Smithtown’s environmental town formed a five-year are not considered valuable the people taking contract with Brookhaven to protection director in the Department of enough for reuse. There’s also send 12,000 tons of garbage Environment and Waterways, said he is workthe problem of recyclables the material can be to the Green Stream facil- ing on a solution with Brookhaven, including being mixed with other, non- picky on what they ity, in return for $180,000 a regional approach comprising Smithtown, reusable garbage. In 2014, Brookhaven accept. We’re going per year. While Brookhaven Huntington, Southold and several other comcontinues to honor the agree- munities that are partnered with Brookhaven. moved from dual-stream to to have to respond Smithtown had its own dual-stream facility ments with its partnered single-stream recycling, a by being better at municipalities, the lack that was closed before it started sending its system that allows residents of market availability for materials to Brookhaven in 2014, though to put out all their recyclables only putting out the recyclables has some reopening it could be costly. in a single can to be sorted things that people “We’re assessing our equipment — seeing members of Smithtown out at the town’s facilities what’s operational, what’s not, what repairs Town Board concerned. instead of bringing out a can actually reuse.’ At a Sept. 4 work session, need to be made and what upgrades need to be different material — plastic, papers or metal — every — Russell Barnett Smithtown Supervisor Ed made if the occasion comes up that we want to Wehrheim (R) showed board go that route,” Barnett said. other week. This increased In the meantime, he said residents need to members a photo taken by a overall participation in the recycling program, Andrade said, but has led drone in May showing recyclables piled in heaps be more discriminating when it comes to decidjust outside Brookhaven’s facility. The picture ing what items to recycle. Otherwise, it will be to some confusion. The loss of the Chinese market has severely made Wehrheim and other board members ques- much harder in the future to find a buyer for the interrupted the Brookhaven-owned Green tion what might become of the town’s current re- world’s recyclable garbage. “When they talk about the standard, they’re Stream Recycling facility’s outflow. Green cycling agreement. “At one point, we’re going to come to some not just talking about nonrecyclable material Stream Recycling LLC, a company that contracts with the town and operates the town’s decision what to do with [Brookhaven Town,] but the right kind of recyclable material.” facility in Yaphank, made good use of China’s Wehrheim said. “It could be a potential problem Barnett said. “The markets are being overwhelmed; the people taking the material can be market. While the facility continues to operate ... in the short term.” Andrade said that excess dumping on the picky on what they accept. We’re going to have without a definitive answer to where else the company can move its materials, some of it facility’s land came from the “shock” of Chi- to respond by being better at only putting out is now going back into the landfill, according na’s National Sword policy being implemented the things that people can actually reuse.”

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To recycle or not: Tips on handling your trash BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Operators of the Brookhaven recycling plant deal with a lot of junk. Not the good kind of junk, however, as many household items that residents assume can be recycled can cause havoc in the machinery. In the four years since the town invested in single-stream recycling, Erich Weltsek, a recycling coordination aid for Brookhaven, said there has been increased resident participation in the recycling program. But it has also led to some residents chucking in items that have no business being recycled. “We’ve gotten chunks of concrete, and you even get sports balls — like soccer balls, footballs — constantly,” he said. “A lot of what we call ‘wish cycling,’ where people think they’re doing the right thing and when in doubt they throw it in a recycle bin instead of the right receptacle.” Weltsek said people have tried to recycle Coleman outdoor stoves and propane tanks, which is extremely dangerous and could result in an explosion at the facility. The most pervasively disruptive items are plastic bags and other items that Weltsek called “tanglers,” such as Christmas tree lights, pool liners and garden hoses. The recycling facility operates on a number of conveyor belts that first feed into a device called a star screen, a number of rotating cylinders with feet that separate recyclable fibers from other items. These items either wrap around the wheels on the conveyor belt or star screen, either letting fibers through the wrong end or stopping the machine entirely. Suffolk residents should clean out any plastic bottles or cans before putting them in the recycling. Any low-quality paper products, including newspapers or grease-stained cardboard such as used pizza boxes, should not be recycled because they affect the sellable quality of the entire recycling bundle. Andrade said all plastic bags should be recycled at a local supermarket, which are mandated by New York State law to have a receptacle for all shopping bags. The plant often has to turn away other nonrecyclable material, such as plastic utensils, bottle caps and Styrofoam. All of these are considered contaminants, either because they cannot be recycled properly, or they dilute the quality of the material.

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

LI faces a heap of trash issues

When I was 18, I registered as a Republican. Back then you could be Republican and still care about people who didn’t look like you, share your religion, or come from your background. That’s not the case anymore. It was hard for me to realize the party had come to represent something very different from what I signed on for. Harder still to admit I’d trusted the wrong people and disassociate myself from something that was part of my identity. But when I see what’s happened to “my” party today, I’m horrified. “My” party watched first-graders get massacred, and instead of doing anything constructive, offered “thoughts and prayers” and helped the NRA sell more guns. They allowed one deranged lunatic after another to lawfully purchase guns or take their parents’ guns, and refused to enact commonsense restrictions as most Americans want. Every few weeks, there’s another mass shooting that the GOP sweeps under the rug.

Editorial

When done drinking a bottled water or soda, we usually make a conscious effort to get it into a recycling bin. No further thought given, our good deed is done. We’ve recycled the plastic bottle rather than throwing it out to sit in a landfill. The photos released that clearly show the Town of Brookhaven’s Green Stream Recycling facility was nearly buried in mountains of collected recyclables from the residents of Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington townships this August are shocking. It should serve as an alarming wake-up call. This is a direct result of China implementing its National Sword policy to ban the import of recycled plastics. The visual impact of recyclables piling up like trash, and learning some items are now being sent to the landfill, have led us to the conclusion this is an issue that requires careful thought and attention. We, and we’re sure many of our readers, have lived with the presumption our recycled plastic bottles, aluminum cans and used paper were sorted, cleaned and reformed into reusable materials locally. However, we were blissfully unaware that China imported nearly half of the world’s recyclables to turn into raw goods through its manufacturing economy. Now, with changing international trade policy, shipping our recyclables — or honestly, still household garbage — halfway around the world is no longer an option. Suffolk County’s townships are struggling to figure out a new way to handle the piles of debris. Finding a new market for these recycled raw materials will pose an obvious challenge. Striking a balance of recycling items beneficial from a fiscal and economic viewpoint while weighing environmental impact is a challenge on the horizon as well. One of Brookhaven’s recycling staff suggested Suffolk residents need to be more discerning. Get back to the basics of checking plastic bottles for a number inside a triangular arrow on the bottom and rinse all containers out first. It will help improve the value of the recycled material we are trying to sell in a drastically reduced global market. It’s a good first step. But we need take it one step further. The most direct way we, as individuals, can help provide a solution to the problem is to cut back on our dependency on onetime use items. It’s been said for years, but we truly need to start regularly grabbing a refillable water bottle rather than a disposable. Think about taking up the “hipster” trend of using Mason jars to store food. Go back to old-fashioned, but traditional Pyrex to store leftovers instead of limited-use thin plastic containers. These small changes may seem hard at first, but we have proof it’s possible. Sure, every Suffolk resident balked at the idea of paying 5 cents for a plastic bag at retail stores when the policy was implemented in January. In less than a year, it’s seemed to have had a dramatic effect in changing behaviors. Many shoppers now simply carry their own reusable canvas and plastic bags. Permanent change is necessary if we don’t want to be buried up to our necks in trash on Long Island. Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) has predicted a “garbage crisis” within the next seven to eight years as Brookhaven looks to close its landfill. Let’s be part of the solution, and not the problem. Let’s focus on using reusable products, not recyclable or disposable. Letters … We welcome your letters. They should be no longer than 400 words and may be edited for length, libel, style and good taste. We do not publish anonymous letters. Please include a phone number and address for confirmation. Email letters to rita@tbrnewsmedia.com or mail them to The Times of Middle Country, P.O. Box 707, Setauket, NY 11733.

‘My’ party left me behind I’ve watched “my” party refuse LGBTQ people basic rights. “My” party has intentionally stripped away environmental regulations meant to protect us from getting cancer, lung diseases and other health problems so big businesses can cut costs. These politicians risk our lives because those businesses and the NRA bribe them via big campaign contributions. Suffolk County has elevated cancer rates (“cancer clusters”), which isn’t shocking considering we have 16 locations so contaminated by toxic waste that the EPA has designated them federal Superfund sites. Did you know the groundwater is still contaminated in more than a mile-long plume from the former Lawrence Aviation Industries in Port Jefferson Station? “My” party — and U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin particularly — couldn’t care less. Lobbyists pay them to keep quiet about how they’re killing our Island.

Trump must be impeached

It is astounding to note how often President Donald Trump attacks people who criticize him — whether directly, indirectly, openly or anonymously — such as the person who sent a highly critical note about Trump to The New York Times recently. The president regards most of those who criticize him as traitors. Apparently, he does not feel that he himself says and writes words that tend, most of the time, to offend the soul of America, unreasonably and treasonably. For example, when Obama was president, Trump made false, absurd comments about him — absurdly stating that Obama had not been born in America. Why did he do that? I believe Trump was stirred by private, ugly, ignorant racist feelings. (He has also, over the past couple of years, made a variety of anti-Latino remarks.)

Furthermore, his defense, after the Charlottesville incident, of some neo-Nazis and KKK members involved in that incident, was shocking. Why? Because the Nazi and racist demonstrations and vicious actions — including a killing — were nothing less than a tremendous insult to America. Since 2016, Trump has frequently, strongly — and often bizarrely — aimed unpleasant language at a wide variety of individuals, races, groups, nations, etc. Re-examining his behavior and utterances since 2016, we can easily conclude that he is an immensely dangerous and detestable person who is degrading the fine image of the presidency — and our country — day in and day out. He strongly, and often unintelligently and irrationally, blasts those whom he does not like. Obviously, prior

We have a president who cozies up to murderous dictators, threatens nuclear war and alienates our allies, and our congressman smiles about it while pretending to care about us. Zeldin voted against environmental protections in 91 percent of all bills in 2017, is bought by the NRA and votes in lockstep with Trump trying to remove health insurance from people like me who pay for coverage through the Affordable Care Act. He’s disastrous for anyone who cares about their health, children’s safety or equality. I’m relieved that the 1st Congressional District has a strong candidate now who is compassionate, intelligent and committed to getting our country back on its axis, and I hope that in November a slew of other “former Republicans” will join me in voting for the Democrat, Perry Gershon. Jennifer Brooks Stony Brook

to uttering or scribbling words, he never thinks about the destructive effect that his words will produce. Most of his acts have begun to degrade the office of the president. What a shameful, immature human being. His objectionable statements and deeds have insulted many people and even many of our allied nations, and he has thus irreverently soiled the grand image of our beloved country. Trump must be impeached. Hopefully, he will be found guilty and be removed from office before he destroys our country. He is not fit at all, in any way, to be the president of the United States. He is the most embarrassing, destructive, ignorant, selfish man ever to occupy the highest office of our great nation. God save our country. Elio Zappulla Stony Brook

Sticking up for community news We moved to Miller Place 18 years ago and one of the first things we did was get a subscription to the Times Beacon Record [part of TBR News Media group]. During the years it has been a source of information, education and entertainment

from and about our local community, state and nation. Contrary to the harangue of our current president, the press is not the enemy of the people, but the voice of the people. We rely on you to ask the questions we cannot ask, and to investigate the

issues that can affect our daily lives. The Times Beacon Record is a great paper and I want to thank you for your journalistic service to our communities. Dee Hensen Miller Place

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September 20, 2018 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • PAGE A23

Opinion

Appreciating everybody’s support during Hurricane Florence

he emails, text messages and calls came from all over the country. In the days leading up to Hurricane Florence’s arrival in North Carolina, friends and family shared good wishes for my family, who had moved to the Tar Heel State during the summer. Preparing for the storm, we were under the impression that we were leaving the typical path of hurricanes D. None when we moved this far west to of the above Charlotte, which BY DANIEL DUNAIEF is more than 200 miles from the coast. As the tone and urgency to prepare for the hurricane from meteorologists and politicians

reached a peak, people lined up outside supermarkets, waiting to park their cars and navigate their overﬂowing carts through crowded aisles for their list of must-haves. Clearly, water and bread were on every list, as the shelves at the 24-hour supermarket didn’t have a drop of bottled water. The only remaining bread was a cranberry concoction that sat on an otherwise bare shelf, examined closely perhaps by a desperate shopper and discarded at a rakish angle, a lone bread crumb telling the tale of the hurricane hurry. Gas stations brought the same crowds, as drivers were as anxious as they would be on Long Island to gather fuel before trucks might be delayed and gas lines could grow. People often referred to 1989, when Hurricane Hugo ripped through Charlotte. Two days before the hurricane reached the area, the public schools closed despite the clear skies and the relatively calm winds. Several of the schools transformed into shelters for residents of the city and for those ﬂeeing from

points further east. The day before the storm, a local bank teller told me about a nearby store that received a new water shipment. The parking lot for this rare find was as empty as the shelves were full of fresh water. On the day of the hurricane, the forecast for the area called for squalls and heavy rains through much of the day. We stared outside, judging how far the trees bent over and how hard the sheets of rain were blown into our windows. Did we dare go out, especially when we didn’t know areas of local flooding all that well? I called the local bagel store, where the man who answered the phone said the store planned to remain open through the afternoon. We looked at trees that provide shade for us in a typical day and are homes for all manner of songbirds to see if we could figure out which of our arboreal friends were the most dangerous — and vulnerable — in the storm. Eager to get fresh food and to leave the house before it was impossible, we drove around a few

downed branches to the store, where we made the mistake of shopping when we were hungry and in provision mode. When our teenage children awoke, we triumphantly presented the food. They seemed mildly impressed. We still had electricity until Sunday afternoon, up until the time when we learned that schools would be closed for another day, as trees were removed from the area and power companies restored energy. The calls and emails from outside the state continued to come in, as supportive friends continued to check to see how we were doing. Even as other areas of the state dealt with unprecedented ﬂooding, strong winds and tornadoes, we considered ourselves fortunate only to have lost a few trees and power for a day. As with the response to Hurricane Sandy, our new neighbors in Charlotte offered advice. We may have moved to a fresh environment, but we were heartened by the support from up close and afar in the face of nature’s fury.

Once again, modern medicine surprises us

t is disconcerting when the medical community reverses course. They seem to do that every decade or so, as with the purported value of vitamin C, estrogen and so forth. The latest about face, in case you haven’t yet heard, is on the matter of taking baby aspirin. For years we have been urged to take a baby aspirin each day to ward off all sorts of ills: heart attacks, Between strokes, dementia, you and me colorectal cancers BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF and who knows what else. Those tiny pills that can dissolve in seconds against the roof of one’s mouth, or be popped into it, seemed capable of miracles. Now, with a shot heard truly around the

world, an Australian research team at Monash University in Melbourne concluded that not only may aspirin not help, it may in some cases actually harm. The results of their study, which included more than 19,000 people over 4.7 years, were published in three articles this past Sunday in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and summarized by The New York Times on Monday, and by just about all other major media. The study included whites 70 and older, and blacks and Hispanics 65 and older. Each took 100 milligrams — slightly more than the 81 milligrams of a baby aspirin — or a placebo each day. While doing so did not lower their risks of diseases, it did increase “the risk of signiﬁcant bleeding in the digestive tract, brain or other sites that required transfusions or admission to the hospital,” according to The Times. So what does all that mean, especially for those already at risk for the conditions aspirin was supposed to protect against? I am going to quote from The Times very carefully here because this can get confusing

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due to mixed messages. “Although there is good evidence that aspirin can help people who have already had heart attacks or strokes, or who have a high risk that they will occur, the drug’s value is actually not so clear for people with less risk, especially older ones,” wrote reporter Denise Grady. So can aspirin prevent cardiovascular events in people with diabetes, for example, or is the benefit outweighed by the risk of major bleeding? Does dose matter in that heavier people might require more aspirin to be prophylactive? Here’s what the study tells us: Healthy older people should not begin taking aspirin. This will no doubt disappoint Bayer, St. Joseph and others who manufacture the drug. But those who have already been using it regularly should not quit based on these findings, according to Dr. John McNeil, leader of the Australian study. Rather they should talk with their doctors first because the new findings do not apply to those who have already had heart attacks or strokes, which involve blood clots. Aspirin is known to inhibit clotting.

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The name of this study is Aspree and it was funded by the National Institute on Aging, along with the National Cancer Institute, Monash University and the Australian government. Bayer supplied the aspirin and placebos but had no other role, according to The Times. The study focuses on preventive medicine, especially how to keep older people healthy longer. It included 16,703 people from Australia and 2,411 from the United States, starting in 2010. Serious bleeding occurred in 3.8 percent of the aspirin group as opposed to 2.7 percent in the placebo group. McNeil does suggest the possibility that aspirin’s protective effect against colorectal cancers might still exist but not show up for a longer time span than the study. The Times article does go on to say that the good doctor, who is 71 and specializes in epidemiology and preventive medicine, does not himself take aspirin. Don’t know what to do? As they say in the commercials, consult your doctor.

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Sports BILL LANDON

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Centereach High School hosted the William Floyd Colonials varsity field hockey team Sept. 15 with the Cougars beating the Colonials 6-1. Pictured clockwise from top left, Centereach senior captain Sophie Alois fires upfield; Centereach senior Caroline McParland puts the ball in play; Centereach junior Jacklyn

Goldstein settles the ball midﬁeld; Centereach sophomore Reilly Schmidt dribbles around a defender; Centereach junior Josephine Shea passes the ball clear of a Floyd defender; Centereach senior captain Sophie Alois air dribbles upﬁeld; and sophomore Alexis Mazza air dribbles the ball.