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August 19, 2021

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Looking to the future

State legislators share their thoughts on Hochul

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Local Color heads to Gallery North Also: LIM reopens with three new exhibits, Greek Festival returns to Port Jefferson

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At the White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 15, 136 incoming students to the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University took their Hippocratic Oath for the first time.

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Medical school welcomes future MDs with ceremony

The Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University welcomed its incoming 2021 class at the annual White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 15. A total of 136 students for the first time donned their white coats and took the Hippocratic Oath at a ceremony in the Staller Center. They begin their medical training during a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the school.

Dr. William Wertheim, interim dean, cited the students as a unique and talented incoming class entering medicine at a challenging and

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changing time in the profession. He emphasized professionalism and compassion for patients as two of the leading areas they will need to develop and build on in their medical school training years.

A large portion of the class hails from New York State (69%), yet many students are from all over including 13 other U.S. states and five countries. They are among a select group, as the school received more than 5,800 applications for a position in the class.

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Treglia’s honor came from her standout showing in the 100-yard backstroke. She produced a time of 55.45 seconds at the county championships — the top public-school time in the state and second overall during the 2020-21 academic year.

Treglia won her first two county titles this past season — in the 100 fly and 100 backstroke. She said she was proud to represent Smithtown on the All-America list, which comprises the top prep swimmers in the nation.

“It definitely means a lot to be top 100 in the country,” Treglia said. “I’m very proud of that.”

Treglia said her best event a couple of years ago had been the 100 fly, but she worked diligently the past year at the 100 backstroke and now labels that her best event.

“I’ve worked very hard in the 100 back the last

Leah Treglia was recently named National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association girls high school swimming All-American.

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Long Island

SBU’s Gobler and Jang create water quality app for Long Island

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University’s Christopher Gobler, endowed chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation, and Sung-Gheel Jang, faculty director in the Geospatial Center at Stony Brook University, have created a free app that provides information on water quality on Long Island.

Through the downloadable Long Island Beach and Water Quality App, also known as LIBAWQA, residents can gather information that can connect to a person’s location, indicating the health and safety of beaches, bays, estuaries or waterways near them.

Gobler’s lab provides the water quality data, which comes from measures they make in 30 locations from East Hampton to Hempstead.

The New York State Department of Health provides updates on about 200 beaches across the Island, while the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation offers shellfishing data for more than 500,000 acres of bays, harbors and estuaries.

Jang, whose expertise is in the mapping related to geographic information systems, or GIS, helped build a service he targeted for the general public.

Instead of calling the county to find out if their favorite summer destination is open, residents can “use the app and you will know the current water quality,” Jang said.

Shellfishing and bathing restrictions use

A screenshot of the app created by Christopher Gobler and Sung-Gheel Jung of Stony Book University.

different criteria to determine the safety of swimming or pulling up clams and other shellfish.

“This is the beauty of the app,” Gobler said. One day last week, he noticed that a site in Center Moriches allowed swimming but not shellfishing. “The beach right next to it” allows shellfishing. “Which one would you rather go to?”

The app, which is available by installing ArcGIS AppStudio Player from Google Play, the App Store or the Microsoft Store and using a QR code on a camera, can show the health history of a beach.

While the system, which Gobler described as being in “version 1.0” doesn’t have text alerts, it does provide real-time information.

Users can track their location on the

map in the app, checking on the shellfish or bathing status of nearby waterways.

The idea for this app came about a couple of years ago when Jang visited Gobler’s lab and the two Stony Brook researchers talked about collaborating.

“I was impressed by [Gobler’s] work,” Jang said. “His lab collected water quality data for many, many years.”

Jang suggested creating an easy-to-use mobile app. Gobler wanted to add other information beyond the water quality data his lab collected regularly.

Gobler and Jang expect to modify and enhance the information by next summer, when it could include a crowdsourcing opportunity, in which participants share updated information, including limitations on parking or beach closures.

Gobler and Jang said they would need to provide a filter before posting information to ensure it contains quality data.

The service isn’t available in the Google or Apple app stores yet.

“By next summer we hope we can release a new version,” Jang added. “We wanted to show we have a working app first.”

Scientists of any age, from primary school through postdoctoral researchers, can use the information for their own research papers or studies, Jang said.

Anyone who is interested in accessing and using the data for their own research projects can contact Jang through his email at sunggheel.jang@stonybrook.edu.

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Village

More than three dozen community members rally to support Pentimento

BY KIMBERLY BROWN KIMBERLY@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Residents gathered outside Pentimento on Sunday to show support for the restaurant, which is set to close its doors on Sept. 30.

The business has been a staple in Stony Brook Village Center for 27 years.

Standing at the entrance of the restaurant with pizza boxes, cardboard strips and homemade picket signs reading “Save Penti!” and “Good Neighbors Deserve Better Treatment!” a few dozen locals made sure to exhibit their concerns for the struggling business.

“I loved watching them grow,” said Sharon Goetchius, of Stony Brook. “It is such a warm place, and the food is amazing. It’s got everything, and the way this is all going down is really unfortunate.”

On July 29, Pentimento posted on its Facebook page that it was unable to extend the term of its lease.

Disappointed that Eagle Realty Holdings didn’t negotiate a new lease for the longstanding restaurant, locals are hoping to garner support throughout the community, making sure their voices are heard and the restaurant stays.

“They should turn this around and extend

Residents rally in front of Pentimento Sunday. Photo by Kimberly Brown

their lease, that is the ethically right thing to do,” Goetchius said.

“Because of all the COVID madness, the renewing of the lease kind of slipped through the cracks, although they always intended

to renew.” said Lisa Blake, of St. James.

“Rather than extending some kindness and neighborliness, the landlord is saying, ‘No, you missed that little window, so you’re out of here.’”

According to Gloria Rocchio, president of Eagle Realty Holdings, along with not renewing the lease in time, the business also failed to comply with the maintenance of its septic system. However, Chelsea Gomez, a former employee of 15 years at Pentimento, said she highly disagrees with this statement.

“I have firsthand knowledge of how often we had to pump the septic system, so I know that the owners were doing everything they could to maintain it,” Gomez said. “This is not a case of neglect or that they didn’t want to spend the money to fix it. They’ve always done everything they can to maintain not only the septic system but everything about this restaurant, too.”

Loyal customers reflected on their fond memories of Pentimento Restaurant, from celebrating weddings, anniversaries, birthdays to just a simple night out to dinner — it seems the business has played a part in every customer’s life.

“I’ve come here throughout my childhood, and it’s such an integral part of the community that I don’t want it to go away,” said Julia Lopinto, a Setauket resident. “It’s a quaint, homey place that has strong roots in this community, and us being here today is evidence of how willing we are to defend it.”

WMHO president, restaurant manager respond to residents’ cries

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Residents who have banded together to save Pentimento Restaurant in Stony Brook Village Center, before taking to the village streets Sunday to protest, started a Facebook page and petition earlier this month.

The petition on Change.org, started by Patricia Kirchner, has received almost 3,300 signatures as of Aug. 18. It states that the restaurant has been refused a lease renewal by The Ward Melville Heritage Organization.

Eagle Realty Holdings is the owner of the Stony Brook Village Center storefronts, which selects tenants, collects rent and maintains the shopping center property. Net proceeds are distributed to WMHO. According to Gloria Rocchio, president of Eagle Realty Holdings and WMHO, the realty company pays more than $725,000 in real estate taxes a year.

Rocchio added the WMHO board of trustees are non-salaried volunteers.

On the Save Pentimento Facebook page, which has more than 400 followers, the administrators have requested that, in addition to members calling and emailing WMHO’s office and Rocchio, they also contact trustees and have

listed the board members’ phone numbers and email addresses.

In a phone interview Aug. 16, Rocchio said she believes many community members are acting on misinformation.

“They don’t have all the facts,” she said.

“They only have one side of the story.”

Rocchio added that it’s not standard protocol to discuss where a tenant stands as far as a lease, rent or any other interactions between the landlord and business.

Earlier this month, Pentimento owner Dennis Young told TBR News Media that last year he was required to request an extension of the lease, which expires at the end of September. He said while trying to keep the restaurant afloat during the pandemic, renewing slipped his mind.

While Young is thinking about retiring in the near future, he said friends were interested in buying the business and keeping Pentimento as it is.

Rocchio said in addition to not providing notice of an interest to renew the lease last year, the tenant failed “to comply with the requirement to maintain the septic system” which is described in the lease. She added the new owners that were recommended by Young were interviewed as well as other candidates.

Julia Lopinto, of Setauket, shows support for Pentimento Sunday. Photo by Kimberly Brown

Young said he has maintained the property during his 27 years of ownership.

Restaurant manager Lisa Cusumano in a phone interview said she and Young have not

been part of any of the planning of the petition or the rally and have been too busy running the business to keep up with the comments on the Save Pentimento Facebook page.

“The community is taking it in their own hands, and it has a life of its own,” she said.

In an Aug. 6 post to the Pentimento Restaurant Facebook page, residents were asked to remember that the business isn’t a separate entity but is part of Stony Brook Village Center.

Patrons were encouraged to support all the businesses in the shopping center.

“The community outpouring has been overwhelming and it’s touching, but we don’t want people to go against the village center because that’s our home, and they’re all our neighbors — those businesses are just like us,” Cusumano said.

Not only have Young and her been overwhelmed by the community’s response via social media and the Aug. 15 rally, they said customers come in every day asking why they are closing.

“There isn’t a customer that does not walk in our restaurant every day and says, ‘What is going on, why is this happening?’” Cusumano said.

According to Rocchio, no final decision has been made as far as a future tenant.

Government

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State legislators weigh in on new governor, Kathy Hochul

State Assemblyman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-St. James) said in a phone interview he has met her a few times and said she is a nice person who he After Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced believes is capable of doing the job ahead of her. his resignation last week, Lt. Gov. Kathy Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) Hochul (D) began to draw up plans to take described her as a hard worker who is warm and over the role. Her first day in the governor’s open to learning about what people think. He chair will be Aug. 24. said in a phone interview that She was selected by while he has never had any policy interaction with her, he Cuomo as his running mate has met her. as lieutenant governor Both assemblymen in the 2014 New York said that Cuomo kept gubernatorial election.

Hochul on the outside Hochul, who began her during his tenure. Despite career as an attorney, had the soon-to-be former served as a member of the governor not providing Hamburg Town Board from her with opportunities to 1994 to 2007, Erie County demonstrate what she’s clerk from 2007 to 2011 and capable of, Englebright said was congresswoman in the he believes she has always state’s 26th District from known to be prepared to 2011 to 2013. take on the position because State senators and she knew it was one of her assemblymen in Suffolk responsibilities.

County filled in TBR Gaughran and EngleNews Media on what they know about the first female —Sen. Jim Gaughran bright commended Hochul on getting out into the governor. state to familiarize herself State Sen. Jim Gaughran with constituents’ issues.

(D-Northport) in an email Gaughran said he was confidescribed her as “competent, experienced and absolutely ready to lead dent that New Yorkers would like her.

“She has spent the past few years as New York State forward.” Freshman senator, Mario Mattera (R-St. James), wrote in an lieutenant governor traveling the state and email that he only had the opportunity to has tremendous knowledge about Long meet her briefly in the past but found her to Island’s needs,” Gaughran wrote. “She has experience at every level of government — be “cordial and approachable.”

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

‘She has spent the past few years as lieutenant governor traveling the state and has tremendous knowledge about Long Island’s needs.’

As lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has traveled all over New York, including Long Island. Above, Hochul at a press conference in Port Washington. Below, Hochul visited Stony Brook University’s Center of Molecular Medicine to discuss energy efficiency improvements in 2019. Above photo from Hochuls’s office; below file photo by David Luces

from local to state to federal — and will be administration, and I am sure the residents able on day one to continue leading New York of New York will be keeping a keen eye on through the pandemic and the challenges how she handles the last portion of Governor posed by the Delta variant, as well as heal Cuomo’s term,” he said.

New York from this dark moment in history.”

Englebright agreed she will be tested.

Englebright echoed the sentiments.

“But this is not her first rodeo,” he said.

“She knows New York and has traveled to “She’s experienced so I think the state will every county in the be in good hands.” state as basically an Gaughran and envoy of the executive Englebright, who both chamber of goodwill,” believe she has a good Englebright said, addchance of winning in ing her good listening 2022, said if they were skills she demonstrated to give her advice they during these trips will would tell her how be an asset in the role.

—Assemblyman Steve important it is to have Fitzpatrick said he a good and cooperative Englebright relationship with the believes Hochul has a hard time ahead though. state Legislature.

“I think Governor Something they felt Hochul not only has a Cuomo didn’t have. tough job, but I think she has a very difficult Mattera echoed the sentiment. path to the nomination,” he said.

“There is a wealth of knowledge in the He added she will need to satisfy those Senate and Assembly members since they who are progressives in the Democratic closely represent those they serve in their Party while also pleasing moderates. respective districts,” Mattera said. “That can “She’s in a difficult position,” he said. help our state move forward following this Mattera agreed. year’s crisis and the ongoing controversy “She has a lot of work to do to overcome surrounding Governor Cuomo and his the issues that derailed the Cuomo administration.”

‘She’s experienced so I think the state will be in good hands.’

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Sports

Team USA Softball coach reflects on mental health, COVID Olympics

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

“There was no release of stress to go out and just relax,” Eriksen said. “Elite athletes need that pressure release and coaches need it.”

Indeed, in addition to restrictions placed on the team, the athletes regularly heard from Japanese citizens who were upset that the Olympics even took place.

“Everywhere we went, we heard protests,” Eriksen said. “It’s unnerving. You’re there in allegedly the greatest athletic event in the world and in the host country, they don’t want you. When you’re hearing voices coming over megaphones behind a police line, it’s not normal.”

To counterbalance the stress and help the team, Eriksen said he slackened the reins, giving his players the green light to get “goofy.”

Led by infielder Valerie Arioto, 32, the team danced on the bus. Arioto did the “greatest rendition of Cher” and Kelly Clarkson, Eriksen said. The head coach also allowed the team to listen to music while practicing, giving them a chance to blow off steam while preparing for upcoming games.

Some days, you win a close race against the best in the world by a fingernail, the way Michael Phelps did in 2008 in the 100-meter butterfly.

Other days, your team, after thousands of hours of practice, working hard, watching video and dancing on a bus — more on this later — you lose by that same margin.

That’s how Team USA Softball’s coach Ken Eriksen, who contributed his last volunteer hour to traveling around the world on behalf of the country, felt after losing 2-0 to Japan in the gold medal game at the Tokyo Olympics.

“The difference between gold or silver is almost microscopic,” Eriksen said. “Japan had a good day.”

A turning point in the gold medal game came in the bottom of the sixth inning when American third-basemen Amanda Chidester lined a ball that hit off her counterpart at third base and into the shortstop’s mitt, who threw to second base to get a double play, ending a Mental health potential American rally from a 2-0 deficit.

Eriksen said the softball team had already “When that play occurred, that’s the first focused on the mental health aspects of the time in the game that I said, ‘This may not be game, which gymnast Simone Biles brought to our day,’” Eriksen, a 1979 graduate of Ward the world’s attention when she withdrew from Melville High School said.

The head coach was pleased with the the team and several individual events.

“We’ve been ahead of the curve on this preparation and effort from a for three or four years,” team of 15 players, including Eriksen said. pitching legends Cat While people talk about Osterman and Monica Abbott, softball and baseball as games who returned for one more of failure because a batter is chance at an Olympic medal. considered successful if he or “I thought we played she gets on base once in three a very good tournament,” tries, Eriksen said the softball Eriksen said from Tampa, team describes the experience Florida, where he has been the as a “game of opportunity,” University of South Florida by defining successes in ways head softball coach for the last other than batting averages.

24 years.

—Ken Eriksen Eriksen is grateful to Biles Outside the lines, and Japanese tennis player the Olympics presented Naomi Osaka, who withdrew numerous challenges. Even from Wimbledon rather than on their way to the Olympics, it was clear this would be a unique experience, face questions from the media, for raising the as the only people on the flight to Japan were issue of mental health for athletes.

“People think of athletes as having ice in either athletes or the military.

Once in the country, they had numerous their veins,” he said. “They are human beings.

The pressure on anybody that wears a U.S. restrictions as a result of the Delta variant.

“The Japanese wouldn’t let you do much,” uniform … is almost unfair.”

The rest of the world has improved in Eriksen said.

The team and coaches went to the ballpark numerous sports, including softball, in part and spent much of their time at the hotel. They because American coaches have helped train couldn’t go outside and socialize with other them, Eriksen added. Through the Olympics, athletes. Inside the village, they had to put on American players compete against their college roommates or coaches who worked with them their masks everywhere.

Each morning, the players and coaches had earlier in their careers.

After the gold medal game ended in a COVID saliva test, which built anxiety as the team waited for results in the afternoon. heartbreak for players who put everything

‘People think of athletes as having ice in their veins.

They are human beings.’

Coach Ken Eriksen with members of Team USA Softball team during a pre-Olympic games practice. Photo by Jade Hewitt from USA Softball

they had into the game, Eriksen said he shared a few words with the team.

“This game will not be the toughest they’ll ever play,” he recalled. “The toughest game will start tomorrow: the rest of their life.”

He encouraged players to call him for any future support.

Having been an assistant coach with the gold-medal winning team in Athens in 2004, Eriksen recognized that the game fades quickly.

“Within five minutes, you have the realization that it’s over and the climb is the most exhilarating part,” he said.

Eriksen was pleased to have the support and leadership of 38-year-old Osterman and 36-year-old Abbott, who served as inspirations to their teammates. He described the two pitchers as the Nolan Ryans of their era.

“What God gave these people is absolutely rare,” Eriksen said, as they have maintained their athleticism well into their 30s.

Accumulated wisdom

After all his years on the diamond, first as a baseball player at Ward Melville and in college at USF, and then as a coach, Eriksen shared a few thoughts.

When he was hired, his athletic director at USF told him never to get in a conversation

with parents because he’ll always lose. Twice in his career, he removed players from the team because their parents questioned him about playing time.

As for being around men’s and women’s teams, he suggested a difference among athletes of each gender.

“Women have to feel good to play good, men have to play good to feel good,” he said.

In his coaching career, he recalled one moment that mirrored a scene from the Kurt Russell movie “Miracle,” in which the actor played Coach Herb Brooks from the 1980 ice hockey team that defeated the Russians amid the Cold War in Lake Placid.

Before tryouts ended, Russell gave a stunned Olympic hockey league director his list of players.

In 2019, Eriksen said he, too, handed the Olympic softball league director a list of the 15 players who would be on the team before tryouts ended.

Eriksen said he is comforted by his decision to retire from coaching Team USA. “If I never get on an airplane again, I’ll be okay,” he said. “Sometimes, it’s good to wake up in your own bed, drink coffee on the back porch and listen to the birds.

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State

Hazy sky brings murky future

BY KIMBERLY BROWN KIMBERLY@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Looking out the window on a sunny day, one might notice a not-so-subtle haziness in the sky.

However, that haze isn’t harmless clouds or fog, it’s smoke that’s traveled a far distance across the nation from raging wildfires in California and Canada.

As concerns grow over the impact of these wildfires stretching their way over to the East Coast, Long Islanders are beginning to become uneasy about the repercussions the hazy smoke might have among residents.

With multiple reports of poor air quality in the past few weeks, people who have vulnerable conditions such as asthma, emphysema, or heart disease need to be wary and avoid going outside or doing strenuous activity.

“There is something called fine particulate matter, which is very small ash,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment. “The cause of concern is that this is the type of material that causes respiratory ailments. It irritates the throat and respiratory system, but most importantly fine particulate matter can lodge in

your lungs and make microscopic perforations, much like asbestos.”

According to Esposito, It is highly likely the ash will also be deposited into Long Island’s estuary and could affect the marine environment. However, it is uncertain exactly how much will accumulate due to the variables of wind speed and the amount of ash that will be pushed toward the Island.

“The East Coast should absolutely have an increased concern of weather events associated with climate change,” she added. “What we are having right now is an increase of torrential rain, and an increase in intensification of storms which means that hurricanes that might normally be a Category 1 [the lowest] now have the ability to reach 2, 3, or 4.” Esposito said.

Although air pollution issues are nothing new to New York, there are always certain times of the year, particularly in the summertime, that fine particulate matter can get trapped. The question of the future frequency of surrounding wildfires still stands.

While Long Island is experiencing a rainy season, California is currently facing one of the worst droughts in history. Within a two-year period, rain and snow totals in parts of the West

have been 50 percent less than average.

“Just because Long Island is having a really wet season right now doesn’t mean it couldn’t shift later this year,” said Kevin Reed, a Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences researcher.

According to Reed, the winds that blow from out West don’t always streamline toward the East Coast. Direction in wind patterns could cause the air flow to “wobble,” so it is uncertain whether or not Long Island may face more smoke pollution in the future.

“Drought is certainly becoming more severe, potentially longer lasting, and at a larger extent, which means larger parts of land will be susceptible to wildfire,” Reed said.

Adding that wildfires are typically a natural occurrence and benefits land by replenishing it, Reed said the extent of the current wildfires is most likely a result of climate change and has potential to harm people and the environment.

“Air pollution could really affect our human health, especially to certain groups that are more susceptible to issues with air quality,” he said.

“Even if it’s here for one day it could have an impact and of course the impact is going to be multiplied if it’s a longer-term event.”

Kevin Reed. Photo from Stony Brook University

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Help Wanted $18.50 NYC, $17 L.I. UP TO $13.50 UPSTATE NY! If you need care from your relative, friend/ neighbor and you have Medicaid, they may be eligible to start taking care of you as personal assistant under NYS Medi c a i d C D PA P r o g r a m . N o Certificates needed.

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YOUR CBD STORE is looking for a P/T Guest Experience Supervisor position. Call 631-828-3877 and SEE OUR DISPLAY AD FOR MORE INFO.

Help Wanted LABORERS/HELPERS for construction company, year round, drivers license required, benefits, South Shore 516-458-7328.

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC year round, heated shop, own tools, drivers license required, benefits, South Shore 516-458-7328.

RIVERHEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT has the following positions available, school lunch monitors, special education aides, school bus drivers, substitute custodial workers, substitute special education aides & computer aides, substitute office assistants SEE THEIR DISPLAY AD FOR MORE INFORMATION.

• Initiate and create posts, announcements, flyers, and promotional materials based on content provided by ministry teams • Sort mail, send church-wide emails, monitor general voicemail The Church Administrative Assistant should be friendly and professional in all interactions and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information. Church experience a plus. Self-starter desired. All duties should be performed timely, efficiently and largely independently.

The Administrative Assistant should be confident using Microsoft Office 365 and Google Docs, Sheets and Forms as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and MailChimp.

Position includes 2 weeks paid vacation. Salary details to be discussed during interview process.   ©40340

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT POSITION wanted for United Methodist and First United Churches. SEE DISPLAY AD FOR MORE INFORMATION. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TBR News Media, a north shore multi media community news organization is seeking a full time sales professional. Call Ad Director at 631-751-7744. SEE DISPLAY AD FOR MORE INFORMATION

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• Bus Driver, permanent $25.00/hour and substitute $20.25/hour; valid and clean NYS Driver’s License, CDL Class B preferred will train, benefits available for permanent employees • Substitute Custodial Workers; clean school buildings, able to lift up to 50 pounds $17.50/hour • Substitute Special Education Aides & Computer Lab Aides; assist students in various settings $15.00/hour • Substitute Office Assistants; answer phones and perform clerical duties $17.50/hour Requirements: High School Diploma, NYSED Fingerprint Clearance, Spanish Speaking Preferred.

Send letters of interest to Arlene Durkalski, Director of Personnel, 700 Osborn Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901, e-mail: arlene.durkalski@riverhead.net, 631.369.7157 Equal Opportunity Employer

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• Special Education Aides; assist students in various settings, $15.31/hour benefits available

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• Lunch Monitors; supervise elementary students during lunch and recess $15.25/hour

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PUBLISHER’S EMPLOYMENT NOTICE: All employment advertising in this newspaper is subject to section 296 of the human rights law which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, disability, marital status, sex, age or arrest conviction record or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Title 29, U.S. Code Chap 630, excludes the Federal Gov’t. from the age discrimination provisions. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for employment which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that employment offerings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Job Title: Administrative Assistant – shared between North Shore United Methodist Church (Wading River, NY) and First United Methodist Church (Port Jefferson, NY) Reports to: Pastor and SPR team leaders  Contractor Hours: Minimum of twenty (20) hours/week. Schedule flexible/to be determined with Pastor Summary: The Administrative Assistant provides general office support services to the Pastor and the churches’ committees and Trustees. Responsibilities will ensure the smooth daily operation of both churches, with additional tasks as needed. Alternate as necessary with at least one day per week in each church office.

Principal Duties and Tasks: • Prepare weekly worship bulletins and PowerPoints, also for special church services, weddings, funerals, etc.

• Email Pastor’s weekly message & announcements via MailChimp • Create a robust presence for our churches on social media

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All inquiries with a resume email to addirector@tbrnewsmedia.com or call ad director at 631-751-7744

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Editorial

Living together in peace Many have asked what has happened to us as a society.

As we prepare to remember the victims of 9/11 in just a few weeks, we are reminded of a time 20 years ago when our communities came together to help each other. We applauded our first responders, offered our shoulders to those who were crying and all of us came together as one. The amount of empathy Americans, as well as those around the world, showed for the victims and their families was awe-inspiring. While 9/11 was a day to remember, 9/12 was just as important because it showed that we could be unified.

However, the tragedies and issues caused by COVID-19 have left us more divided than ever. Many scratch their heads wondering why people won’t follow the guidance of medical professionals, who last year simply asked us to wear masks and social distance while they figured out the best line of defense against the virus. Despite the significant strides made in medicine over the last few decades, a new form of a virus can still take time to figure out. And then this year, finally the vaccine that we all were waiting for was released, but yet many have refused to get it to help the common good and themselves.

It seems at times we have become selfish and selfabsorbed, not worrying about anyone but ourselves.

Then again, we shouldn’t be surprised. Look at our roads. More and more drivers engage in reckless driving, whether speeding down the road, weaving in and out of traffic, not pulling over for emergency vehicles or blowing through red lights and stop signs.

In the days of social media, we see too many people believing that their way is the only way and that those who think differently to them are evil or stupid to a point where we don’t respect our fellow citizens.

We have become so selfish and judgmental at times that we forget when we step out our door it’s no longer about us. The world does not revolve around one person, not even one family or social circle. As we navigate through the day, while our feelings and beliefs are valid and should be respected, the same goes for respecting others. We should also listen to each other. Really listen.

It can be difficult at times to balance our wants and needs with the desires of others, but it’s the only way we can live together in peace.

Many have said they don’t want a new normal — they just want normal. Yet, it seems as if a new normal is needed, one where people’s actions show that they care about those around them.

It’s been said that learning about our history is important, so we don’t repeat the mistakes of past generations and benefit from the good elements, too.

Now, let’s remember the tragic event of 9/11 and its aftermath in order to be reminded of how we united and moved forward during one of the most difficult times in American history.

We did it then and we can do it again — together.

Letters to the Editor Zeldin stayed silent during Trump’s toxic presidency

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Unlike two local Republican state senators quoted in the Aug. 12 edition of this newspaper (Sens. Anthony Palumbo [R-New Suffolk] and Mario Mattera [R-St. James]), U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY1] doesn’t even have the grace to offer a pro forma statement of goodwill and cooperation to Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul [D], the incoming governor to replace Gov. Andrew Cuomo [D].

Instead, he plunges his rhetorical knife into her, inaccurately terming her “Cuomo’s lieutenant,” and laughably accusing her of “empower[ing] Cuomo’s disgusting behavior,” being silent about “scandal after scandal” and about Cuomo’s “rampant harassment, intimidation, bullying and abuse.”

This is really rich coming from somebody who’s been silent from day one about the far more disgusting behavior of former President Donald Trump [R]. If you want to talk about vile behavior toward women, Trump’s right up there near the top; he even openly bragged about it. If you want to talk about harassment, intimidation, bullying and abuse, Trump wrote the book on it. The toxic environment of the West Wing while he was president has been chronicled time and time again.

His presidency unleashed an epidemic of schoolyard bullying as well as a more serious one of racial and ethnic harassment and hate crimes. And if you want scandals, he leaves President Warren Harding [R] in the dust, from Trump hotels making a killing, to trying to get Mar-a-Lago to host a G7 summit, to abusing the presidency to bully the leader of a foreign nation [Ukraine] into digging up dirt on a political opponent.

To say nothing about politicizing science, which has led to thousands and thousands of needless COVID-19 deaths, and for which we are still paying the price. And to say nothing of the biggest scandal of all, namely lying about his defeat in the 2020 election, attempting to suborn state officials into overturning the results and, when that didn’t work, inciting an attack on the U.S. Capitol to prevent its legal certification.

And where was Zeldin during all this disgusting behavior, bullying, scandal and lying? The answer is that not once did he stand up to Trump and

forthrightly demand that he stop. Instead, he appointed himself Trump’s wingman in a crass pursuit of political brownie points. Right up to the bitter end, Zeldin was voting on the night of Jan. 6, after the violent invasion of the Capitol by a Trump-inspired mob, to empower Trump and overturn the certified results of the 2020 election in two states, thereby nullifying the votes of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens.

When presented on a silver platter with an opportunity, for once, to show some magnanimity and civic leadership what does Zeldin do? He angrily dashes the platter to the ground. I hope and pray Zeldin never becomes governor. All we would get from him is more chaos and bile. It would be far better if he would leave holding office altogether, and pursue a career on cable news or talk radio, for which he is far better suited, and where his true vocation really lies.

David Friedman St. James

My government should be ashamed

Today I am ashamed of my government.

I never thought military intervention in Afghanistan was a good idea. History is full of examples, going back to the Romans, that suggest it was a disastrous idea. But once we were there, we took on certain obligations that we utterly failed to fulfill in our withdrawal.

Once we had decided to withdraw, the first people who should have been evacuated were the people who had helped us — as translators, guides, informants — and their families. That is, the ones who were in the greatest danger when the Taliban took over, as everyone knew would happen quickly.

Insisting that they first get the proper documentation is bureaucracy at its most insane.

The next people to be evacuated

should be the American civilians, ending with the embassy staff. (I’d put the ambassador at the end of the line, but that’s just me.)

The last people to leave would be the military, the ones best able to protect themselves on their exit. If possible, they might take with them or destroy the military equipment they were leaving behind, rather than handing it over to the Taliban.

My government should be ashamed.

I am ashamed that it is not.

Jane O’Sullivan Setauket

Scream for ice cream

You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream. Take a day off from worrying about cholesterol, triglycerides and your weight. Treat yourself, beat the heat and humidity by going to your favorite local ice cream parlor and order a banana split.

Wednesday, Aug. 25, is National Banana Split Day. It was invented by 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist David Evan Strickler at his Latrobe, Pennsylvania store’s soda fountain in 1904. The cost for this tasty treat was 10 cents, which was twice the price of any other ice cream sundae.

Why not have an all ice cream dinner? Enjoy a couple of scoops of your favorite ice cream. It should be properly served in a long dish sometimes called a boat. The banana is cut in half lengthwise with three scoops of ice cream in between. Tradition has scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry but many substitute other flavors.

Add some hot fudge, whipped cream, crushed nuts, maraschino cherries and other toppings. It will put a smile on your face and bring back childhood memories of when you frequented Jahn’s ice cream parlor or other favorite ice cream emporiums.

Larry and Wendy Penner Great Neck

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Opinion

Welcome to the Covid curriculum at Daniel Dunaief High School

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elcome to Dan Dunaief HS or DDHS. I know it’s an odd time to start a new high school, but children need to learn, even during a pandemic.

Originally, I was planning to have everyone come to a pep rally on the first day of school. After all the restrictions of last year, it only seemed fitting to bring the kids together in the gym and celebrate the chance to sit in 1950s style wooden bleachers that rock when someone walks a few steps.

D. None But, then, I realized of the above we don’t have a

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF basketball, football or squash team, we haven’t picked school colors, we don’t have a school song and, most importantly, we are in a

difficult spot with the pandemic.

I know your kids are exhausted from dealing with the virus. Who can blame them?

Aren’t we all?

At first, I thought we’d avoid the whole topic and stick to the basics in school.

But, then, it occurred to me that avoiding a virus that has now affected three school years wouldn’t make it better. We can try not to think about it, but that doesn’t make it go away. Information and knowledge will help these students understand the strange world that surrounds them and might empower them to feel as if they’re doing something about it, even if it’s just learning more about a time that future generations will no doubt study carefully, scrutinizing our every move as if we were some kind of early laboratory experiment.

With that in mind, I gave the curriculum serious consideration. I thought about all the standard ways students have learned.

Ultimately, I decided to turn toward the academic vortex. At DDHS, at least for the first year or so, we’re going to encourage students to

study the real challenges of the world around them.

For starters, in our art class, we’re going to have design competitions for the front and back of masks. The winners will provide masks that the entire school will wear each week.

Then, in an engineering class, we’ll work on creating masks that are more comfortable and just as effective as the ones that make our faces sweat. Maybe this class can also figure out how to provide words that flash across the mask when we talk, giving people a better idea of what we’re saying behind our masks. Maybe enterprising students can design masks that cool our faces when we sweat and warm them when we’re cold, that shave or bleach unwanted hair or that act like dry-fit shirts, covering our faces without clinging to them.

In history, we’ll spend at least a semester on the Spanish Influenza. We’ll explore what leaders throughout the world did in 1918 during the last pandemic. We’ll see what worked best and what disappointed.

Our psychology class will devote itself to the conflicts between people’s perceptions of

infringements on their individual freedoms and their desire to protect themselves and each other by wearing masks.

Our political science course will delve into how politics became enmeshed in the response to the virus. This class will look at which side gains, politically, amid different public health scenarios.

Science classes will explore why some people get incredibly sick from the virus, while others show no symptoms. We will also study the way the virus works, look at similar viruses and try to understand and track the development of variants.

Math will work with the science department to understand the spread of the virus and to plot various scenarios based on human behavior.

Eager students in math will have the chance to demonstrate how sicknesses spread depending on the wearing of masks, the use of vaccines, and the creation of new variants.

Our language arts class will provide an outlet for students to express their hopes, dreams and concerns amid the unique challenges in their lifetime created by the pandemic.

Water, water everywhere, but will we have enough to drink?

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he other day, I went to the kitchen sink for some water, and when I turned on the faucet, only a few drops came out, then nothing. Puzzled, I tried it again, shutting then opening the tap. No water. My first thought was that something might be wrong with the pipes in the house. Zipping around, I tried the bathroom sinks. Same result. The water line into the house looked intact, no leaks. This was going to be a big problem, I worried, worse than when the electricity cuts out. I had an awful feeling of deprivation. Where was our water?

Between you and me It turned out that there was a major leak

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF in the underground water line to our block. Before too long, the

Suffolk County Water Authority workers arrived and began digging up the blacktop. It was during those high heat days, and soon the men were drenched in their own sweat, but I admired their work ethic. They kept at the job for a full 12 hours until the line was repaired.

We deeply appreciated them and let them know.

I also had a new perspective on having water.

We turn the handle and expect to have water to drink, to cook, to clean, to bathe. Yes, I have traveled in other countries where I had to drink bottled water, but nonetheless, water came out of the taps. I follow the news about water shortages around the world, including in our country, but it is with a different perspective now when I see such reports on television. We feel entitled to running water, but we are so privileged. To turn on the faucet and have nothing come out, even for a few hours, is deeply unsettling.

Here is an example where water is a great concern. We know there has been a drought in California for the past two years. Southern California cities have prepared for the worst

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by building aqueducts and reservoirs and storing water underground. Despite their more arid climate, the south of the state is prepared.

Smaller northern California towns, located in what was a more rainy climate, and much loved by tourists, are caught short. Reservoirs there are at worrisome levels and even powergenerating dams have had to stop producing electricity because of insufficient water. These are agricultural areas too, and farmers, as well as restaurateurs and innkeepers, are afraid they may have to shut down. To truck in water costs 20 to 45 cents a gallon compared with the typical utility company rate of less than a penny a gallon.

Further, the level of water in the Colorado River and Lake Mead, which is formed by the Hoover Dam, is falling, threatening the water supply for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada residents and especially Arizona’s agricultural output. Even major semiconductor manufacturers, expanding there, require a lot of water to produce their much needed product.

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is now at its lowest level ever. The $1 trillion package just passed by the Senate does include water shortage mitigation funds.

Worldwide, over a billion people lack access to water and 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month a year. Countries most affected include Egypt, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, Haiti, Laos, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. The irony is that over 70 % of the earth is covered by water. Desalination, which is an expensive option, could become a solution. There is also water in the air. An Israeli company called, Watergen. pulls water from the air, as much as 6000 liters a day. that is used to support entire hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in central Africa. It also helped Australia battle bush fires in 2020.

Further, harvesting the pure water from icebergs is big business along Canada’s east coast.

These are all possible solutions. Perhaps most important is the care we humans must take with our precious supply, not to mindlessly pollute or overuse what we are grateful to have.

I am duly reminded how lucky we are.

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