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October 7, 2021

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On Saturday, Sept. 25, approximately 40 Town of Smithtown Youth & Community Alliance student-volunteers joined up with members of the National Guard Counterdrug Task Force, in conjunction with the Parks Department, to clean up harmful waste left along the shoreline.

With the help of Sgt Carissa Siry and SSG Jessica Alese (National Guard) in addition to Youth & Community Alliance personnel, the students collected trash and recorded any evidence of drug, tobacco and alcohol related waste to help identify the areas where substance use is taking place. This initiative was conducted to help bring community awareness as a part of the Smithtown Youth & Community Alliance’s efforts to keep the community SAFE and clean.

“This is an outstanding show of community service by our brightest future leaders of the community,” said Supervisor Ed Wehrheim. “I’d like to personally thank the National Guard team, Youth Bureau staff, Roseann Conforti, Youth Services Coordinator Janine Marc-Anthony, Kelly DeVito, Alexa Stern, and Kristin Doran from Horizons Counseling & Education, Don Misuraca from our Parks Department, and most of all, the incredible kids who gave up a sunny Saturday to help make our shoreline safer for both humans and wildlife.”

In total, the student volunteers collected three 30 gallon bags filled with alcohol, tobacco/ vape and drug related items, and approximately six 30 gallon bags filled with waste which is environmentally harmful to the aquatic and wildlife living in the habitat.

“We were lucky enough to have great weather on the day of the event. It was actually a perfect day for a beach cleanup. Alliance student volunteers were so enthusiastic and into the project. It was a very effective beach cleanup;

an educational experience about substance use in that location, and a wonderful opportunity for students to socialize and enjoy a beautiful morning together,” said Janine Marc-Anthony, Youth Services coordinator, Town of Smithtown Youth Bureau To get involved with future Youth Bureau events, apply to become a volunteer with the Smithtown Youth Bureau Volunteer Corps.

Complete and submit the online volunteer application form, available on the Youth Bureau website. Adults and students are invited to register.

The New York National Guard Counterdrug Task Force provides support through highly skilled personnel and specialized equipment to Law Enforcement Agencies and Community Based Organizations in order to enhance their efforts to counter the drug threat.

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Residents fill the streets for St. James Day

BY RITA J. EGAN Lake Avenue in St. James was packed with hundreds of people on Oct. 3.

The St. James Chamber of Commerce presented its St. James Day along Lake Avenue between Woodlawn and Railroad avenues. Last year’s event was canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Attendees enjoyed food, listened to music, shopped for merchandise at vendors’ tables and talked to local elected officials.

Tours were also given of the former Calderon Theatre located at 176 2nd Avenue. The nonprofit community group Celebrate St. James Past-Present-Future hopes to save the building to be used as an entertainment venue in the future.

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Wehrheim discusses town projects with Smithtown chamber

BY KIMBERLY BROWN KIMBERLY@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) made a special appearance at the Smithtown Chamber of Commerce meeting Sept. 29 to speak about the existing and new improvements the town will be making.

According to Wehrheim, approximately $10 million has been spent in St. James to renovate the business district on Lake Avenue and there are plans to add sewers to the area.

“Once we sewer the business district we can really start to dig in and do some really great downtown revitalization projects, and more importantly it’s going to clean up the environment,” he said.

All three of the business districts, including Nesconset, are currently operating off antiquated septic systems, which can be harmful to the environment.

Lake Avenue has been completely repaved with new curbs, sidewalks and decorative crosswalks, according to the supervisor. The abandoned Irish Viking bar has also been bought out as the town plans to add off-street

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parking as well as a small park in the newly acquired space.

“It’s going to be a beautiful park when it’s completed,” the supervisor said. “The construction is underway, but I am not sure of a completion date yet. I hope it will be finished by early spring. It will be a great amenity for the St. James community.”

A number of new businesses have made their way into Smithtown over the years including the Blue Bean Cafe, Sweetwaters coffee and tea shop and Douglas Elliman Real Estate. He added before the pandemic Stop & Shop renovated its store at a cost of nearly $11 million.

“The point I want to make is that the efforts we are putting into this business district are bearing fruit,” Wehrheim said. “Throughout COVID, our vacancy rates in the business district of Smithtown were lower than any other municipality in Suffolk County.”

The Hilltop Motel, which the supervisor said was operating untoward activities such as prostitution and drug sales, is now gone, and in its place on Jericho Turnpike are 98 55-andolder apartments which are 100% occupied with 19 people on the waiting list. The complex

Town of Smithtown Supervisor greets members of the Smithtown Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Elise Margolin Photography

has plans to expand even further.

“When we first took office, we talked about

picking up blighted sites, and that has so far been very successful,” Wehrheim said.

Setauket’s Eastern Pavilion is revamped and ready for dining

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Serving customers for almost three decades, Eastern Pavilion is making a comeback as a fine-dining Asian Fusion restaurant.

The family run restaurant has become a place of refuge, relaxation and dining for residents. As soon as customers walk in, they will see the newly renovated restaurant that co-owner David Lin describes as elegant with a “Manhattan vibe.”

Before the pandemic started, founder Bao Lin had thought about retiring. However, he decided not to when his three sons, David, Raymond and Jason, decided to take on the responsibility of running the business with the goal of making it bigger and better than ever before.

“We grew up in the restaurant industry and wanted to keep the family business alive,” David Lin said. “We realized how happy the restaurant made us and we loved interacting with the customers.”

Having a loyal clientele base that has continued to designate Eastern Pavilion as its favorite restaurant, David said he can pick up the phone and know customers without even asking for a name.

David, Raymond and Jason Lin, above, are now helping their father Bao Lin run Eastern Pavilion. Photo by Kimberly Brown

“A lot of the clients that we have, we honestly consider a part of our family,” David Lin said. “We have customers that started with us 30 years ago, so that makes us want to push through and have this restaurant here for the next generation.”

It isn’t only the family hospitality that

customers love about this restaurant, but the quality of the food, too. According to David Lin, the restaurant has a new master sushi chef who trained in Tokyo and introduced a Szechuan chef as well, so there is plenty of variety for anyone looking to grab a bite.

An additional bar has also been added

to the restaurant, where Jason Lin highly recommends Eastern Pavilion’s signature drink, which combines cold sake, premium Japanese yuzu, vodka, peach syrup, seltzer and their secret ingredient, a special tea from overseas.

Comparing the cocktail to a Starbucks refresher, Jason Lin said this is the perfect summer pick-me-up.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about making my customers and the community happy,” Jason Lin said. “Especially after the COVID-era, we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and spend our time revamping this place.”

Another must-have dish both Jason and David Lin recommend for first-time customers is their General Tso’s chicken, which they describe as the “bread and butter” of Eastern Pavilion.

The dish includes deep-fried, battered white-meat chicken cubes sautéed with spicy red peppers. To top it off is their in-house special tangy sauce. According to Jason Lin, this sauce has been perfected through trial and error for many decades and is very unique.

For more information on Eastern Pavilion, go to www.eprestaurant.com or visit the restaurant at 750 Route 25A, Setauket.

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Mover and Shaker

New SCCC president has big goals in new role

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM After a long and intensive search, Suffolk County Community College has officially welcomed its new president, Edward Bonahue.

Now overseeing the college’s three campuses — Ammerman in Selden, Grant in Brentwood and Eastern in Riverhead — Bonahue said he’s excited to come back to Long Island after leaving for his education and career decades ago.

Bonahue grew up in Setauket and attended Nassakeag Elementary School, Murphy Junior High and then Ward Melville High School, Class of 1983.

“It was wonderful,” he said. “Growing up in the Three Villages was a wonderful privilege, just because it taught me about the value of education.”

As a teen, he taught swimming lessons for the Town of Brookhaven, which he cites as the reason he became so fluent in the different areas of Suffolk County.

“I had taught swimming everywhere from Cedar Beach to Shoreham,” he said. “I taught at the Centereach pool, Holtsville pool, West Meadow — it was one way of getting a sense that we live in a bigger place.”

Bonahue said he was “one of those kids” who was involved with the arts more than sports — although he did run track during his junior and senior years.

“Ward Melville was lucky to have a great arts program,” he said. “They have a great jazz program and I was in that generation of kids where I was in the Jazz Ensemble all three years.”

His love of arts and humanities led him to North Carolina upon graduating, where he received his B.A. in English Literature at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.

After his undergrad, Bonahue took a job in Washington, D.C., working as an editor at the U.S. General Services Administration and then as managing editor for Shakespeare Quarterly at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

“That convinced me: ‘Oh, yeah, I kind of like this. And I think I’m going to go back to graduate school.’”

Bonahue enrolled at the University of North Carolina where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature. He then moved with his wife to Gainesville, Florida, to hold the position of visiting assistant professor of humanities at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida.

In 2009, he was a Fulbright Scholar with the U.S. International Education Administrators Program in Germany, and in 2016-2017, he was an Aspen Institute College Excellence

A Ward Melville graduate and former Setauket resident is Suffolk County Community College’s new president. Photos from SCCC

Program Presidential Fellow.

And while in Florida, Bonahue eventually headed to Santa Fe College, also in Gainesville, serving as the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, along with several other roles.

But as the years went on, he decided he wanted to head somewhere new and began looking for fresh opportunities. Through networking, he heard about a post back on Long Island — a place he knew very well.

New appointment at SCCC

Bonahue took on his new role officially on June 28. Under his leadership, he oversees the current enrollment of more than 23,000 credit students and 7,000 continuing education students.

“One of the one of the opportunities for Suffolk going forward is to think about how we’re serving all of Suffolk County,” he said. “It’s no secret that the number of traditional students graduating from high school is going down every year. Over time, that’s a lot of students.”

While the majority of SCCC students are on the traditional path, Bonahue said that moving forward they need to figure out ways to do

better outreach to nontraditional students.

Bonahue said one of his many goals is to converge with employers and help their workers continue their education through Suffolk or connect them with future employees while still in school. He added that in a postCOVID world where there can be gatherings, he would like high school guidance counselors to come and visit.

“I think high school students get a lot from recommendations from their teachers and guidance counselors — especially students who are underserved because of the parents haven’t been to college, they don’t have that network of what it’s like to go to college,” Bonahue said. “So, they rely on their teachers and guidance counselors for that information.”

He added that one thing that was learned during the 2020 census is Long Island is becoming a more diverse place.

“Many have not had the privilege of any exposure to higher education,” he said. “And that’s what community college is for — providing access to educational opportunity and access to economic opportunity for folks who, without it, might be stuck in some kind

of dead-end, entry-level service sector job.”

Bonahue noted that SCCC as a college needs to internalize its mission is not only to serve 19-year-old students.

“Our mission is also to serve a mom with a baby at home, someone who’s taking care of parents, someone who’s working in a family business, could be a worker who’s already been on the job and has been displaced — those are all of our students,” he said. “I think our mission is to embrace that larger sense of community, and then on top of that there are areas of Suffolk County that have not been particularly well served, or where services are not as strong as elsewhere.”

Appointed by SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras, the SUNY Board of Trustees and the Suffolk Board of Trustees, Bonahue said that in his new role, he wants the college to be an agent of change.

“I think they wanted someone who understands that Suffolk County is a diverse place — that it has many constituencies and that the three campuses have different personalities,” he said. “So, someone used the phrase that I checked a lot of boxes for Suffolk. My hope is that also I can present pictures of best practices that are practiced in high performing community colleges across the country, and if those best practices have not been adopted by Suffolk, then I think we have huge opportunities in terms of best practices that relate to community outreach, to academic and student support services, programming, workforce development, transfers and so forth. I think I think I can make a big contribution to Suffolk in a variety of ways.”

Bonahue said he plans on being not just on Selden’s Ammerman campus, he wants to be active on all three.

“I’m going to try to celebrate Suffolk across the whole county, including being present on all three campuses,” he said. “Each college serves a slightly different demographic, but one of the things I sense is that the college is hungry for a coherent and unified strategy.”

Coming back to Long Island was an exciting moment for Bonahue over the summer, but now it’s time for work. Since school started Sept. 2, he has been busy meeting faculty, staff and students, while focusing on his plans to better the local community college.

“I loved growing up on Long Island,” he said.

“And so, it’s been a pleasure to return here.”

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Obituary

School News

Paul R. Greening

Robert Rose appointed Smithtown High School East principal Robert Rose has devoted more than two decades to Smithtown Central School District.

He now will lead Smithtown High School East as its principal.

The board of education formally approved Rose for that role at its regular meeting on Sept. 29.

Rose has spent the past 16 years as an assistant principal at High School East. He previously was a health and physical education teacher in the district for eight years.

“It means a lot,” Rose said. “I’ve worked a lot with the other administrators and the staff to get the school to its current high level. I’m certainly looking forward to continuing that effort.”

Rose earned his bachelor’s degree from SUNY Brockport, then a master of arts from Adelphi University. He received a postgraduate administrative certificate in educational leadership and administration from Stony Brook University.

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Paul R. Greening, of Smithtown, passed away on Sept. 12, just days shy of his 60th birthday.

He was the loving husband of Samantha Xiaochun, and the devoted and proud father of Katie Mei. Paul was the youngest child of Robert and Doris (both deceased); dear brother of Carol (John), Barbara (Paige), Jim (predeceased) and Peg; and beloved uncle of Lauren, John, and Michelle.

Paul was a proud veteran, having served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1980 to 1984. He was an outdoor adventurist and enjoyed many activities with family and friends, including hiking, camping, kayaking and years of double black diamond skiing until he broke his collar bone and six ribs on a bunny hill. Paul had a passion for woodworking and created in his home shop many beautiful, finely detailed and exquisite wood projects.

He enjoyed entertaining family and friends, and his famous smoked ribs, deep fried turkeys and organic garden vegetables will be truly missed by many.

In addition to his many hobbies, Paul enjoyed immensely his full-time job as a stay-home dad.

Rose ascends to the principal role previously held by Kevin Simmons.

Simmons was appointed two weeks ago as the Smithtown Central School District’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration.

“For the past five years I’ve worked very closely with Dr. Simmons,” Rose said. “He’s done an awesome job here. I certainly want to build on what he has achieved.”

He introduced Katie to hiking at just two months old (in a backpack), camping at 10 months old, skiing at the age of two, and kayaking at the age of five. Even though he had sworn he would never be a “soccer mom”, he ended up being an assistant coach on Katie’s soccer team. His best Father’s Day was a recent trip to Pennsylvania – driving back and forth for nine hours – for a three minute figure skating competition routine. As he proudly watched Katie grow and achieve many accomplishments, he never forgot to remind her to pursue what makes her happy in life.

Paul met Samantha in a ski club, and their shared passion for skiing and outdoor exploration took them (and Katie) on many wonderful trips together: Vail, Colorado; Park City, Utah; Aleyeska, Alaska; Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia; Zion National Park, Utah; Banff National Park, Canada); Paris, and just two weeks ago, Iceland. The beautiful memories created from these trips will be cherished forever.

“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” Paul will be missed dearly and will be forever in our hearts.

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‘My body, my choice’ on the corner of routes 347 and 112

BY JENNIFER CORR DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Chants like “My body, my choice” echoed through big cities like Washington, D.C., and Manhattan Saturday as part of the Rally for Abortion Justice, and that same passion made it to what is known as Resistance Corner at the junction of Route 347 and Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station.

The national Rally for Abortion Justice movement, according to the Women’s March Network, comes after comes after the Supreme Court’s rejection of an emergency request to block the Texas Heartbeat Act. Coming into effect Sept. 1, the bill bans abortion at the point of the “first detectable heartbeat,” which could occur as early as six weeks into pregnancy — a point that many are just finding out they’re pregnant. At least 13 other states failed to attempt enacting similar bans after being blocked by courts.

“I believe in a women’s right to choose,” said protester Bryan Campbell, who was pushing a stroller occupied by his infant. “I think it’s ridiculous what’s going on in Texas and I’m here to support the women in my life: my partner, my friends, my daughter. This is for their future and for everyone’s future.”

Campbell was one of hundreds of men, women and children who gathered on the busy corner, holding signs in protest of such laws. Some even took to dressing up as characters from the “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a best-selling novel and TV series that depicts a totalitarian society that treats women as property.

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Hundreds of people, above, lined up at the corner of Routes 347 and 112, known as Resistance Corner, in Port Jefferson Station Saturday to rally for abortion justice. Below, rally organizer Shoshana Hershkowitz in PJS. Below left, protesters in Smithtown. Smithtown photo from Ellen O’Neal; all other photos by Jennifer Corr

red robes and white bonnet.

“It’s a dystopian fantasy that’s no longer a fantasy,” she said. “We’re going backward with women’s rights and we’re here to show that we don’t want to go there anymore.”

Before Roe v. Wade — a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 that protected a women’s right to have an abortion without excessive government restriction — only more affluent women had access to safe and legal abortions. However, it is estimated that between the 1950s and ’60s, the number of illegal abortions, either selfinduced or done through often dangerous or even deadly procedures, ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million a year.

Rally organizer Shoshana Hershkowitz, of

Long Island Social Justice Action Network and Suffolk Progressives, was on Resistance Corner Saturday to make sure her daughter did not grow up with fewer rights than she was able to enjoy throughout her lifetime.

“Our own congressman [Lee Zeldin (RNY1)] tried to overturn Roe in the past year,” she said. “We can’t just think of this as a somewhere-else situation. It was happening right here.”

That’s why the LISJAN and Suffolk Progressives joined with grassroot organizations like Long Island Progressive Coalition, Long Island Activists, New HOUR for Women & Children - LI, Show Up Long Island, NY02 Indivisible, Planned Parenthood, among others, to prevent impediments in a woman’s reproductive rights from happening anywhere — including here in New York.

“We just put out the word to the different Facebook groups and [other various groups] who are invested in keeping our rights and getting women in office,” said Kat Lahey of Long Island Rising, adding that several speakers including Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) were also in attendance. “You can see that there’s a high demand to keep women’s reproductive rights.”

But not all were in support of the movement.

Along with some disapproving remarks made by drivers who were passing by, one woman stood on the other side of the highway holding a sign, with photos of babies, that read “Please love me, I love you.”

The woman would not disclose her name, however she did share that she goes to her local Planned Parenthood every Saturday morning to pray. She said she was especially upset about New York State’s allowance of late-term abortions.

Yet the 2019 law, passed on the 46th

anniversary of Roe v. Wade, only allows late-term abortions when the mother’s health is in danger.

When asked about the counterprotester, Hershkowitz said that she was more than welcome to cross the road and speak with herself and other organizers. “But I’m not changing my mind,” she said.

It was not the first time that groups like New HOUR and LISJAN gathered on the corner, as they also showed up for issues ranging from gun safety to the Trump-era ban on refugees from majority-Muslim countries.

“Our community has come quite accustomed to gathering in this space and standing up for what we believe in,” Hershkowitz said. “So really, it’s like we almost have muscle memory because of having to gather here for so many years.”

Rallies were also held in Smithtown and Huntington on the same day.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Newfield Wolverines cast a shadow over Smithtown East in their homecoming football game handing the Bulls a 39-7 defeat Oct 2.

Newfield’s Devin Aviles found the endzone twice in the 1st quarter, and teammate Joe Hackal broke a 44 yarder in the second to lead 24-0 at the half.

Smithtown East junior running back Ryan Rooney took the goose egg of the scoreboard for the Bulls catching a pass from Tommy Azzara then turned it upfield and dove for the endzone for the score. Newfield quarterback

Josh Jacobs punched in from short yardage along with teammate Sean Sullivan scored on a 29 yarder for your final score.

The win lifts the Wolverines to 2-2 as the loss drops the Bulls to 1-3 at this midway point in the season.

Both teams retake the field Saturday where Newfield hosts North Babylon in their homecoming game, and the Bulls travel to Connetquot. Kickoff for both games is 2 p.m.

Pictured clockwise from above, Smithtown East running back Chris Moran sweeps out of the backfield; the Bull has fun with the homecoming queen and king; and the team takes the field.

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Public health has become politicized

Buy a flashlight and stay safe at night With the ending of daylight saving time around the corner and the fall season officially here, it’s beginning to get dark earlier.

While cool autumn nights are a nice break from the hot and wet summer we’ve just had, what comes with the pleasant weather is also nighttime appearing closer to 6 p.m.

The worst part about the darkness creeping up is that many people still act as though the sun is still out during the late evening. It’s not, and we all need to be careful.

When the sun is shining, drivers are able to see pedestrians walking, biking, skating — but not so much anymore with the season change. Dog walkers are normally good about bringing a flashlight, and cyclists almost always have reflectors on their bikes — but a few do not, and they can get seriously hurt if both parties are not paying attention.

But it isn’t just the people outside getting their exercise and enjoying the fresh air who are at fault.

Drivers need to slow down.

The combination of darkness plus speeding can cause a catastrophe. Both parties would be at fault.

And then there are the deer and the other woodland critters that live in our backyards. Unfortunately, they don’t own a flashlight, so it’s our responsibility as good humans to keep an eye out for the animals who dart into the street.

If we are driving slowly and cautiously, there’s a good chance we can avoid them and let them be on their merry way. If we don’t, not only could we kill the poor animal, but they can cause serious damage to the car and to us.

While we appreciate the lights we have on our local streets, it’s not enough. Please, don’t wear all-dark colors while out during an evening stroll. Do bring a flashlight or indicator that you are there. Be aware of your surroundings — if you want to listen to music on your earphones, keep it down so you can hear if a car is heading your way. Remember to walk against the traffic. If you’re a cyclist, go in the same direction as the vehicles.

And drivers, as we said, be mindful of our neighbors taking advantage of our beautiful North Shore. Slow down and enjoy the ride, too.

The Sept. 30 editions of TBR newspapers featured a story on Republican elected officials, led by Congressman Lee Zeldin [R-NY1], opposing the vaccine mandate for health care workers. This was a display of brinksmanship that I’ve come to expect from the Republican Party. Their reaction has created a dynamic where public health has become a political weapon.

It should be noted that the William Floyd school district, which Zeldin and state Sen. Alexis Weik [R-Sayville] represent, has both the lowest vaccination rate in Suffolk County, and the highest number of cases for school-aged children. Instead of using their platforms to encourage public health measures, Zeldin and Weik have chosen to crusade against increasing vaccination rates and mandating masks in school. The results of their lack of moral leadership are clear.

The community they represent, where Zeldin himself is from, is suffering for it.

State Sen. Mario Mattera [R-St. James] attempted to frame this as a “union” issue. As a union leader myself, I’d like to respond that many unions support this public health initiative.

Mattera also incorrectly states that COVID isn’t “a state of emergency.” I must disagree, and so do many health care workers who have treated the sick. The over-700,000 dead from an infectious disease is absolutely a state of emergency.

Mattera represents the area that includes Stony Brook University Hospital, a place that has led the charge in administering COVID tests and vaccinations. Why has Mattera not used his political capital to highlight the lifesaving work of our health professionals, and encouraged his constituents to get vaccinated, instead of grandstanding? The answer is clear.

He cares more about his next election and toeing the party line than he does uplifting public health.

Even more egregious is Zeldin, who recently made headlines regarding his leukemia diagnosis. He has rallied

against lifesaving measures, while getting lifesaving treatment. That treatment is from the excellent government health care he receives, paid for by our tax dollars. It is lifesaving treatment he has voted time and again to deny to others, even as he benefits from government health care. He is a living, walking, breathing embodiment of privilege and hypocrisy.

Each of these elected officials has failed to make the case for public health, for us as a society caring for one another.

Masking and vaccines are the best way to get out of this pandemic, and they have not stood up and used their platforms to encourage the people they represent to do their part. It is a failure of leadership and of morals on their part. They deserve to lose their jobs in the November 2022 elections for their failure to help avoid preventable illnesses and deaths in their respective communities.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

Zeldin’s freedom hypocrisy

Once again U. S. Rep Lee Zeldin [RNY1] has shown how unqualified he is to lead New York state and bring people together by his tirade against a vaccine mandate on hospital and nursing home workers. The hypocrisy of this coming from somebody who a year ago was blaming former Gov. Andrew Cuomo [D] for the needless spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is mind-boggling. But what is particularly absurd is his statement that this mandate “violate[s] personal freedom.”

We hear “freedom” constantly being invoked as a justification to flout scientifically based vaccination or mask requirements. But is what Zeldin and so many others call freedom really freedom?

Isn’t it really license instead? Isn’t it really carte blanche to do whatever we want, regardless of the consequences?

In fact, vaccination mandates have been around for a long time. For decades parents of public school children have been required to have them vaccinated against polio, measles and other highly contagious diseases. Does Zeldin not understand the concept of “contagious”?

A few years back, there was resistance in some quarters to vaccination against measles. The result was an outbreak of this dangerous disease centering on Disneyland in California and spreading to seven other states as well as Canada and Mexico. In a few third world countries there is resistance to polio vaccination.

That’s the reason polio, unlike smallpox, has yet to be eradicated worldwide.

If an individual refuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19, for whatever reason, that’s their choice. But that individual is not entitled to work in a hospital or nursing home and put patients and other staff at heightened risk by their behavior. If a surgeon refused to wear an N95 mask while performing surgery because he or she was convinced that it led to unsafe levels of carbon dioxide, would you want that surgeon performing surgery on you? I sure wouldn’t.

Besides, if Zeldin was really sincerely concerned about the workload and stress on health care workers, he would be doing everything possible to keep patients out of the ICU by supporting measures designed to reduce the spread of the virus. Instead, he’s doing precisely the opposite.

Vaccination mandates work because they force a reckoning with the consequences of personal choices. Remaining unvaccinated has consequences not only for oneself, but for everybody in one’s community.

This is particularly true of health care workers. The so-called “freedom” Zeldin and others rant about is the really the license to put others at needless risk. If a health care worker is intent on remaining unvaccinated, they need to deal with the consequences of that decision, namely that they are recklessly endangering others in a hospital or nursing home, a setting where — even without COVID-19 — the spread of viral or bacterial infections is all too common.

Let’s stop making freedom just another political buzzword. Those who invoke freedom to justify ignoring public health and remaining unvaccinated are debasing the very concept of freedom itself. There is no freedom without responsibility.

David Friedman St. James

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Opinion An unusual roadkill brings relief to an anxious dog

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his time of year, my dog walks with relief and trepidation.

The relief comes from temperatures that have cooled off enough that his heavy fur doesn’t exacerbate the humidity and discomfort from stifling heat.

The trepidation arises out of the emergence of ominous additions to the neighborhood that change the world he knows.

The spiderwebs along fences and hanging on bushes and D. None trees don’t bother him, but the ghosts planted of the above in the ground, the

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF green glow-in-the-dark skeletons and the hanging vampires terrify him, as he prefers to scamper toward the street and passing cars rather than walk near an inexplicable figure swaying in the wind, hovering over him

like some supernatural predator.

And so it was, recently, that we took an early October walk through our neighborhood.

While these figures create anxiety for him, I was mulling the numerous global threats to the future for which we Americans and we humans are grappling. Global warming, debt limits, infrastructure bills, gun violence, the pandemic, partisanship, educational deficiencies, a destructive oil spill in California and everything else ricocheted around my head as I thought of the many looming crises.

A sight on the horizon snapped me out of my anxiety labyrinth. There, around the corner, appeared to be roadkill.

In the distance, I couldn’t recognize it, but I was sure that, once we got closer, my dog would pull desperately to inspect the flesh and innards of a former living creature.

Generally, when I try to pull away from decaying matter on the road, my dog seems eager to get as close as he can, like a forensic photographer or a police inspector from Law

& Order, trying to figure out who might be at fault for the end of a life, whether the driver tried to maneuver away from the animal based on any skid marks nearby, or, perhaps, whether the animal contributed to its own untimely end.

I try to distract him, whistling, calling his name, tugging ever so slightly on his leash to redirect him away from these sites, hoping to keep far enough away that the flies feasting on rotting animal flesh don’t land on us.

Usually, such maneuvers have the same effect as making suggestions to my kids about what to do, like studying the bassoon because every band needs a bassoon player and many schools are lucky to have one or two such double-reeded wonders: they cause an equal and opposite reaction.

I’m sure Newton’s third law wasn’t referring to parenting, but it seems that when we say “here” they want to go “there,” and when we say “there,” they want to go “here.” My dog seems to have studied the same playbook in response to any such guidance or direction.

As we walked, I pulled left, trying to figure out what was on the road, which seemed broken into four parts. This could be a particularly unappealing mess, I thought, trying not to make a subconscious suggestion through the leash that he head straight for it.

I held my breath as a slight wind picked up from the other side of the detritus, hoping I wouldn’t smell something awful and that, somehow, neither would my dog.

As we got closer, I used my peripheral vision. That’s when I noticed something unusual. Amid the odd red and brown colors was a mixture of an orange and blue mess.

What kind of animal’s innards are orange and blue? Was this a Halloween roadkill?

I deciphered letters on the ground. That was definitely not blood. It was a Burger King wrapper, with obliterated fries, a flattened Whopper and a crushed cup.

Perhaps too focused on the Halloween decorations, the dog wasn’t at all interested or enticed by the fast food roadkill.

At home rapid tests can help defeat COVID-19

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good idea during this later stage of the pandemic is to have an at-home rapid COVID test, which indicates a result in 15 minutes. Sometimes you just don’t know whether it’s a simple cold that’s arrived and is making your throat sore, or if the situation is more dire and you need to seek help. Or perhaps you find that you have been exposed to someone who has now tested positive, and you want to check yourself accordingly.

Or you are about to visit grandma and you want to be sure you are not carrying the Between pathogen to her. you and me Besides the personal

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF value, the tests can be an important public health tool, although for the moment demand is high and they are hard to

find. I was able to locate two tests at a local drug store by calling around. They can be purchased at pharmacies for anywhere from $10 to $40 a test. The following are available without a prescription, according to The New York Times article, “At-Home COVID Tests: Valuable if Used Right,” in the issue of Oct. 5, and written

by Emily Anthes: Abbott BinaxNOW, the Ellume COVID-19 Home Test (although there was some issue with this one yesterday), and the Quidel QuickVue At-Home COVID-19 Test. The tests “detect small viral proteins, called antigens,” and they “require rubbing a shallow nasal swab inside your nostrils, and then exposing the swab to a few drops of chemicals,” as described by the article.

OraSure also makes them, among many other companies rushing their products to market.

While the manufacturers’ tests are fairly simple, their directions have to be followed carefully in order to provide a correct answer.

And while their results are correct 85% of the time, the tests can give a false negative if taken too soon after exposure. Further, the tests are more sensitive to people with symptoms,

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especially during the first week, and when people are most infectious and can be actively transmitting the virus, according to Anthes.

The successful detection rate goes up to 98 % when the tests are used repeatedly, say every three days for screening. But again, those with symptoms may test immediately, while those who have been exposed to the virus should wait 3-5 days to let the antigens accumulate in the nose, if they are there, before testing. In the event of a positive result, people should take the usual precautions: isolation, monitoring symptoms and calling for medical help if necessary. They should also get a second test to confirm the result.

Rapid COVID-19 tests are for sale in grocery stores for one euro (a bit more than a dollar) in Germany, and in Britain a pack of seven are free. Policymakers around the world realized that rapid tests were a valuable public health aide. We here in the United States must make them available and more cheaply so that we can know who is infected, who is a carrier and where the outbreaks are. President

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Joe Biden (D) has recognized this need and is working to make the tests accessible and more affordable. He needs to make the rapid tests official public health tools rather than medical devices. That would only take an executive order. And it would allow global manufacturers of COVID-19 tests to enter our market and immediately increase our supply.

According to a piece on the Opinion page of The New York Times in the Oct. 2 issue, written by experts Michael Mina and Steven Phillips, “Past economic analyses predicted that a major government-funded rapid testing program that reached every American could add as much as $50 billion to the gross domestic product and save tens of thousands of lives or more,” There is, happily, bipartisan support for making all this happen. Vaccination plus rapid testing would mean no more unnecessary isolations, no more missed holidays with families, no more randomly closed schools or businesses. We would, in effect, be able to live with the bug.

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