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September 27, 2018

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Rocky Point Sound Beach chamber planning new events

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Rocky Point Sound Beach Chamber of Commerce only established its current form less than a month ago, but in that short time it’s already full steam ahead on a number of ambitious projects.

“It’s gangbusters, and it’s a challenge, but we wanted to get something on the map right away,” said John Tochterman, chamber treasurer and the branch and financial services manager for the Teachers Federal Credit Union in Rocky Point.

The chamber hosted its first meeting in August, but already it is planning several events including multiple festivals, expos and golf tournaments. Gary Pollakusky, the president of the new chamber and managing partner of Media Barrel LLC in Rocky Point, said the hamlets of Rocky Point and Sound Beach need a group to champion not only those on the highly trafficked Route 25A, but the businesses on the roads leading to the North Shore.

“The first piece of what we do is bring business into the area and inspire our merchants to do things that are a bit out of the box,” Pollakusky said. “We have to get customers to

our different business districts — to our Sound the Port Jefferson/Terryville Chamber of ComBeach business district and our Route 25A merce, people in the Mount Sinai area established the Mount Sinai-Miller Place Chamber business district.”

The chamber started to come together in Alliance, and the community in the Shoreham January, when Marie Stewart, the owner of area created Wading River Shoreham Chamber Brooklyn Bagels & Café in Rocky Point began of Commerce.

Jeff Davis, owner of the gathering local business ownRocky Point Funeral Home was ers, slowly building the chamber until it formed a new board ‘It’s a challenge, part of the North Brookhaven in March. In June, the chamber but we wanted Chamber before it dissolved, and he said the new chamber foincorporated and attained 501(c) to get something cusing on the local businesses is (6) chamber status. on the map heading in the right direction.

In October 2017, the North “They have all the right ideas Brookhaven Chamber of Comright away.’

— I’m hoping they can pull it merce, which covered businesses from Port Jefferson Station to — John Tochterman off,” Davis said. “We’ve talked about [the fall festival] for years.

Wading River, dissolved because It takes people who want to get the time commitment proved too involved to do it.” much for volunteers in such a large Already boasting approximately 40 memcoverage area. It was then decided the chamber would split up to take on original shapes, which bers, according to Pollakusky, chamber leaders focused on businesses in just a handful of hamlets. are still looking for new people to fill positions Pollakusky said the North Brookhaven cham- on the board. They are asking local business ber collapsed because it simply couldn’t reach people to fill positions to help welcome ownevery nook and cranny of businesses in its cov- ers to the neighborhood, hold ribbon cuttings, erage area. Now more people are stepping up in drive membership, find sponsorships and plan events, among others. local communities to fill the void left behind.

“The more the merrier,” said Stewart, who Members of the Port Jefferson area created

now serves as chamber vice president.

Plans are set for the Fall Festival in the Rocky Point business district Oct. 27. The event will include a children’s costume parade, hayrides, local vendors and demonstrations from the Rocky Point Fire District. After hours, the event will also include a late-night adult-only session including live music, a beer garden and costume contest.

Events are being planned into next year. The chamber hopes to establish a spring festival to be set in Sound Beach next year, along with a senior expo and golf tournament fundraiser.

Pollakusky said they were still ironing out the full details for those events.

“There’s all kinds of businesses that need our support, it could be our lawyers, our doctors, our nonprofits, it could be our home-based businesses, our brick and mortar craft merchants, our restaurants, there are many categories of business that need our help,” Pollakusky said. “To look at every category and see how we can support them that is the difference maker in this chamber.”

The chamber is looking for more volunteers and vendors for its upcoming Fall Festival.

Contact the chamber through its website, www. rpsbchamber.org.

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Boys battling cancer sworn in as SCPD officers for a day

Three young boys battling cancer have long been fascinated with police, and Sept. 19 they got the opportunity to immerse themselves in the lives of law enforcement officers.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart and Chief of Department Stuart Cameron swore in Zachary Cote, 9, and Jesse Pallas, 11, of Miller Place, and Sean Hughes, 10, from Port Jefferson as SCPD officers for the day during a surprise ceremony at police headquarters in Yaphank. Sean’s brother, Kyle, 8, also joined for the day’s events.

“It’s hard to put into words what our kids go through every day, but when we see a child smiling and this excited, it’s these things that will stick with them,” said Fariba Pallas, Jesse’s mother.

Each held up their hand as Hart asked them to repeat the words to be sworn in. Once she reached the end, she smiled and said, “Welcome to the department, boys.” Already used to repeating what she said, they repeated her again, “Welcome to the department, boys,” the young officers said in tandem.

The swearing in was a surprise for both the kids and their parents. The adults thought their children would be meeting for a tour of the police department, but instead the kids got to join the ranks of the adults in blue.

Pallas said her son has been in the hospital for nearly half his life after being diagnosed with leukemia in 2011. She said being sworn in as an officer was a big moment for him.

Pallas asked her son who is his superhero.

“Police,” the young man shouted.

“He wants to be a police officer every Halloween,” she said.

The families originally met at an event hosted by the Thomas Scully Foundation in 2017, a nonprofit with the mission of brightening the lives of kids fighting cancer, and both the parents and kids bonded over their shared experiences. Melanie Hughes, Sean and Kyle’s mother, said that the kids did not have to talk to each other about their experiences, because they all know without having to say.

“It’s really sad to see kids go through what they have to go through to fight for their lives,” Hughes said. “Just to see the smile on [Sean’s] face, he’s a very happy boy today.”

The idea came about from county police Sgt. Patrick Kelly, who met the kids and their families during the annual Long Island 2-day breast cancer walk in Shirley. The officer was so humbled by their enthusiasm for local police he decided to do whatever he could to make a special day for the kids, he said.

“Once the word got out everyone stepped up to the plate and wanted to be a part of this,” Kelly said. “These kids are unbelievable. They’ve gone through more in their lives than I could even

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Top, Kyle Hughes, Jesse Pallas, Sean Hughes and Zachary Cote take the oath of office as they are sworn in as honorary SCPD officers Sept. 19; above on the left, SCPD Officer Brendan Gayer speaks to Zachary and Jesse after they are sworn in; and above on the right, the boys show off their badges.

imagine of going through.”

After the swearing in ceremony, the kids were taken outside to experience a number of police department activities, including working alongside detectives from the Identification Section; meeting with Emergency Service Section officers; and checking out Highway Patrol cars and a police helicopter. The Suffolk County K-9 unit brought out a number of their dogs for the kids to meet. Officer Brendan Gayer, a member of the K-9 unit, had

quite a lot of experience with the kids, especially Jesse who has had a long standing passion for the dogs, collecting baseball cards with the names and pictures of the unit’s many hounds.

“I met Jesse years ago and he approached me, and he was infatuated with my dog,” Gayer said.

“He just loves them.”

At the end of the day, the kids were presented with a proclamation followed by a walkout ceremony usually reserved for retiring high-ranking

members of the department.

All three of the young cancer patients have long been enamored with the police department.

Zachary’s father Glenn Cote said ever since his child was little he would make “awooga” sounds every time a police car passed by.

“As long as he’s been able to talk he’s looked up to the police department,” Cote said. “This is a really special day for him to be around a bunch of people that he wants to grow up to be.”

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Town

Brookhaven to purchase new pump-out boats for Mount Sinai, Port Jeff harbors

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If you’ve ever seen a boat with a built-in toilet, the next question is inevitable: Where does that waste inevitably go?

Either the waste goes straight into the Long Island Sound or surrounding harbors or boaters call the Town of Brookhaven’s pump-out boats, a service provided by the town for free, to suck out the waste, according to Karl Guyer, a senior bay constable for Brookhaven.

At Brookhaven town’s Sept. 13 meeting the board voted unanimously to purchase two new pump-out boats — one for Mount Sinai Harbor and one for Port Jefferson Harbor. The total cost for both boats is $92,500 with $60,000 of that amount coming from state aid in grant funding from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation. The town is supplying $32,500 in matching funds from serial bonds, according to town Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point).

The town operates four pump-out boats, including two on the South Shore and two on the North Shore, which are located in Port Jeff and Mount Sinai harbors. All these boats were purchased in 2006, and Guyer said it was time all of them were replaced. The two on the South Shore were replaced this year, and the North Shore boats

will be replaced early in 2019, according to Guyer.

“They’ve been in service for quite a number of years and they’re at the end of their life span,” Guyer said.

The pump-out boat in Port Jeff Harbor is showing signs of long use. The paint on the boat’s deck has been worn down by years of work, and there are cracks showing in some of the plastic hatches around the boat. William Demorest, the bay constable for Port Jeff Harbor, said the new boats will be made from aluminum, which should give them a longer life span.

The pump-out boat service is widely used by the boaters in both harbors, and on a busy day town employees operating the boats can service hundreds of boats in a single day. People can call for a pump out by radioing the constable’s office on channel 73.

There is a manual boat waste pump in a barge inside Port Jeff Harbor, though the constable said 75 percent of the over 700 boats that come to port on summer weekends use the pump-out boat service. After the pump-out boats are docked for the winter, all North Shore boaters are required to manually pump out their own waste.

Bonner said these boats do a major service in cleaning out the tanks of many boaters, because dumping the waste into the coastal waters only adds to the islands growing water pollution problem.

“Not only would there be waste in the water but the nitrogen load would be crazy,” Bonner said. “It would take several tides to flush that out.”

All the water from Conscience Bay through Port Jefferson Harbor as well as the entire Long Island Sound is within mandated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency No-Discharge Zones, meaning it is illegal to dump any boat waste into the surrounding waters.

While Demorest said he hasn’t seen people dumping their waste into the water himself, he has heard reports of it being done. He said he believed the vast majority use the free pump-out service.

“If we don’t see it, there’s nothing we can do about it,” he said.

Many areas of the North Shore are experienc-

ing waves of hypoxia, an increase of nitrogen in the water that deprives sea life, both plants and animals, of oxygen. During a press conference Sept.

25, co-director of the Center for Clean Water Technology Christopher Gobler and other researchers from the Long Island Clean Water Partnership concluded there were cases of harmful algae blooms in harbors from Mount Sinai all the way to Huntington, another symptom of excess nitrogen in the water. Most of that nitrogen has come from cesspools and septic tanks from people’s homes slowly leaking into the surrounding waters.

The boats usually operate Friday, Saturday and Sunday mostly by high school and college-aged summer employees, according to Guyer. The pumpout boat service ends on Columbus Day, Oct. 8.

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Torrential rain floods Port Jeff

BY ALEX PETROSKI & KYLE BARR Those strolling through Port Jefferson Village on the morning of Sept. 26 couldn’t stride too far without hearing the distinct sound of Shop-Vacs.

The area was hit with more than 4 inches of rain during the evening into the night Sept. 25, according to the National Weather Service, leading to severe flooding in Port Jefferson Village.

The intense rain storm flooded businesses, the Port Jefferson Fire Department and even forced emergency evacuations from Theatre Three. Fire department Chief Brennan Holmes said water levels on the department’s grounds on Maple Place reached about 5 feet high.

“The problem with this was it was 4 inches of rain in an hour and a half, so it rose so quickly that a chief’s car got stuck in a flash flood, we couldn’t get the trucks out,” he said Wednesday morning as cleanup efforts were already well underway. He added he had just spoken to Brookhaven Town Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R), whose department was helping out with the cleanup effort. “I think we took 10 people out of flooded cars.”

Christian Neubert, a member of the fire department, said around 8 p.m. Tuesday night people were trapped in their cars in the vicinity of Wynn Lane, as well as others on Liberty Avenue near Port Jefferson High School. Holmes said between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. the department responded to 14 alarms related to the flooding.

In addition to damage to at least one department car, Holmes said the radio room also flooded, sustaining damage that was still being assessed Wednesday.

“We had a lot of stuff damaged,” Holmes said.

“Usually [some flooding is] easily mitigated.

We’re good with that. We get the trucks out and up the hill. This just came so fast and so quick and so much that it was tough.”

Theatre Three was inundated with water during the storm. The deluge left a watermark 4 feet high in the theater’s basement, high enough to nearly pour over the bar and stools used for the theater’s comedy nights.

Theatre Three president, Andrew Markowitz, said the flooding started around 7:30 p.m. Sept.

25. The water reached high enough to muddy the costumes and props the theater was to use in this upcoming Friday’s production of “The Addams Family,” many of which will have to be quickly replaced. Worse still, much of the theater’s lighting apparatus was stored downstairs, and personnel were still determining what needed to be repaired or replaced Wednesday.

“We have a lot of volunteers who are helping out, but anyone who wants to come down and clean they are welcome,” Markowitz said.

The office on a lower floor used by Jeffrey Sanzel, the theater’s executive artistic director, was nearly submerged. The small office contained innumerable books, original stage scripts and stage

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Jeffrey Sanzel, executive artistic director at Theatre Three, assesses damage to his office following a Sept. 25 flood.

props, many of which Sanzel said were completely ruined by the rushing waters. He estimated several thousand dollars worth of items were destroyed.

However, their loss means much more to him on a personal level.

“I spend more time in that office than I do in my own house, and everything in my desk, from my shelves down, is gone,” Sanzel said, his pants stained with mud. “The personal stuff — it’s just gone, I’ve never seen it like this. But then again, we could be in the Carolinas, you have to put things in proportion.”

At the same time the theater was hosting about 40 children and their families in auditions for its yearly portrayal of “A Christmas Carol.” Since the kids had nowhere to go with the several-foot-deep waters outside, Sanzel said they simply continued on with the auditions in order to keep the kids calm.

Holmes indicated that while the flooding was catastrophic, it occurred during low tide. When asked what this storm might have looked like had it happened during high tide, the chief responded, “We don’t want to know.”

Markowitz said Theatre Three is still waiting for the assessment on total damages, but he feared the cost could be astronomical. He said the theater would work hard over the next days to make sure the production of “The Addams Family” goes on, despite the flooding.

“The show must go on,” he said.

Donations are already pouring in, and theater operators said they have received close to $5,000 just in the morning hours after the flood.

For more information, go to the website: www. theatrethreetickets.com/donations.

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Perspective

BY RICH ACRITELLI

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President Theodore Roosevelt’s words, given above, were spoken more than a century before the passing of longtime Arizona Senator John McCain, but they serve as a perfect summation to remember his dynamic. The 81-year-old politician, combat veteran and prisoner of war passed away after a battle with brain cancer Aug. 25.

In the aftermath of his death, Americans watched ceremonies held in Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Annapolis, Maryland, by military figures, politicians from both major parties and friends who immediately recalled the unique strength that McCain had demonstrated throughout his life.

As a young man, McCain learned the value of service through the examples established by his family members. His grandfather, John Sidney McCain, was a four-star admiral who served during World War II. The senior McCain sailed around the world within the naval White Fleet created by President Theodore Roosevelt. He was also a key figure in establishing the early naval flight training and carrier-based fighter planes during World War II and the Cold War. McCain’s father, John Jr., was a submarine commander during World War II. He too was an admiral who was in charge of the American naval presence in the Pacific and in Vietnam.

While Senator McCain graduated fifth from the bottom of his Annapolis class of 1958, many of his peers saw him as resembling “John Wayne” for his bravado and colorful approach to being a cadet and later as a naval aviator. Later on in speeches to naval cadets, McCain described himself as being “undistinguished” and a “party man,” but his naval family lineage balanced his rebellious side.

McCain was laid to rest at Annapolis where he developed many of his “maverick” military and political traits.

A fierce high school and college lacrosse competitor, Rocky Point native Danielle Vivonetto graduated from Annapolis in 2012. She is currently a lieutenant and a MH-60S helicopter pilot. She said McCain represented “the necessary patriotism and sacrifice that will forever be a bright example for all armed forces members to emulate.”

Former U.S. Marine Corps mortarman and the current president of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Suffolk County Chapter 11, Richard Kitson served in South Vietnam at the same time that McCain was shot down in 1967. The longtime

resident of Port Jefferson Station identified the vital aspects of McCain’s military and political experience that represented “all that America stood for” and he served with “honor like that of his father and grandfather,” Kitson said. He said he was pleased that members of both political parties put aside their differences to recognize the hardships McCain endured in serving America during times of war and peace.

On Oct. 26, 1967, during his 23rd bombing mission over the skies of North and South Vietnam, the A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet McCain was flying was hit by enemy surface-to-air missiles. He was pulled out of Truc Bach Lake, outside of Hanoi by Vietnamese civilians. Just recently, Americans who are living in this part of Vietnam placed a wreath near the spot where McCain was taken by the enemy. He sustained several injuries from the war that stayed with him until the day he died.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina recalled in a speech to Congress he observed McCain’s inability to comb his own hair and put on a coat, a byproduct of being shot down and tortured by North Vietnamese interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton.

When it was learned by the enemy McCain’s family members included high ranking naval officers, they offered him an earlier prisoner release, which he refused to accept. For more than five years from 1967 to 1973, McCain was held in horrible conditions and constantly suffered from his wounds. Still, he did what he could to care for his fellow Americans imprisoned with him. Recent media stories described how McCain and the other officers created a tapping code on the wall to communicate with each other. When one prisoner had a broken arm, McCain helped create a make-shift caste to care for him.

Joseph Cognitore, commander of Post 6249 of the Rocky Point Veterans of Foreign Wars, who also served in Vietnam, summed up his feelings on McCain’s harrowing experience as a POW. “It was hard enough serving a yearlong tour fighting in Vietnam, let alone, being a prisoner of war for over five years,” he said. “McCain never wavered to help other service members, and he personally understood the needs of combat veterans who were wounded in defense of this nation.”

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

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ALEX PETROSKI Top left, Gina Mingoia performs during The Sal Mingoia Pet Adopt-A-Thon Sept. 22, an event renamed in her father’s memory, who died in 2017 following a battle with cancer. About a dozen animals brought to the event by local shelters and groups were adopted or have applications pending.

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BY ALEX PETROSKI ALEX@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A popular Sound Beach event for a good cause took place Sept. 22, but this year it was renamed to honor a late friend and participant.

For the sixth time, the Sound Beach Civic Association hosted its pet adopt-a-thon in the parking lot of the Hartlin Inn on New York Avenue, during which representatives from local animal groups and shelters set up shop and push for the adoption of dogs, cats and more looking for permanent homes. During adopt-a-thons past, Sound Beach father-daughter duo Sal and Gina Mingoia provided the musical accompaniment to the event, singing and playing instruments throughout the day. This year, Gina had to perform without her dad, who died after a battle with cancer in 2017. This year and going forward, the event will be known as The Sal Mingoia Pet Adopt-A-Thon.

“Sal loved animals, and everybody loved Sal,” said Bea Ruberto, Sound Beach Civic Association president and organizer of the event.

“So we checked with the family to see if it was OK with them. They said great, they loved it, so that’s why we changed the name. And that’s what it’s going to be named from now on.”

Sal Mingoia was described as a gentle, caring soul by civic association member and Sound Beach resident Ernestine Franco.

“Although he’s gone, Sal’s kindness and generosity are not forgotten,” she said.

The event always leads to the adoption of quite a few animals, according to Ruberto, who said this year four cats, three dogs and a guinea pig were adopted, though applications are pending for the adoption of eight more cats and six other dogs. More than $1,100 was raised through donations and auction items, as well as from the sale of digital pet caricatures done on-site at the event by 19-year-old Sound Beach resident Brianna Florio using a drawing tablet.

Funds raised were distributed to the animal organizations in attendance.

Ruberto credited volunteers and civic members for helping to set up and execute the event and gave special thanks to Boy Scout Troop 244 for helping to set up. A local band called Random Notes even showed up unexpectedly and offered to take turns with Gina providing music for the event, Ruberto said.

“Over the time that I’ve been involved with this event, I’ve never had to really go looking for people to step up and help — they just show up and offer their time and talent,” Ruberto said.

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Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R) and the town Youth Bureau are working together to present a free, interactive distracted driving program for teen drivers and their parents.

During the event, which will be held Tuesday, Oct. 23, at Brookhaven Town Hall, instructors will discuss the dangers of driving while impaired and distracted, while demonstrating the negative impacts with state-of-the-art equipment.

Snacks will be available before the presentation begins and there will also be free raffles for gas gift cards.

Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for people 16 to 24 years old in the United States, and it is imperative to prevent bad driving habits before they start.

Preregistration is required for this event

On Saturday, Sept. 29, starting at 7 p.m. at Mount Sinai Congregational Church, Long Island will become part of a nationwide coalition to remember victims and commit to taking action to reduce gun violence, featuring students from Newtown and Parkland. Spanning 10 days, The Concert Across America to End Gun Violence campaign features events ranging from “selfie soloists” to over 40 live concerts, kicking off Sept. 20 with concerts in Boston and New York City, and concluding with a finale event in Parkland Sept. 30.

“The Mount Sinai concert will use music to raise awareness about gun violence, and empower citizens to hold elected officials accountable,” said Jeff Keister, one of the event’s organizers.

“The awareness raised by Concert Across America will help ensure that when Americans go to the polls on Nov. 6, they will remember those who have been lost to gun violence, and vote for those who will do more than just send thoughts and prayers.”

Jennifer Brady-Cotter, another of the local event organizers, offers her own compassionate message of peace: “This effort is not anti-gun.

This is about turning down the hateful rhetoric often associated with the gun debate, and using music to raise voices in a positive way to focus on change ... because 35,000 gun deaths a year is just not acceptable.”

Local songwriters and musicians are donating their time to support the effort, and the concert is free to anyone wishing to attend. Participating artists include The Krinsky-Baker Caravan, The G-Men, MVP, Rusty Gold and Haiven Sellers. In addition, the Mount Sinai concert will include a performance of the song “Shine,” written by Andrea Peña and Sawyer Garrity, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,

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Mount Sinai Congregational Church is located at 233 North Country Road. The Long Island event is being supported locally by Mount Sinai Congregational Church, Songwriters Showcase, Suffolk Progressives and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and nationally by Stop Handgun Violence, States United to Prevent Gun Violence and Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence.

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Kenneth S. Israel, 83, of Mount Sinai died peacefully Sept. 11. He was the beloved husband of Charlotte; devoted father of Cheryl, Cindy, Kirk, Yolanda (the late Manuel) Ojeda, Jenny (Bob) Quaies, Julio (Heidi) Ramirez, Raymond (Tina) Ramirez, Sandy (Glenn) Yurick, Leonard Ramirez, and Elizabeth (James) Bertini; loving grandfather of 23; great-grandfather of 21; and great-great grandfather of one. He is survived by many other family members and friends.

A religious service was celebrated at Branch Funeral Home in Miller Place. Interment followed at Pinelawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

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An idea decades in the making could take a major step forward by the end of 2018.

It still may be years before electrification happens, if it ever happens at all, but momentum is building toward funding being secured for a study determining the feasibility of electrifying the Long Island Rail Road on the Port Jefferson line from Huntington to the stations east by the end of this year.

Mitchell Pally, the Suffolk County representative on the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s board of trustees, said the LIRR has already appropriated funds to support the study, adding that state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) has also succeeded in appropriating state funds toward the plan.

“The support of the communities involved is essential to making this work,” Pally said in an interview. “The rail road is very supportive.”

Community support for exploring the possibility of electrifying the line, which currently allows trains to run on diesel fuel east of Huntington, has been building in recent years, although the idea has been on the radar for North Shore residents at least as far back as the 1980s.

Anthony Figliola, an East Setauket resident, former Brookhaven Town deputy supervisor and vice president of Empire Government Strategies, a company that provides strategic counsel on governmental relations and practices to municipalities, has been leading a community coalition advocating for a feasibility study for about the last year, he said. The group, which Figliola said has been informally calling itself the North Shore Business Alliance, has been lobbying elected officials and community organizations like civic associations and chambers of commerce throughout the relevant territories in an effort to build public support for and attention on the idea. Figliola said he hopes the funding for a study will be in place by the end

of the year. The study is expected to cost approximately $12 million, he said.

“It’s ripe, the community wants it,” Figliola said. “We’re very grateful for all that Mitch is doing to advocate on behalf of this.”

Figliola identified Charlie Lefkowitz, vice president of the Three Village Chamber of Commerce and real estate developer, as one of the other community members leading the charge for electrification.

“It’s a long time coming,” Lefkowitz said of progress on the feasibility study. “It was a collaborative effort on many fronts. The direct beneficiaries of it will be the communities.”

The study would examine how much faster trains on the North Shore line would reach Penn Station in Manhattan with electrification from Port Jeff and select a new railroad yard to house the electric trains, among other logistical particulars.

Currently, the LIRR yard is off Hallock Avenue in Port Jefferson, though several officials have indicated electrification would require the relocation of that yard and the Port Jeff train station. The former site of Lawrence Aviation Industries has been suggested as a possible new yard and train station.

On April 4 Huntington Town Supervisor Chad Lupinacci (R), Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) and Smithtown Town Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) sent a joint letter to the New York State Legislature’s Long Island delegation to express their support for the feasibility study due to potential economic and environmental benefits.

They cited that the Port Jefferson and Huntington branch lines have the highest ridership, about 18.7 million annually, of any line in the LIRR service territory, according to the LIRR Annual Ridership Report for 2015. Figliola said his coalition had lobbied for the support of the three supervisors.

“I think it has legs,” state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) said of electrification. “It’s such a good idea that I think it should happen.”

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Clockwise from left, SUNY students work together with the nonprofit NECHAMA to repair roofs in Puerto Rico; Rebecca Mueller and a friend get ready to patch leaks with cement; 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

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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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As a result of their exceptional academic achievement and promise, 27 Rocky Point High School seniors have been named Advanced Placement Scholars by the College Board. This honor is bestowed upon students based on their performance on Advanced Placement exams.

Twenty scholars were given the title of AP Scholar after receiving scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams. These include: Maxwell Alkon, Casey Badal, Camaryn Banfi, Allison Bernhard, Sydney Burke, Kimberly Casey, Julius Condemi, Sabrina Duenas, Alyssa Figarsky, Michael Gunning, Jack Hamilton, Hunter Hess,

Paul Leheste, Amanda Levix, Eric Maier, Donald Marotta, Caitlin Migliore, Briana O’Connor, Julia Salino and Delaney Vu. Five were named AP Scholars with Honor after receiving scores of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These include: Jennifer Bradley, Jale Caneli, Hayley Nofi, Joshua Vogel and Alexander Weik.

Additionally, two students — Ethan Brown and Bryant Liu — were given the high honor of AP Scholar with Distinction. These students earned this title after receiving an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

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Coastal cleanup

Rocky Point High School’s Be a Nicer Neighbor Club recently hosted a Coastal Clean Up day in conjunction with the International Coastal Cleanup, an initiative aimed at rallying community together with the goal of collecting and documenting the trash littering the coastline.

The 36 student-volunteers, which included members from BANN club and field hockey, worked diligently for the community service project at West Ramp Beach. Special thank you to BANN adviser Brooke Bonomi and teachers Carly Tribby, Janece Alfredson and Jenessa Eilers for their help in this global effort.

Musical excellence Shoreham-Wading River High School students Sophia Mastrangelo, second from the left, and Christopher Wygonik will be among the finest musicians across New York State when they participate in the New York State School Music Association All-State Winter Conference in Rochester from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2.

Sophia was selected for the treble choir and Christopher was selected for the string orchestra. Both students will perform at the AllState Concert in Kodak Hall at the Eastman School of Music.

Students selected as alternates to the various NYSSMA instrumental ensembles are Brett Callagy (viola), right, Edward Troyano, second from the right (multiple percussion), and Wygonik, third from the right (trombone).

Sarah Cain, left, Rianna Lotito, fourth from the left, Justin Stuart, third from the left, and Wygonik were selected as alternates for the choirs.

Each year approximately 6,500 high school students prepare a New York State School Music Association solo in hopes of being considered for a spot in one of the All-State Honors Ensembles. The rigorous process for selecting an All-State musician includes teacher recommendations, audition scores at the NYSSMA solo evaluation festival and participation in other performing organizations.

“This concert is a culminating performance of not only the hours of work the students will spend in [rehearsal in Rochester], but of years of practice and lessons in their chosen field of study,” said music teacher Dennis Creighton.

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The win improves the Wildcats’ record to 2-1 this season. Clockwise from above, SWR sophomore safety Johnny Schwarz and senior cornerback Anthony Cimino take down a Red Devils running back; Schwarz finds a running lane; junior quarterback Xavier Arline finds an open hole for one of his five touchdowns; Schwarz reels in a catch; senior wide receiver David Brown turns up-field; and Arline surveys the field after a play. SWR will host Elwood-John Glenn Sept. 28 at 6 p.m.

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Opinion

Editorial

Picking up speed

Most passengers on the Long Island Rail Road probably have one wish — to get to their destination quicker. This desire has been uttered for decades on the Port Jefferson line where commuters headed to the Big Apple or Nassau County need to change trains since tracks are only electrified west of Huntington, with diesel fuel powering all trains east.

While we’re more optimistic than ever that the wish may be granted, we must admit we’re only cautiously optimistic.

While the Long Island trains may never reach speeds of those in Japan, China and France, which travel at more than 200 mph, officials and community members are working harder than ever toward the goal of electrification. Both the Metropolitan Transit Authority and state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) have appropriated funds to support a study of the feasibility of electrifying the line, and a group of community members, informally called the North Shore Business Alliance, is advocating for the study by not only lobbying elected officials, but also presenting the benefits to civic associations and chambers of commerce along Suffolk County’s North Shore. There are a lot of people on board to move things forward.

Electrifying the rails means more than getting in and out of the city quicker, it also means living on Long Island and community would be more appealing. Hopefully, it would keep people here and draw more to the area. It would make commuting to work in the city easier, where salaries tend to be higher and opportunities more abundant. For those traveling east, it would decrease the time for traveling to Stony Brook University.

However, as we have said before, we are cautiously optimistic. While the study will look at how much faster trains can go, it will also look to see if electrification makes sense financially, something we Long Islanders need to understand.

The winding nature of the Port Jeff line presents a set of logistical troubles as well. There is still a possibility electrification may not make economic sense, which stands to reason as it has been discussed for generations. In 2000, one study estimated it would cost $500 million to electrify the Port Jefferson line from Huntington to the end.

There’s also a change some communities may not welcome as they may foresee problems that might arise from faster trains, one being that many towns may not want more people living in their areas, citing traffic problems and perhaps more multihouse units being constructed or development.

But back to the positive side of the coin, faster trains may actually mean less cars on the road especially on the Long Island Expressway and Northern State Parkway as more may find taking the train easier. There will also be those who now live on the North Shore who opt to take trains out of Ronkonkoma but now can head to the station closer to their home.

We may not know what the feasibility study will turn up but moving it forward will increase the odds of one day either riding a faster train or finally putting the dream to rest.

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Keeping score on apartment green space I read with great interest the Aug. 23 article in The Port Times Record entitled “Port Jeff moves to reduce recreation fee for Shipyard apartments.” It appears that this may also be the case involving Rail Reality’s The Hills apartments, situated on Texaco Avenue. These two corporations, Tritec and Rail Reality, are being assessed reduced recreational fees. Fees that are needed to offset the cost to create and maintain public recreational facilities used by all, including the hundreds for recent apartment dwellers. If using the formula recently established, Rail Reality ought to be paying a $105,000 fee to the village based on 74 units developed at The Hills, and Tritec Corporation’s The Shipyard ought to be paying approximately $136,000.

However, a precedent was worked out with The Shipyard for reduced fees

based on green space within the rental units. Rail Reality’s The Hills in upper Port assumed the task of upgrading the playground on Texaco Avenue, which has been in disrepair for many years. This would be its commitment to providing a recreational fee. We still do not know the exact amount of fees to be paid to the village by these corporations.

What we do know based on the landscape design provided by Rail Reality for Texaco Park is that the upgrade will be nothing more than adding some shrubs, flowers, benches and a few picnic tables.

Is Rail Reality contributing $105,000 worth of upgrades at Texaco Park? Will the village give it the same corporate discount based on its recreational spaces that are for the exclusive use of its renters. What green spaces are located at The Hills? Residents have no access to

these facilities at both The Shipyard and at The Hills.

It is important to know if and when corporations pay their fair share in improving our recreational and parkland spaces. Will these fees be severely reduced by credit given for green spaces and gyms provided for the sole use of their tenants?

I am hoping our trustees go back to the drawing board and demand that Rail Reality make meaningful substantial changes and upgrades to Texaco Park and that The Shipyard pays a fee sufficient to help maintain our playground, tennis courts and basketball courts, all advertised as amenities available to the tenants of the 114 units at The Shipyard.

Myrna Lee Gordon Port Jefferson

The central pillar of our legal system Forget about hot-button legal issues such as judicial activism vs. original intent. A bedrock principle of our nation and system of justice is that an accused must be confronted by his/her accuser. I think this is a cornerstone of the concept of “due process,” a cherished right guaranteed to all in our democratic republic. However difficult this might sometimes be, the burden is upon the accuser — or if a crime has been committed, the prosecution — to prove a charge or crime. We have afforded this right to the most despicable individuals accused of even the most heinous crimes.

This is perhaps the central pillar of our legal system: A person is innocent until proven guilty, not guilty — or possibly guilty until proven innocent. Its importance cannot be overstated. Indeed, it is almost a trademark of authoritarian (or fascist or

tyrannical) legal systems that persons accused of crimes (or deed or thought) are required to prove their innocence. Examples that demonstrate the dangers of the “guilty until proven innocent” approach can be seen in the use of show trials by Stalin in 1930s Soviet Union (to complete its transformation into a totalitarian dictatorship) or by some of the excesses of the House Un-American Activities Committee in early Cold War USA: charges — sometimes incomplete — could be made (even by unnamed or unidentified sources), and accused individuals would be required to “prove” their innocence. In the McCarthy era some individuals who could not or would not demonstrate their innocence (sometimes of “crimes” based on the political cause du jour) had their careers and livelihoods terminated. Possibly the most

reprehensible examples of this in U.S. history are found in the 20th-century treatment of African-American men accused or suspected of sex crimes and acts involving white women. “Reprehensible” is hardly a strong enough word. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of black men were lynched or murdered, often publicly. When we hear statements that begin with “The charge itself” or “Such an accusation alone” should convict anyone of or disqualify anyone from anything, it is time to pause and reflect.

In some instances, the burden on the accuser, who is often the victim, to confront the accused can be difficult and even traumatic. We cannot and must not abandon or suspend this basic tenet of our justice system. Period.

Michael Zelenak Old Field

A poorly engineered economy Many companies are making huge profits by paying their employees wages that are so inadequate that some of them need public assistance just to get by.

Today, thousands of workers rely on food stamps, Medicaid and public assistance because they can’t survive on the wages they receive. Meanwhile, 82 percent

of the world’s wealth created last year went to 1 percent of the population. How silly is that?

And who pays for the public assistance subsidizing this flow of wealth? We do.

The middle class subsidizes the wealthiest companies in the country, while workers struggle to put food on the table. That’s

what an engineered economy looks like. In my view, it’s ridiculous and needs to end.

Pay your workers a living wage or pay the public its money back. It’s really simple: If a worker needs $500 in food stamps, you owe us $500.

Jerry Reynolds Coram

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 • THE VILLAGE BEACON RECORD • PAGE A27

Opinion

Diving with equal opportunity into our first Charlotte block party

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fter living in our new house in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a few weeks, we were delighted to receive an invitation to a block party to meet our neighbors.

Up to that point, we’d only seen and spoken with one neighbor. She and her family welcomed us to the area, offered an air-conditioning reference and shared the garbage pickup D. None schedule. of the above The morning

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF of the upcoming gathering, my wife and I took a walk through the neighborhood.

We admired the landscaping and architecture of nearby homes. We moved off the sidewalk as runners passed us. We trotted up one lawn

to clear space for a biker whose steering wheel seemed to be pulling left and right.

Most of the people in cars waved as they passed, a regular occurrence here, even when they didn’t know us.

My wife believes I alert the canines in the area that I am a “dog person.” A golden retriever and a black Labrador spotted me from across the street and stared, causing their owner to stop and wait as they watched us disappear up the block.

A friendly man with a small dog stopped and chatted. He asked if we were residents and if we were attending the block party that evening.

When we told him we moved here with our kids, he asked what brought us down.

“Work,” we said.

“Oh,” he said, turning to me. “Did you get a job with one of the banks?”

“No, my wife did,” I replied, directing his attention to her.

He was embarrassed and immediately apologized for assuming I had landed a job that required us to relocate. We reassured him it was fine and we kept walking.

I am proud of my wife and her professional accomplishments. I also recognize, even in a world where people regularly discuss equal opportunity, that we are still far from situations in which people can’t assume anything about the roles husbands and wives play when they meet a couple.

Later that evening, with our children in tow, we walked the few blocks to the party, waving politely at a man who almost certainly carried a beer the same way 20 years ago when he was in college, although his clothing, like ours, was probably a few sizes smaller. Maybe that’s an unfair assumption, too?

When we arrived on a tree-lined cul-de-sac, we noticed that most of the children were considerably younger than our pair, who snarled about an early exit.

After urging them to stay, we made some selections in the crowd and broke the social ice. Consistent with our experience since our arrival, we found people who came originally from Long Island, New York and New Jersey.

We chatted with a proud father, who pointed

to his high school senior and proclaimed her the best athlete in her entire school.

“You must be in public relations,” I said.

He and his daughter laughed.

“That guy over there,” he said, pointing to a house.

“Yes?” I replied.

“He is a neurosurgeon who works with football players. His attends games and he does concussion protocol.”

“Really?” I asked.

“The players are supposed to say ‘spaghetti’ when they see him after a hard hit. They get hit so hard that they say things like ‘ham’ or ‘bologna’ because they can’t remember the first concussion word,” he offered.

Our children, despite their initial disappointment, found contemporaries that night and are cellphone buddies with the kids on the block.

We received restaurant recommendations and local service provider referrals, while we also will recognize a few of the people who exchange pleasant waves on and off the block.

No quarrels with Canada in Quebec and Montreal

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uébec City seems like a delightfully European-styled destination that is only a nine-hour drive from here.

Montreal, officially Montréal, is even closer, only six hours or so. The old cities there are filled with beautiful stone buildings that speak of some five centuries of North American history, a unique culture that is a French-CanaBetween dian and English you and me mix, lively street

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF scenes and shops, museums, sports and scrumptious restaurant food.

I can attest to all that because I attended a press convention that was held in Canada this fall, and a friend and I drove there and back.

By the way, the road trip is a scenic joy as we traveled along the Molly Stark Trail amid the Green Mountains through Vermont and back on the Adirondack Northway. The only way it could have been better is if the leaves had been turning. As it was, the trees were at their lushest, the highways were clear and the weather was perfect — in the 70s with low humidity and azure blue sky.

I was thrilled that the local residents could understand my French and even more so that I could understand theirs. I haven’t tried to speak French since I was last in Paris, a while ago. I discovered that the French Canadians speak more slowly than the Parisians generally, so communication of at least a rudimentary nature was mildly possible. I certainly understood how much they dislike President Trump, which they told us often enough after they discovered we were visiting Americans.

Quebec City, referred to that way to distinguish it from the larger Province of Quebec, is located both above and below cliffs that line the northern bank of the wide St. Lawrence River.

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The Upper Town, home of the now-famous Château Frontenac, was where the elite among the early French settlers lived, including the clergy and government officials. Merchants and craftsmen lived in the Lower Town along the river. The strategic location of the city permitted the French to repel both British and American invaders for more than a century and enabled trade to flourish among New France until Wolfe and de Montcalm fought on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the British won. The Quebec Act of 1774 allowed the French to continue to speak French and to practice Catholicism, and by keeping the French satisfied probably kept them from joining the American Revolution. To this day, road signs are in French although children learn English from second grade on and are bilingual.

After a couple of days, we made the threehour drive to Montreal and the location of the convention, still enjoying glorious weather. I keep marveling at the weather, knowing that of the original 28 men who accompanied Samuel de Champlain from France in 1608, 20 died from the harsh first winter.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Alex Petroski EDITOR Alex Petroski

LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia DIR. OF MEDIA PRODUCTIONS Michael Tessler

The Island of Montreal was considered, in the early days of settlement in the mid-17th century, to be only an outpost for fur trading. Over the centuries, however, it has become one of the world’s largest primarily French-speaking cities after Paris and the second largest city in Canada — only Toronto is larger. The Port of Montreal is one of the world’s major inland ports, served by the St. Lawrence Seaway. It is a city of skyscrapers, festivals and considerable diversity, and it too has marvelous restaurants, along with the cultural and entertainment offerings one would expect. I only got a short tour of Old Montreal and some time in the art museum, where there was a good exhibit on Picasso and African art, because in Montreal I had to work. I enjoyed the meetings and learned some things there that our newspapers will be telling you about in subsequent issues, also on our website.

Our return on Sunday afternoon took us an hour to cross the border compared with fewer than three minutes on the way into Quebec on a weekday. We left our northern neighbor, however, with a strong urge to revisit soon.

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