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Vol. 34, No. 21

December 13, 2018

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“At the end of the day we’re all cut from the same wood,” the creperie owner said.

Kim Marino, a Miller Place resident and It may be the season for lights, for holiday admin of the Facebook group North Shore (& cheer and for family, but for many people across beyond) Mamas & Daddies working as Angels, the North Shore, it’s also the time for giving to has been active since 2017 helping support famthose who may not have the capability or money ilies in need with food and other items, and this to participate in the holidays.

Christmas season she, along “My main hope is other peowith Miller Place Boy Scout ple catch on, not necessarily the Troop 204 have helped close donating, but the dropping off, to 20 families. Marino is lookthe doing,” said Robert Nasta, the ing to get Christmas presents co-owner of My Creperie in Wadfor the family of a single mothing River. “It’s one thing to think it, er, who has two kids with spebut it’s another thing to do it.” cial needs and lives with the Below are some of the people family’s grandparents. Those and organizations in the area that who wish to assist Marino or have made it their mission to make donate can request to join the others’ holidays a little brighter.

Facebook page or email MaWhile no one person could posrino at Zakgm@optonline.net. sibly support all at once, all those Miller Place resident Rhonlisted said they would appreciate da Klch is helping to host the support of any kind. ninth annual Holiday Dreams Stacy Davidson, the owner of event that raises funds and acPattern Finders & Stacy’s Finds on Stacy Davidson holds the donation cepts donations to bring presEast Main Street in Port Jefferson, box for Holiday Magic. ents for an average of 250 needy is working with a number of busifamilies a year, the majority of nesses in the area to gather toys and clothes for which live in the Town of Brookhaven. The nonthe Hauppauge-based nonprofit Holiday Magic, profit Equity First Foundation, which runs Holiwhich collects toys for homeless and underprivi- day Dreams, is hosting its pick-up party Dec. 22 leged children all across Long Island. at Recipe 7 in Miller Place from 9 to 11 a.m. Klch Davidson said often these underprivileged or said the event already has 400 people preregishomeless children, beyond any other gift, only tered, but those interested can still register online at ask for a house. www.holidaydreamsli.com or call 631-714-4822, “It’s very common, very common,” she said. ext. 102, to get a full list of items needed and for Davidson, along with Amazing Olive and the official drop off locations.

Sea Creations near Main Street have set up a colSome Long Island nonprofits are in dire lection box for Holiday Magic, while Captain’s need of donations this holiday season. The BellLady Salon on Main Street has set up a donation port-based nonprofit Lighthouse Mission hosts box for Toys for Tots, a national program run mobile food outreaches all throughout Long Isby the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Those who land, including Wednesdays at 12 p.m. in Rocky donate any new toys or clothing are also entered Point in the Knights of Columbus parking lot at into a free raffle for a gift certificate applicable 683 Route 25A and midday on Thursdays at the to all those participating stores. While Holiday Port Jefferson Station Commuter Parking Lot at Magic picks up the toys Dec. 12, participating the corner of Hallock Road and Route 112. stores said they will continue to accept gifts to Chloe Willoughby, the office manager for be delivered directly to the toy drive.

Lighthouse Mission, said the group’s need goes Other places around Port Jeff have set up do- up considerably at the end of the year. In Nonation boxes, including the Visitors Center with vember the group supplied about 9,750 people a Toys for Tots donation box and the ice cream with food, but she expects that number to rise shop Sundaes in Port Jefferson Station, which has past 10,000 in December. set up a donation box for Holiday Magic.

Lighthouse Mission is in desperate need of All across the North Shore both groups and in- both toys and clothes to give to underprivileged dividuals have made it their mission to help those children. The group projects the need to proin unfortunate circumstances, and the need never vide toys to 1,500 kids, but only currently have gets any smaller. Nasta spends his one day off a around 450. They are especially in need of new, week giving out donated blankets, hats, gloves, unopened toys, and toys for teenagers, whom she socks, jackets as well as sandwiches and water said often feel left out of these sorts of drives. In to the homeless in New York City. He is accept- terms of clothing, they would need jackets and ing donations every day but Tuesday and said the boots, which can either be new or used. If one clothing needs to be in decent, wearable condition wishes to donate to Lighthouse Mission you can and should be sent or dropped off at his business call 631- 758-7584 or visit the main location at located at 2 Sound Road in Wading River.

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Run to honor Andrew McMorris supporting Troop 161 Dec. 15

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM In a continuing show of support for a fallen youth in the North Shore community, Shoreham-Wading River High School will play host to the first annual Andrew’s Run Dec. 15 at 9 a.m. to support a local Boy Scout troop after its tragic loss.

“Andrew was going to do his first run for the cross country team in Shoreham before the tragedy,” said Matthew Yakaboski, the scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 161. The troop experienced the tragic loss of 12-year-old member Andrew McMorris from an alleged drunk driving incident in October. “This is a significant run,” Yakaboski added. “He just started his cross country career. He enjoyed running and just wanted to be part of the team.”

The race is coming together through the efforts of 16-year-old Miller Place student Danelle Rose, who is taking her passion for running and using it to support her neighboring communities.

“I, like many people, was extremely heartbroken by this tragedy,” Rose said. “I really wanted to help them heal the best that I could.”

Andrew, who was a seventh-grader at Albert G. Prodell Middle School in Shoreham, died Oct. 1 after an alleged drunk driver struck him and four of his fellow Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 161 while they were walking along the shoulder of David Terry Road in Manorville during a hike. Only days after the tragedy, community members from Riverhead to Miller Place came out in strong support of the family and troop, posting red ribbons on mailboxes, street signs and outside shops. The McMorris family was adamant that any monetary donations should go to Troop 161, the Shoreham-Wading River School District’s Wildcat Helpers of the Arts

and Music and the nonprofit advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

All proceeds from the Dec. 15 run are slated to go toward the construction of a 3,200 square foot Adirondack cabin at Baiting Hollow Scout Camp in Wading River, which will be named McMorris Lodge in honor of Andrew. “[Troop 161] is beginning to recover from the event, but the McMorris family still has a long, long road ahead,” Yakaboski said. “Whatever we can do to show the community is behind them is tremendous.”

Rose, who is a member of both the Miller Place High School’s varsity track and cross country teams, said she knew the family through John McMorris, Andrew’s father, who is a guidance counselor in her school district.

“I wanted to help these three communities; Miller Place because Mr. McMorris works there, Shoreham because that’s where Andrew lived and Riverhead because that’s where the troop members were from, too.”

The 2.5-mile run/walk will start at the high school baseball field, then take participants down the lower lacrosse fields, back up around the upper soccer fields then enter into the trails briefly before exiting out onto the upper soccer fields again before coming back to the finish line.

The mother of Rose, Jackie, has helped host and promote runs in the past, including the annual Joe Keany Memorial 5K and 1-mile runs in Miller Place. She said she is proud of her daughter’s efforts, adding, “She’s just a well-rounded excellent student, and she does what she needs to do.”

There is a $10 entry fee to sign up, but donations are also accepted. Sign-ups start on the day, Dec. 15, at 8 a.m., but people can register before the race at runsignup.com/race/ny/ shoreham/andrewsrun until Dec. 13.

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Mount Sinai School District’s $25 million bond failed to pass Dec. 11 with a vote of 664-428.

Members of the school board walked dejectedly through the halls of the elementary school Monday night after learning of the results.

“There was so much misinformation on Facebook,” board Trustee Edward Law said immediately after the votes were tallied. “I feel like we had an open and transparent process.”

Some residents in community Facebook groups said they were concerned about rising taxes in the Mount Sinai area. Others criticized the district’s use of its finances in the past, specifically the June New York State comptroller’s audit which said the district had amassed millions of dollars in its unrestricted fund balance, higher than the legal maximum of 4 percent of the district’s overall budget.

District officials said they have made efforts to create a rainy-day fund that could support them in the case of an emergency, but they have said they would be establishing a capital reserve of $750,000 to reduce that fund balance, which could go toward additional capital projects in the future.

In May residents voted 787-176 to use $5 million of the district’s capital reserve funds for a project that renovated the high school’s turf football field and track, replaced a portion of the high school’s ailing roof and created new fencing around the perimeter of the school campus.

This new bond would have borrowed $2.1 million to finish repairs for the high school’s roof, which teachers and district officials said was causing water damage in rooms throughout the building.

“The board has to decide their next step,” said Superintendent Gordon Brosdal.

Trustees said they were unsure if they could propose another, smaller bond.

“This was a bare bones bond,” Law said.

“Though this wasn’t a lesser bond, I don’t think we could go any tighter.”

Trustee Peter Van Middelem said while many of the board member’s children are in school, the actual application of the bond would have gone to supporting both the longevity of the school buildings and the children just entering elementary school.

“The irony is this wasn’t about our own kids but the kids in kindergarten,” Middelem said.

Mount Sinai’s next board meeting is Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. in the Middle School Auditorium.

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LI environmental groups receive funds to heal Sound Local environmental groups are anticipating expanding Long Island Sound education and cleanup initiatives, thanks to both state and federal funds.

As part of the 14th annual National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Long Island Sound Futures Fund initiative, federal and New York State officials announced Dec. 3 that 36 new grants totaling $2.57 million will go to environmental groups in Connecticut and New York, and $586,000 of those funds will benefit New York organizations.

“The funding is seed money investment for launching additional resources, pulling people together and bringing people together in conversation,” said Pete Lopez, the regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Lynn Dwyer, the program director of the fund, said the projects were selected by an unbiased, unaffiliated group of environmental experts. The money is reaching these groups as experts say the marine life in the sound has come under threat. In September the Long Island Clean Water Partnership, an advocacy collective supported by the Rauch Foundation, released its

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yearly report that showed dangerous amounts of poisonous algae blooms in coastal regions from Port Jefferson Harbor to Huntington Harbor. In addition, more and more areas are expressing hypoxia, or a lack of oxygen in water necessary to support marine life. Experts in the partnership said both of these are due to excess amounts of nitrogen in the water, mostly due to aging septic tanks and cesspools all across Long Island.

Several of the projects center on beach cleanup and environmental stewardship. The North Forkbased nonprofit Group for the East End will be receiving $67,542 to remove invasive plants and develop habitat restoration plans for the Hallock

State Park Preserve in Riverhead.

Environmental advocacy group Citizens Campaign for the Environment received $45,000 in grants to conduct a public education campaign to reduce plastic pollution on local beaches in both Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Adrienne Esposito, the director of CCE, said the project will gather 500 pledges to reduce throw-away plastic use and engage close to 200 volunteers in coastal cleanups on beaches across the North Shore. The group will be adding an additional $45,000 in matching funds from its own funds for the project.

“We will be distributing reusable metal straws, so people can use those in place of plastic straws,” Esposito said.

In addition to the public education campaign, which will start in January 2019, she said the advocacy group is commissioning a local artist to build a giant metal wire-mesh turtle to be placed in Sunken Meadow State Park. The turtle will be filled with all the plastic debris the volunteers pick-up during their beach cleanup to be viewable by the public. Esposito said she expects the beach cleanup and mesh turtle to be done during summer 2019.

The New York chapter of the National Audubon Society is receiving $41,009 from

the fund for its continuing Be a Good Egg environmental education program encouraging people to share the waterside with shorebirds.

The society will be focusing its efforts on a number of beaches, including at Hallock State Park Preserve, Stony Brook Harbor and along Nissequogue River. Sharon Bruce, the communications manager for Audubon New York, said some of the birds they wish to protect include the piping plover, least tern and American oystercatcher, all of which nest directly on the sand.

“These birds depend on our Long Island beaches to safely nest, rest, forage and raise their young without the threat of disturbance,” Bruce said.

Other projects look to beautify and increase biodiversity in coastal areas. The Long Island Explorium, located in Port Jefferson Village, is receiving $43,626 in grant funds to install native plant rain gardens in high visibility areas such as in front of its building on East Broadway and the corner of East Broadway and Main Street.

“There’s a visual component to it and an educational component,” said Angeline Judex, Long Island Explorium executive director.

“It will show to the 800,000 visitors to [Port Jefferson Village] how rain gardens improve the water quality of the harbor.”

BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH SARA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A Nesconset school that provides special early education opportunities for deaf children with profound hearing loss is pleading for the public’s help in funding a new playground for its students.

The yard outside Cleary School for the Deaf in Nesconset lies barren, as old split railroad ties square off desolate sections of rock devoid of any slides or swings. Jacqueline Simms, the school’s executive director, said the school was forced to remove its 30-year-old wooden playgrounds in May after an engineer determined they were “inappropriate” and did not meet New York State Department of Education’s safety requirements.

Since then, parents of its deaf students have launched a GoFundMe campaign seeking to raise $100,000 toward a playground.

“These are school-aged children with disabilities who don’t have a playground,” Nicole Abbene, of Smithtown, said. “They already feel different in regard to their disability, so for them to have a playground would allow them to have the same opportunity as every other child.”

Abbene said her son, Liam, has attended Cleary since he was 3 months old in their Parent

Infant Program, designed for children with profound hearing loss from birth through age 3, with their families. Now, at age 4, he’s in a full-day preschool program for children ages 3 to 7 that has approximately 50 enrolled students from 36 school districts across Suffolk County.

“We have a growing enrollment — a huge growing enrollment — that we are meeting with our [state] legislators to see if we can do something about,” Simms said.

The executive director said the state’s funding for the school has not increased proportionally to the influx of students, leaving it tight on funds for capital improvements and the latest technology needed to assist its hearing-impaired children. Simms said she has applied to several grant programs but has yet to be awarded any money.

“We’ve been trying to do everything to accommodate our population and help with the struggle of not having a playground,” she said.

The school’s staff has set up a small portable jungle gym, a few sand tables and set out tricycles and foot-powered minicars for the children to play on the blacktop. It has created a small play loft in its library, but Principal Katie Kerzner said these don’t fully fill the gap with the opportunities the children would have with an outdoor playground.

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The remains of a playground at Cleary School for the Deaf

“I took them outside, and we started to play hide-and-seek,” she said. “There was no place to hide.”

Kerzner said teaching her preschool children games has been difficult without a playground. In addition, the principal said students’ interaction on playground equipment can provide vital life lessons.

“For children with hearing loss, they need opportunities to practice having those language experiences,” she said. “For our kids, it’s all about language. They need more typical, realistic situations to practice their skills.”

The GoFundMe campaign launched by Abbene has raised more than $6,000, as of press time, for an age-appropriate playground for children ages 3 to 7. Cleary’s executive director said the school once had three playgrounds divided by age group: birth to age 3, ages 3 to 7, and a third for older school-aged children in its full-time summer programs. The school has received an estimate of $150,000 to replace one playground, according to Simms, and would require significantly more funds to purchase new age-appropriate, handicappedaccessible equipment for all its students.

“We are all aching to have something for the spring,” the principal said. “Our goal is when the kids open that door, after the snow melts, there’s something out there that will facilitate their play.”

In recent weeks, the GoFundMe campaign has captured the attention of some local businesses, who have stepped forward offering aid, and community residents. Simms said one generous individual stepped into the school to donate $150 in person, not sure how to give via the website. While she is “extremely grateful,” Cleary still needs to raise significant funds.

“The playground presents itself as a must,” Kerzner said. “It’s not something on a wish list.

It’s a have-to-have.”

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Police

Man allegedly robs Terryville CVS SCPD

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police 6th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the man who allegedly stole merchandise from a store in Terryville last month.

A man entered a CVS, located at 4331 Nesconset Highway, on Nov. 6 at approximately 11:40 p.m. and stole about $500 worth of shaving equipment.

The man may have fled in a white four-door Honda, police said.

Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). All calls will be kept confidential.

Police Blotter

Incidents and arrests Dec. 2–Dec. 9 Stabbing

A Centereach man was arrested Dec. 5 for allegedly stabbing a man with a knife Dec. 1 in Centereach at about 10 a.m. The victim had to be treated with stitches and staples but is now in good condition.

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Shed robbery

Police are looking for a person or persons who allegedly stole a power washer and a table saw from an unlocked shed at a Stony Brook home on Coed Lane at 6 p.m. Dec 2.

Phone scam

Police are currently investigating an alleged phone scam. A Stony Brook man said he received a phone call Dec. 4 from an individual who said his 22-year-old granddaughter was arrested for driving under the influence and the man needed to send cash, which he did.

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A Port Jefferson Station man was arrested in South Setauket Dec. 8 for stealing assorted groceries from the Setauket Stop & Shop at about 1:30 p.m.

A Ronkonkoma man was arrested in Selden Dec. 7 for allegedly robbing the same Target in Setauket multiple times over the course of little more than a week. Over the spree the man stole four Dyson vacuums as well as assorted toys and cosmetics.

A resident of Port Jefferson Station was arrested Dec. 7 in Port Jeff Station for multiple counts of drug possession with an intent to sell. The man allegedly had large amounts of hard drugs on his person, including cocaine, heroin and other prescription medication. He was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia including scales and bags.

Help at Home

Stealing groceries

Police said an employee of the HSBC bank in Port Jefferson Station was arrested Dec. 10 for grand larceny for allegedly stealing money from the bank Dec. 5.

Police are currently searching for a individual who stole a bag of cash from a locked 2014 Toyota in a parking lot outside the Sound Effect car audio shop in Centereach at about 1 p.m. Dec. 3.

Police are looking for a group that allegedly scammed a woman in Selden out of funds from her credit card Dec. 2. Police said the woman was told to give her credit card to the suspects so they could put money on her account, and instead took money from that same account.

Liquor store robbed

Police are looking for the suspects who allegedly broke the front glass door at the Dynasty Wine & Liquor shop in Miller Place and stole cash from the premises Dec. 8 at about 3 a.m.

— Compiled by Kyle Barr

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Community News

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Captain Randy Peck, left and Command Master Chief Benjamin Rushing, right, join Specialist 3rd Class Jennifer Wright, center, in congratulating her for being sailor of the day.

Sound Beach native named USS John C. Stennis’ Sailor of the Day

U.S. Navy Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Jennifer Wright, a native of Sound Beach, attained a great honor Dec. 7 as she was named USS John C. Stennis’ Sailor of the Day for her continuing work aboard her ship while moving through the Indian Ocean.

The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations

in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points.

Wright was honored by captain of the USS John C. Stennis Randy Peck and Command Master Chief Benjamin Rushing.

School News

Wayne Mammina

Wayne P. Mammina, 70, died Dec. 9, surrounded by his family. Mammina was born April 3, 1948 to Joseph and Eleanor Mammina in Manhattan and grew up in Rocky Point.

Wayne worked as a teacher in the Rocky Point school district for over thirty years, including as a 3rd grade teacher and a science teacher for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.

Wayne especially enjoyed teaching science, and he received many recognitions and awards for his unique hands-on science program, including Teacher of the Year from the Suffolk County Science Teachers Association and the New York State Science Teachers Association Excellence in Science Teaching Award, for which he appeared in The New York Times.

He was also a recipient of the Chemical Manufacturers Association Catalyst Award for encouraging girls to pursue scientific studies, the first time this award was given to an elementary school teacher.

His teaching career also gave him the opportunity to meet Deanna D’Alauro Lanza, a fellow third grade teacher, and they were married in 1984. Wayne also served in the Army National Guard and helped to

rescue many turtles and seals over the years when he volunteered with the Okeanos Foundation, assisting them with whale research through many whale watching trips off Montauk Point. He was also a history buff and in recent years served as a docent for the Noah Hallock House, the oldest house in Rocky Point.

Wayne will be greatly missed by his wife Deanna; daughters Laura (Mark) and Elizabeth (Paolo); step-daughters Renee (Andrew) and Kim (Bobby); and grandchildren and step-grandchildren Lily, Danny, Maria, Gabriella, Andrew and Anthony. Visitation was held at O.B. Davis Funeral Homes in Miller Place on Dec. 11. A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 12 at Saint Anthony of Padua R.C. Church in Rocky Point.

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As legal troubles swirl on the national stage over President Donald Trump’s (R) 2016 campaign, he has at least one powerful local supporter who is as staunchly in the chief executive’s corner as ever.

Despite the loss of control of the House of Representatives and the New York State Senate, Suffolk County Republican Committee Chairman John Jay LaValle — the party boss who stumped for Trump during 2016 and delivered the county to the first Republican presidential candidate since the early ’90s — has no doubts about Trump’s political capital and said he sees no reason to reexamine his party’s platform in the coming electoral cycle. That upcoming cycle features county Legislature and executive races in November 2019. Meanwhile the 2020 presidential campaign already begins to churn.

On its face, Republicans’ showing in Suffolk in the 2018 midterms last month is nothing to cause alarm, according to LaValle. Incumbent U.S. Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and Peter King (R-Seaford) secured new terms in an environment that produced 40 new colleagues with “D” next to their names for congressmen.

Entrenched state senators John Flanagan (R-East Northport) and Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) — the party boss’s cousin — also scored easy wins, keeping their decades-held seats even as the body flipped to the Democrats’ control, painting all three houses of New York’s government blue.

LaValle, speaking in an exclusive interview with TBR News Media at his Ronkonkoma office Nov. 29, displayed no concerns with the future of his party, nor a willingness to reassess messaging or strategy ahead of the next two November elections. Jobs, the economy and immigration — along with undoing anything

and everything possible from President Barack Obama’s (D) tenure — have been first and foremost policy in the Make America Great Again era of the Republican Party, and LaValle suggested that shouldn’t be expected to change.

“The Democrat Party had a better day than the Republican Party,” he said of the 2018 midterms. “If we cut out everything else in the world and we look at it in a vacuum, what occurred, certainly the Democrat Party performed somewhat better; not substantially, but somewhat better in the 2018 election cycle.”

He said it is to be expected a sitting president’s party would lose seats in Congress during a midterm election, a long-held trend that plagued nearly all presidents in the recent past. This is also despite the narrow margins of victory for King and Zeldin compared to recent cycles.

“This was a very tough climate for a lot of people, not so much for us,” he said. “We actually stemmed the tide very well. We are intact. That to me is an extremely positive sign.”

The closing message for the president on the campaign trail last month focused on immigration, specifically a caravan of migrants coming through Central America, which has for the most part dwindled. Zeldin’s campaign ads in late October warned of his opponents “radical liberal agenda,” support of sanctuary cities and desire to provide free health care for illegal immigrants. Immigration has long been a wedge issue nationally, and in Suffolk, LaValle pegged it as one of the key issues that helped Trump win during a 2017 interview.

“As far as our game plan — the Republican agenda for America is working,” LaValle said, touting unemployment numbers and an economy displaying some other positive signs. “The truth is, the Republican agenda

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for America, and in large part Donald Trump’s agenda for America, is not being represented accurately in the media.”

He dismissed the notion that Democrats are a more diverse party, both in the electorate and in the candidates running.

“More Americans are working today than ever before in our history,” he said, adding the left has gone out of its way to try to label the president as a racist. “For a guy that’s a racist, more African Americans are working today than ever in the history of this country. Under Barack Obama more were on social programs, welfare, and more were unemployed then ever in the history of the country. So we had a black president who failed the black community. We have now what the Democrats say is a racist president, is now employing more African Americans than ever in history. It’s totally indisputable.”

The unemployment rate for black people is at a record low, though African-American unemployment has been declining overall since 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, several years before Trump took office.

LaValle said he expects in coming elections more people of color to realize the positives Republicans have brought about for their communities.

“It’s not going to happen overnight that they’re going to wake up and say, ‘You know what, I love the Republicans,’” he said. “That’s a myth that’s perpetuated — the Democratic Party is the party of diversity. No, they’re not.

What diversity are they offering?”

LaValle suggested Trump will be in a better position going forward to advance his agenda with a Democratic-held House, saying the president falls closer to the center on the

political spectrum than many Republicans in Congress who have failed to rally behind him.

“I have a feeling at the end of the day there’s going to be a lot of negotiating and think we’re going to see some compromise and we’re going to see some progress,” LaValle said. He added he’s not sure what his involvement will be in the 2020 Trump re-election campaign but will be willing to get in the game if his name is called.

LaValle has previously been rumored as a potential challenger in 2019 against incumbent Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) but said at this point that’s unlikely to be in the cards. He named Flanagan, county Comptroller John Kennedy (R), Legislator and Minority Leader Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore) and Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) as a few possible Republican candidates for Suffolk’s top office. He said he expects the decision to play out in January.

LaValle called Flanagan “an excellent candidate” but said he’s unsure if the state senator would be interested in the position.

“Rob’s an interesting guy, he’s certainly willing to say whatever it is that’s on his mind, that’s a quality that people like,” he said of Trotta.

The chairman pegged legislature seats held by Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai), William Lindsay (D-Bohemia), Al Krupski (D-Cutchogue) and Tom Donnelly (D-Deer Park) as a few he expects to hone-in on to try and flip in 2019.

The Legislature is currently comprised of 11 Democrats and seven Republicans.

“I think for the most part we’re going to continue along the path that we’re on,” he said. “I don’t see any reason not to. We faired pretty well in this election cycle. We certainly bucked trends.”

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Miller Place 72 Comsewogue 52

Panthers take down Comsewogue in nonleague game were Mike McGuire and Liam Gray with 13 points apiece. Both teams opened league play Dec. 12 where the Panthers hosted Wyandanch and Comsewogue took on visiting Centereach, but results were not available by press time.

Pictured clockwise from left: Miller Place’s Cirrito, junior Matt Frank, Hirdt, Cirrito, senior Thomas Nealis.

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Separate, not equal Cleary School for the Deaf in Nesconset is the only statesupported school in Suffolk County for more than 50 preschool children who are deaf or profoundly hearing impaired. It has become apparently clear to us the state assistance it does receive doesn’t seem to be nearly enough.

As a parent pointed out, Cleary’s full-time students ages 3 to 7, despite being young, are keenly aware that they are different from their peers. While facing the challenges of learning how to overcome hearing loss, often in combination with visual impairments and other disabilities, they are separated from peers.

This is a classic case of separate but not equal. Cleary School for the Deaf was forced to take down its 30-year-old wooden playgrounds and has taken to GoFundMe to raise the money needed to replace them.

Young children have a natural desire to want to run, jump and play outside. A playground provides them with the opportunity not only to get exercise and build gross motor skills as they try to negotiate the monkey bars, but a chance for social interaction as well. In taking the risk of asking another child to play, they learn how to negotiate making friends and, unfortunately, deal with rejection. It can also be a chance to be creative by playing make believe.

Parents researching various preschool and kindergarten programs have every reason to want to know what activities and resources will be available to their children — including what opportunities will be available for play.

Katie Kerzner, principal at Cleary, said she’s already faced the difficult questions from parents such as “Will my preschool or kindergarten-aged child have the same opportunity as those at public schools? The opportunity to play on a playground?”

The answer, we all know, should be an unequivocal “Yes.” Unfortunately, the future isn’t so clear. The state-supported school’s staff say enrollment has boomed in the last five years and state aid isn’t keeping up.

Parents of Cleary’s students have launched a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to raise the funds necessary to build a playground. In addition, the school hosted fundraising breakfasts and raffles while local businesses and community members have stepped forward to help, but it’s not yet clear if their fundraising efforts will be enough.

New York State officials need to get on this, provide support and do more. It’s not right to have children who already feel different as they fight to overcome disabilities left out on a fundamental part of growing up.

Our Long Island schools, both public and state-supported, need to receive their fair part of state funding. It’s a battle cry we hear from teachers and school administrators at the start of every budget season in January. This time, we’re sounding the rally cry early for Cleary and its students.

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Suffolk County should ban e-cigarettes

I am a pediatrician and I work, reside and am a parent in Suffolk County. On behalf of my patients and my children, I urge the Suffolk County Legislature to pass the proposed bill that will ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes and flavored nicotine in our county.

E-cigarette use is one of the leading public health issues affecting teens today with a 75 percent increase in use among teens in the last year alone. E-cigarette and liquid nicotine use is rampant here in Suffolk County. Kids are vaping in school hallways, classrooms and bathrooms and are sharing devices with friends. It is odorless and smokeless and the vaping devices resemble pens, USB drives and battery chargers making their use easily concealed.

This issue is of huge concern to parents who are worried about their children. Most of the teens simply do not know the poten-

tial harm they are causing themselves and the potential addiction for which they are putting themselves at risk. Of teens who vape, 65 percent are not even aware that the products contain nicotine. Therefore, it is our responsibility to protect them.

Clearly the fruity and dessert flavored products with colorful packaging are meant to target youth, and we know that kids who start vaping are more likely to try cigarettes. We know that the nicotine in all these products is not safe, is addictive, can harm the developing brain and is associated with addiction to other drugs. In addition the chemicals in the vapor can cause irreversible lung damage and contains potential carcinogens and heavy metals. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the flavors, design and marketing of the nicotine products appeal to youth and normalize and glamorize nicotine product use.

E-cigs and liquid nicotine are addicting a

new generation of youth to nicotine and are reversing more than 50 years of progress in tobacco control.

As far as I’m concerned, with youth being the primary target of these flavored products, their sale should be completely banned from the market. We have the ability to do that here in Suffolk County with the proposed legislation. We have a responsibility to do everything in our power to make it as difficult as possible for youth to get their hands on these products.

I can say with absolute certainty that pediatricians and parents throughout Suffolk County would welcome and be extremely grateful if this bill was passed and I urge the Legislature to do so.

Eve Meltzer Krief, M.D. Executive and Legislative Advocacy Committees of NY chapter 2 American Academy of Pediatrics

LIRR fare hikes vital to keep trains running On April 24, 1834, the Long Island Rail Road was officially chartered by the State of New York. In 1900, the Pennsylvania Railroad bought a controlling interest as part of its plan for direct access to Manhattan which began on Sept. 8, 1910.

The Pennsylvania Railroad subsidized the LIRR into the late 1940s. This provided the financial basis for support of expansion and upgrades to service and infrastructure.

At the end of World War II, there began a decline of our LIRR with a corresponding loss of fare-box revenues.

The Pennsylvania Railroad began to reduce financial support as well. This played a part in the LIRR going into receivership in 1949. In recognition of the role the LIRR played in the economy of both Long Island and New York City, the state began providing financial assistance to the LIRR in the 1950s and ’60s.

Prior to 1965, the line of the “Dashing Dan” and “Dashing Dottie” logos derived almost 100 percent of its funding for

both capital and operating expenses from fares. Chartered by the state Legislature in 1965, as the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority, it was created to purchase and operate the bankrupt LIRR. In 1966, the state bought the railroad’s controlling stock from Pennsylvania Railroad and put it under the newly formed Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority. The MCTA changed its name to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 when it took over operations of the NYC Transit Authority.

With MTA subsidies, the LIRR modernized further and grew into the busiest commuter railroad in the United States. Over the past 50 years, several billion dollars in combined county, city, state and federal taxpayer-generated dollars have subsidized both the capital and operating costs for the LIRR. Riders must be aware that fare hikes are periodically required if the MTA is to provide the services millions of New

North Carolina needs to find a resolution to its voter-fraud event swiftly for the good of us all.

Allegations of election irregularities and fraudulent activities endanger our

view of elections altogether.

Find out who did what to whom and put folks in jail if laws have been broken. Leaders need to respect the collective wisdom of the people or just get out.

Voter fraud hurts everyone

Yorkers use daily. They are inevitable due to inflation, along with increasing costs of labor, power, fuel, supplies, materials, routine safety, state of good repair, replacement of worn-out rolling stock, upgrades to stations, yards and shops along with system expansion projects necessary to run any transit system.

In the end, quality and frequency of service is dependent upon secure revenue streams. We all have to contribute — be it at the fare box or from tax revenues generated by different levels of government redistributed back to the MTA. Remember the adage TANSTAAFL: There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch — or, in this case, a free ride.

Larry Penner Great Neck Editor’s note: Penner is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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Opinion

Still a fan of the old-school book

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ld school. It’s a phrase that suggests someone, like yours truly, does something one way, even if there might be an easier, more efficient or modern alternative method for doing things.

Take reading a book. My teenage children think nothing of doing their assigned reading for classes on electronic devices.

That just doesn’t work for me. For me, reading has always been a multisenD. None sory experience. I of the above enjoy finishing a

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF page and flipping to the next one, anticipating the next set of words even as I know how many pages are left in the book by the size

of the stack to the left and right.

When I was young, I used to figure out the exact middle of a book. I had an understated celebration when I reached the midpoint, even though the prologue, or introduction, often tilted the balance slightly.

Of course, I could do the same thing with an electronic version of a book.

And yet it’s just not the same for me. I also liked to see the names of the people who read the book in school before me. These students had perused the same pages, found the same shocking revelations and associated with the characters as they moved through the same year in their lives.

When I reread a chapter, searched for symbols or literary devices, I could recall exactly where on a page I might have seen something.

In an e-book, every page is the same. None of the pages is slightly darker, has a bent corner where someone might have stopped, or has a slightly larger “e” or a word that’s printed above the others on a line. The virtual pages are indistinct from each other, except for the specific

words on the page or the chapter numbers.

I suppose people like me are why a store like Barnes & Noble can still exist, despite the ease and low cost of uploading books. And, yes, I understand when I travel how much lighter my suitcase would be if I uploaded 100 books without lugging the weight of the paper. I also understand that e-books are more environmentally friendly. Once a paper book is produced, however, it no longer requires constant battery recharging.

Passing along books read by earlier generations connects us to our parents and grandparents. We can imagine them holding the book at a distance as their eyes started to change, falling asleep with the book in their laps, or sitting on the couch until late at night, eager to finish a book before going to bed. We can also picture them throwing a book that frustrated them across the room or out the window.

Among the many Titanic stories that sticks out for me is the tale of Harry Elkins Widener, a 27-year-old book collector who boarded the

ill-fated ship with his mother and father in Cherbourg, France. Legend has it that he died with a rare 1598 book, “Essays” by Francis Bacon, that he had bought in London. Harry and his father died aboard the ship, while their mother survived the sinking. After her son perished, she donated $2 million — an enormous sum in 1912 — to Harvard to construct a library which is still on the main campus.

While I’m sure it’s possible to pick a random section of an e-book, I have grabbed books from a shelf and leafed to a random page, trying to figure out where in the story I have landed.

I am delighted to hold children’s books, including many of the Dr. Seuss collection. Also, I remember my children searched each page of “Goodnight Moon,” by Margaret Wise Brown for the mouse. There’s probably a mouse in the virtual version and touching it may even make the mouse grow, scurry across the virtual page or offer lessons about rhyming couplets.

Still, for my reading pleasure, I’m old school: Hand me a book and I’ll carry around a friend.

many wild rides through the neighborhoods. He cut a fine figure in his scarlet hunting jacket at the head of the pack. And he probably broke every bone in his body at least twice in his many falls, always with good humor during the phone calls as he related the latest mishap to his wife on his way to the hospital.

The other left NYU just shy of a doctorate in 1950 and ultimately found a job in 1951 with the Electronic Computer Corporation, a shop of engineers in Brooklyn. In between she married a tall Brit named Israel Wilenitz, who was a chemical engineer. She figured out how to design various computers including one that made range calculations for the U.S. Defense Department, another that kept accounts in business offices and one for an airline reservations system for United Airlines. She also built and marketed the world’s first computerized word processor. She went on to found her own computer company with two male colleagues, which was located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park, and eventually was bought out by Burroughs Corporation. For fun she loved attending cultural events, especially the American Ballet Theatre in New York City where she

held a subscription. Recently she joined us with a subscription to the Metropolitan Opera.

Our best times together were probably on her back deck in Poquott, where she served us elaborate brunches of French toast, bagels and lox from the famous Russ & Daughters on the lower East Side of Manhattan and regaled us with historic events she had witnessed during her long life. She had something interesting to say about every subject, past and present, and was totally engaged in current events right up to the end. The last time I called her, she told me she had to get off the phone because she was watching “60 Minutes.”

He was also my orthopedist and shared with me a precious bit of wisdom: “You Americans feel that there should be a cure for every pain that you may feel. But the body isn’t like that. Pains, minor pains, are a part of life and can be borne without rushing into surgery to have them fixed, which is a risky thing to do in the first place.”

They were companions and their lives were an inspiration for me. I am diminished by the loss of my dear friends.

Two inspirational lives

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wo exceptional people, Edmunde Stewart and Evelyn Berezin, died this past week, one day apart. The funeral for one was at Bryant Funeral Home in East Setauket on Monday, for the other at Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York City on Tuesday. Although quite different, they were both well known for their talents. I was privileged to know them as friends.

Their deaths leave a void for the world and a hole in my heart.

The first was a Scotsman, an orthopedic surgeon who lived for many Between years in Old Field you and me and whose office

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF was in Port Jefferson. He was 80 years old, and during his half-century of medical practice, he touched the lives of thousands

of people. Educated well, he came to the United States to cap off his training, fell in love with one of the first women he met at Stony Brook — and Scotland’s loss was our gain. She was there, at his bedside all those years later, when, struggling to breathe, he finally succumbed to COPD. The second was born in the East Bronx and was 93. She was one of three children raised in an apartment under elevated railroad tracks. It was so small that the uncle who boarded with them, while he finished medical school, had to sleep on a mattress under the dining room table. She was bright enough to finish high school at 15 and attended Hunter College at night while she worked.

Unusually tall for her generation, she lied about her age in order to get her job. Under a World War II City University program that allowed women to study calculus and other specialized subjects at an all-male school, she then transferred to Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and ultimately earned a degree in physics from NYU in 1946. Needless to say, she was in a distinct minority in her classes.

He, when not practicing medicine, and as a passionate lover of horses and riding, participated in the Smithtown Hunt for many years and on

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