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May 7, 2020

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Giving Thanks

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Student Helps her Neighbors Fight Food Insecurities

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Since schools shut their doors back in March, one student from The Stony Brook School has been keeping busy helping her neighbors in Bellport to beat food insecurities.

Emmy Specht is spearheading a food drive and fundraising effort for those who have been struggling to buy groceries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 17-year-old has been buying and collecting the food and then boxing up and delivering groceries to recipients.

Specht said a few weeks ago she had the idea to start a food drive and contacted Yolanda Lucas, the Day Care and Family Support coordinator at Boys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area. Lucas connected her with those who she knew needed help. Specht started spreading the word, and soon friends and neighbors were dropping off food on her front porch. When she heard that classmates and relatives in the Three Village area wanted to donate but were unable to make the drive to drop off items, she created the fundraising page Food for Suffolk County.

Lucas said she has been impressed by Specht’s endeavor, and how the high school senior took the

initiative to contact her and is running the drive on her own. Lucas said it gives her a renewed sense of hope about young people.

“She’s doing it out of a concern for others,” Lucas said.

Specht, who has traveled to school in the Three Village area since she began her academic career in the Laurel Hill School, has been able to deliver food to 10 families each week, and so far she has raised $7,000. She added that her guidance counselor, Debbie Abrahamsen, whose husband, Stan, owns the Chick-fil-A in Port Jefferson, even contributed 30 gift cards for meals which include a sandwich, side and a drink, which she said is helpful for families to get a hot meal.

“It’s really amazing, and I’m really appreciative, especially since I know it’s a challenging time for everyone,” Specht said.

Abrahamsen said she cried when she heard about the student’s endeavor, especially since she recognized that as a senior Specht may be grieving the loss of prom and graduation.

“Instead of it being about her, she’s helping those in need,” the guidance counselor said.

“I just think that’s amazing. How many high school seniors have that type of compassion.”

Emmy Specht unloads groceries from her car to deliver to those in need in Bellport. Photo from Joanne Specht

Every week, Specht aims to have three boxes for each family, and even though she isn’t able to meet them face-to-face, Specht has interacted with some from a distance.

Recently, the student received an email from

a woman asking for help. The woman had seen the groceries her son had received from Specht and explained to the student how she was disabled, and her fiancé is an essential worker.

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County

Who Local Leaders are Thankful for Helping During Pandemic

BY KYLE BARR AND RITA J. EGAN KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM, RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With so much going on day to day, with people stuck at home and fearing for the future, there are consistent hopes provided by the men and women doing more to help the people most in need. Whether it’s people making masks for essential workers or meals for hospital employees on the front lines, we asked local officials, business and civic leaders who they would like to thank during this time of crisis.

to help make sure we have food on our table, gas in our cars and electricity in our homes.

This is an effort that requires so many to work together and these men and women are the ones who will lead us to victory over this virus. We say thank you for all you do for all of us.”

Suffolk County

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) said she’s grateful for a range of people.

“Like so many others, my gratitude goes New York State first to our health care and frontline workers,” State Assemblyman Steve Englebright she said. “Their courage and devotion is the (D-Setauket) is thankful for several local brightest star in this dark time. I’m grateful residents. that people in our community are staying “We owe a debt of gratitude to the home, following social distancing guidelines, members of our community who, week after and wearing face coverings in public so we week, have shown up for their jobs — our can all help slow the advance of this invisible health care workers, first responders, grocery enemy. We all have that essential role to workers and all the others who have provided lower the toll COVID-19 takes by being the crucial services we need to get through responsible.” this shutdown. Through their courageous Hahn also pointed out the importance of commitment to service, essential workers mental health professionals. have enabled the rest of us to do our part by “I am grateful too for the mental health staying home.” professionals providing counseling, guidance Englebright was grateful also for those and emotional support for domestic violence doing their part at home. victims, as well as the many among us who “For those of us at home, it is hard to are struggling to hold on to hope and the reconcile that staying put is actually doing tattered shreds of what was a normal life something important,” he said. “But by just a few short months ago,” she said. “As working from home, helping our children someone with a social work background, with their schooling, I know for certain that social distancing and these caring individuals ‘Through their wearing masks when out are critical to the wellin public, our responsible courageous commitment being of our community. behavior has worked to We need their skills and to service, essential flatten the curve and slow their caring hearts now down the transmission workers have enabled more than ever.” of the coronavirus. So, Hahn added that the the rest of us to do our community has played my gratitude goes to everyone who responded part by staying home.’ an important role to help so admirably to the fight the pandemic.

—Steve Englebright challenge before us.

“From people making Your collective actions masks for others, combined with others delivering food to seniors around the state have literally helped save and neighbors in need, to journalists bringing thousands of lives.” us the facts and stories or the lost and to the State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East families teaching their kids at home, I see Northport) wanted to thank both those on the bravery and love everywhere,” she said. “It front lines and the “unsung heroes.” gives me hope that we will come through this “I want to thank each and every one in our stronger than ever.” community who has been on the front lines Suffolk County Legislator Rob Trotta of this battle,” he said. “Doctors, nurses, first (R-Fort Salonga) also had an array of people responders and all of our volunteer firefighters to thank. have been fighting a war that they never “During this unprecedented pandemic, expected. Their efforts are truly heroic, and it has been wonderful to see our neighbors we owe them a debt we may never be able coming together to support and help one to repay. But equally as notable is the work another,” he said. “All of our essential workers of our unsung heroes — retail workers, postal (first responders, health care providers, postal employees, cleaners, truck drivers, restaurant and delivery people, store clerks and many employees, delivery people and every single more) deserve our gratitude for the sacrifices person who continues to show up every day they make each day to do their job to help keep

Bagel Express employees custom made and donated 50 feet of hero sandwiches spelling out “thank you” to health care workers at Stony Brook University Hospital. Photo from David Prestia

us safe and healthy. It is important to recognize everyone stepping up to make a contribution, from students sending kind messages — to sewing groups and seamstresses making and donating face masks — to restaurants/ food establishments donating meals — to the libraries and businesses making PPEs and hand sanitizers — to nurseries donating plants to residents and health workers — and to the newspapers and media outlets keeping us informed. The work of those on the front lines is truly heroic and I can’t thank them enough.”

Brookhaven Town

Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) pointed to Lighthouse Mission, which despite all the constant pressure and expanding need has kept up its mission to give food to those who need it. In April, the town gave Lighthouse Mission the green light to start delivering food and toiletries directly to homebound residents. With volunteers which has included a few elected town council members, they have been delivering upwards of 100s of meals a day, Romaine said.

The supervisor also looked to thank the town personnel who are delivering close to 425 hot meals to seniors who were in the town’s congregate nutrition program. That is 425 meals each and every day.

“People feel like somebody still cares,” Romaine said.

Along with that, he also thanked all

the people who are continuing to operate the many food pantries in the town of Brookhaven.

“They are doing God’s work — they are helping people in desperate need,” he said.

“Nobody should go hungry.”

Town of Brookhaven Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) said she was thankful for many “hometown heroes.”

“I am incredibly thankful for the essential workers who are diligently providing support to individuals and families, including those most vulnerable, in our community during the COVID pandemic,” she said. “Without their commitment, none of us could be safe.

In addition to our outstanding health care and medical professionals, I would like to highlight and thank the janitors, custodial, and maintenance staffs that are keeping our essential facilities and businesses running, as well as the grocery workers, the United States Postal Service and the many delivery drivers who continue to ensure that we receive the food, medicine and other supplies that we need during this time. A final thank you goes to all those hometown heroes in our community, too numerous to name, who have stepped up to fill a community need during this challenging time.”

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Jonathan Kornreich, president of the Three Village Civic Association and a member of the district’s school board, said he would like THANKFUL CONTINUED ON A8

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Emmy Specht packs up groceries at her home. Photo from Joanne Specht

Emmy

Continued from A3 She lives separately from her son, who has his own family, and in addition to her children living with her and her partner, there is also her mother who lives with them. In the email, the woman said they were using rent money to buy food. The high school senior said thanks to the generous donations she has received; she was able to help the mother’s household too.

Specht is no stranger to philanthropy. She and her sister Rae, along with friends Maddie Joinnides and Eloise Kocay, founded Four Girls for Families. The nonprofit was inspired by a family visit to Cambodia. Specht’s father, Brian, works for Tara Toy Corporation and travels to China regularly. One year when the family accompanied him on a work trip, they paid a visit to Cambodia.

She said being in Cambodia and seeing kids her age who were unable to have essentials such as

an education and clean water affected her greatly.

“That was unsettling to see kids my own age going through something so hard,” she said.

While she and her family visit the country every year, a trip planned for this June had to be canceled due to the pandemic.

Her mother, Joanne Specht, said she wasn’t surprised when Emmy started her food drive as she has always had a soft spot for others, and in addition to Four Girls for Families, her daughter volunteers at Sunrise Day Camp in Wyandanch, which is a camp for children with cancer.

“She’s always looking for ways to help people,” the mother said. “She’s got a very kind heart.”

Emmy Specht said the new fundraising project has taught her about the problems people face on Long Island.

“I’ve never really seen the kinds of needs that are here on Long Island,” she said. “It’s not on the other side of the world. There are also problems here.”

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History Close at Hand

Remembering the First Mills in the Three Village Area

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The first mill in the Three Village area was built in Setauket along the creek (now the Setauket Mill Pond) between 1659 and 1664.

This first mill probably stood close to the Christian Avenue end of the millpond and was moved further downstream as silting blocked the water flow. In 1671, Henry Perring gave the mill to his two sons-in-law Jacob and Joseph Longbottom with the stipulation that it was to be available for his use as long as he lived and that his daughter Hannah and her heirs were to be “toll-free” forever. In 1684 a third mill was built by John Wade who became the miller for several years.

The mill in Setauket and the mill in Stony Brook, built in 1699, were essential to the wellbeing and to the economy of these two small communities. When the hamlets were without a mill, the residents were forced to transport grains to Connecticut to be ground. On one of these trips, three men were lost at sea crossing Long Island Sound and this tragedy only helped to point out the necessity of a local mill.

The miller had to be an honest, hardworking member of the community and in most cases, he became one of the leading citizens. There were exceptions to this, of course, the most well known being Arthur Futhy. For one reason or another, in 1701, the town had Thomas Jenner and Samuel Munsy inspect the Setauket mill and the town then ordered Futhy “to put the mill in good sufficient repair within six months and in case it be not done that the (mill and) stream be put to public outcry and the highest bidder have it.”

In Stony Brook, two years ear1ier, the town permitted Adam Smith to build a mill and to grind the grain of all those who assisted him in its construction. It is stated later that Smith built both the mill and the dam himself during 1699, for he

was given the right to a toll of a tenth part of every bushel of wheat and an eighth of Indian (corn) and rye. At various times millers came under suspicion for taking more of a “toll” then they deserved but the greater number of millers were honest and took only their fair share of grain.

A number of other mills were authorized to be built in the Three Villages at various times. According to “Setauket: The First Three Hundred Years,” a mill for sawing wood stood on the hill overlooking the upper Setauket pond.

Long Island historian Benjamin Thompson wrote in his “History of Long Island,” that a mill was erected in 1690 in East Setauket on a stream flowing into the harbor. On Dec. 9, 1718, town records indicate that Selah Strong requested permission to build a “grist tide mill on the creek from his meadow to Daniel Brewsters.”

On the same day, John Hallat (maybe Hallock) Jr. petitioned to build a grist mill on the creek from his old barn to the point of Dyer’s Neck.

We do not know if either of these mills were built but, according to William B. Minuse, “about 40 years ago County Superintendent of Highways Harry Tuthill was asked to identify some timbers that were uncovered along the stream which flows under East Setauket and into the harbor.

Mr. Tuthill identified the timbers as probably belonging to an old mill.” Whether this was a mill that took advantage of the tide to provide power or whether it worked the same as the mills at Setauket and Stony Brook is also unknown, but the interest in building additional mills of various types all through the 18th and 19th centuries is very evident. Town records for February 1738 do mention the laying out of a road from John Hallat’s mill and this could have been the one that was planned for the Dyer’s Neck area.

The 1699 Stony Brook Grist Mill was destroyed about 1750 by either fire or flood and the present mill was constructed in 1751. The Smith family maintained the mill until about 1810-1830 when

Above, William Sidney Mount painted the Stony Brook Grist Mill, circa 1850. Below, a pen and ink drawing of the Setauket Grist Mill, circa 1930, by Raymond Tyler. Above image from the Long Island Musuem; below from Beverly C. Tyler

Samuel Brush appears in the list of freeholders as a miller and yeoman farmer. The mill was bought

by Edward Kane in 1885. Kane was not a miller, but he hired a succession of millers including a Czechoslovakian named Alois Kopriva who was said to have also made good wine, as well as played a violin and sung Bohemian songs. In the archives of the Long Island Museum at Stony Brook is an anonymous poem that might have been inspired by a miller like Kopriva.

“How well do I remember The mill by the harbor side Where as boys we gathered And watched the rippling tide And how the miller When his days work was o’er Would play and frolic with the boys Outside the old mill door.”

The last miller at Stony Brook was Frank Schaefer who operated the mill until 1947 when Ward Melville bought the mill from C. Temple Emmett. The mill has undergone many changes in its life, according to miller Arthur Mallamo who was one of the volunteers in the 1980s who demonstrated the craft of the miller to visitors. “The mill’s mechanisms were put in about 1900 and the French Burr stones used for grinding have been in place for more than 100 years,” said Mallamo. “There used to be two sets of stones in the mill with one set in use and the other being cleaned or dressed [sharpened].

The mill could grind 600 pounds of grain per hour, but for demonstrations, we run the mill at the rate of 100 pounds in three hours. During the mid-nineteenth century, the mill was also a sawmill cutting timbers for homes and ships, but now only the shaft for the old saw remains as a reminder of those active shipbuilding years.”

The last miller in Setauket was Everett Augustus Hawkins. Millers before him included Richard Woodhull and Isaac Satterly. Woodhull was miller before 1760, and in 1784, he petitioned

to move the mill downstream. The town agreed but stipulated that he, “keep a good road across the old mill dam 16 feet wide sufficient to cross with an ox team and also up the street alongside of the old mill pond the same width.”

By May of 1796, Satterly was Setauket’s miller. At that time the town trustees, who felt that the “toll” was not being equitably applied, directed the miller to, “take a tenth part out of each and every bushel of any sort of grain that is ground at said mill and no more.” Isaac Satterly was a direct descendent of William Satterly, one of Setauket’s original settlers and strangely, one of three men who were drowned when returning from Milford, Connecticut, with a boatload of grain before Setauket had its own mill.

Everett Hawkins was also the direct descendent of one of Setauket’s first settlers, Zachariah Hawkins. His father John Hawkins, who lived in Stony Brook, was known as Lasses John because of his fondness for molasses. In the 1930s, Ward Melville bought the mill from Hawkins and exchanged the land for a farm on Main Street. After Everett died in 1945, his wife Celia continued to farm the land until the 1950s.

Everett and Celia are buried in the Caroline Churchyard next to their son Francis Sylvester who was shot down over France in 1944.

The miller in the Three Villages was both a merchant dealing in grain and, especially in the earlier days, a custom miller who ground each farmer’s grain, taking part of it as a toll.

Industrialization took its toll on the mill and the miller, but for more than two hundred and fifty years the miller was a necessary part of the community and the mill was the center of village commerce.

Beverly C. Tyler is a Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-7513730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

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Port Jefferson/Port Jefferson Station

Barbara Ransome, executive director of the Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, thanked A Cake in Time and its owner Sherry Sobel, who after a donation to help her business, took that money and made cookies and then made arrangements to have them delivered to the underserved. She thanked other individual businesses including the Fifth Season Restaurant, with owners John and Deb Urbinati and Steam Room manager Vinnie Seiter who have been supplying lunches and dinners to the Welcome Friends Kitchen without any compensation.

Indu Kaur, who with The Curry Club’s Feed the #HealthCareHeroes Campaign has been raising money and donating meals since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis back in March. They have donated 2,000 meals thus far and hope to continue our work and feed the homeless shelters, and families that lost their jobs due to the pandemic.

Carolyn Benson, a musician and singer, partnered in The Journey Home Project to support veterans through the pandemic. People can go to www.carolynbenson.us to buy a shirt which now through May 31 all proceeds are going to The Journey Home Project, which assists nonprofits aiding vets.

Town of Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) had many to thank from restaurant owners to residents and community organizations that have taken the time to help out others to his fellow “partners in government” at the federal, state and county levels. Most of all, he wanted to show town employees his gratefulness.

“None of this would be possible without the hard work and dedication of the town’s department directors and our labor force who stepped up in every way, during this pandemic,” he said. “The department leadership has worked through this entire pandemic, without time at home to be with their families. Our Senior Citizens Department teams and volunteers have pushed through exhaustion to deliver weekly meals for over 200 homebound residents. Our parks department has worked tirelessly to keep town buildings and grounds sanitized, while helping us to deliver PPE supplies to local frontline workers and facilities. And most of all, the job that our Public Safety department has done over the last two months has been nothing short of extraordinary. They did not get to rotate out of the schedule and work from home like all other departments. Public Safety has managed our Emergency Response, patrolled our parks, assisted SCPD, enforced social distancing requirements and all executive orders from the state. They have done an exceptional job, in an impossible situation and we all owe them a debt of gratitude.”

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“These people have devoted years to learning their craft and developing the skills to be effective in the classroom, and they suddenly find themselves engaged in a practice very different from what any of us could have predicted,” he said. “And yet, they have risen to this challenge with compassion, with great effort and yes, with newly developed skills.”

Kornreich said that even though school is not in session in the usual ways, Three Village Central School District teachers are working harder and longer than usual “and in ways that have challenged them professionally and personally.”

“I think that many parents have a newfound appreciation for what’s involved in getting developing minds to focus on learning,” Kornreich said. “I’m thankful that the kids of Three Village have a warm, dedicated and professional teaching staff to keep the wheels on this thing as we head into an uncertain future.”

Gloria Rocchio, president of The Ward Melville Heritage Organization, said she is thankful for Three Village residents.

“They just keep giving and giving freely,” she said. “It’s just extraordinary.”

Rocchio said she has witnessed a huge number of philanthropic acts during the pandemic that it’s hard to narrow it down to just one. The WMHO along with Stony Brook Village Center restaurants created a health

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Rebecca Kassay of Suffolk County Creators of Covid-19 Medical Supplies and her team of volunteers have been making facial masks by the hundreds.

Debbie and Jerry Bowling, the owners of Pasta Pasta, have been cooking countless meals donated to charitable causes, hospitals, women shelters.

Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Chamber of Commerce Community Liaison Joan Nickeson named several chamber and non-chamber community members alike, including Jennifer Dzvonar, owner of Bass Electric and president of the chamber who helped purchase nearly $700 in groceries for the needy in the community; Jackie Kirsch, of PJS, who has been making masks for a variety of organizations since March; and Toni St. John of PJS, who is sewing as part of Facebook page Operation Headband making the straps hospital workers use to hold masks to their face, taking the stress away from their ears. St. John is also one of the costume designers down at Theatre Three.

She also wished to thank Debra Quigley, a trained Literacy Suffolk volunteer — who while in-person Comsewogue Library ESL classes have been cancelled, she has managed to offer ESL classes virtually through the library.

“Our parents in this community are diversified,” Nickeson said.

care meal program and are currently donating meals to Stony Brook University Hospital.

Rocchio has been touched by the number of residents who have been donating funds to help with the mission. More than 9,000 meals have been donated to health care workers.

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Ernest Rositzke, Fire Department Member, Volunteer

BY THE ROSITZKE FAMILY AND RITA J. EGAN Longtime community member Ernest T. Rositzke, died April 30. He was 94.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth, of 73 years who continues to reside at Jefferson’s Ferry.

Before their move there, they were longtime residents of Stony Brook. For 60 years, Ernie was a proud, active member of the Stony Brook Fire Department. Having served as chief and commissioner, he was most honored when he received their Fireman of the Year award in 2018. The family was told that the award wasn’t given out easily and some years they don’t give it out at all.

He also enjoyed spending time at the Stony Brook Yacht Club where he served a term as commodore. He was involved with the American Legion and for 22 years, worked with and delivered for Three Village Meals on Wheels.

His most famous volunteer role, however, was that of the “real Santa” in and around the area including Stony Brook Village Green and Stony Brook University Hospital.

He was born in 1926, attended Andrew Jackson High School and served with the Marines during WWII. Ernie worked for the New York Telephone Company and the Town of Brookhaven.

In addition to his wife, Ruth, he will be lovingly remembered by his children, Christine DeAngelo (Lou), Ernest T. Rositzke, Jr. (Lynn) and Karen Fink (David).

He is also survived by four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren as well as his sister,

Jackie Schecher of Springfield Centre. Ernie was preceeded in death by his half-brother, Arthur Rohrlack.

Walter Hazlitt said he knew Rositzke for more than 60 years through the fire department. The two had a common bond not only as fellow volunteer firefighters but also as veterans and members of the yacht club. He described him as a generous person.

“He’s going to be sorely missed,” he said.

“You can’t extol him too much. He was an exception to the rule.”

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) remembered his work as Santa.

“Most of my life my contact with Ernie was exclusively through the Stony Brook Fire Department with the most memorable interactions being him as Santa Claus at the member family Christmas parties,” she said.

“Ernie was happy — jolly even. He was patient and kind with the children, spending what felt like hours listening to each child rattle off their wish lists or screaming in his ear because they were too young and too afraid. Posing for multiple photos with infants, toddlers, little kids, big kids teenagers, college students, families. It wasn’t just his white beard that was genuine —he was the real deal. He truly cared and wanted to make each and every child happy. Volunteer firefighter throughand-through, in the end, it was his mission to help. On a call, he would help protect our community. At Christmas, he would help each and every family have fun and bring a little hope and joy to the season.”

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Diane Melidosian, a board member for Three Village Meals on Wheels, said, “His quiet demeanor and wonderful sense of humor will be missed.”

Liz Bongiorno, a TBR News Media sales rep, remembered meeting Rositzke when she worked for an indoor playground. The owner had asked him if he could play Santa.

Bongiorno started talking to him and found out he not only lived in the neighborhood where she grew up, but was also friends with her grandfather. He started telling her about her grandfather, who she had never met and called him a gentle giant.

“It was the best Christmas gift that I ever received in my life,” Bongiorno said.

Whenever she would see Rositzke at

chamber meetings, she always told him that no one had ever given her a better gift.

Gloria Rocchio, president of The Ward Melville Heritage Organization, said she knew Rositzke for more than 35 years when he worked in the Town of Brookhaven’s highway department and in his role as the “real Santa.”

“He started to grow his beard in August, and changed into the real Santa on the first Sunday in December every year,” she said.

“He would sit for four hours at the Stony Brook Post Office, listening attentively to each child’s wishes. The line to see him started over one hour ahead of his arrival.”

Rocchio said one year when WMHO decided to add another Santa, Rositzke thought it may confuse the children. They never had two Santas after that.

“He heard so many sad stories, and it bothered him that he could not fulfill their wishes,” Rocchio said. “So WMHO created the Santa Fund. Each year we still raise funds for clothing and toys for those in need. Initially, he told us which homes to go to. Many people would say, ‘I saw him when I was a child and now I am bringing my children.’ We never thought he would stop, because Santa is immortal, but he did. However, his spirit of kindness will always live on in the people that he touched.”

Arrangements were entrusted to Bryant Funeral Home of East Setauket. A celebration of his life will be held in the future.

Donations in his honor can be made to: Three Village Meals on Wheels, P.O. Box 853, Stony Brook, NY 11790.

Suffolk Sheriff Surprises Essential Workers At Area Supermarket On May 1 the Suffolk County Correctional Facility distributed 700 masks to locations throughout the county to essential workers and residents of area nursing homes.

County Sheriff Errol Toulon, Jr. decided to make a personal delivery to the Stop & Shop in South Setauket, surprising the workers and shoppers. After walking around the store to greet employees, he spoke briefly to all the cashiers and some shoppers at the front of the store and thanked them for their service to the community.

“I want all of you to know that you are essential to getting us all through this pandemic,” Toulon said. “We at the sheriff’s office care about your safety and well-being and I thank you for your service to the community.”

Toulon recently joined with others, like 9/11 activist John Feal, in calling for all

Americans to come together to protect and support the essential workforce, who need appropriate personal protective equipment to safely do their jobs.

“Just because some of our key indicators are showing progress in this fight against the spread of COVID-19, Long Island and the metro area are still experiencing high rates of transmission,” Toulon said. “We need to do more to ensure those on the front lines, our essential workers, are protected.”

County inmates have been making thousands of face masks as part of a new sewing initiative that started two weeks ago. Under the initiative, all county inmates are issued two washable cloth masks and any additional masks are being donated to essential workers, senior citizens, and nursing home staff.

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Editorial

Thanking Our Mothers

Kyle Barr - Deborah Barr

She was working even when she wasn’t. After coming home from her job as a secretary for an attorney in Riverhead, my mom would fret about what my family was going to eat for dinner. It didn’t matter if most of the people left in the house were self-sufficient, Mom was going to make something for everyone, she was going to vacuum the floor, she was going to start the laundry, and by 10 p.m. she would be snoring on From left to right: Kyle Barr (right) with mom Deborah and brother Kris; Caroline Biondo with her grandmother Johness Kuisel; Daniel Dunaief with mother Leah; and the couch, as if her batteries were depleted and no amount of Rita J. Egan with mom Rita M. Egan coaxing would get her to restart without a recharge.

I think I’ve got my sensibilities toward work from you, for either good or ill. By your example, I finish what I start, even in times like this. I don’t do things halfway, because each thing should be treated with care.

That is, at work, at least. I know you would still be ashamed to see the way I keep my home.

Letters to the Editor

Courtney and Caroline Biondo - Johness Kuisel

To us, Johness is Mom and Granny.

My mom is the driving force not only of my life, but for 44 years has been the heart and soul of Times Beacon Record newspapers. She is the epitome of class. She teaches me to always be my very best and always put forth my very best effort, more importantly as a mother myself.

Our Granny is the one to watch college football with on Saturdays, the NFL on Sundays and basketball during the week. Granny is always up for a trip to the beach to lounge in the sun and collect shells.

Granny likes to sit with a cat in her lap after a long day and sip a Bloody Mary. Granny teaches us to never give up, because you’re often closest to succeeding when you want to forfeit. She teaches us to explore through travel and to always be eager to learn new things.

Daniel Dunaief - Leah Dunaief

When I was young, my mother started these papers. When I called her at work, Mrs. Kuisel answered, much as she does now.

“Can I speak to my mom?” I asked. Mrs. Kuisel asked me who my mother was because so many mothers worked at the papers. The question is one I’m happy to answer every day. I’m proud to say that who I am and who my brothers are begins with being numbers 1, 2 and 3 sons of Leah Dunaief. Sure, my younger brother and I might argue about the order of importance, but we are all grateful to have learned numerous important lessons, including never to wear jeans in the ocean or to use apple juice to clean our faces, from a woman we’re fortunate to call mom. I wish her and all the other moms dealing with the ever-fluid new normal a happy Mother’s Day.

Rita J. Egan - Rita M. Egan

When I was a kid in Queens, more mothers were beginning to go to work full time, outside of the home. My mother was no different.

At first, she worked as a cashier at Alexander’s Department Store, but she knew she needed to make more money, and she soon took a night class to brush up on her typing and shorthand. After a few different jobs, she eventually found herself working for Con Edison in its transportation department. She lived in Queens when she first began working there but eventually moved out to Smithtown.

She would be up before the sun, even leaving before sunrise to catch the train, and while she soon became part of a carpool, the more convenient ride didn’t stop the early morning rush to be at the office by 7 a.m. I may not have inherited my mother’s knack for getting up before the crack of dawn, but I would like to think I take after her when it comes to getting up every morning and doing whatever it is that needs to be done, even when times are rough.

While Mother’s Day may be celebrated a little bit differently this year, here’s hoping we can all find some way to celebrate all the special women in our lives.

The Inequalities of Quarantine Protesters The overwhelming majority of folks protesting around the country against quarantine are white. Many of my friends in the black and brown communities have made the comment, “Imagine if that was us?” The truth is that we don’t have to imagine. Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Stephon Clarke and Eric Garner are just a few examples of what happens to people of color. It is curious to me that the armed protesters in Michigan, breaking into a government building, were not arrested and did not get fined, despite clearly breaking the law. Why does white skin too often mean a free pass for transgression? Why does black or brown skin too often mean a death sentence?

Also telling is that politicians like U. S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1), who has publicly disparaged Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, have been silent about their

base, who are violating the law with public protests, not observing social distancing or wearing masks, as we witnessed in Commack last week. These men and women are endangering themselves and others with their actions. Congressman Lee Zeldin has referred to protesters he disagrees with as “unhinged,” an “angry mob,” a group of “paid protesters,” but is silent over the actions of his base, whose behavior is a public health threat. It is hypocrisy at its finest.

I have organized and participated in peaceful protests on numerous occasions over the years, taking great pains to remain within the law, coordinating with law enforcement and respecting the parameters that come with exercising First Amendment rights. There is plenty to protest right now: the Trump administration’s downplaying of this virus; the racist rhetoric that has endangered Asian Americans; lack of

personal protective equipment for essential workers; the broken patchwork health care system that leaves millions without health care during a global pandemic; the inadequate safety net for the 40 percent of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, to name a few.

But I will not take to the streets and endanger lives. This moment is about looking out for one another, and prioritizing communal health. It is shameful that the right does not recognize this, and that their leaders don’t take them to task. It perpetuates a hypocritical and biased system, one that unfairly discriminates against communities of color and minorities. I call upon Mr. Zeldin to repudiate his base’s dangerous actions and ask them to stay home, where we all belong right now.

Shoshana Hershkowitz Founder, Suffolk Progressives South Setauket

I cringed when I read last week’s letter praising Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) as having performed with “grace, empathy, intelligence, fortitude, patience and a humanity that has been sorely lacking.”

It contained no reference of his lack of empathy for our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and veterans.

As a health care professional, I do not believe Cuomo knows first thing about infection control. Nursing homes are not hospitals. Would anyone go to a nursing home first in the case of sudden illness or an emergency? These facilities had next to no warning about the incoming coronavirus patients, nor did they have sufficient personnel, equipment, and medication needed. Cuomo said, “It’s not the state’s job to provide the state nursing homes with PPEs.”

He recently had the temerity to state with a straight face that he plans to investigate nursing homes over fatalities when he was the one that ordered sick people to go there, where those with the most fragile health live. In the aftermath, he stated that the nursing homes owners were to blame for the deaths and that they were “greedy.”

He gave a snarky answer when asked by a reporter about the situation saying, “ohhh money” implying that the homes held onto their residents because if they didn’t, they would “no longer be getting paid.” He threatened their licenses stating, “They have to do the job they’re paid to do, and if they’re not doing their job ... they’re violating state regulations.”

Cuomo likes to sing his own praises only to follow it by whining that he needed thousands upon thousands of ventilators,

or that the state is broke, and he needs help from the federal government after wasting hundreds of millions on failed ideas instead of preparing for a pandemic when he had the opportunity.

President Donald Trump (R) sent New York the USNS Comfort and converted the Javits Center to a hospital. At Cuomo’s request, the Comfort was modified to accept coronavirus patients. Why didn’t he send coronavirus patients to these mostly empty facilities? My aunt recently died in a Staten Island nursing home from the coronavirus.

I am sure Cuomo would have never done what he did if his mother, Matilda, was in any of them. When it comes to the death of our most vulnerable, the person that most needs to be investigated is Gov. Cuomo.

Susan Kerr Stony Brook

Cuomo’s Nursing Home Orders Have Caused Harm

MAY 07, 2020 • THE VILLAGE TIMES HERALD • PAGE A19

Opinion

People Share Lockdown Habits, Both Healthy and Unhealthy

D

erek has eaten more pizza in the past six weeks than he has in the previous three years. Heather feels like an insect, trapped late in the night in the electric glow of her screen.

Steve drinks too much Coke Zero and Eliene stays up way too late and wears the same pants too often.

In response to email questions, several Long Islanders shared their healthiest and least healthy D. None habits during the of the above lockdown.

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Derek Poppe, who is a spokesman for County Executive Steve Bellone (D), has been able to work off some of the pizza he’s eating at lunch by running outside, which he started doing after the gym he has attended for

seven years closed seven weeks ago.

“I have also tried my hand at meditation which has been incredible since, really, from the time we wake up to when we go to bed, we are surrounded by all things COVID-19,” Poppe wrote in an email.

Bellone, meanwhile, rides his Peloton stationary bike early in the morning or late at night. The county executive also sometimes runs at 10:30 p.m. before beginning to prepare for the next morning’s meetings and radio calls.

Bellone’s least healthy habits include ramping up his consumption of Coke Zero.

Sara Roncero-Menendez from Stony Brook, meanwhile, walks around her neighborhood on sunny days. When the weather gets rough, she does YouTube yoga.

She’s also been crocheting and cross-stitching, getting a head start on holiday gifts.

“It’s been a good way to keep busy and actually have something to show for it at the end,” Roncero-Menendez wrote.

Like many others in New York and around the world, Roncero-Menendez has spent

too much time glued to her screens and also hasn’t been sleeping well.

Karen McNulty-Walsh from Islip does 30 minutes of yoga, takes her dog for walks, and gets out of bed regularly between 6 and 7 a.m. each morning.

Pete Genzer from Port Jefferson Station has been cooking dinner every night, which is “good in terms of eating healthy food, and I also really enjoy cooking so it’s mentally stimulating and relaxing.”

Genzer’s least healthy habit is “sitting in the same, non-ergonomic chair all day long doing work and attending virtual meeting after virtual meeting.”

Larry Swanson and his wife Dana, who live in Head of the Harbor, enjoy their daily walks with their aging Chesapeake Bay retriever Lily. Dana is growing food in the yard and has found it a “new, interesting and nice experience being with her grumpy old husband for so much for the time,” Larry Swanson wrote.

Indeed, in the 56 years of their marriage,

the Swansons have never spent as much time as they have together during lockdown.

Dana’s unhealthiest habit is watching the news.

Heather Lynch from Port Jefferson said she feels like the insect trapped in the glowing screen. On the positive side, she continues to work out every day, which she describe as more of an addiction than a habit.

Eliene Augenbaum, who lives in the Bronx and works on Long Island, has eaten homecooked food and had deep conversations with friends. On the unhealthy side, she stays up too late, wears the same pants, and shops for vacations and shoes that are of little use during lockdown.

A friend from New York City, who makes her own meals and walks her dogs, takes her temperature several times a day, has eaten her emergency, huge bag of Chex mix in one sitting and obsesses over why everyone else has medical-style masks on the street while she’s seeking viral protection behind a pillowcase wrapped around her head.

Memories of My Mother and Lilacs

“W

hen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a poem written by the great Walt Whitman as an elegy for the great Abe Lincoln, who died around this time in May of 1865. For me, it too honors my mother, whom I also regard as great, as I guess we all do our mothers, if in a more personal context. I think of my mother whenever lilacs bloom because she loved the flower, with its Between heart-shaped leaves and its perfume you and me fragrance, and beBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF cause she died right around Mother’s Day when, to me also in her honor, lilacs bloom.

My mother grew up in the earliest years of the 20th century in Corona, a then-countrified section of Queens in New York City. She told us that on her way to elementary school, she sometimes had to wait for the cows in front of her to finish crossing the road, which is certainly a different picture than what I saw of the neighborhood when I was shown the house in which she and her siblings, parents and maiden aunt lived. (That last is an expression from a century ago.) She also lovingly described the backyard as “completely filled with lilac bushes whose scent filled the entire block.”

My mother was the bridge for her parents and older siblings between the Ukraine, from which they emigrated, speaking not a word of English, and America, the repository of their dreams. She was probably 4 years old when they arrived and moved into the house on Corona Avenue, and she was sent off to school where she learned the language and brought it home, along with the ways of the new country.

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twice during those early years and graduated from junior high or middle school when she was 11. Although she yearned to go on to high school and college, her father had suffered a debilitating stroke, and she, along with her older brother and sister, were obligated to work and support the family of nine. She won a scholarship to what was then called a “business school,” where she learned in record time to be a credentialed bookkeeper and was hired as such by a man named Mr. Mosler, a member of the well-known family that made Mosler Safes and Vaults.

My mother worked all her life, arranging her work hours somehow around the responsibilities of caring for my father and three children. She was well ahead of her time, of course, as a “businesswoman,” but apparently neither she nor my father thought it odd that she should have a work life outside the home. It was apparent to me at an early age that she was different from the mothers of my friends. She didn’t bake cakes or cookies, was a terrible cook — except during holidays when she focused on preparing

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delicious meals — didn’t knit and didn’t seem interested in stylish clothes. Indeed, it would have been strange had she been restricted to the home for all her adult life since she was both worldly and had a manner that I would today call “commanding,” despite her short stature.

She was occasionally asked if she were a lawyer.

For all of that veneer, my mother was generous, warm and affectionate with all of us, had a great laugh, had a close and supportive relationship with my father, and together they provided a safe and nurturing home in which we were raised.

My mother reaches the level akin to sainthood, in my opinion, because of the way she welcomed and raised my younger sister, who had Down syndrome. Despite the prevailing attitudes then, in 1942 when my sister was born, of stigma and institutionalization, my mother insisted that my sister had a right to a “normal” life within the family and to learn and grow to the fullest extent of her capability.

Again, my mother was way ahead of her time.

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