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July 4, 2019

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Stony Brook Medicine announces partnership with Eastern Long Island Hospital

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM On July 1, Stony Brook Medicine announced the newest member of the Stony Brook University Hospital health care system — Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport.

The 90-bed, acute care hospital has been affiliated with Stony Brook since 2006, and in 2015, talks began between the two hospitals to form a partnership. The Greenport campus will now be referred to as Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital.

Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president of health sciences and dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, said the partnership will allow SBELIH to work collaboratively with Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, which joined the health care system in 2017.

While Stony Brook Medicine takes on the responsibility of operating the campus when it comes to things such as finances and quality responsibility, Kaushansky said the health care system doesn’t own the other hospitals but leases the buildings from the owners, and staff members are not state employees and continue with the same salaries and unions as before.

He said the partnership with Southampton has been a successful one, and the same is expected with SBELIH. “This really has been a win-win for both the hospital and for the people on the South Fork so let’s do it on the North Fork,” Kaushansky said.

Stony Brook expects to help grow the Greenport hospital’s staff. Residents of the North Fork, which SBELIH serves along with

Shelter Island, now can receive additional resources, particularly specialized outpatient services. Kaushansky said another plus is the use of a telehealth program, which allows doctors and patients on the North Fork direct access to Stony Brook Medicine specialists.

Stony Brook also has its eyes on Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue, which Kaushansky said they are in talks with, to see if it makes sense to create a similar affiliation with the facility. “[It would be] another opportunity for us to grow our health care system, which will give us more bandwidth, give us more opportunity to keep patients as close to home as possible,” he said. “But when it comes time to need more advanced facilities, they have a seamless transition into Stony Brook Hospital.”

Dr. Margaret McGovern, vice president for health system clinical programs and strategy at Stony Brook Medicine, said the affiliation is another step on the path of the health care system expanding.

She and Kaushansky said the behavioral health programs of Eastern Long Island, which include medical-surgical services, critical care, psychiatry and drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation services, are strong.

“We would anticipate that behavioral medicine will remain the core service at Eastern Long Island Hospital,” McGovern said.

Kaushansky added that with limited beds at the university hospital for behavioral health patients, it will be a benefit to be able to utilize SBELIH. Paul Connor, chief administrative officer of SBELIH, said a psychiatric residency started at the Greenport campus July 1 as a part of Stony Brook Medicine’s academic mission. The CAO said

An aerial view of Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital. Photo from Stony Brook Medicine

training physicians and health care professionals is important for future staffing needs, as a high percentage of physicians are more apt to remain where they spent their residency.

Connor said the hospital opened in 1905 and was the first hospital in Suffolk County and the second one on Long Island.

“This was really an effort to preserve the mission of Eastern Long Island Hospital and ultimately to create more local health care options,” he said.

The hospital’s board will be part of a joint advisory committee with Stony Brook Medicine, he said, and will meet on a regular basis to discuss topics such as finances, planning and safety.

“They’re going to be in a position to influence the operation of the hospital as representatives from the community,” he said.

Connor said the ELIH Foundation will continue to exist and be independent of Stony Brook, which means any funds raised will go toward the SBELIH campus.

McGovern said while Stony Brook is a resource for other hospitals entering the system, providing services such as a burn unit, psychiatric emergency department and kidney transplant program, many patients prefer to be treated close to home.

“A lot of care is appropriate in a community hospital setting, so that’s the model we’re going with and complementing it with a robust outpatient ambulatory platform,” she said.

In addition to its strong behavioral health programs, SBELIH is also one of two hospitals on Long Island providing skin cancer screenings to all inpatients through its Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation.

someone’s back, where we have a lot more real estate [to work with].”

Dagum said if people in the Galapagos had anything serious, they would have to go over to the mainland in Ecuador, which is quite far.

Initially, he tried to find a doctor on the mainland to perform the surgery for Del Hierro instead of bringing him to Stony Brook as it was more convenient for Del Hierro, but he couldn’t find anyone that could do it.

Lozeau said the cancer Del Hierro had is aggressive, and he could have lost his eye and his life.

Dagum then got clearance to perform the surgery as a teaching case at Stony Brook Medicine and with help from the Darwin Foundation and Blanca’s House, Del Hierro was able to come to Stony Brook for the surgery in May. The Stony Brook plastic surgeon said the procedure takes several days and requires

using skin grafts to reconstruct and support the lower eyelid.

“It was important they we got [the melanoma] out as quickly as possible,” Dagum said.

Dagum and colleagues removed the lesion in full around his eyelids, and reconstructed skin around the eyelid so Del Hierro could see properly and blink normally. He had a second procedure to adjust the eyelid.

The Ecuadorian native said through a translator that he was grateful and impressed with the care he received at Stony Brook.

Del Hierro said that he had first noticed the spot on his eyelid when he was 18 years old.

“It was a tiny little dot, and I didn’t really think much of it, I thought it was just a mole,” he said.

He admitted when he first got his diagnosis, he was worried for himself and his family, but trusted Dagum and the team.

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Stony Brook doctors perform eyelid surgery for man from Galapagos

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM For one Ecuadorian native, attending a lecture

by Stony Brook Medicine doctors changed his life.

Galo Del Hierro, 44, who works for the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos, was attending a lecture given by the Stony Brook Medicine team about skin cancer screenings and prevention in the archipelago. After the lecture, Del Hierro approached Alexander Dagum, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Stony Brook, and showed him a lesion he had on his right eyelid that was not going away and had grown bigger in the last couple of years.

“He came up to me and said, ‘I’ve had this spot that has gotten larger for some time,’” Dagum said. “I looked at it and thought it was pretty suspicious and told him he should see one of our dermatologists.”

The team’s trip in March was part of a mission through Blanca’s House, a Long Island nonprofit organization that works to bring muchneeded, quality medical care to countries and communities throughout Latin America. The seven-person team from Stony Brook planned on providing screenings and other care for the local community. As they further examined Del Hierro, they realized they might have to bring him 3,051 miles away to Stony Brook for care.

Dr. Daniel Lozeau, a dermatologist and clinical assistant professor at Stony Brook Medicine, took a look at Del Hierro’s lesion and determined that they needed to do a biopsy. After testing was done, Del Hierro was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma.

Lozeau said given the location of the melanoma it would make it difficult to remove.

“On the eyelid you have less room to work with,” he said. “It not like when it’s on

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History Close at Hand

Remembering local Patriots on July 4 and beyond

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

A few years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the towns on Long Island began to be concerned about events taking place in Virginia and Massachusetts. On June 17, 1774, the inhabitants of East Hampton voted “to defend the liberties of British America; to cooperate in order to be saved from the burdens they feared; and to sustain a non-importation agreement.”

On June 21, the Town of Huntington went still further in a Declaration of Rights, maintaining that the “taxes laid by Parliament were unconstitutional; and that any means to enforce such taxes were subversive of constitutional liberty.”

From May through August of 1775, many of the residents of the Town of Brookhaven signed, “A General Association, agreed to, and subscribed by the freeholders and inhabitants of the County of Suffolk.” Similar to many other association documents signed by residents throughout New York it stated, “Persuaded, that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety and convinced of the necessity of preventing anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of government; we, the freeholder and inhabitants, of the County of Suffolk, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the ministry, to raise a revenue in America; and, shocked by the bloody scene, now acted in the Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most solemn manner resolve, never to become slaves; and do associate under all the ties of religion, honor, and love to our country, to adopt and endeavour to carry into execution, whatever measure maybe recommended by the Continental Congress …”

After the defeat of the Continental Army at Brooklyn in August 1776, Long Island fell into the hands of the British. Many of the Patriots who signed the association fled to Connecticut as refugees and most did not return until the British evacuated New York in 1783. There are 32 graves that have been identified in the Three Villages of signers of the association.

There were many more Patriots from this area who signed the documents but some of them are buried in other locations (such as Caleb Brewster who is buried in an old burying ground on Beach Road in Fairfield, Connecticut).

The Patriot graves, located and marked by historian William B. Minuse (1908-2002), are in eight separate graveyards in Setauket and Stony Brook. The graves that are the easiest to find are in the cemeteries of the Setauket Presbyterian Church and the Caroline Church

Three of the five Patriot gravestones in the Caroline Church of Brookhaven graveyard in Setauket, above, marked with American flags: Vincent Jones (foreground), Benjamin Jones (center), Robert Jayne (background). Below, a close-up of Robert Jayne’s headstone. Photos by Beverly C. Tyler

of Brookhaven. Buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard are Elijah Bayles, David Cleaves, Benjamin Hawkins, Elnathan Satterly, John Satterly, Benjamin Tyler, Samuel Satterly, Jedidiah Williamson, Abraham Woodhull and Nathan Woodhull.

It is known that the last four served their country during the war. Williamson, who was born May 8, 1757, and died Jan. 9, 1837, was a millwright in Stony Brook and lived in a house, circa 1794, that still stands along Route 25A in Stony Brook. Abraham Woodhull’s home is no longer standing, but the location on Dyke Road is marked by a metal marker erected in 1938 by the New York State Department of Education.

Woodhull was the head of the Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring in Setauket and the first judge of Suffolk County from 1799 to 1810.

Buried in the Caroline Churchyard are Israel Bennett, Vincent Jones, Robert Jayne, Samuel Jayne and Benjamin Jones. The last three served during the war. Robert Jayne served in Capt. Selah Strong’s company, the 1st Regiment of Minute Men. A Jayne family story states that Robert Jayne headed the posse that took “Big William” Jayne prisoner, Big William being the only known Tory in the

Jayne family.

Buried in the South Setauket Cemetery on Pond Path are Alexander Hawkins, Isaac Hawkins, Jacob Hawkins, Simeon Hawkins, Alexander Hawkins Jr. and Zopher Hawkins.

Alexander Hawkins Jr. and Zopher Hawkins served during the war. Alexander Hawkins served as a private in Selah Strong’s Brookhaven company. Zopher Hawkins married Julianer Bayles in 1800 at a ceremony attended by Dr. Samuel Thompson among others. Thompson and his father Jonathan Thompson, who are both buried in the Thompson family cemetery, signed the association and served during the war as soldiers and spies.

Strong, who signed the association, and Anna Smith Strong both served as spies during the war. They are buried in the Smith-Strong cemetery on Strong’s Neck. Other Patriots buried in private cemeteries in Setauket and Stony Brook, who served during the war, are Joseph Wells, John Williamson, John Brewster, Joseph Brewster, Arthur Smith and Isaac Hawkins. Hawkins did not serve during the war but did sign the association.

These Patriots need to be remembered especially during the July 4 holiday. With a

little exploring the graves can be located, as most of them are marked with American flags placed there to honor their memory.

Beverly C. Tyler is 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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School News

Wang and Ge named Ward Melville valedictorian and salutatorian

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM One team captain and one integral member of the student-led nonprofit Mission Toothbrush graduated at the top of their class June 30.

Elizabeth Wang and Kelsey Ge are Ward Melville High School Class of 2019’s valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

Elizabeth Wang

Wang, who graduated with a 105.91 grade point average, has attended school in the Three Village Central School District since kindergarten. She attended both Setauket and W.S. Mount elementary schools and P.J. Gelinas Junior High School.

The valedictorian was a member of the girls varsity lacrosse team, and she was the captain of both the varsity field hockey and varsity girls fencing team. Off the playing field, she was president of DECA, editorin-chief of the school literary magazine Cinnabar, head news editor of the school newspaper Kaleidoscope and confirmation teacher at St. James Lutheran Church.

Wang, who took 12 AP classes in Ward Melville, said the school prepared her well for her future.

“Ward Melville High School offers a variety of different courses, electives and extracurriculars,” she said. “It’s the perfect opportunity to try new things and learn what interests you, what you enjoy and what you may be good at. I think I learned a lot about myself by experimenting with different

Clockwise from above: Elizabeth Wang delivers her valedictorian speech on graduation day, Wang in front of Ward Melville High School, Kelsey Ge gives a speech on graduation day, and in front of the high school. Graduation photos by Andrea Paldy, candid photos from the Three Village Central School District

things at Melville.”

This fall, Wang will be attending Harvard University, where she will major in neuroscience.

“My dream career would be something that combines medical research, patient care and teaching,” Wang said. “I like the analysis in the research setting, the practical

application in the clinical setting and the interactive aspect of teaching.”

Kelsey Ge

Ge graduated Ward Melville with a weighted GPA of 105.40. While she started in the Three Village Central School District at Arrowhead Elementary School, in

fourth grade, she switched to W.S. Mount elementary for the Intellectually Gifted program. During her high school years, she took on 12 AP classes, two of which were college-level math courses.

She was involved in Model U.N., DECA, the math team and International Cultures Club.

Outside of school, she has been the president of Mission Toothbrush since 2017. The student-led nonprofit organization collects hygiene supplies to donate to local charities and shelters. She also teaches an origami class for children at Stony Brook Chinese School.

Like Wang, Ge said she feels her years in the Three Village school district have prepared her for her future endeavors.

“The teachers and staff at Ward Melville are incredibly supportive and work hard to ensure that students are granted every opportunity to succeed, both in and out of the classroom,” she said. “They help students improve not just academically, but also as individuals prepared to face challenges in the future.”

The salutatorian is planning to attend Harvard University. While she hopes to major in economics, she said she is also interested in psychology, statistics and computer science.

The future looks wide open for Ge. “Although I’m not sure exactly what my dream career looks like, I hope to work together with people with diverse interests,” she said.

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Obituaries Barbara Barkley

Barbara R. Barkley, of East Setauket, died April 12. She was 80.

She was born Nov. 29, 1939, in Bokoshe, Oklahoma, and was the daughter of Neoma and Haden Barkley.

Barkley was a retired financial underwriter, and she enjoyed old and mystery movies.

Left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Analisa; son, Guy; four grandchildren; and the rest of her family and friends.

Services were held at the Bryant Funeral Home April 15. Entombment followed in the Pinelawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Contributions in her memory can be made to Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson.

Florence Caramihas

Florence Caramihas, a longtime community resident, died April 4. She was 96.

She was born Feb. 17, 1923, in Brockton, Massachusetts, and was the daughter of Kaleroe and John Pechilis.

Caramihas worked at Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, during and after WWII, and after that worked at her father’s

store in Brockton until she married her husband Andrew on Nov. 16, 1952.

Left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Candace (Donald) Foust; son, John; grandson, Andrew Foust; and her other family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband Andrew and son Thomas.

Services were held at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Port Jefferson April 9. Interment followed in the Seaview Cemetery in Mount Sinai.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Thelma Hall

Thelma Hall, of Setauket, died May 7. She was 85.

She was born June 11, 1933, in Medford, Massachusetts, and was the daughter of Gladys and Stanley Whitman Sr. Hall was a retired nurse at Stony Brook University Hospital and a member of the Caroline Church. She enjoyed singing and gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband, William; daughters, Susan, Carol and Joan; son, Edward; 11 grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Services were held at the Caroline Church May 14. Committal services were held in private.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket.

Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Dieter Lund

Dieter Lund, of Port Jefferson, died May 10. He was 79.

He was born Oct. 24, 1939, in Germany, and was the son of Jenny and Albert Lund.

Dieter was the owner of Seven Seas Construction in Port Jefferson and was a member of L.I. Antique Power Association, Fohrer & Amrumer (German Club), Cold Spring Power Museum and Rough and Tumble Engineers Museum. He enjoyed skiing, fishing, traveling, machinery and especially family.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Amy; daughter, Jenny; son, Thomas; sister, Christa; brother, Helmut; along with many other family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Services were held at Bryant Funeral Home May 18, and interment followed at St. Ann’s Episcopal Cemetery in Sayville.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. People can visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Kenneth Larsen

Kenneth T. Larsen Sr., a longtime community resident, died April 9. He was 89.

He was born Nov. 26, 1929, in Hicksville, and was the son of Adina and Oscar Larsen.

Larsen was a retired roofer for Larsen Roofing Company and was a member of the Stony Brook Yacht Club and Sons of Norway. He enjoyed boating, fishing and spending time with family.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Mildred; sons, Kenneth Jr., John and Jeffrey; two grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; along with many other family and friends He was preceded in death by his parents and his brothers Conrad and Lawrence.

Services were held at Bryant Funeral Home April 12. Interment followed at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Port Jefferson.

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Ward Melville High School Graduation 2019

Pictured from above clockwise, Ward Melville seniors wait to be called up to the podium to accept their diplomas; a happy graduate during the processional; William Bernhard gives his first commencement address as Ward Melville principal; and Bernhard awards proclamations and honorary diplomas to Class of 1969 graduates Joellen Fehrs McNamara, Cathy Haenlein and Elizabeth Toye Aktas. Photos by Andrea Paldy

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Kayla Murray and Andrea Steinmuller, left, are all smiles after graduation. Above, a student after receiving her diploma.

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Ward Melville prom filled with magic

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With a Harry Potter theme, Let the Magic Begin, Ward Melville High School’s senior prom was filled with whimsy June 27.

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Before the prom, students rolled up to the school in various vehicles including vintage cars and fire trucks.

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Standing in our own well with soiled feet Recently, a professor was telling me about his annual trip to Kenya, where he visited a rural village. The remote community was without electricity, toilets or water.

The older children were charged with walking ––– about a mile ––– to fetch water from the nearest source.

Curious, he asked if he could join them and take photos.

Following behind the barefoot children, he noticed that they stepped into human feces along the way.

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the “well,” which was an open pit, a few feet deep, with a dark puddle at the bottom.

After handing me a photo, he said, “Notice that the children are standing in the water. The very water that the family will be drinking.”

I thought, didn’t these people, although humble and poor, have the good sense to not poison their own well with its lifesustaining water?

How could the elders not instruct the children to carefully avoid stepping in the waste when going to the well, or to somehow clean their feet before standing

in the water?

Then I had an afterthought. Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing to our precious Long Island water supply? We pour insecticide and herbicides on our lawns, farms and golf courses. We broadcast chemical fertilizer to make our greens greener. We flush unused antibiotics down our toilets. Our cesspools seep human waste down into our aquifer.

With soiled feet, we stand in our own well.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

Undoubtedly, you’ve heard or stated the phrase: “you took the words out of my mouth.” A letter to the editor in the June 20 edition of our local paper, “Enough is enough,” prompted me to utter that phrase, and publicly thank the co-writers for stating what is obviously the truth.

“Truth” not being something which is disseminated by most of the media these days. What Carol Florio and Lisa Pius stated in their letter is, almost verbatim, what I’ve been thinking and saying aloud for quite some time.

On a national level, and not locally by any means, the current Democratic Party is certainly not my grandfather’s Democratic Party. Hillary lost — thank God — get over it. There is only one truth; everything else that most of the media has been promoting is a vindictive, biased falsehood. My grandfather would turn over in his grave if he knew what that political party has turned into.

Our president tweets; so what? He can’t get his message out via a biased, vengeful media. Franklin Delano

Roosevelt utilized fireside chats. Many people who know me think that I write with a quill pen and ink on paper (well, sometimes I do).

People who can’t (or won’t) grasp what Ms. Florio and Ms. Pius had written should consult something that was written with a quill pen by one Thomas Paine and published in the year 1776. And they should focus on the meaning of the title of that pamphlet: “Common Sense.”

Art Billadello East Setauket

Congratulations 2019 In praise of the letter ‘Enough is enough’ high school graduates!

We congratulate each and every one the 2019 high school graduates in our circulation area. These students were born 18 years ago, at a time when planes deliberately took down the World Trade Center in New York City and crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a hillside in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. At around the time these children turned 8 years old, the U.S. and world economy collapsed after the financial industry bundled and sold bad mortgage debt. Currently, the nation and countries of the world are coping with election systems troubled with interference from foreign adversaries, whose interests aim to make people question the efficacy of democracy as a form of governance.

As we look forward, and put the past behind us, let’s make sure we take time to remind these graduates of the greater good of humankind. We should also celebrate the good nature within themselves to reassure these young adults that the future is perpetually full of hope and opportunity.

Over the last several decades, despite the tragedies, we have also seen many remarkable achievements. A nation elected its first black president, and we’ve seen women march for their rights and run and be elected to public office at historic rates.

Aside from politics, over the last 20 years, scientists have sequenced human DNA, which is helping to develop effective treatments for cancer and other potentially deadly diseases.

We’ve also watched the world change as the home computer and telecommunication turned mobile. Consequently, it’s become easier than ever to stay in touch. With the touch of a finger, we can access and enjoy the music, stories and performances of a world full of talented artists, writers and filmmakers.

Adversity and tumultuous times somehow, thankfully, spark creativity and inspire people’s inner goodness. Think of the ’60s, and how that peace and love-conquers-all theme galvanized a culture. It’s an age-old message, really, of biblical proportion.

High school graduates should know that as caring human beings they already hold the core qualities they need to thrive.

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Imagine your child there The moral imperative does not understand politics. The moral imperative does not know about political parties, religions or even the rule of law. The moral imperative demands that a person or a society do the right thing even when the right thing is hard. And when doing the right thing is not hard — taking care of children is not a hard thing for a government to do, or at least it shouldn’t be — it is unfathomable what the President Donald Trump (R) administration is waiting for. I do not understand an administration that is moving slowly or not at all as children are sleeping on the floor in unsanitary and unhealthy conditions. If the detention center were an animal shelter, it would be closed down.

Trump has said that the Democrats are responsible for not appropriating the money needed to take care of these children. There is a bill in Congress right now that would provide funds to help take care of these children. Let’s see if Trump

will sign it. However, this situation can’t wait for a bill to be passed.

Why doesn’t Trump sign an executive order, of which he is so fond, and find the money needed? Perhaps one or two less trips to play golf would more than provide the funds needed. He keeps saying the Democrats created this problem, but I guess he has forgotten about his zerotolerance program from last year. Well, why can’t he fix it? He doesn’t do it because he wants to use these children as political pawns to further his amoral agenda. It has been reported June 25 that most of the children have been moved to tents. I guess that means the problem has been solved?

Anyone of good faith — whether Christians or Muslims or Jews or no religion — who supports Trump and his lack of a moral center should be outraged and realize that they will have to answer for a silence that accepts the mistreatment of these children.

Yes, America needs a reasonable immigration policy, but this situation is not an immigration problem. It is a moral issue for which we are all responsible if we do not cry out against it. It should not matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican or even apolitical. To know this is wrong is just to be human.

It is time for us — all of us — to take a stand against children sleeping on cement floors, in unsanitary conditions while being constantly hungry. Americans have taken to the streets to protest wars, safeguard civil rights, protect the free media and call out amoral behavior by other countries. Can’t we do the same to help children? It is not an issue that needs political discussion. It is a given, if we are to consider ourselves a moral country.

Of course, if you are looking for a political solution: November 2020 is coming!

Ernestine Franco Sound Beach

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Opinion

Getting behind the wheel of our decisions

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e make them before we even get up. We lie in our beds, staring at our alarm clocks, where we are faced with the first of countless decisions. Should we get up now or can we afford to wait a few minutes before climbing out of bed?

Decisions range from the mundane to the mind blowing: Do you want pickles, lettuce and tomatoes and what kind of D. None bread would you of the above like; you’re taking

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF a pay cut so you can do what job exactly; are you sure

you want to sell that stock today when it may be worth more tomorrow?

We rarely take a step back from the decisionmaking process because we generally don’t want to slow our lives down, leaving us less time to make other decisions.

Some of the decisions we make are through a force of habit. We buy the same ketchup, take the same route to work, wear the same tie with the same shirt or call the same person when we are feeling lonely.

Just because we have always done something one particular way, however, doesn’t mean we made the best choice, or that we considered how the variables in our lives have changed over time.

As we age, we find that our needs, tastes and preferences evolve. Our bodies may have a lower caloric demand, especially if we spend hours behind a desk. We might also be more prepared to debate or argue with our priest or rabbi, or we might

have a greater need to help strangers or make the world a better place for the next generation. The way we make decisions today may be inconsistent with the way we made them for the younger versions of ourselves.

We may have some of the same tastes for movies or books that we had 20 years ago. Then again, we may place a higher value on experiences than we do on possessions.

Eating a particular food, calling a person who makes us feel inadequate or sticking with the same assignments or jobs is often not the best way to live or enjoy our lives.

Inertia affects the way we decide on anything from whether to vote Democratic or Republican to whether we would like pasta or salad for lunch. Sure, I could defy the old me. But then am I remaking a decision or remaking myself?

Ah, but there’s the real opportunity: We can follow the Latin phrase “carpe diem” — seize the day — and redefine and reinvent ourselves

as long as we do it with purpose and focus.

Sure, that takes work and planning and we might change something for the worse, but maybe we would make our lives better or leave our comfort zone for greater opportunities. We can decide to take calculated risks with our lives or to move in a new direction. After all, we teach our children to believe in themselves. And if we want to practice what we preach, we should believe in ourselves, too, even on a new path.

Why should we put our lives on automatic pilot and sit in the back seat, making the same circles month after month and year after year?

Some routines and decisions, of course, are optimal, so changing them just to change won’t likely improve our lives.

But for many decisions, we can and should consider climbing back into the driver’s seat.

For a moment, we might cause our paths to rock back and forth, as if we shook the wheel, but ultimately we can and will discover new terrain.

the number has increased by 3 to 5 percent in the last five years. Rosanna Hertz, a Wellesley College professor, who wrote the book, “Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family” (2006), has found that most of those mothers are college educated and earn roughly double the national household median of $110,000. But with rising salaries, not all single mothers are high-wage earners. Some have middle-class backgrounds and may even have more than one child.

What’s puzzling about this picture? Are we witnessing men being thrown away? I pray not.

To paraphrase “South Pacific,” there is nothing like a man.

It’s understandable that single mothers may be single because they never found the right person to marry. Or they may be divorced or separated. Or widowed. Or they may have chosen not to marry. All of those reasons have to do with themselves. But according to Hertz, “there has been a notable increase in the number of women opting for this family structure in the 13 years” since she wrote her book. Since

it takes both sexes to make a child, does a woman in good conscience have the right to knowingly deprive a child of a father because of an overwhelming maternal desire? Is it selfish or unselfish to procreate without a mate? Does boundless and unconditional love compensate?

There is a support group that deals with such issues. Called Single Mothers by Choice, it considers the emotional, financial, psychological and practical aspects of becoming a single mother.

It also provides others in the same situation to talk with. To choose single motherhood is a hard and, incidentally, an expensive route. That was the thrust of the WSJ article. Right from the first step, there is no one with whom to share costs. Initial costs can range from several thousand dollars to six figures, and insurance is spotty.

It is certainly true that life does not always work out the way one would like. In fact, it almost never does. Too many bends to see around, too many roads not taken, too many disappointments. But I would just like to add a last thought from “The King and I”: Most men “can be wonderful.”

In defense of men

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y parents married on July 4, 1925.

It might seem counterintuitive for them to join each other on Independence Day, but back then to marry meant independence from one’s nuclear family. They were now off on their own, together ready to start a new branch of the family. And they began to have children. They were doing what had been done for only a few centuries before them, marriage being a fairly recent construct in humankind’s history.

Given statistics Between today, almost a cenyou and me tury later, what they did seems almost

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF quaint. Tucked into the back pages of The Wall Street Journal’s Business & Finance section, amid such stories about carmaker Tesla’s

quarterly earnings and predictions about the future of tech stocks, is an article that would amaze my parents but speaks to our times: “Despite high costs, more women are interested in single motherhood,” by Veronica Dagher.

Not only are couples no longer feeling the need to marry before they have children. In today’s society, some women don’t need to be part of a couple before they embrace motherhood.

Increasing wages for women create economic independence, and the share of women earning top salaries in high positions exploded 500 percent between 2008 and 2012. Women have gone from 1.9 percent among the top 0.1 percent of highest earners to 10.5 percent.

In 2017, according to the WSJ article, four in 10 births were to either solo mothers or mothers living with nonmarital partners. Fifty years ago, the number was one in 10. That means these four out of every 10 children are being raised without a father. That has got to have profound effect on those children.

According to California Cryobank, a major sperm bank in the United States, about one-third of its clients are single mothers by choice. Further,

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