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TIMES of MIDDLE COUNTRY C E N T E R E AC H • S E L D E N • L A K E G R O V E N O R T H

Vol. 14, No. 31

November 15, 2018

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Never forget

Selden fifth-graders visit LI State Veterans Home — photos A7 Centereach football season comes to an end

‘White Christmas’ tap dances over to Smithtown

Cougars lose to Bulldogs 14-7 in Division II county semifinal

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expenses and heating bills,” said a Lighthouse Mission press release. “More and more people come to the Lighthouse Mission outreaches looking for help and food during the winter months. Unfortunately, food donations run dangerously low around the holidays.” Those interested in donating money should visit www.lighthousegive.com. To donate food, drop off items like frozen turkeys, canned vegetables, boxed stuffing, juices, cranberry sauce and desserts at the mission’s Bellport location, 1543 Montauk Highway Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or Saturday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. For more information call 631-758-7584 or visit www. lighthousemission.com.

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National

Mooch fires missives, promotes new book in Huntington Former albeit short-term White House employee tells all in exclusive TBR interview

Anthony Scaramucci, the one-time White House communications director and Port Washington native, swirled through the Trump administration like a tornado during his 11-day tenure in 2017. Though if there’s any specific reason he didn’t last as long as he would have liked to, he said it’s because he tells it like it is. “I’m not the type of person well suited for Washington — I’m honest,” Scaramucci said in an exclusive interview with TBR News Media Nov. 4. “I’m not going to spin like that, I told [President Donald Trump (R)] that.” Scaramucci traveled back to the vicinity of his old stomping grounds to promote his new book, “Trump: The Blue-Collar President” for a book-signing event at Book Revue in Huntington Sunday. Local residents asked questions about Scaramucci the man, but many were especially keen on hearing about his time and experience with the 45th president of the United States. Scaramucci was in the White House from July 21 through 31, 2017, though before he was fired the man known widely as “The Mooch” stunned media correspondents with his uproarious Wall Street financier’s attitude, unafraid of using language not usually seen on air, let alone from the federal government’s top spokesperson. It was that lack of a filter that likely cost him his job, after talking to The New Yorker magazine reporter Ryan Lizza and saying on the record, “I’m not [former White House Chief Strategist] Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own [expletive].”

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Above, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci promotes his new book at Book Revue in Huntington before a crowd that included Trump critics as well as supporters, like James Johnson, below, sporting a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat.

Though the former communications director said he owns up to the mistake, that bluster likely brought more than 100 people, both Trump supporters and critics, to Book Revue to ask questions about his experience with Trump, who he said he’s known for more than 20 years. The author said there is a strategy behind Trump’s consistent attacks on news media. Scaramucci said the president aims to keep the media in disarray for the purpose of galvanizing his base, which seems to enjoy the constant onslaught. “He is using the bombast as a firecracker to throw into the crowd of the media,” he said. “He tells a lie, a mistruth or creates puffery, they’re going to self-immolate on the air — they will be all upset — while his base is laughing at them. They’ve made themselves part of the story while he’s trying to galvanize that base.” Though Scaramucci’s advice to Trump is to dial back the attacks, the author said at least enough to make the nation’s overall political discourse less volatile. “If you could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and still get votes, as you once said, why not try being nice for two weeks?” he said he told Trump. “The president has a very unique personality, and the market price is in, he’s going to say a lot of cuckoo, la-la things. The people who are replicating his strategy are having a hard time. You cannot beat the president on the

field he’s playing.” While Scaramucci said he had asked Trump to dial it back at some points, Huntington Village resident Dominick “Dominooch” Mavellia asked why he should when it was precisely that personality that won him the presidency. “There’s a huge transitional opportunity for him to keep his base in check and appeal to the center … he’s going to need to secure re-election,” Scaramucci said, responding to Mavellia. “I don’t think he can recreate that map he created in 2016 because [the opposition] has now adapted and pivoted. If he calms it down a little, just moving it down to fourth gear from fifth, still being aggressive on the media, pushing the message toward the middle, and getting those independents he will win a resounding re-election.” Scaramucci, a former Goldman Sachs banker and founder of the investment firm SkyBridge Capital, is not the first ex-White House official to scribe a book about the experience of working for the 45th president. Omarosa Manigault Newman, former assistant to the president, published “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House” in August, calling Trump a “racist” and saying he was losing much of his cognitive ability. The author of this latest book on Trump said while he was originally approached to write a book just after he was pushed out of office, those

publishing firms were looking for a tell-all book similar to what Manigault would later write. He was approached by another — conservative — political book publisher, Center Street, which he said published the book to coincide with the midterm elections Nov. 6. “I wanted to write about what Bannon’s like as a guy, what [White House Chief of Staff John] Kelly is like as a guy,” Scaramucci said. “[Trump’s] surrounded by cockroaches, and they all want to survive him. They think they’re going to be there forever.” Scaramucci said half the book examines Trump’s electoral win as he witnessed it with the future president on the campaign trail in 2016. The author pointed to battleground states like Wisconsin — that then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been criticized for neglecting to campaign in and where Trump made several trips — as the path to his electoral success. The other half of the book goes into his short time spent in the White House, lambasting the people he called “snakes,” who he blamed for pushing him out of his position. “I got an 11-day Ph.D. in Washington scumbaggery, and as bad as people thought it was it all was, it’s way worse,” he said. “There’s an opportunity here for real people to enter into the system and break the corpocracy that’s strangling Washington … though we might not be able to break it.”

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University

Stony Brook University unveils new state-of-the-art facility BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

brainstorming. “With expanded space for patients and families, the MART offers a convenient access to Stony Brook Cancer’s experts, all of them in one location, whether you’re 4 years old or 84 years old,” Kaushansky said. The dean said since 2012 Dr. Yusuf Hannun, director of SBU Cancer Stony Brook University representatives with legislators joined Jim and Marilyn Simons, Center, has assembled a holding scissors, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at SBU Nov. 1. dream team of researchers, physicians, staff members SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, who and educators dedicated to finding cures and battled Hodgkin’s disease nearly 40 years ago, compassionate care for SBU patients. attended the event. As a cancer survivor, Johnson Hannun said the plan was to build a said she was happy to be at the ribbon cutting comprehensive cancer center on Long Island that and wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for conducts cutting-edge research to understand professionals that developed the treatment she cancer and then design approaches to predict, had to undergo. diagnose, prevent and defeat cancer. “I can’t wait to see what innovations are going “The broad scope of activities that we conduct to come out for the care and treatment of patients — research, education, clinical trials, prevention, to come from the comprehensive team of crosspatient care, survivorship and many others — is disciplinary researchers empowered by MART, only possible in a setting of an academic medical and how this facility will change the way we center that can support this depth and breadth of educate physician-scientists here at Stony Brook activity,” he said. University,” Johnson said. SBU

Stony Brook University is stepping into the future when it comes to cancer research and patient care. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Nov. 1 to commemorate the completion of construction of the Medical and Research Translation building, where Stony Brook University Cancer Center will be the primary occupant. The eight-level, 240,000-square-foot facility features expanded state-of-the-art space that will be used by clinicians and researchers to discover new cancer treatments, educate students, create more space for patients and family, and more. The building is slated to be opened to patients in January. At a presentation after the ceremony, SBU President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. said the MART is the result of public and private funds and donations. Support from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and the State University of New York and Empire State Development led to a $35 million NYSUNY 2020 challenge grant. Also, $50 million from a $150 million gift from Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies, and his wife Marilyn, and $53 million in funds secured by state Sens. John Flanagan (R-East

Northport) and Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) added to donations from supporters. The university president said the MART will bring together national and international experts in various fields including applied mathematics, imaging, chemistry, biology and computer science. “Imagine what we will accomplish once this building is filled with the preeminent doctors and scientists from across campus, the state and the globe,” Stanley said. Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president of health sciences and dean of the school of medicine, said the idea of the facility was conceived eight days after his arrival at Stony Brook nine years ago. He said it was envisioned as a catalyst for highly advanced cancer research and a facility to provide outstanding clinical care to patients. “Because cancer researchers, educators and clinicians would occupy the same building and wait in the same lines for coffee, juice and food, what I’d like to term productive collisions would be inevitable, allowing the MART to serve as an incubator with the very best people to produce and then practice the very best ideas in medicine,” he said. Kaushansky said the building is more than medical professionals coming together and

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Peer support group for veterans starting up in Port Jefferson A Port Jefferson pastor has a message for veterans struggling with actions taken in their past: you are not alone. Joining the armed services and venturing overseas, leaving one’s family, being tasked in some cases with taking a life, and in all cases being at least an indirect party to that reality, weighs heavy on a human being’s mind. To try to relieve some of that burden in an informal, judgment-free setting, Pastor Pete Jansson of Island Christian Church in Port Jefferson, in accordance with the Rev. Fred Miller of the Suffolk County American Legion, have established a program called Vet 2 Vet, a peer support group where those who have served and are suffering from “moral injury” can meet with someone who has been through the same as a means of healing. “Post-traumatic stress is the result of a neardeath experience or witnessing a tragic event such as your fellow troops being blown up or killed,” Miller wrote on the subject. “Moral injury is mental injury caused by being forced to do or witness things against your moral values, such as the killing or harming [of] others, witnessing death, failing to prevent immoral acts of others,

‘The bottom line is they’re believing a lie, and we’re trying to identify that lie and then replace it with truth ...’

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— Pastor Pete Jansson

Veterans struggling with their time served in the military now have the option of seeking peer support through a program at Island Christian Church in Port Jefferson.

or giving or receiving orders from authority that are against one’s moral values.” The program features military members, who have struggled with moral injury themselves previously but have reached a place of inner peace, that have been trained in how to help their fellow veterans deal with moral injury through a Department of Veterans Affairs program. The

group meets on the third Tuesday of each month at Island Christian, first in roundtable group discussions, then pairing off in a “buddy system” format, according to Jansson. So far two meetings have been held and Jansson is hoping to get the word out to boost attendance. “The bottom line is they’re believing a lie, and we’re trying to identify that lie and then replace

it with truth and that’s where the challenge is,” he said of the idea that carrying out orders while in the military becomes a burden carried by veterans. “There’s this internal struggle that they have as they begin to recognize that they were there for a purpose and asked to perform this task — not asked but ordered — and that they didn’t actually violate a moral code.” Jansson said the group is prepared to refer attendees for professional mental health services if needed, through the VA or otherwise, but that the idea of the program is to offer an alternative to those hesitant about reaching out for help. He explained why he wanted to be involved in such a program after meeting Miller, who has ties to the American Legion and has dedicated his postpastoring life to helping veterans. “I have a real passion for this village and a real desire to meet felt needs in people’s lives,” said Jansson. “We’ve done grief share classes for people that have gone through a tremendous loss. I personally lost my wife to cancer six years ago this month, and so I’ve been through the grief share.” Those interested in being involved in the program, either in need of support or to help those seeking it, are instructed to contact Jansson at 631-473-9229 or Miller at 631-395-4646.

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Police Blotter

Incidents and arrests Nov. 5–Nov. 11 Running from a ticket

A 31-year-old man from Mount Sinai allegedly possessed an open container of alcohol while on Main Street in Port Jefferson Nov. 10, and while being issued a summons by a Port Jefferson village constable, he allegedly attempted to run away, according to police. He was arrested and charged with second-degree obstruction of governmental administration.

Stealing spree

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Smash and grab

At about 12:30 a.m. Oct. 15, a 36-year-old man from Holbrook allegedly forcibly stole a backpack, cellphone and clothing from another man while on Clifton Place in Port Jefferson Station, according to police. The altercation required the victim to be treated for injuries at Stony Brook University Hospital, police said. The suspect was arrested Nov. 9 in Port Jefferson and charged with second-degree robbery.

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On Sept. 30, a 39-year-old man from Medford allegedly stole assorted products from Walmart on Route 347 in East Setauket worth in excess of $1,800, according to police. On Oct. 22, he allegedly stole assorted merchandise in excess of $1,500, police said. On Oct. 3 and 5 as well as Nov. 9, he also allegedly stole assorted items from the same location including home goods, a comforter, cooking supplies, body care products, laundry soap, shampoo and more, police said. He was arrested Nov. 9 in Setauket and charged with two counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and four counts of petit larceny.

Computer taken

A laptop was stolen from within an unlocked 2010 Toyota parked on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook Nov. 11 at about 4 p.m., according to police.

Ladder climbs away

Mount Sinai stabbing

At a home on Osborne Avenue in Mount Sinai Nov. 10, during an altercation, a 21-year-old woman who lives at the home allegedly swung a knife at another person, missing her target and stabbing a male attempting to break up the fight, according to police. She was arrested and charged with assault.

Jewelry thief

Jewelry was stolen from a home on Hillside Road in Stony Brook Nov. 7 at about 8 a.m., according to police.

Cellphone walks off

A cellphone was stolen off the shelves at Target on Pond Path in Setauket Nov 5 at about 2:30 p.m., according to police.

Shoplifting

A 31-year-old woman from Selden allegedly stole toys, candy and a television from Target on Pond Path in Setauket Nov. 10 at about 9:30 p.m., according to police. She was arrested and charged with petit larceny. On the same night and at the same location, a 33-year-old man from South Setauket allegedly stole clothing, according to police. He was also arrested and charged with petit larceny.

Hit and run

On Oct. 21 at about 7:30 p.m., a 37-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station driving a 2014 Nissan allegedly struck an unoccupied parked car in the parking lot of a housing complex on Old Town Road in Port Jefferson Station and fled the scene, according to police. He was arrested Nov. 5 in Setauket and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

Missing wedding ring

A ladder was stolen from the yard of a home on Bunny Lane in Port Jefferson Station Nov. 10 at about 5 a.m., according to police.

A wedding ring was stolen from within a home on Piedmont Drive in Port Jefferson Station Nov. 2 at about 5 p.m., according to police. A police report was filed Nov. 10.

Window broken

Screens damaged

While parked on Woodbine Avenue in Stony Brook Nov. 9 at about 8 p.m., the window of a 2012 Fiat was broken, according to police.

Two window screens on a home on West Broadway in Port Jefferson were damaged at about 10 a.m. Nov. 8, according to police.

— Compiled by Alex Petroski

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Brook University. Fifth-graders from the school thanked the 300 veteran residents for their contributions and sacrifices while serving in the armed forces after the performance by shaking hands. Also in attendance were state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport), who was the keynote speaker; Fred Sganga, LISVH executive director; several veteran service organization members; and the New York Army National Guard.

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National

TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN HOME DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR FIRST TIME HOMEBUYERS NOTICE OF APPLICATION AVAILABILITY AND INTAKE

As part of an ongoing commitment to help make the "American Dream" of home ownership a reality for first time homebuyers who wish to reside in Town of Brookhaven, Supervisor, Edward P. Romaine announced that the Long Island Housing Partnership (LIHP), as agent for Town of Brookhaven, will be making applications available for first-time homebuyers for down payment/closing cost assistance towards the purchase of a principal residence starting November 15, 2018. The Town of Brookhaven will provide eligible first-time homebuyers with up to $20,000 towards down payment/closing costs towards the purchase of an eligible new or existing single-family home, provided that the applicant puts a minimum down payment of at least $3,000. The applicant must also be able to satisfy the mortgage lender’s minimum down payment requirements and be able to secure a mortgage. Homeowners are required to reside in the home for a minimum of 10 years or HUD will require a full repayment of the grant.

Eligibility Criteria: An Applicant MUST be a: First Time Homeowner - defined as a household that has not owned a home during the three-year period immediately prior to the date of application for down payment assistance.

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Household occupying the property as a Principal Residence.

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Income Eligible Household - meaning a household must have a gross annual income not exceeding the income limits for the area as listed below with overtime and assets also taken into consideration.

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Household must attend a mortgage counseling session at LIHP and must be able to secure a mortgage.

Household must have adequate resources and credit to qualify for a mortgage.

North Shore residents line the corner of routes 347 and 112 in Port Jefferson Station Nov. 7 in response to the removal of Jeff Sessions as attorney general.

Citizens call for protection of special counsel in PJS following AG removal

Income Guidelines Household Size 1 2 3 4

Maximum Total Annual Income $ 65,350 $ 74,700 $ 84,000 $ 93,350

Household Size 5 6 7 8

Maximum Total Annual Income $ 100,850 $ 108,300 $ 115,750 $ 123,250

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Income limits subject to change pursuant to HUD requirements.

Type of Housing Available: Homes purchased must be eligible pre-existing or newly constructed residences located within the boundaries of Town of Brookhaven. They must be singlefamily dwellings (includes townhouses, condominiums, co-operative apartments and manufactured homes) occupied as a principal residence. Property Value Limit: The limit on the maximum purchase price of a single-family unit is $362,790. The property being purchased must appraise at the purchase price or higher. If the property appraises lower than the purchase price, down payment funds will not be available to purchase the home. No Foreclosures, Short Sales, Bank Owned or Real Estate Owned Properties are permitted in the program. Applications: Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until December 31, 2018. Applications and program guidelines are available online at the Long

Island Housing Partnership, Inc. website: www.lihp.org or by calling the Long Island Housing Partnership, Inc. at (631) 435-4710, or by visiting the LIHP’s office at 180 Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY Monday to Friday between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Fair Housing Laws will be followed.

The LIHP staff is available to assist with the application, and answer questions about eligibility requirements. We also provide free mortgage counseling. If you have any questions regarding the guidelines or need language assistance including translation and/or oral interpretation services, please call the Long Island Housing Partnership at (631) 435-4710 before applying. EDWARD P. ROMAINE, TOWN SUPERVISOR Brookhaven Town Hall One Independence Hill Farmingville, NY 11738

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They say all politics is local. The national drama of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the potential ties between President Donald Trump’s (R) 2016 campaign and Russian interference in the election experienced an escalation of tensions Nov. 7, one day after the midterm elections, and the response could be heard as far from Washington, D.C., as Port Jefferson Station. Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) resigned that day in a letter that stated the president requested he do so. As a result, the left-leaning political action group MoveOn organized nationwide protests called Nobody Is Above the Law — Mueller Protection Rapid Response to take place across the country Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. A few dozen protesters congregated at the corner of routes 112 and 347 to make their voices heard and send a message to Washington. The local activist organization North Country Peace Group acted to mobilize North Shore residents in the aftermath of the news. “[Trump] firing Sessions and everything that he’s been doing since he’s been in the White House is my impetus to get out here,” Ellie Kahana, of Stony Brook, said. “He’s obviously going to try and get rid of Mueller and conceal whatever Mueller is finding out.” Sessions’ position at the top of the U.S. Department of Justice would ordinarily make

him the person in charge of a special counsel investigation, though he recused himself from that investigation to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest because he campaigned with Trump during 2016. Sessions’ potential removal was long viewed as a signal by his opponents that Trump may be moving to undermine Mueller’s probe or even fire him altogether. When asked by White House pool reporters if acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, whom Trump appointed, was installed to harm the investigation, Trump called it a “stupid question.” While Trump has referred to the investigation as a “witch hunt” repeatedly on Twitter and in interviews, he has yet to take any steps to conceal its eventual findings or cut off its funding. “I knew this would happen, in fact I thought it would happen at midnight,” said Lisa Karelis, of East Setauket. Karelis said the Democrats winning of the U.S. House of Representatives on election night creating the possibility of increased scrutiny triggered Trump’s urgency for a new attorney general. She added Whitaker’s public statements opposing the expanding scope of the Mueller probe prior to his appointment made it clear what the president hoped to accomplish by naming Whitaker acting attorney general. Members of the U.S. Congress and from both political parties have suggested legislation be advanced to prevent removal of the special counsel. The bill has also yet to gain enough support to be delivered to Trump’s desk for signature.

Sports — Game of the week

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Centereach 7 Lindenhurst 14

The Centereach Cougars varsity football team traveled to Lindenhurst Middle School to take on the Bulldogs. The Cougars fell to Lindenhurst 14 -7 in the Division II county semiﬁnal. Clockwise from above, Cougars wide receiver Mathew Robbert ﬁnds an open lane; Centereach

quarterback Devin Demetres throws a screen pass; Cougars wide receiver Alex Goldberg goes up for a pass; Centereach linebacker Ayodele Adegoke escapes a would-be tackler; and Cougars Patrick Stoss #42 and Adegoke gang up to bring down a Lindenhurst runner.

BILL LANDON

Cougars fall short in county semiﬁnal

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Perspective

The momentus feeling of completing a marathon I never really considered myself a “runner.” Growing up I played team sports that required bursts of speed and overall stamina but hated the dreaded laps around the field during soccer, volleyball and basketball practices. I ran track at P.J. Gelinas Junior High School in Setauket for a few seasons, and competed in sprints and hurdles but eventually gave it up to play softball, preferring the team nature of the sport despite being afraid to slide and not being much of a long ball hitter. When I ultimately took up distance running about 11 years ago after the birth of my second daughter, Hope, I was hoping to lose weight. I couldn’t run for more than 60 seconds at a time. Each day huffing and puffing, I would set out jogging slowly for 60 seconds then walking for 60 seconds over 15 minutes until eventually working up to 30 minutes. Tracking my progress on the Nike Running Club, every day I would run a little longer than the day before until I topped off at about 3 miles, thinking it was as far as I could go. Running by myself, I got pretty bored even with music, so I started entering road races after my husband, Christopher, who had run the NYC Marathon in 2010, convinced me it was fun. I secretly thought he was nuts. I joined the Greater Long Island Running Club and ran the local races. I won my first running medal — 2nd place in my age group — at the Port Jefferson Fire Department’s Run Through the Bubble 5k, and by then I was hooked. As a longtime member of the Walk for Beauty Committee, and a new convert to the running lifestyle, I knew we could raise even more in the fight against breast cancer by adding a run component and convinced the committee to include a 10k, which we named Hercules on the Harbor. With the guidance and support of the West Meadow Beach Road Runners, that first Hercules on the Harbor exceeded our expectations. Shortly after our first race, Suffolk County established the inaugural Suffolk County Marathon and I committed to running half of the mileage (13.1 miles). It was sometime during the training for this distance I started running with friends. Carrie Gallagher, a fellow Ward Melville High School graduate and Stony Brook resident, would join me on the Greenway Trail, at West Meadow Beach along Trustees Road or in the winter when the local roads are full of ice and snow around the well-maintained path along Circle Road at Stony Brook University. Eventually Carrie and I teamed up with Sharon Gatz-Philbrick, another WMHS graduate, Port Jefferson resident and owner/operator of Shine Dance Studios. Sharon had run many full marathons and she ran with other local women regularly. Sharon invited Carrie and me to join them. They called themselves The Bad Ass Women’s Running Group. Joining this group was a game changer for me. Running with women from Stony

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Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn completes the Suffolk County Marathon in Patchogue Oct. 28.

Brook, Setauket, Old Field, Port Jefferson, Belle runs begin and often end in the dark; and with busy Terre and Miller Place was inspiring and enjoy- roads, distracted drivers, pot holes and hills, LOTS able. Not only was it safer to run as a group, which of hills, seldom does the road ever rise up to greet made it easier to be seen by vehicles and less likely you. But then there are the mornings when everyto be a target, but the comradery of running with thing comes together. Those days marked by the women who had completed many marathons defi- dawn breaking over the spectacular Conscience Bay, Port Jefferson or Mount Sinai nitely kept me on my toes (pun harbors, or when everyone meets intended). Running almost every up excited to hit the road feeling day in all kinds of weather can be like our legs could carry us for daunting, but running as a group hours. Those are the days when keeps you motivated. Knowing every challenge is worth it, even there are others waiting to run with the cold dark mornings and pairs you keeps excuses from stopping of soggy socks. your journey or from missing a Last year, after months of run with friends that is most often training, I woke the morning of therapeutic and fun. the marathon to realize Sharon Today, our running group has and I would be running more than evolved to 14 members as well 26 miles in heavy rain and the as four dogs. We text each other high winds of a strong nor’easevery night to see who is runYour turn: Kara Hahn ter. Sloshing through puddles for ning the following morning. We more than four hours took a toll on usually meet at the Old Setauket me and somewhere around mile Post Office running one of three 6-mile routes that may include the Old Field Light 23 my left knee buckled, slowing my pace signifiHouse, the Gamecock Cottage or Strong’s Neck. cantly. But we finished, and that’s more important Other times we meet at the Greenway Trail, St. than how fast you run. Those months of training Charles Hospital or the Stony Brook Post Office, had strengthened both my muscles and my resolve. and during winter, in icy conditions, we meet at The euphoria of finishing such a monumental challenge is hard to describe, but doing it among and Stony Brook University. The challenges of running a marathon are many with the support of friends is amazing. Deciding to fully commit to marathon No. 2 — heat and humidity in summer dog the longest runs; the fall’s shorter days mean early morning was hard, but I think it is something like childbirth;

you forget how really bad it can be. Training continued through the winter, maintaining the ability to run 10 miles throughout. It began in earnest around the end of July when we kicked it up and followed a program that finally got us to completing two 16-mile runs, two 18-mile runs and one 20-miler prior to race day. The lead up to race day was nerve-racking; watching another nor’easter threaten this year’s event. Luckily the morning of the race cleared up and temperatures were brisk — perfect for a long run. Running in good weather this year was much more enjoyable with larger crowds along the course and less worry about puddles and the dangers of slick surfaces. We appreciated seeing the Port Jefferson High School cheerleaders at a water stop, Jennifer Dzvonar from the Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Chamber of Commerce and the Long Island Young Marines at the start, as well as family and friends along the course and at the finish line. So many amazing volunteers from the Suffolk County workforce and from local fire and rescue departments all chipping in to make raising money to support veterans groups across Suffolk possible. Despite relatively dry sneakers, my knee gave out at around mile 23 again and I finished the race slightly slower than last year, but richer than ever in friendship, strength of purpose and gratitude for the physical ability to do what I love for a worthy cause. Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) is the legislator for Suffolk County’s 5th District.

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With the 2018 midterm elections over, both New York State and the U.S. as a whole saw a major upset. Despite local leaders like U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) keeping their seats, both the state Senate and U.S. House of Representatives flipped over to the Democratic Party after years of Republican majority control. Despite these changes, many local residents said they expect to see more gridlock and political divisiveness for the next two years. “I thought that it was the point of politicians to care about the people, but it’s not,” said Miller Place resident Rich Jiranek. “They have forgotten about ‘We the People,’ and now it’s all about themselves.” Jiranek, a Republican, said he didn’t see his party accomplish much of anything in the 18 months they controlled both the U.S. Congress and the presidency. Now he said he sees the ongoing push for recounts in the Florida governor’s and senator’s races and Georgia governor’s race as just a prelude to more political bickering. “It’s just not right,” he said. “There’s nothing fair about it anymore.” The sense of foreboding over potential partisanship was shared by people of all different political ideologies. Steve and Christina Dierlam, both Lindenhurst residents, sat at one of the outside tables at the Port Jeff Brewing Company on a cool fall afternoon, thankful for the day off with their young child because of paid family leave, a law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in 2016 and enacted at the beginning of 2018. “Everything is just going to grind to a halt at this point,” Steve Dierlam said “I think that is what we’re dealing with. It’s pretty terrible that we’re the only two districts that went Republican when the rest of the districts in New York went Democrat.” Christina Dierlam agreed and said that while she and her husband have voted for Democrats and agree with a lot of Democratic legislation, she believes government will come to a major impasse. “Whoever is the speaker, the Democrats are going to shoot down any legislation the Trump administration or the Republicans try to implement, which I’m happy about, but it will just present more gridlock,” she said. Mount Sinai resident Anna Hill said she expects to see even more conflict, especially with recent comments by the now expected majority leader in the House Nancy Pelosi about reopening the investigation into Russian involvement during the 2016 presidential election and ties to the Trump campaign. Trump has tweeted that if his campaign is investigated, he will challenge the Democrats in the House. “I think what’s going to happen is there’s going to be more conflict, and Trump is going to be bullying people in the House of Representatives, and that’s going to make it harder to get things done,” Hill said. “I see more chaos, unfortunately.” All those interviewed said that they disagreed with the political discord and partisan squabbling, but it was hard to say how or when it could ever stop. Stony Brook resident Patrick Leahy said that not enough attention gets paid to local laws that impact people on a dayto-day basis, and the political divisiveness has gotten to the point where people will move from their homes just to live in areas that agree with them politically. “A person’s actions define their character, not what they say,” Leahy said. “This party wants to do that; the other party wants to do this. As bad as that sounds, that has been happening for a long time before this election.” Though not all is doom and gloom, according to Port Jefferson Station resident Tara Braaten. This midterm election saw some

high turnout all across the country. The New York Times reported that, by current estimates, 113 million people came out to vote in these midterms, encompassing 48 percent of the eligible voter population. This is up from the 2014 midterm elections, which saw only 83 million votes cast. “I just feel that raising awareness and people being more active and proactive participating is going to have more of a difference to whatever decision being made or outcome,” she said. “We have to have constant vigilance, and it’s still up to us, despite who’s sitting in the chair.”

“They have forgotten about ‘We the People,’ and now it’s all about themselves.”

— Rich Jiranek

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Remembering our shared values

So where is the happy? I don’t mean content or grateful. I mean happy, cheerful. I’m not that happy at the moment and most of the people I know are not that happy. This was not intended to be a political retort, but politics these days defines our every waking moment. And that does not cause happiness. It appears certain people are just waiting for the opportunity to write nasty letters in response to someone who doesn’t share their political view. The same names keep recycling in the “Letters to the editor” page of this paper. You folks don’t seem too happy. Neither political side can fathom how the opposition thinks or feels. Everyone is under attack. This is not normal. If you are a supporter of this president, can you honestly say this is normal? There was extreme opposition to Barack Obama but it never rose to this level of out-and-out hatred, dishonesty and turmoil. We did not have daily news blasts of

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We as a country have experienced a tumultuous and polarizing last few weeks and months. The lead up to the first Tuesday in November and the midterm elections set the American electorate ablaze with strong opinions that saw former elected officials receive rudimentary pipe bombs via the mail. With that as a backdrop, Veterans Day took place this past weekend, with beautiful, solemn remembrances unfolding at war memorials and firehouses, coupled with more raucous and celebratory parades happening across the North Shore and beyond. The events should have served as reminders that despite our differences, our shared values and appreciation for the sacrifices made by so many that allowed this country to flourish are what will be truly lasting in even the tensest of times. While we were glad to see photos come through our inboxes and across our social media platforms of these events, we were saddened by an incident that occurred at Heritage Park in Mount Sinai relayed to us by Fred Drewes, a founding member of the Heritage Trust, the nonprofit which stewards the park in partnership with the Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County. Drewes has dedicated much of his own time to beautifying the park and perpetuating a triannual program called the Parade of Flags, which features the flying of about 100 flags representing American states and other important entities like the military branches lining an area of the park dubbed the Avenue of America. The park features other patriotic imagery including the Court of America, a sitting area with benches, plaques with quotes from presidents and other famous citizens and a rock garden in the shape of the continental United States. The rock garden contains symbolic rocks, plants and flowers that are native to the corresponding region in which they lay. Blocks featuring the names of all previous 44 U.S. presidents and the years they held office border the garden. President Donald Trump’s block will be added at the conclusion of his tenure, according to Drewes. Drewes reported to us that during recent weeks someone tore out former President Barack Obama’s block and discarded it in a nearby shrub. We’re not asking anyone to agree with all — or even any — of the former president’s political ideologies or practices, except for one. “The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us,” Obama said in 2011 while speaking in Tucson, Arizona, after a gunman shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona). On Veterans Day especially, but going forward, we’d like to see Americans make a better effort to live by that axiom.

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Wondering where the happy is the latest terrifying political event. Does this make you happy to hear and see this? Obviously all presidents have supporters and non-supporters. But now, if you don’t support this president or anyone in his administration — to date at least four are going to jail — violence, venom and mayhem ensue. I think it’s time we all take a breather. Let’s go about our lives in a more peaceful and respectful manner. Support your political candidates, be respectful of opposing views, be confident in your beliefs but we need to stop the ugly insults and threats. This trickle-down fearmongering is causing undue stress and extreme sadness on both sides of the political aisle. So when Trump supporters say the “liberals” have been bashing Trump since the election, well, yes we have. He has given us, and I believe even some of his supporters, every reason to be fearful and unhappy. Trump thrives off of derision and a divided

country. I believe we all want a country where everyone has a chance to succeed. The more successful individuals are the more successful our country is. We want a country where everyone should have the opportunity to be well educated and healthy. Where people of privilege help those of less privilege. We definitely want a country where everyone is encouraged and able to vote — according to the 15th Amendment — and American politicians nor other countries cannot or should not interfere with this right. We want a country where everyone’s civil rights are protected. A country where, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, “all men [people] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Remember happiness? Susan Blake Setauket

Keep a close eye on Zeldin this term On Nov. 6, Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin was re-elected to the House of Representatives by his smallest margin of victory since running for public office [52 percent to 46]. His campaign was one marked by xenophobia, homophobia and name calling of his Democratic opponent, Perry Gershon, and his supporters. As a resident of the 1st Congressional District, it was painful to see signs with the words “Gay Lover” stenciled into stolen Gershon signs, as well as a swastika spray-painted onto a Gershon sign on Nicolls Road. As a parent, it became increasingly difficult to explain these acts of hate to my young children

as we witnessed them. Unfortunately, with the re-election of Zeldin, we not only have a more divided district with hateful rhetoric a part of the discourse, we have a congressman who will not be able to deliver on important issues. He is now in the minority, something that he has never experienced in his time in public office. Zeldin has legislated as an extreme partisan and has not formed relationships across the aisle, which will make it difficult for him to secure funds for our district. He no longer has the protection of a majority that will send appropriations his way, nor does he possess the people skills to fight

on our behalf. While I respect the results of this election and Zeldin’s victory, I urge all NY1 constituents to keep a close eye on our congressman, and pay attention to his divisive rhetoric and inability to deliver on needs for our communities, and consider this when casting their ballots in 2020. We need a leader who is principled, capable of reaching across the aisle and unites rather than divides in his rhetoric. Zeldin has fallen short on all of these qualities necessary for a leader. Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

Cuomo needs to stop running TV ads Election Day has come and gone and reminds me of “The Outer Limits” 1960s television show. With the end of roundthe-clock commercials by politicians, political parties, unions and pay-for-play special interest groups, we now return control of your television back to you until the next election cycle. Now if only Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) would do the same. When will he direct the Empire State Development Corporation to stop running its wasteful

“public service” advertisements. After eight years in office, Cuomo has had this quasi-independent state agency spend several hundred million of taxpayer dollars to pay for these “feel good” commercials. They were clearly designed to assist him in greasing the wheels of another term in office and raise his profile in preparation for a presidential run in the Democratic Party 2020 primary. These commercials periodically run in heavy rotation on many stations several times

per hour day and night. Diogenes is still waiting for state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (D), Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D), state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D) or a brave member of the state Legislature to come forward and challenge Emperor Cuomo to end this waste, fraud and abuse of public monies. Larry Penner Great Neck

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Opinion

Hoping we all find our joie de vivre

nowing exactly what we want and then getting it brings out the thrilled child in all of us. I recently attended a wonderful party thrown by one of my wife’s friends. I’ve seen this gentleman for years in various settings that are a blend of personal and professional. Each time, he seemed pleased with the ﬁsh he ordered for lunch, with the interactions at holiday parties or with the chance to disD. None cuss details of his of the above children’s lives. BY DANIEL DUNAIEF At this party at his house, however, I saw a different side of him that I hope

resides in each of us. In his elegantly decorated and comfortable home, he welcomed us into a large kitchen. People stood around a table covered with various dishes, helping themselves to sliced steak, warm pretzels and a variety of appetizers. While the food appeared pleasing to the guests’ palates, the bigger hit was the wide assortment of wines. With a stream of ordered and shiny glasses at the ready, each arriving guest had a chance to sample from a variety of wines, all gracefully arranged with the bottles of the neck facing outward, as if each container were a person reclining comfortably in a bath after a long day. “This one came from a trip to California,” he said. “It’s my absolute favorite.” He proceeded to describe his experience at the vineyard and the interactions with its owners. “After a sip, I told him I wanted his entire stock of this one,” he said, taking a small swallow, smiling and basking in the familiar ﬂavor

that splashed across his receptive taste buds. When told there were 12 bottles of that particular wine, he asked the owner to pack them all up and ship them to him. He was delighted to share what he described as an extraordinary taste of life with guests who became increasingly animated and comfortable with each other as the night wore on. Once outside his house, he took us on a tour of some of the amenities he had taken considerable time to add to his house. For starters, he had two ﬁrepits on a 50-something degree evening, both of which offered welcome warmth against the breezes that seemed no match for the ﬂames. Around the side, he said he used to have a lawn. Once his children were old enough, he had no need for grass he would need to water and mow, and that young children didn’t occupy during evenings or weekends. He had recently installed a putting green for his wife’s birthday. That, however, was just the beginning of the story, as he had the green designed and

installed to match the contours, speed and play of the nearest golf course. First, he said, the installers put down a base. Once they did that, they added sand that they carefully contoured. That process took a solid two days, as a worker walked back and forth across the relatively small space, making sure of exactly the right concentration and height to match the speciﬁcation. Once the sand was down, other workers meticulously shaped it. Then they put the carpet down. A professional golfer designed the holes. He assured us that the entire process has paid off, as he and his wife have loved the chance to hone their putting in the backyard, especially shaving several strokes off the weakest part of his wife’s game. As we prepared to leave the home after a pleasant evening, it was clear that our host has learned to drink deeply of the pleasures life affords him. Hopefully, we can all bring something that provides such satisfaction into our lives.

The dead do have good tales to tell

all me ghoulish, but I like to read obituaries. Of course they have to be well-written obits, like the ones in The New York Times. I almost never know the people who have died. If I’ve heard of them, their stories are usually on the front page. These obits that I refer to are usually found in the back pages. The dead are famous enough to warrant a signiﬁcant write-up, and I always like to hear tales of people’s lives. That’s one reason I ﬁnd them interesting. Between Another, perhaps you and me more important atBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF traction for me, is the random information to be gleaned on diverse subjects. Let me give you some recent examples. On an entirely random day, Thursday, Oct. 25, I read about Wanda Ferragamo, clever wife

of the famous shoemaker, Salvatore Ferragamo, who had built a shoe shop in Florence, Italy, into a shoe design and manufacturing concern. Upon his death in 1960 — he was 24 years older than his wife — Wanda, who had never worked in her life until then, built the company into an international powerhouse with annual revenues most recently of more than $1 billion. Now I happen to like Ferragamo shoes, although I mostly don’t buy them. But the obit was something of a business case study for me, as well as the story of a remarkable woman who had just died at her hilltop villa in Fiesole, a beautiful village above Florence, at age 96. Then there was Osamu Shimomura, who died in Nagasaki, Japan, at age 90. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for finding a glowing jellyfish protein that is now a major element of biological research. Shimomura, working in Washington state for a Princeton marine biologist in 1961, scooped up thousands of jellyfish from Puget Sound in an attempt to discover how they glowed green when agitated. They were able to extract a luminescent material, a protein, which they named aequorin. He also found trace amounts of another protein, green

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ﬂuorescent protein or GFP that would glow green whenever ultraviolet light was shined on it. Ultimately the GFP gene was stitched into the DNA of other organisms, enabling researchers to track those organisms the way naturalists can track tagged cougars in the wild. This revolutionized contemporary biological discovery. Of great further interest, he lived with grandparents near Nagasaki and saw the American B-29 airplane that dropped its devastating atomic bomb on the city. He described what he saw in graphic detail in his Nobel autobiography. Dorcas Reilly, who died in Camden, New Jersey, at age 92, might particularly be remembered at the Thanksgiving table. It was she who invented the classic American dish of green bean casserole when she worked in the Campbell Soup Company test kitchen. Containing a mere six ingredients, the recipe was printed on the label of Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and called for cooked green beans, a little milk, soy sauce, pepper and some crunchy fried onions on top. Reilly helped create simple recipes to promote the sale of company products. Originally called the Green Bean Bake in 1955, Campbell’s estimates some 20 million American homes will

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serve the dish in two weeks time. The Indian musician and teacher, Annapurna Devi, 91, died in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. Called by The Times “a poignant inspiration for women artists,” Devi masterfully played the surbahar, described as a bass sitar. This is “a difﬁcult instrument that few if any women of her era played.” She and her ﬁrst husband, the famous sitarist Ravi Shankar, sometimes played together, but when she seemed to get most of the notice she stopped performing. A 1973 movie, “Abhimaan,” is said to have been inspired by their marriage and the tensions within it. She then limited herself to teaching and “turned out musicians of the highest caliber.” There was also Tony Hoagland, who died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 64 and “a widely admired poet who could be both humorous and heartfelt.” He found insights and imagery in the everyday, like a pool in an Austin, Texas, park; a spaghetti strap on a woman’s dress that wouldn’t stay put; and, according to The Times, an old man dying awash in paranoia from too much Fox News. Never heard of any of them? Now you have and learned something too, I’ll bet. I did.

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