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A dead body found on a beach near Port Jefferson Harbor is not the man who went missing following a plane’s crash-landing at the end of February. The Suffolk County Police Department said last Thursday that Homicide Unit detectives are in-
vestigating the man’s death, but it appears he drowned. Authorities identified him as 28-year-old Marlon Lewis, who was homeless. A Port Jefferson Village code enforcement officer found the body at about 1:45 p.m. that day, police said, at which point police officers responded to the scene at the beach. The Suffolk County medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy. Code Chief Wally Tomaszewski said in a phone interview Tuesday that the code bureau’s
Sgt. Steve Grau spotted Lewis’ body in the water near the Centennial Park beach from his position on the village’s dock, in front of the Village Center on East Broadway. The sergeant originally thought the victim was a woman because he was in a dress, according to the chief. Tomaszewski said the code officers had seen Lewis around the village for the last five years or so, usually uptown in the morning, and he would get food at a soup kitchen in the downtown
area on Mondays. Lewis’ body washed up almost four weeks after a small plane, carrying four people, crash-landed in Setauket Harbor near Poquott. The Piper PA-28 had taken off from Fitchburg, Mass., and was headed for Republic Airport in Farmingdale on Feb. 20 when it experienced engine trouble and the student pilot, 25-year-old Bronx resident Austricio Ramirez, handed the BODY continued on page a9
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A fatal crash was the result of a limousine’s dangerous U-turn at a busy intersection in Cutchogue, and on Wednesday a special grand jury placed the blame on the driver. Carlos F. Pino, 58, of Old Bethpage, surrendered to police Wednesday and was arraigned on four charges of criminally negligent homicide, four counts of assault, failure to yield the right of way, reckless driving and other traffic violations, Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota said. Pino was attempting a U-turn
near the intersection of Depot Lane and County Route 48 on July 18 when Steven Romeo, 55, of Peconic, Tboned the limo, killing four and injuring six. The crash killed Smithtown’s Brittney Schulman, 23, and Lauren Baruch, 24, as well as Stephanie Belli, 23, of Kings Park and Amy Grabina, 23, of Commack, who were all riding in a limousine in the middle of a weekend wine tour on the eastern part of the Island. The collision also injured passengers Joelle Dimonte, 25, of Elwood, Melissa Angela Crai, 23, of Scarsdale, Alicia Arundel, 24, of Se-
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Suffolk County district attorney tom Spota addresses the media.
tauket and Olga Lipets, 24, of Brooklyn. Romeo, the DA said, was operating the truck under the inf luence of alcohol and was charged
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Easter Bunny hops around Heritage Park By GisEllE BarklEy
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Clockwise from above, families posed for photos with the Easter Bunny; children enjoyed collecting eggs; a little girl gets ready to hunt for eggs outside on the grounds of Heritage Park; kids dressed up in their favorite Easter outfits; and families gathered inside the Heritage Center to enjoy some refreshments after the hunt.
The Easter Bunny bounced through the Heritage Center in Mount Sinai for an early Easter celebration. On March 19, residents packed into the center for a free chance to see the Easter Bunny
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Transgender activists call for Flanagan’s support By GiSelle Barkley
The crowd’s chants were loud and in unison. “Trans lives matter. Pass GENDA now.” Juli Grey-Owens, executive director of The Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition, joined with members of the Long Island DREAM Coalition, the Bus Riders’ Union, SEPA Mujer and the Move to Amend Coalition and other organizations on Thursday, March 17, at the Setauket Presbyterian Church to demand better transparency and representation from state Sen. John Flanagan (R- East Northport). While the coalitions had different agendas, they all sought to deliver a message to Flanagan with hopes of sparking a serious conversation on transgender rights, public transportation issues, undocumented students and families, isolated confinement and other concerns they argued were being ignored on the state level of government. “Right now, Long Islanders — everyday, hardworking Long Islanders — are not being seen as a priority in the state, nor by our own state representative,” said Aaron Watkins-Lopez, organizer for the Long Island Bus Riders’ Union. Last year, Suffolk County made steps to cut various bus schedules because of a lack of state funding. Watkins-Lopez said that Sen. Philip Boyle (R-East Islip) supported getting additional transit
funds, and took steps to establish a piece of legislation when former state Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) was working in the Senate. Currently, transgender individuals don’t have any laws prohibiting transgender discrimination in the workplace, housing and more. After Skelos left office because of his own legal troubles, people like Grey-Owens hoped the Senate would finally pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which was introduced in 2003 as a means of outlawing discrimination in New York State based on gender identity or expression. The state Assembly passed the bill eight years in a row, but was never brought to a vote in the Senate. GreyOwens said she hoped Flanagan would bring the bill for a vote when he became Senate majority leader. According to Grey-Owens, Flanagan said he would support the bill in 2014 if it came to the floor for a vote. “He refuses to bring the bill to the floor and transgender New Yorkers are forced to wait another year to possibly receive the same rights that all New Yorkers enjoy,” Grey-Owens said during the meeting. Although Flanagan was unable to make the meeting, his spokesman Scott Reif said the Senate majority leader “prides himself on being open and
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transparent.” He added that Flanagan’s absence wasn’t personal. “The senator routinely meets with all groups, as he has done for 30 years throughout his entire public career, regardless of whether he agrees with them or not,” Reif said in an email. “The decision to take a meeting is never influenced by a group’s position on an issue, it is dictated solely by what his schedule will allow.” Watkins-Lopez expressed disappointment with Flanagan’s absence and said it was imperative for state officials to meet with their constituents and acknowledge their concerns.
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responsible for driving while intoxicated but he cannot be held criminally responsible for the crash.” Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley said during the press conference that unfortunately many limo drivers exiting Vineyard 48 in Cutchogue try to make the dangerous left U-turn that ended up being fatal, because it is the fastest route to head back west. “There are other ways to head back west, but that’s the easiest way for them to do it,” Flatley said. There is now a traffic light at that intersection, Flatley said. Spota said Romeo was heading west at about 55 miles per hour when the crash occurred. He did not see the limo enter the intersection until he was about 200 feet away, the district attorney said. “Mr. Romeo had only 200 feet to react to the hazard he saw, and stop his vehicle,” Spota said. “Traveling at 55 mph, it would have taken 1.6 seconds to perceive the limo in his path, to realize he must apply his brakes, and then to begin braking. This would leave Romeo with even less distance, 129 feet, to avoid a crash — impossible for him to do. In fact our experts tell us that at 55 mph it would have taken anyone 263 feet to stop and avoid the crash.” After investigating the crash, Spota said the incident was “unavoidable,” thus keeping a grand jury from indicting Romeo for vehicular manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide. Belli, Baruch and Schulman were all decorated members of the national and language honor societies by the time they graduated from Smithtown High School West. Over the summer, schools Superintendent James Grossane said Belli, a 2010 graduate, had an infectious smile and was an enthusiastic student and member of the district’s championship kickline team. Baruch, a 2009 graduate, was best known for her booming laugh and unforgettable smile, Grossane said. Schulman, he said, was another 2010 graduate and had a profound love for her family. Grabina graduated in 2010 from Commack High School and went on to pursue accounting at Florida State University, ultimately landing a job at Ernst & Young in Tallahassee, Fla. Alex Petroski contributed to this report.
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POLICE BLOTTER Incidents and arrests from March 14- March 20 Jamaican me crazy, thief! On March 19 at 5:20 p.m., police arrested a 38-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station for petit larceny. According to police, the man stole assorted tools from a store on Jamaica Avenue. He was arrested at his home.
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Brookhaven goes tech Highway Superintendent takes systems online By Phil corso
Managing one of the largest highway departments in New York State takes a lot of work, and Brookhaven Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R) has put all of it in the palm of his hand. As of Jan. 5, the entire department went paperless with a new electronic work order system and by the end of that month, foremen in the field either updated or closed more than 1,500 work orders using a mobile app on town-issued iPads. In an exclusive interview with TBR News Media, Losquadro and his team said the Brookhaven highway department has raised the bar for municipalities across the state. “To me, this is nothing short of transformative,” Losquadro said. “Improving efficiencies of the highway department has been one of my priorities since taking office three years ago.” In the past, Brookhaven residents hoping to see something as simple as a pothole being repaired in front of their home would need to file a work order, which an office staffer would enter into a computer, print out and then deliver to a foreman, typically taking five to seven days before resolution. But now, the highway superintendent said, the information can be shared almost immediately. “We owe that to our customers, because they deserve the response that a customer from any business should get,” Losquadro said, referring to his Brookhaven constituents. The new paperless system capitalized on already existing geographic information systems the town had invested in over recent years to help create one cohesive platform, allowing town employees to view, update and create work orders in real time, from the field. And through each step of development, Losquadro said foremen and town workers who would be using the technology on a daily basis pro-
vided their feedback. Matt Sabatello, who works in the town’s tech department, worked alongside a dedicated crew of in-house developers to grow the mobile application and make it accessible for all town employees. With more than a decade of experience working with the town already under his belt, Sabatello said he has seen the arc of technological advancement go into overdrive under Losquadro’s direction. Some of the interactive features Losquadro and his team helped to launch over the past year included color-coded visual queues identifying outstanding work orders, a display of all open work orders prioritized by the date created and a new “follow me” GPS-enabled feature that could be used to identify problem areas as well as track town vehicles when they are out in the field. “If you see something, create a work order,” Losquadro said, playing off the Metropolitan Transportation Authority slogan, “If you see something, say something.” And the efficiencies stretch far beyond a run-of-the-mill pothole fix, too. John Giannott, a senior administrator with the highway department, said the mobile technology has made Brookhaven’s response time to serious weather events such as severe snowfall nearly two hours quicker. “We keep finding new uses for this every day,” he said. “It puts you ahead of the curve, because all your assets are tracked.” The “green” technology has also allowed the town to apply for state grants and emergency relief funds in a more efficient way, making Brookhaven that much more equipped for more green. Looking ahead, Losquadro said he hoped to see other facets of Brookhaven government follow suit in implementing such technology. He said he has already seen an interest from the town board to use similar platforms to track constituent complaints.
More impaired drivers drive us crazy A 40-year-old man was arrested on March 20 for driving while ability impaired. The Port Jefferson Station resident was driving a 2012 Mercedes when he crashed into another car on East Broadway in Port Jefferson. Police discovered the man was intoxicated and arrested him at the scene, at 1:59 a.m. Police arrested a woman from Farmingville on March 18, for driving while ability impaired. According to police, the 24-year-old woman was driving a 2015 Jeep on Mariners Way in Port Jefferson when she ran through a stop sign. Police arrested her at 12:17 a.m. On March 19 around 1:10 a.m., police arrested a 55-year-old man for driving while ability impaired. The Port Jefferson man was driving a 2010 Ford Explorer on Main Street in Setauket when he crashed into another car. On March 17, police arrested a 41-year-old man for driving while ability impaired. Police said the man was driving a 2012 Volkswagen on Middle Country Road in Centereach when he failed to maintain his lane. Police pulled the man over and arrested him at the scene around 1:07 a.m. Route to court Police arrested a 19-year-old man from Medford for petit larceny on March 20. According to police, the man stole an iPhone from a residence near Route 25 in Selden. Police arrested him at the scene, around 12:50 a.m. It didn’t give him wings According to police, on March 20 around 12:48 p.m., someone stole a four-pack of Red Bull energy drink from a store on Nesconset Highway in Mount Sinai. A cig-nature crime On March 14 around 11 p.m., an unidentified person stole a pocketbook from a 1991 Toyota parked on Park Av-
enue in Centereach. Police said the thief used the victim’s credit card to buy cigarettes at a store. You’ve been audited Police said that on March 16 around noon, a woman on East End Road in Sound Beach received an IRS scam call. According to police, the woman gave the unidentified caller money. Quit fencin’ around Between midnight and 8 a.m. on March 20, someone damaged a fence at a residence on Kale Road in Rocky Point. You don’t got mail Between March 19 at 7:30 p.m. and March 20 around 1 p.m., someone damaged the mailbox of a residence on Dartmouth Road in East Shoreham. Police said the suspect broke the mailbox and ripped it off its wooden post. Shop ‘til you drop Someone stole various shirts and pants on March 15 from Bob’s Stores on College Road in Selden. Police said the incident happened around 5:15 p.m. That’s not my name A 43-year-old man from Rocky Point was arrested on March 16 for using a false instrument and intent to defraud. According to officials, the man filed for a new driver’s license while his original license was suspended. Police arrested the man at his residence around 5 p.m. Gassing up On March 15 around 4:25 a.m., an unidentified person broke a window to a gas station on Main Street in Setauket-East Setauket and stole cigarettes, cash and two cash registers. Out of my way According to police, two senior citizens in assisted living got into an altercation on March 19 around 8:15 a.m. Police said one citizen punched the other in the face because the individual was in their way. The incident happened on Sunrise Drive in SetauketEast Setauket. The victim didn’t press charges. — comPileD By Giselle Barkley
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On the East End of Long Island, we must be committed to protecting and preserving the abundance of our natural resources that are so important to our life, culture and economy. This is an issue that is personal for all of us. For me, growing up on Long Island and enjoying the beauty of Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, Smith Point County Park and so many other treasures of life in our area, we are constantly reminded that in order to provide each generation with that same privilege, we must be good stewards of the environment. Protecting
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1887). Last year, I introduced legislation, H.R. 1887, that would protect Plum Island and prevent a sale by the federal government to the highest bidder. This bill has bipartisan support from the entire Long Island and Connecticut delegation in both the House and Senate. Plum Island is cherished by the local community, not only as an essential resource for research, but also for its abundance in cultural, historical, ecological and natural resources. Congress should take action to pursue a better direction for Plum Island that would allow for continued research, public access and permanent preservation. · Protecting the Long Island Sound by passing the Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act (H.R. 2930). This bipartisan legislation that I introduced with Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) proposes $65 million in funding per year through 2020 for a water quality and shore restoration program and additional focus, oversight and coordination of federal activities related to the restoration of the Sound. Over the years, the Long Island Sound has suffered severely from issues such as pollution, overdevelopment and the dumping of dredged materials. It’s important that this bill be passed to ensure our waterways are
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preserved for generations to come. · Improving the management of our fisheries, by passing the EEZ Transit Zone Clarification Act (H.R. 3070) and Fluke Fairness Bill (H.R. 1888). Recreational and commercial fishing is one of the many great things about life, industry and culture here on Long Island. Both of my bills, H.R. 3070 and H.R. 1888, would make important reforms to our current fisheries laws to reinvigorate the rapidly fading traditional heritage of saltwater fishing on Long Island and elsewhere, while sacrificing none of the environmental and economic benefits of continuing to rebuild coastal fish stocks. I will keep working in Congress to make sure these two bills pass the House. With the valuable natural resources we treasure on Long Island comes a great responsibility to protect them. There is much more work still ahead to safeguard our environment, water quality, natural resources and way of life. Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), an Army veteran who serves as a major in the Army Reserves, represents the 1st Congressional District of New York. In Congress, two of Lee Zeldin’s committee assignments are Veterans’ Affairs and Foreign Affairs.
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Sounds of the world Third-grade students at Edna Louise Spear Elementary School showcased their musical talents during the school’s annual Music Around the World concert, held on March 16.
As parents and teachers looked on, students performed dances and instrumental pieces using Orff xylophones, metalophones and glockenspiels. To add to the festive afternoon,
they were dressed in either Greek, Mexican, Chinese or Ancient Egyptian-inspired attire. The multicultural event concluded with the grade level joining together
New VP for bank Gold Coast Bank is pleased to announce that John Reilly, of Selden, was hired as a vice president/relationship manager at the bank’s corporate headquarters in Islandia. Reilly previously worked as a relationship manager at Chase Bank in Melville. Prior to that, he was an assistant vice president for consumer credit at Teachers Federal Credit Union in Hauppauge. “We wish to welcome John to our
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to sing, “Hello to All Children of the World” and performing a Russian dance called “Sasha.” The event culminated the students’ world music unit.
OBITUARY Nichole Spinelli-Hoffman Nichole Spinelli-Hoffman, 41, of Selden, died on Feb. 26. She was the beloved mother of Catherine and Nicholas; adored daughter of Catherine Betancourt and the late Edward Spinelli; cherished step-daughter of the late Charles Betancourt; loving sister of Edward, Daneen, Michelle, Nicole and Tobias; and dear granddaughter
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of Michael (Noreene) Spinelli. Arrangements were entrusted to the Branch Funeral Home of Smithtown. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Smithtown and private cremation followed. In lieu of flowers, her family requests donations to: Huntington’s Disease Society of America. An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.
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Continued from page A1 controls over to his instructor. The National Transportation Safety Board released a report two weeks later that said the aircraft, flying at about 2,000 feet, had low amounts of fuel and had been operating for about five hours since last having its tank filled. The engine eventually lost power and the instructor, 36-year-old Queens resident Nelson Gomez, tried to head for the shoreline, but it was too dark to see
it. That’s when the instructor landed the plane on the water, and told his passengers to take a life vest and exit the plane. However, according to the NTSB report, they were not wearing the vests when they got out of the plane, which floated for about five minutes before sinking nose-first. Emergency personnel rescued Ramirez, Gomez and a third man, Wady Perez, a 25-year-old from Queens. But the fourth passenger, 23-year-old Queens man Gerson Salmon-Negron, is still missing.
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Salute the Seawolves After elimination, team reflects on making history, dream season that ends with coaching change By Desirée Keegan
Steve Pikiell had high hopes for this season, and full confidence that this would be a special year and the Stony Brook men’s basketball head coach was right — the Seawolves made it all the way to the NCAA tournament for the first time as a Division I team. And even though they suffered a first-round elimination, members of the team and its fans said they would remember the experience as one of great success. “I knew it would happen — you’ve got to have a special group,” said Pikiell. He recognized the talent in his seniors, and the group that came together over four years to break through to the Round of 64 in the NCAA tournament. Just a few years ago, it was difficult to fill Pritchard Gymnasium with 1,000 people. This season, the now-named Island Federal Credit Union Arena sold out. Some of those dedicated fans stuck by the team, in good times and bad. Those were the fans who sat on the steps in front of the arena after their loss, anxiously waiting for their history-making America East conference champions to arrive. Despite the plane landing late, devotees waited for one last warm welcome, and honored the Seawolves who brought them so much joy this season
with chants of “S-B-U.” “We’ve looked forward to this for many, many years, so it’s a great success,” said Sam DiCanio II, of Stony Brook, who has been watching the team since his 9-year-old son was in the womb. “It was a tough draw, Kentucky is a tough team, but we showed that we’re on the right path.” No. 13 Stony Brook may have fallen, 8557, to No. 4-seeded University of Kentucky last Thursday night in a game shown on CBS TV, but fans didn’t drop them. WELCOME HOME continued on page A11
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Clockwise from top, the stony Brook men’s basketball team is welcomed home to chants of ‘s-B-U’; rayshaun Mcgrew hugs a young fan; and star player Jameel Warney is first off the bus.
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Welcome Home Continued from page A10
“[Playing against] Kentucky was good for us for the experience and for all the players and recruits to see us with all of our pros,” DiCanio’s young son said. “The excitement in that final home game was amazing.” Followers felt the stadium rocking. “No one was sitting,” said Maureen Zajac, a graduate of Stony Brook who lives in Shoreham with her 11–year-old son Anthony. The two have been season ticket holders for two years now, and Zajac said she was overcome with emotion because of how far the team has come. “Every day you read the newspaper and you cry. It’s fantastic. We’re so proud of them,” she said, holding up a banner. “We wrote we’re so proud because we’ve got to celebrate. They did an amazing job this year. The boys are amazing. They’re excellent role models.” The class act trio of seniors waved hello to fans as they exited the bus, and waved goodbye to the end of a historic run — and the end of their Seawolves careers. Warney, a three-time America East Player of the Year who scored a careerhigh 43 points in his last home game of his college career and 23 points and 15 rebounds in the Round of 64 contest, said he appreciates those fans who stuck around not just on that March 18 eve-
ning, but over the last four years. “It was a long, hard season,” Warney said. “The heartbreaks, the adversity and the success. The community has been behind us for the last four years and they’ve been through a lot of heartbreaks, too, and everyone has just come back stronger and more supportive and it keeps us balanced. They make Stony Brook a hard place to play at.” But the team, and especially Warney, who accounted for his 21st double-double of the season and 60th of his career, is what put Stony Brook on the map. “Carson [Puriefoy] is fast, he has a good hang and an amazing shot, and Warney blocks everyone’s shots,” Anthony Zajac said. Puriefoy added 10 points, and Rayshaun McGrew tied a career-high three steals. Ahmad Walker, a junior, finished with eight rebounds and three assists. The team became an object that students, family members and community members could rally around. “This experience brought back a lot of memories,” said Ronald Gerry. Like the times he’d go to University of Pennsylvania to be with his daughter, Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (DSetauket), and watch games: “We meet a lot of our friends, my wife Pam and I, and we all cheer together and talk. It’s a weekly outing.” For Warney, who was named Tuesday Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I Player of the Year, the experience was also great to be a part of. “It was a lot of exposure,” he said of being on that court in Des Moines, Iowa. “I came in an 18-year-old kid not knowing anything and being homesick every day, to trying to finally achieve what we’ve been working for. I am grateful to be a part of it.” Pikiell said the team would be back next year with players in the program who continue to work hard.
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Clockwise from top left, Carson Puriefoy attempts a jumper against the University of Kentucky; Jameel Warney blocks a shot; and Ahmad Walker reaches for the rim.
“We’re excited about the future, too,” with a 97-38 record, the winningest class in school history. he said. “We started this journey in Germany But Pikiell won’t be there to witness the hard work pay off firsthand. In a shock an- on a European trip and we ended it in nouncment just days after the Seawolves’ Iowa,” Pikiell said. “It was an exciting NCAA tournament appearance, the Stony year, it was a hard year and there’s a lot of Brook resident signed a five-year deal with terrific moments — 18 wins in a row, winning the league, playing a starting annual salary of $1.4 million to head ‘The community has been a home game here for the program at Rutgers behind us for the last four the championship, cutting the nets down — so University. He will end his years ... everyone has just a lot of good memories.” Warney said some time with Stony Brook come back stronger and of those good memoalongside his senior more supportive and it ries wouldn’t have hapathletes. pened without the staff Warney finished his keeps us balanced.’ illustrious career with — Jameel Warney and his teammates, but especially his coach. 2,132 points, 1,275 re“He’s one of the best coaches in the bounds and 276 blocks. Puriefoy ended his with 1,572 points, ranking him conference,” Warney said. “He obvifourth all-time in Division I program ously knows what he’s doing. Pikiell alhistory. And McGrew will go down in ways said it’s hard to make history, and Stony Brook history as the first Seawolf we finally did it. We were motivated. We to score a basket in the Division I tourna- played together and we found a formula ment. Stony Brook’s senior class finished to win.”
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OPINION EDITORIAL
A rush to judgment Last week it was confirmed that Steven Romeo, the allegedly intoxicated pickup truck driver involved in the fatal Cutchogue limo crash in July, was not going to be charged with manslaughter. We’re sure this came as a shock to many people, who had written off Romeo as guilty as soon as it was reported that he had been drinking the day he T-boned the limo in a crash that killed four young North Shore women on a wine tour and injured several others. Referring to limo driver Carlos F. Pino’s risky U-turn that put that vehicle directly into Romeo’s path, Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota confirmed last week, “A perfectly sober Steven Romeo could not avoid this crash. An intoxicated Steven Romeo could not avoid this crash. It was simply unavoidable from Romeo’s perspective.” Pino will be charged with manslaughter for his dangerous maneuver. But some damage may have already been done in Romeo’s case. News outlets and some North Shore residents vilified the man long before the DA’s report was finalized. It’s no doubt a gut reaction for people to assume a drunk driver is at fault in a car crash, but this shows us why we should not be so quick to jump to conclusions. Sober people make mistakes or reckless maneuvers on the road every day, and this limo crash is an example of that. The American criminal justice system is set up so that every citizen is innocent until proven guilty, and we should all keep that in mind for instances like this. No matter the mistakes or poor decisions a person has made, that person deserves fair, unbiased treatment. That goes for the courtroom as well as the public and the press. All are innocent until proven guilty.
Hope perseveres past tragedy Your turn
‘For years we had been pressing local government to put a rumble strip in front of the school.’
BY LARRY HOHLER
Don’t let anyone tell you that terrorism or attacks by wild animals are the most serious dangers you face when visiting Kenya. More lethal is the danger both locals and visitors face resulting from mayhem on the roads. Shortly after our nonprofit Hope Children’s Fund opened its orphanage in Meru in 2005, Glory, one of our older girls, was walking to school on a Saturday for an extra help session. While crossing the bridge into town on the path next to the road, a speeding pickup truck tried to pass the vehicle it was following. A car was coming in the other direction, and in order to avoid a head-on collision, the driver swerved onto the path, killing Glory. He kept on going. Most of the younger children at Hope Children’s Home attend Gikumene Primary School, located down the hill from Hope Children’s Home and across Meru Embu Road, the main artery between Nairobi and Meru. Our children cross this road four times a day — going to school in the morning, returning home for lunch, then back to school and crossing again at the end of the school day. For years we had been pressing local government to put a rumble strip in front of the school, and they had agreed to do so. Sadly, no rumble strip has been put in place. Feb. 11 was a normal school day. Eight-year-old Michelle Kirimi had just crossed the road on the way to school with her classmates when she was killed by a speeding vehicle
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Michelle Kirimi was killed by a car on her way to school in Kenya.
that veered off the road to avoid an oncoming car. Hopefully this tragedy will finally result in action being taken to slow the traffic on this section of road. This tragedy is tempered by the fact that 78 of Michelle’s brothers and sisters at Hope Children’s Home are being fed, clothed, housed and prepared for an independent adulthood. Sixteen have passed the test to enter secondary schools and nine are studying at technical schools or universities. Six of the young people we rescued more than a decade ago are now living independently. Two have married. Four others are working variously as a beautician, a cosmetics supplier, a teacher and a cell phone salesman. Donors in the U.S. have made it possible for the home to buy two greenhouses, land on which to grow food and milling machines that enable us to sell maize flour to the surrounding community. A school uniform manufacturing
scheme and a welding operation at our Technical Training Center holds the promise of moving our operation toward self-sustainability. Avery Friedman, a 20-year-old from Shoreham, recently spent a month at the home, and during his visit bought fifteen 350-pound bags of coffee beans, which he plans to market on the East End, sharing the profits with the home. Kevin and Aida Mann from Middle Island, Tom and Barbara Lyon from Mount Sinai and Peter and Janet Wunsch from East Northport, all longtime supporters of the home, just got back from Kenya, having visited our children to assess their needs and enjoyed the natural beauty of the country. They spent time at the home and took a busload on safari to Meru Game Park, where the movie “Born Free” was filmed. They also visited the Sheldrake Elephant Orphanage in suburban Nairobi and stopped at Jomo Kenyatta University to see Doreen Gatwiri, one of our older girls who is now a pre-med sophomore. Before leaving, they met with authorities to ensure that we don’t lose any more of our children on the Meru Embu Road. Larry Hohler, the head of the Hope Children’s Fund, is a Port Jefferson resident who opened the Hope Children’s Home for AIDS-affected children with the help of a former student. For more information, visit www.hopechildrensfund.org.
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TO THE EDITOR: For 11 years we’ve watched and sometimes been there as Steve Pikiell built a Stony Brook University Basketball program to the point where the Seawolves were among the top handful of basketball powerhouse universities in the NCAA tournamentw last week. We wish him well and the same to Stony Brook Athletic Director
Shawn Heilbron, who now will lead the way to identifying a new coach for the Seawolves, to identifying ‘a world-class coach who shares our vision to positively transform the life of each student-athlete and win at the highest level.’ And, a thought for Steve from chamber executive director David Woods, who’s sort of a historian of the “old days’’ at SBU, 17 years ago, when David was assistant to the president there: ‘Way back, there was
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an indication of where great coaches go from Stony Brook. One of our first was a young Rollie Massimino, now 81, who left here to go to Villanova, where he built the number one basketball team in the nation.’ May Steve Pikiell have the same success at Rutgers. Andy Polan President Three Village Chamber of Commerce
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Learning how to teach the YouTube generation
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o more allowances. We want our children to eat, sleep and live well. Do we set a good example for our offspring? We know that what we do is more important than what we say. Do we want them to text or talk on the phone when they’re driving? Of course not. Do we engage in either activity when they’re in the car? All the time. When
you’re at the next stop sign or red light, look at the cars coming toward you. How many of those people are on the phone? Put down that phone! It’s not only safer for you, but it also gives your kids the right idea. OK, sorry, teachers this next one isn’t aimed at all of you. I’m tired of reading all the deductions on my son’s and daughter’s homework assignments from teachers whose writing deserves demerits. Sure, we all make mistakes and, yes, we can’t be right all the time. But this is ridiculous. The directions contain numerous errors. Are teachers setting the right example when they misspell words, repeat a word or — gasp — use the incorrect form of your? They should take an extra second to edit and proofread the material they give their students. The message the children get when they read their teachers’ writing is that grammar, word choice and rules of writing are only
important for students and for grades and don’t count, even inside the classroom. Children can spot hypocrisy from across the school. Years ago, at P.J. Gelinas Junior High School, my seventhgrade math teacher, Mr. Braun, said we’d get an extra five points if we spotted an error in anything he did. He was challenging us and himself and was helping us learn — and benefit — from his mistakes. Did he not make errors because he knew we were watching carefully or did he only make that deal with us because he didn’t make many mistakes? Either way, we paid closer attention to his — and our — work. OK, teachers, relax. I admire what you do and I appreciate the effort you put into your work. I know you have thousands of pages to grade. If you believe your writing matters, please lead by example. Then there are coaches. We volunteers face a difficult task.
We stand in front of a group of restless kids who want to score the winning basket, make their parents proud and be a hero. Everyone can’t play in every inning or in every second. We have difficult decisions. We also deal with parents who make unrealistic requests: “Yes, coach, can my daughter please bat first on Tuesday night games because she needs to leave early those nights.” The kids watch us carefully, not only to see if we approve of how they do, but also to see how we react to difficult situations. We’ve coached in games where the other coach, the players on the other team or the referees are violating some written or unwritten sporting code. Maybe the other coach has told his pitchers not to throw strikes because it’s getting darker. If we can’t finish the game, the score reverts to the earlier inning when they were winning. This isn’t a hypothetical — I know of at least one case where this happened.
In praise of modern dentistry
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they went to bed and replaced them in the morning. So routine was this occurrence to me that I spent many minutes at a time searching my mouth with my fingers for the lever that would allow me to remove my teeth. Finally I asked my parents, who clued me in to the eventual failings of teeth. I was, after all, the child of two sets of ancestors who had faulty choppers. Again, I just accepted this as the natural course of my life. One day I thought I would be toothless, too, except for a few lucky strays that remained in mouth. Fast-forward more than half a century, and I still have almost all of my teeth. How did that enormous change come about? Dentistry is an area of health delivery that doesn’t get its proper due for the enormous advances from which we have benefited. The single best development that has preserved my teeth and those of the many millions of people
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around the world is the root canal procedure. Now getting a root canal is a least favorite activity and deservedly so. But the journalist in me wants to tell the other side of the story, just to be fair. The patient I have been numerous times wants to salute the researchers and clinicians in dentistry. And although I am sitting at my keyboard in some pain at the moment from part one of a root canal procedure, which is what brought this subject to mind, I want to express my gratitude. What exactly is a root canal procedure? Although it’s not particularly difficult to understand, nonetheless it took centuries to invent. As I understand it, bacteria from a crack in the top of a tooth can get into the pulp below the naturally occurring enamel crown and cause an infection. Even if there is no infection, cold or heat or air can cause the nerves inside the
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tooth to register pain, which is an alarm. The roots of the tooth have tiny canals in them in which the nerves reside. If the source of the intrusion that has stimulated the nerve cannot be repaired with a filling over the top of the tooth, then the pulpy decay below the enamel has to be cleaned out and the nerves have to be silenced to stop the pain. That is the function of the root canal procedure. After the nerves are removed, along with the site of any infection, the canals are filled with a sealer paste and rubber compound and covered with a dental cement to protect them from saliva. All of the above is the job of the endodontist or specialist who uses the sophisticated tools high tech has invented to make this delicate procedure possible and the anesthetic to make it bearable. The patient must then go on, typically to another dentist, to have a crown or cap precisely fitted over
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Do we set a good example for our offspring? We could get angry, shout and throw equipment on the field. Is that the kind of behavior we should allow ourselves? Are we teaching our children how to deal with adversity? Do our allowances lead to their allowances later in life? Are we dooming them to repeat the actions we’re not proud of in the future? Maybe one of the toughest parts about being a parent is learning how to grow beyond the limitations we’ve carried with us from childhood. Some of those spring from our adult allowances. How about if we take a moment to recognize the allowances we make for ourselves. That could be constructive for us and for the little eyes that record everything we do on their own version of YouTube.
Many millions of people have benefited from the root canal procedure. the top of the tooth to replace the natural enamel. Crowns used to be made optimally of gold, but are now form-fitted with synthetic material that can be tinted the same color as the rest of the teeth, if necessary. Interestingly, as a friend pointed out, there is something funny about the semantics involved. One goes to get “a root canal” even though one doesn’t receive “an appendix” but an appendectomy, nor “a tonsils” but a tonsillectomy. Perhaps the dental procedure should be called a “nerve homicide,” but that would only add more fear to an already fearful procedure. Well, that’s about the only funny aspect of this vital but stilldreaded tooth rescue.
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