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By Alex Petroski

Retired NYPD detective Thomas Grimes made a twohour presentation to Miller Place school district administrators and parents at the high school on Tuesday night about the dangers of Internet use for children. Grimes’ presentation focused on the aspect of being vulnerable to predators online, but also the peer-to-peer cyber bullying that has resulted in far too many tragic situations. “Parents, we need to shut up and stop trying to blame somebody else for what our kids are doing to one and other,” Grimes said about the harm that is done on social media between people who aren’t even strangers. Through his program, NY Finest Speakers, he stressed the fact that cultivating a safe community is a responsibility that we all share. “What we need to do is take

responsibility and delegate that responsibility to our children as well,” he said. “It’s our responsibility as a community, as a family and as a school district.” Grimes told stories that were horrifying for the roughly 50 parents in attendance about what can happen if a child is interacting with a stranger on a social media site or application. Grimes did a presentation for North Country Road Middle School students on Tuesday, and for Miller Place High School students on Wednesday. “I told your kids today, if you’re in a conversation with somebody that gives you the creeps, trust your instincts,” Grimes said. “We have to empower our children to trust their instincts. We’re all born with instincts, we just need to learn to trust them.” Grimes called this generation of middle school and high

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nyPd detective and ny Finest Speakers’ thomas grimes, with Miller Place school board President Johanna testa and superintendent Marianne higuera, spoke to parents about the dangers of social media tuesday.

school students the first “naturalized generation” when it comes to growing up with Internet and social media use. District Superintendent Marianne Higuera expressed a similar sentiment after the presentation. “As adults, we live in a world of Facebook, and students are so

beyond Facebook,” Higuera said. “Fifteen years ago it was ‘Don’t put your child’s name on their jersey.’ Every time your child signs on to social media sites you’re putting their jersey name on these sites, so even if their screenshots show ‘Panthers,’ or NY FINeST continued on page a9

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Deadline nearing to enroll in local kindergarten classes

The deadline to enroll in local kindergarten classes is approaching, as registration is now being done by appointment only. Children turning 5 years old on or before Dec. 1 are eligible. In the Miller Place school district, the Andrew Muller Primary School will be holding registration from March 14 to 18 from 9:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Parents are asked to call the primary school’s main office at 631-474-2715 to schedule an appointment. Kindergarten registration for the 201617 school year at Mount Sinai Elementary School will be held from March 7 to 10. Visit the school’s website at www.mtsinai.k12. ny.us, and click on the K-12 Registration link for forms. The Rocky Point school district will commence kindergarten registration in March. To complete an online form, go to www. rockypointufsd.org by Feb. 12. Appointment times and registration forms will be mailed home. If there are any questions, contact the central registration office at 631-744-1600, ext. 7244, between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m., daily. To register for Shoreham-Wading River’s

Miller Avenue Elementary, students must go through a screening process. Contact the District Office at 631-821-8100. Parents interested in registering their child to enter kindergarten for the 2016-17 school year must ensure their child has met all age and health requirements mandated by New York State. Information and required forms are available on the district website at www.swrschools. org. Forms can be printed and brought to the scheduled appointment completed along with all other required documents. New York State mandated immunizations include four to five inactivated and oral poliovirus vaccines; four to five doses of diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus vaccine; three doses of hepatitis B vaccine; two doses of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine; and two doses of Varivax vaccine for varicella. Parents should also bring the current immunization record to registration. Prospective students must also have proof of residency, an original birth certificate and a physical exam completed within one year prior to the first day of school.

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Miller Place middle school students raise $5,000 By Alex Petroski

A 12-year-old student from North Country Road Middle School in Miller Place raised more than $5,000 for the Special Olympics. All that Robert Fitton had to do was jump into the near-freezing Long Island Sound at Cedar Beach last November. That’s exactly what Fitton and his team of 16 middle school students did as part of the 6th annual Town of Brookhaven Polar Plunge, a yearly tradition around the country where people sprint into freezing waters to raise money for various causes. Fitton was recognized and honored at the Miller Place school board meeting last week, accompanied by his mother Concetta; father, Robert; sister, Mary; and brother, Thomas. It was actually the third time that Fitton had taken the courageous dive into unfathomably cold water. In 2013, inspired by the birth of Thomas that July, Concetta Fitton convinced him to give it a try. Thomas was born with Down syndrome. Fitton said the idea to raise money for the Special Olympics was easy because Thomas might one day take part in the games. For now, Fitton sees his younger brother as a budding football, wrestling or baseball star. “You can always give back,” Fitton said. “It’s personal to me because he’s so cute. It

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team ‘extra’ ordinary poses for a photo before jumping into the cold water of Cedar Beach during the Brookhaven Polar Plunge last November.

was really supposed to be a fun thing at first, but it got more serious once it progressed. In general, you can always give back.” The harsh water temperature wasn’t enough to slow Fitton down after his first plunge in 2013.

“The first year was by far the worst,” Fitton said. “The day we did the plunge it was frigid. Last year was really cold, too. Once you get into that water you don’t really feel it.” Fitton’s parents are proud of their son for turning the event into a yearly cause.

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Teacher aide issues press on at Rocky Point By Giselle Barkley

The Rocky Point school district is no stranger to laying off and then rehiring teacher aides. Last year, the district let go of five teacher aide positions, one of which was to make room for a teaching assistant. Two of these aides were rehired shortly after losing their jobs, however, only one, Jessica Ward, resumed her position as an aide. The remaining aides were let go because their positions were no longer needed because the children they helped left the school district. Around two years ago, the school laid off nine teacher aides but rehired them based on need. Members of the New York State United Teachers, which represents teachers and school-related professionals, said the recent loss of aides affected the union’s success at Rocky Point. School-related professional members Patricia Scallone, Anne Quartararo and Melanie Connelly said some special needs students with a one-on-one teacher aide do not have an aide with them at all times, as required by law. “There have been more instances now than ever before of that happening since [the district] got rid of [the teacher aide positions] to replace with teaching assistants,” Scallone said. Teacher aides are responsible for tending to the physical needs or comforting a

physically or mentally handicapped student. Unlike teaching assistants, aides can access a special needs student’s individualized education program and share it with fellow aides if necessary. Currently, the school district employs around 52 aides. After firing one teacher aide to make room for a teaching assistant last year, Superintendent Michael Ring said he had no plans to replace any aides with assistants beyond that case. He added that he doesn’t know why some teacher aides think the school district will keep replacing aides with assistants. On Monday, Feb. 1, Quartararo told the Rocky Point Board of Education that an aide in the Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School had been given busy work as opposed to working with a special needs student. She added that some special needs students were not always accompanied by an aide. Quartararo said she thought the only reason for this “is that they are going to replace her with someone else.” Ring and board of education members said they were unaware of the incident prior to the meeting and didn’t know if the incident actually took place. He maintained his position that he doesn’t intend to replace any other aides with teaching assistants in the future. The district started introducing teaching assistants to the school district in three phases, starting with the multi-grade-level classes — kindergarten through fifth grade. The

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a teacher aide working at Joseph a. edgar intermediate school, above, was supposedly told there wasn’t much work for her and was given busy work instead of conducting her job.

school district agreed to this introduction of teaching assistants during the Next Step Committee meeting last June. Members of the school-related professionals were part of this meeting, according to Rocky Point resident Jenny Andersson. Andersson’s daughter is one of many students who need a one-on-one aide. Her daughter is in a multigrade class with a small group of students of a three-year age span and various learning levels. While Andersson said she values teacher aides, she added that teaching assistants can help teachers in these classrooms to cater to their students more effectively. “We love our aides, they’re an integral part of our community,” Andersson said. “But we as parents ... we need [our children] to be educated to their maximum potential.”

Assistants can help teach students, unlike aides. Both the teacher and teaching assistant can now devote more time to the students and their individual academic needs. Andersson said it was unfortunate that teacher aides were let go in the process but said that the introduction of teaching assistants was a group decision and wasn’t intended to affect teacher aides. According to Scallone, Quartararo and Connelly, there are more aides in the lower academic institutions, like Frank J. Carasiti Elementary School. The goal is for these special needs kids to become more independent as they advance academically. “This is a regular education environment,” Connelly said. “The whole idea is to get the child where they can progress to a regular education environment.”

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Search and seizure Police tout new initiative to shut down drug dens By Elana Glowatz

Police will execute more search warrants and make more arrests at known hotspots for drug activity under a new initiative officials announced over the weekend. The same day police arrested a father and son and seized more than a kilogram of drugs from the father’s home, the Suffolk County Police Department said it is focusing more on shutting down houses in residential areas where drug activity is suspected to be taking place. That father-son pair was nabbed on Jan. 29, police said, after investigators executed a search warrant on a Coram home and found 730 grams of cocaine, 318 grams of heroin, 36 grams of oxycodone and $200,000 in cash. It was just the most recent in a string of busts through the initiative, which uses detectives from the Special Operations Team “to work with residents to obtain information on who is dealing and where,” according to an SCPD statement. “Armed with that information, detectives will be executing

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‘Miller Place’ or ‘Long Island,’ they’re susceptible to somebody who wants to do harm to them and can find them. I think that sometimes as adults we don’t understand the technology that our children use so we tend not to face those facts until there’s a problem.” Grimes made some suggestions to the parents in attendance about ways to ensure that their children are using the Internet safely. “If you never went in the ocean after you saw ‘Jaws’ for the first time, I give you permission to go home and throw out your computer,” Grimes joked, but he stressed to parents that the technology is not the problem, but rather the kids behavior in using the technology that needs to be monitored or modified. Grimes suggested that parents sit down with their kids and look at all of

more search warrants of drug houses and making felony arrests at those locations.” The effort is “fueled in part by residents’ complaints,” the SCPD said in the recent press release. Police officials at a Jan. 26 civic meeting at the Comsewogue Public Library in Port Jefferson Station had reported raids at three local drug houses in the week leading up to the meeting, two in Gordon Heights and one in Centereach. At the latter location, 6th Precinct Inspector Bill Murphy said, cops busted a repeat offender and caught him with 4 ounces of cocaine and 2 ounces of heroin. “He’s going away for a long time,” Murphy said. In the police department’s announcement of its new initiative, it said investigators had executed nine search warrants in the several weeks since the effort started, seizing thousands of grams of drugs — including crack cocaine and heroin — as well as seven guns, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and drug paraphernalia. “This new narcotics initiative will target residences where drug dealing is occurring,” Acting Police Commissioner Tim Sini said in a statement. “Drug houses in our neighborhoods degrade our sense of community, public safety and quality of life.” In the Jan. 29 bust, 40-year-old Joseph Fearon, who police said lived at the Avalon Pines Drive home, was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, four counts of third-degree criminal possession and two counts of second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia. Fearon’s attorney, Central Islip-based Glenn Obedin, did not return a call seeking a comment on his client. The defendant’s son, 23-year-old Jasheme Fearon, a Middle Island resident, the social media platforms and apps for which they have a profile. Any “friend” or “follower” that the child cannot identify should be deleted. He also suggested that parents encourage their kids to make their social media profiles something that they can be proud of and use as an asset, rather than something that is hidden from adults. Additionally, Grimes suggested that if parents are concerned that their kids might have applications or programs on their mobile devices that the parents aren’t aware of, they should bring the device to the service provider and ask them to reveal everything that is on the phone. For more information or to book a presentation, Grimes and his company, NY Finest Speakers, can be contacted at nyfinestspeakers.com. Photo by Alex Petroski

Retired nyPD detective thomas Grimes gives a presentation to parents at Miller Place High School on the dangers of social media.

was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminal impersonation. Police also said that he was arrested on a New York State parole warrant and a bench warrant. Attorney information for the younger Fearon was not available. Drug activity can create spikes in other types of crimes. At the civic meeting last week in the Comsewogue library, Murphy said overall crime has dropped in his precinct but heroin arrests have doubled in the last five years — from 148 in 2011 to 298 last year — and the addicts are behind many of the area’s burglaries and robberies. “Unfortunately, a lot of the serious crimes we have are driven by drug abuse: [The perpetrators are] addicted to heroin and they’re so addicted to it, they have to get money to go and buy these drugs,” he said. He and Officer Will Gibaldi invited Port Jefferson Station and Terryville residents at the civic meeting, including some who expressed their frustrations and fears relating to local drug activity, to reach out to them if they have a problem in their neighborhoods. “If you contact me with a problem, you will get a response,” the inspector said. “You will not be ignored.”

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Police say they seized drugs, at top, and cash, above, from Joseph Fearon, left, at his home in Coram last week.

The police’s new drug-house initiative is likewise geared toward responding to community members’ concerns. “Working together with our law enforcement partners and sharing information is imperative to getting dangerous drugs off our streets and out of our communities,” Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) said in a statement about the crackdown on community drug dealing. “If you see something, say something.”

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Town helps transform toxic chemical bill By GiSEllE BaRklEy

After four decades the government is finally updating the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 with partial thanks to Brookhaven Town officials. President Gerald Ford signed the act decades ago to regulate the introduction of new chemicals into society, excluding those found in food, pesticides, tobacco, firearms, drugs and cosmetics. The act gave the United States Environmental Protection Agency the authority to require documentation of chemical substances to determine if the chemical is hazardous to humans. The 62,000 chemicals that existed before 1976 were grandfathered into the act and deemed safe for humans and the act wasn’t updated until last year. The government amended the act with Toxic Substances Control Modernization Act of 2015. Its bill, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act updates the act and requires the EPA to establish a risk-based screening process for new chemicals. Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) and his fellow town board officials proposed the bill, which states the EPA must determine if a certain amount of old or new chemicals are safe for humans by a certain deadline. The EPA will reprimand manufacturers who don’t comply with safety requirements by restricting or prohibiting the

creation, processing, distribution and disposal of new chemicals. The EPA did not return requests seeking comment by press time. According to Romaine, the uptick in cancer cases, particularly breast cancer on the North Shore, over the years was troubling. With advancements in science and technology scientists have found that some of the chemicals previously deemed as safe actually pose potential health risks for humans. This includes development of cancers and endocrine and immune systemrelated complications among other issues. “We have a concern about the high rates of cancer in children and we’re concerned because people are trying to get answers,” Romaine said. There were around 142.7 cases of cancer in Suffolk County between 2000 and 2004 according to the National Cancer Institute. The cases increased to around 528 per 100,000 people between 2008 and 2012 according to the cancer institute’s State Cancer Profiles. County Legislator Sarah Anker (DMount Sinai), who has focused on the environment and its health effects for more than a decade, said these chemicals could be particularly harmful to children and their health. “When you’re exposed to something when you’re growing up ... it stays in your body,” Anker said. “As you get older

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according to Supervisor Ed Romaine harmful chemicals are also found in telephone poles.

something may set off the cancer...It takes decades sometimes for cancer to evolve.” In a 2008-2009 study from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, scientists found 300 pollutants in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies. According to the study, children are more vulnerable to chemical pollutants in the environment because of their size and poorer immune systems. According to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) these chemicals are found in everyday products like soaps and toothpastes among other items used on a daily basis.

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“I never thought that he got what it was to tie it into the Special Olympics,” Concetta Fitton said about her son’s first plunge. “I didn’t think he put two and two together, but then he’s running into the water yelling ‘this is for Thomas,’” she said. Back then it was just Fitton and one of his cousins taking the plunge. However, inspired by the costumes and celebratory nature of the event, Fitton decided to approach the 2014 plunge from a leadership role. He registered a team and got together about eight friends, according to Concetta Fitton. In 2015, the number of teammates Fitton lead doubled after hanging flyers, calling family and friends and posting on social media asking for sponsors. The team calls themselves Team “Extra” Ordinary, a nod to Thomas and the extra chromosome associated with Down syndrome. The team also wears blue and yellow to each event, to represent the colors for Down Syndrome Awareness. Fitton wanted to be clear that he did not accomplish this on his own. He said that without his teammates, he wouldn’t have come anywhere close to the $5,000 mark. “We don’t do enough to recognize somebody that goes above and beyond,” North Country Road Principal Matt Clark said as he presented Fitton with his award at the board of education meeting. “This is well above and beyond in my

There are around 85,000 chemicals that are currently in use. But Zeldin said “the flaws in TSCA have left many of these new chemicals untested and unregulated.” While Zeldin said the government should update important bills like TSCA, it’s common for some acts to go untouched for several years while others are updated almost annually. “There are certainly examples of both extremes,” Zeldin said. “TSCA happens to be an example of one of those bills that really should have been updated many years ago, if not decades ago.”

Ella & Nathan Botticelli Spencer Bruno Isabella DiGregorio Robby Fitton Ryan Gilbert Casey Gilbert Justin Klein Andrew Marino Gregory Marino Katie Marino Patrick McNally Ann McNulty Matthew Petrie Denise Pizzo Hannah Rathburn Julia Schreck Dominic Testa Michael Vallary Nicholas Vallary

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Members of the team that 12-year-old Robert Fitton captains, Team ‘Extra’ Ordinary, rushes into the freezing water of Mount Sinai’s Cedar Beach to raise money for the Special Olympics.

opinion … with his leadership skills and his ability to facilitate a team, they did a fabulous job. I want to recognize Robert for his endeavor and his dedication to his brother as well.” Clark added that he doubted this

would be the last time Robert would be acknowledged by the district for doing something admirable. His mother said that he felt guilty that his friends weren’t recognized for their efforts in raising the money at the meeting as well.

“You always want to think that your kids are awesome,” she said. “Just to know he’s doing this, taking the leadership role and doing this for his brother, it’s amazing … He’s a good kid and he’s doing this for a great cause. We’re extremely proud of him.” Her husband agreed. “I was very happy because anytime you volunteer to give back to the community is very important, and the fact that he did it for my other son is extra special,” he said. “If you get them to do this at a young age hopefully they continue to do it and give back.”

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Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine and Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mt. Sinai) join Miller Place Boy Scout Troop 204 to honor its newest Eagle Scout members.

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Miller Place troop members named Eagle Scouts Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) joined with Boy Scout Troop 204 of Miller Place to recognize its newest Eagle Scouts: Austin Schilling, Stasiu Chyczewski and Jack McCarthy, to whom he presented proclamations in recognition of their accomplishments. To become an Eagle Scout, a Boy Scout must work through the ranks while com-

pleting certain requirements such as earning merit badges, holding a leadership position within the troop and completing a community service project. Since the first Eagle Scout award was presented in 1912, no more than 4 percent of all Scouts have attained the Eagle Scout rank. McCarthy’s project was to make a

bookcase for the St. Louis de Montfort Roman Catholic Church in Sound Beach’s religious education program to organize books, CDs and other educational materials. He also mounted a TV and DVD player above the bookcase. Schilling’s built four recycling bins for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe in Shoreham. The center is currently being

renovated and was in need of recycling bins, which will be used to sort waste when cleaning out the site and will be used for general purposes when the center opens. Chyczewski’s project was to build new dressage arena panels at Saddle Rock Ranch in Middle Island. The project was intended to make the arena easier to use for those with intellectual disabilities.

Warming up with a good book Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School students cozied up with hundreds of books this winter as they participated in the school’s annual We Are Reading More program. With the goal of reading 500,000 minutes, students read fiction and nonfiction stories during the month-long event and logged the amount of minutes they read. Upon completing each book, students reflected on the pieces using graphic organizers. For fiction books, they described the characters, setting, problems and solutions revealed, and for nonfiction books, they detailed five facts they learned from the book. The program also included several theme days, which, for example, called for the students to wear socks on Sock It to Reading day or participate in activities. In celebration of reading 557,080 minutes, each student was awarded a small prize and entered into a raffle to win various giveaways from local stores and businesses. Additionally, teachers competed in several

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Fifth-grade students of Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School gathered in the gym to Skype with author Linda Urban after reading her book “Hound Dog True” over the holiday recess.

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Panthers win piece of league for first time in 36 years Wrestling By Desirée Keegan

It was senior night on Friday, Jan. 22, and the Miller Place wrestling team pounced on Islip to win 34-31. With the victory came something even sweeter: the Panther’s first piece of a League VI title in 36 years. “We graduated a quality group of seniors last year, and I think people expected us to take a hit as far as our dual-meet team,” Miller Place head coach Matt Kaszubski said. “In the beginning of the season, we took a couple of losses that we shouldn’t have, and then after Christmas we really started rolling and coming together, and the group bought into what we were doing. The league title was a result of a lot of hard work over many years, and it was awesome to achieve that with this group.” The Panthers finished last season 13-4 overall, and were 12-4-1 heading into the senior night dual meet, which was the team’s final match of the regular season. At 106 pounds, senior David Selg found himself down in a match against a good opponent, but pinned him at the 4:36 mark. “He’s very strong and his pin was huge for us,” Kaszubski said of Selg. “We also had Eddie Marbot, who is probably one of the scrappiest kids we have on the team, have a nice win for us.” Marbot, a senior who weighed in at 138 pounds, won with a 5-2 decision over his opponent. Needing to win one more match to earn the win and a share of the league title with Elwood-John Glenn and Mount

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The crowd and Miller Place wrestler Matt Mcnulty celebrate earning the dual-meet win and co-league title after the sophomore pinned his opponent.

Sinai, sophomore Anthony McNaughton pinned his opponent in 1:25 at 220 pounds to clinch the meet. “Everyone was celebrating,” Kaszubski said. “The motto of the night was wrestle for each other — wrestle for somebody else other than yourself. The kids really stepped up and it was a cool experience.” For Marbot, it was a once-in-a-lifetime

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event. “It was an almost unbelievable experience to be a part of, and something that none of us will ever forget — especially me being a senior,” he said. “To win the league title on senior night was icing on the cake.” Selg said the team environment became that of a family from the start of the preseason to the present.

“Everyone did what they needed to do,” he said. “When everybody left last year, nobody expected anything, just like coach said, and this year we came back and we were all a family, we stuck together and we won the league title. I’m really proud of my team.” Marbot added that the camaraderie couldn’t be matched. WRESTLING continued on page A15

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Miller Place wrestling puts Jesse atop Panthers team BY DESIRÉE KEEGAN

To the Miller Place wrestling team, Jesse Pallas is just another one of the boys. The 9-year-old was diagnosed with leukemia back in 2011, and although he can’t wrestle, the Panthers have adopted him as a member of the team and even named him honorary captain. “When he’s at the matches, he sits with the boys,” Jesse’s mother Fariba Pallas said. “He goes right up to the mats and it makes him feel like a normal kid. It makes him feel so good.” Fariba Pallas said that Miller Place head coach Matt Kaszubski knocked on her door when he heard of her son’s condition. Kaszubski, his wife Kerri — who used to coach Miller Place’s girls’ lacrosse team — and her mother, have become big players in Jesse’s story, helping in any way they can, including fundraisers during and outside of matches to raise money for the family. “The fundraisers that they’ve done have helped us with Jesse’s medical

bills,” Fariba Pallas said. “Five years of treatment — hospitals, bone marrow, spinals and blood transfusions, we’re so high in debt and they have tried to fundraise for us and do whatever they can and it has helped us immensely with the medical bills. Sometimes we take some of the money to do little things for Jesse. If he wants to go to the city, go on the train, wants a toy, we can do that for him — and that’s because of the wrestling team.” Jesse also enjoys giving big hugs to the Kaszubskis and junior varsity coach Dom Lo Re. “It’s like [Jesse’s] a part of their family,” Fariba Pallas said fighting back tears. “We are very lucky to have people around us like the wrestling team.” Originally trying to make every dual meet and tournament, it grew difficult as Jesse’s condition intensified. The hours he spends between treatments and resting to avoid being in pain takes up most of his days, but Fariba Pallas said that knowing there is an upcoming match gives her son something to look forward to.

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Clockwise from above, members of the Miller Place wrestling team pose for a photo after shaving their heads in honor of Jesse Pallas; Jesse holds a framed and signed photo of the team and a trophy; and Jesse is all smiles with wrestling coaches Matt Kaszubski and Dom Lo Re.

“It became his team,” she said. “He gets so excited when I tell him that we’re going to a match. Jesse absolutely loves everyone on the team.” The wrestlers said they look forward to the next time they’ll see Jesse. “The whole team comes together and puts our all into helping him,” senior Eddie Marbot said. Last year, the Panthers shaved their heads when they heard that Jesse was going to have to shave his. “We all shaved our heads to make him feel better,” Marbot said. “When he had to shave his head, and we all wanted to do it too.” It’s because he’s just like any other Panther, the team said. “He’s a big inspiration for the whole team,” senior David Selg said. “He’s as much a part of the team as we are. He’s a part of the family just like everyone else.” According to Fariba Pallas, the team visited Jesse at the cancer clinic at Stony Brook University Hospital just to wish him a happy birthday when he was stuck getting treatments during his special day. The wrestlers have also visited the Pallas house for other occasions. During the team’s last home match of the regular season against Islip, on senior night, Jesse was in attendance, and Kaszubski said that although it was senior night and the team was wrestling for its first co-league title in 36 years, the night’s message was still clear.

“The motto of the night was wrestle for each other,” he said. “We did a fundraiser for Jesse, so that was kind of the theme for the night was wrestling for him; wrestle for somebody else other than yourself.” Fariba Pallas said she’s overwhelmed by the amount of support both the community and the team showed her family, even those in the community who are not affiliated with the wrestling or girls’ lacrosse teams. “Everything they’ve done is just amazing,” she said. “He loves those coaches and he loves those boys. I’m very proud to be a part of this community and I’m so thankful. I just hope in some way and at some time I can repay them for all of the things they’ve done for us.”

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grapplers, 132-pounder Eric Schreck and 160-pound Joe Bartolotto, who are lookContinued from page A14 ing to place high in the county. Selg and Marbot, along with seniors 126-pound “Everyone dedicated their time to im- Dan Curcio and 154-pound Ryan Amproving — going to open mats, going to mirato, are also looking to make some camps — everyone really came together to noise in the postseason by being league build the team,” he said. “And champions and placing in coach Kaszubski, he’s the best ‘It’s nice to see the county tournament. coach and teacher that you all the hard work “We knew we had a good could ask for.” crew,” the head coach said. “It’s over the last The Panthers made it to nice to see all the hard work the postseason as the No. 12 couple of years over the last couple of years seed, but fell to No. 5 Linden- come to fruition.’ come to fruition. Everyone hurst, 57-9, in the opening feeds off of each other and they round Jan. 27. No. 1-seeded — MATT KASZUBSKI want to win for each other, so Rocky Point made it all the way through it’s been a blessing to coach these kids.” the bracket to claim the Section XI title. For wrestlers like Marbot, being a part As the wrestlers prepare for leagues of the Panthers’ team is something he’ll and counties, Kaszubski said he has two never forget.

Senior Eddie Marbot pins his opponent.

“I’d be lost without wrestling,” he said. “To end the regular season like this, as a senior, it couldn’t have ended any better. We

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had a good run. Especially being that no one thought we were going to be anything this year, we really showed everyone.”

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ARE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN SALES AND WANT TO WORK CLOSER TO HOME? *Excellent opportunity *Well established Account Base *North Shore Market for the right energetic salesperson selling display and online advertising for successful media group. Our position offers satisfying roots in the community in a job that pays well. All inquiries and resumes confidential. Email: kjm@ tbrnewappers.com “CAN YOU DIG IT?” Heavy Equipment Operator Career! We offer training and certifications running Bulldozers, Backhoes and Excavators. Lifetime Job Placement. VA Benefits Eligible. 866-362-6497 CHIROPRACTIC & ACUPUNCTURE OFFICE E. Setauket Office Assistant. PT MWF 9am-5pm. Healthcare office experience required. Call Dr. Karl George 1pm-3pm 631-751-0900. Fax Resume: 631-751-0901 or email DoctorKGeorge@msn.com

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quality assurance, budgeting, P&L management experience, & controlling labor costs. BA/BS preferred, but not required. You may have to relocate nationally based on the needs of the service. Beginning Salary: $32,637 - $36,989 USD Annually Benefits: we offer Federal retirement package, health and life insurance, vacation and sick days, ten paid holidays, and 401K plan. How to Apply: Email your current resume to Jamie.Schweppe@va.gov

$40,000 TO START EAST NORTHPORT Westy is the finest self storage in America. We have a career opportunity at our new East Northport Center. Salary, bonuses & commissions. Medical & 401k benefits. E-mail resume to: BECKY@WESTY.COM SEE OUR AD IN EMPLOYMENT DISPLAY FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

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Out Of County MANHATTAN APARTMENT FOR RENT Nicely furnished (or unfurnished.) Quiet, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, living room, dining room, exceptionally clean, upper East Side pre-war residential building with high ceilings and elevator, washer/dryer, A/C. 4 blocks to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park, 3 blocks to East River and Carl Schurz Park. 4 blocks to express subway stop, P/T doorman. No smoking. Wired for internet and cable. $6600/mo. Call Ann: (days) 631-751-5454 (eves) 631-751-2030.

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OPINION EDITORIAL

New police drug initiative long overdue The Suffolk County Police Department announced it will be cracking down on the movement of drugs through our neighborhoods. Given the consistent rise in opioid addiction and overdoses across the county, as well as drug-related crime, we say an initiative like this is long overdue. Over the past several weeks, investigators have executed nine search warrants and seized about $300,000 in cash; 2,672 grams of cocaine, 464 grams of heroin and 80 grams of oxycodone; seven guns; and drug paraphernalia. While we applaud the police department for its efforts, more could have been accomplished if cops used their resources to crack down on these problem areas much sooner. Police said their new initiative to target houses of known drug activity is, in part, fueled by resident complaints. Maybe they couldn’t hear as

well as we could, but residents have always been complaining and reporting about this issue — not just recently. The Special Operations Team detectives who are now being utilized in each precinct to work with residents to obtain information on who is dealing what and where — and to execute search warrants on these locations and make arrests — will cost money. That money is well worth it. While the police department has used a limited budget as an excuse for why actions like these sometimes can’t be taken, if Suffolk County wants to bust up drug activity, police resources should be made a bigger priority. One would be hard-pressed to find a resident who disagrees. For now though, we are pleased to see the police department being responsive to community concerns about known problem drug locations.

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Suffolk County Police acting Commissioner Tim Sini speaks at a press conference to announce a new police initiative focused on cracking down on drug dealing.

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Legislator Anker discusses goals for the new year Your turn

BY Sarah anker

As I begin my third term as your Suffolk County Legislator, I want to thank you for your support and update you on my goals for the upcoming year. I will continue to work hard and remain focused on prioritizing fiscal responsibly, protecting our community and maintaining our quality of life. I will continue to lead our county through one of this century’s worst financial crises. I will direct county departments to reduce spending where possible, while obtaining support through grants, publicprivate partnerships and using cost-saving technology. Many residents feel it’s too expensive to live on Long Island, and they’re right. The county’s property tax portion is

less than 10 percent of your property tax bill. The school district tax portion is close to 70 percent. With this in mind, I will work to reduce expenses for schools by offering discounts through sharing services via the county’s purchasing department. I’m currently working with the New York State Department of Transportation, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works, the Town of Brookhaven and the community to address traffic safety issues. As chairwoman of the School Traffic Safety Commission, I am working to prioritize road safety issues near schools. Having one of the county’s largest senior citizen populations, and having recently been appointed chairwoman of Suffolk County’s Seniors & Consumer Protection Committee, I am working to reduce our seniors’ electric rates, assist with medical insurance issues and provide valuable information on reduced fees. As a member of Suffolk County’s Cancer Awareness Task Force, I will continue to work to identify why our area has elevated cancer rates and what we can do to prevent this devastating disease. I’ve sponsored legislation to reduce exposure to cancer-causing chemicals which, according to a recent study, is the primary cause of cancer. Last year, I sponsored a law to require retailers selling liquid nicotine to display a liquid nicotine warning sign. Liquid nico-

tine is unregulated, addictive and highly toxic. The use of liquid nicotine has become rampant in our preteen and teen populations, making them addicted to cigarettes at an early age. Not only can liquid nicotine be deadly, the cancer-causing chemical formaldehyde has been found in the product. Through legislation I cosponsored, Suffolk County is suing the opiate pharmaceutical companies that have opened the floodgates, releasing the deadly addictive pills that kill 120 people every day in this country. In 1991, 76 million Americans were addicted to opiates. Today, over 207 million Americans are fighting to overcome addiction. With the release of Narcan, a drug that reverses the overdose effect of opiates, Suffolk County took the lead to provide the medication free of charge to our residents. I’m working with law enforcement, drug court judges and local support groups, including North Shore Youth Council and Hope House, to provide additional services and support for those in need. Unfortunately, abandoned homes, known as “zombie homes,” have become a severe problem that decreases property values and creates safety concerns. As vice chairwoman of the Veterans Committee, I am working with Suffolk County’s Housing Department to expedite the processing of foreclosed properties and revitalizing designated properties for our military families.

As a member of the Suffolk County’s Environment, Planning & Agriculture Committee, and having sponsored over 2,000 acres of open space acquisitions, I will continue to sponsor legislation to preserve open space and farmland. Our farms provide Long Island with economic stability, as does the Long Island Sound. Currently, the federal government is allowing the dumping of toxic dredge spoils into the Sound, and I will continue to fight against those polluting the Sound. As our climate changes, so does our landscape, and to address the erosion occurring on the North Shore, I will host a coastal erosion forum, facilitated by Suffolk County’s North Shore Coastal Erosion Task Force. During the upcoming year, I will facilitate community meetings for the Heritage Rails to Trails project as it continues to move forward, and I will host the incredibly popular summer concert series, cosponsored by Rocky Point’s VFW 6249, with performers including Mike DelGuidice’s Billy Joel Tribute band Big Shot, Beatles’ tribute band Strawberry Fields, country group Southbound, and Swingtime Big Band. I have many goals to accomplish this year, and with your support we can make our neighborhoods, villages and communities the best they can be in Suffolk County. Sarah Anker Suffolk County Legislator, 6th District

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Learning lessons from the midterm exams

D. None of the above by DaNiel DuNaief

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idterms are nothing short of a mental battlefield. Our sleepdeprived children step out of the house, their hoodies raised over their ears like helmets, covering hair they didn’t have time to comb while also keeping inside their overburdened heads the Latin words for “seize the day.”

They clutch their swords — their No. 2 pencils and erasable pens; and grasp their tiny shields — the one-page sheets filled with the equations for photosynthesis and the description of the domain Archaea. When the kids arrive at school, they don’t look left and right because they don’t have much time to chat with friends, avoid enemies or wonder what fashion statement the popular students are making. They are bracing for battle and they have to climb the mountain in front of them without allowing too many mistakes to slow them down. We adults have been through these moments before, just as we have had shots, skinned our knees and struck out in a big game. And yet watching our kids go through all these challenges brings a whole new level of anxiety, butterflies and, like Pandora’s box, rays of hope. Might this be the time when

they succeed just as they feel they are about to succumb? Could this be just the confidence boost they need to help them relax and attack these tests with the equivalent of the light side of the force on future tests? While the kids write about epiphanies, rarely, as those of us who have gone through this know, do they happen in the middle of an exam. Sure, there might be a moment when they say, “Oh, right, of course, I know this. The answer is ‘0’ because it can’t be anything else.” But more often, even if they figure that one out, they still have another six pages of mysterious questions, such as “What king believed in absolutism?” [Louis XIV of France]; and how did Dante know what my world would be like on test day when he wrote “The Divine Comedy”? There are all kinds of lessons that await them, some of which apply to the material itself,

while others relate to the best test-taking strategy. I recall a test many years ago in which the teacher urged everyone to read all the instructions first before starting. Few of the students did that because they didn’t want to lose time and because any sound outside their heads competed with the pneumonics they were repeating inside their brains like lines in a play. As the tests arrive on their desks, their legs might start shaking involuntarily, trying to get their minds moving, the way Olympic runners take short, quick jogs before crouching down in the starting blocks. They go through whatever lucky rituals they might have, thinking about the words of a friend or relative, taking a few deep breaths or looking up at the clock, knowing that — one way or another — the hands that slowly circumnavigate those 12 numbers all day, every day,

That was the week that was

between you and me by leah S. DuNaief

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his week is bracketed on both ends by a “Super Bowl,” the real one coming up in Santa Clara, Calif., between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers and the one we just witnessed in Iowa. The NFL game is a lot easier to understand, what with there being only two opponents and a final victory. The Iowa contest, despite tons of publicity and seemingly endless buildup, is only the first polling in

what remains a nine-month marathon to elect the next president of the United States. In fact, the politicking and the campaigning have been going on for the better part of a year already. Never mind the arguments over whether baseball or football is the national pastime. Based on airtime, print and social media, the answer to the question of which is the most popular spectator sport is clearly politics. It’s the only game that goes on for two years. Politics also has its own way of scoring that defies logic. The results for the three main GOP contenders were Ted Cruz, 28 percent; Donald Trump, 24 percent; and third-placed Marco Rubio, 23 percent. Now if four points won a football game, we would call it a close game. So Cruz is the acknowledged winner at only a quarter of the total, and Trump is only a little behind. Yet everyone talks of Trump’s poor showing — except him. And Rubio is somehow congratulated for coming in even a whisker behind Trump.

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This is a game where absolute numbers don’t seem to count; it’s a contest of expectations. Better the pols should set themselves up the way they do on the stock market: Put out poor expectations of future earnings and when your results rise above that lowly level, the value of the stock goes up. But we always knew the guys on Wall Street were smarter than the presidential aspirants. That’s why the politicians hate the market makers so much. Anyway, back to the Iowa caucus. Besides being the first in the country, how important is it in history? The answer is tepid at best. In contested caucuses, where there was no sitting president running for re-election, Iowa Dems chose the eventual presidential nominee five out of eight times, according to the Des Moines Register. And twice that winner has gone on to become president: Barack Obama and, before him, Jimmy Carter — with a miniscule number of voters who showed up at the polls. In 1992,

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by the way, Bill Clinton finished fourth with only 3 percent of the caucus vote, and we all know what happened after that. Iowa Republicans in contested elections chose the eventual nominee three out of six times. Twice that winner went on to the presidency: Gerald Ford and George W. Bush. In 1980, father George H. W. Bush beat Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucus but Reagan went on to represent the GOP and then won the national election. In 1988 Bob Dole beat George H. W. Bush in Iowa but Bush went on to triumph, no thanks to Iowa. Maybe they would be better off if candidates hoped to lose Iowa. As to the Dems, Hillary Clinton beat out Bernie Sanders in a contest so close that different groups were flipping a coin to decide which candidate their representatives would support. Yes Clinton won, like a runner who wins a race by a fraction of a second, but her enthusiasm was nothing compared to that

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We adults have been through these moments before. will move them toward their uncertain future. Maybe they chuckle to themselves at the higher dose of perfume than normal from the girl to their right or the stronger scent of Axe deodorant from the boy to their left. Maybe these other students didn’t take showers that morning because they got up too late or because they sat on the edge of their beds cramming through those last few facts. Few of them will emerge from the battle completely unscathed. Hopefully, next time around, they’ll remember their earlier wounds and will learn how to avoid making the same mistakes. That, in any context, constitutes progress.

We always knew the guys on Wall Street were smarter than the presidential aspirants. of Sanders, who considered his results fabulous. It’s the expectations thing again. Better to leave this discussion of politics and talk about something noncontroversial that happened this week. In fact it probably is the biggest story of the week: the weather. Maybe we have El Niño to thank, but any time I can walk the dog in February wearing light clothes — on me, not him — I consider myself wonderfully lucky. I’m not going to go on about this because I don’t want to run the risk of hexing us, but I’ll take a winter where the temperature bounces around in the 40s and even flirts with 60s on a few days, and the blizzard comes on Saturday and Sunday. I’ll consider us in the Northeast the real winners this week.

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