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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Sylvia Catena Smith — St. Rosalie’s organist for over six decades recalls her early life

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11 Beach Improvements Come At A Higher Cost Bond approval to reflect new construction bids.

15 EH Village Considers Solar Powered Bins Technology may also boost cellular coverage.

27 On The Beat: Southampton High speed chase leads to arrest.

27 Stolen Truck Glenwood Village employee arrested.

B1 Rock For Our Rights Singers and artists support Planned Parenthood.

B8 Little Known Facts The secret lives of celebrities revealed.

13 Critics Oppose New Land Deal Board urged to reject Amagansett application.

26 Southampton To Hold Housing Lottery 15 units will be available to qualified buyers.

27 On The Beat: Riverhead Man rescued from Peconic River.

28 On The Beat: East Hampton Rock hurling in Montauk.

B2 Maria Bacardi East End resident sings the music of her homeland, Cuba.

B9 American Music Festival Sag Harbor features a variety of performers.

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36 Real Estate Tag Team Moving & Shaking The Real Estate Scene

40 Deeds $5M+ Deeds featured above $5 Million.

42 Bonackers Bounce Back From First Loss EH girls tennis team shuts out Southampton 7-0.

46 The First One Of Its Kind A history of EH Volunteer Ocean Rescue.

B27 John Papas Café embraces the reliably delicious.

B29 Citrus and Herb Grilled Prawns Guest-worthy recipe by Chef Marc Marrone.

39 Real Estate News Home Technology Options Made Easy

41 Deeds Deeds featured below $1 Million.

43 Freshmen Scoring For Southampton Cameron, Zukosky score in 3-0 shutout.

47 Rose Blooms, A Tiger Roars Tiger Woods delivers 80th Tour win.

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Publisher James J. Mackin

Coordinator Ty Wenzel

Associate Publisher Jessica Mackin-Cipro

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Executive Editors Rick Murphy Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Improper Influence?

Dear Rick, A multi-millionaire client of Democratic party boss Chris Kelley’s law firm is still trying to obtain from the town the abandonment of a town road – part of one of the multiple Cross Highways, this one in Amagansett.

The road was dedicated to the town decades ago, is marked with surveyor’s monuments, and is currently in use as part of the Paumanok Path. The explicit purpose of this “deal” is to expand the building envelope of the adjacent property owned by the applicant.

I say “deal” in quotations marks because the proposal is that the town receive nothing other than the continued right of the public to walk on the road it now owns under conditions more limited than at present.

This strange transaction was rejected by the tax assessor, who by state law must sign off, because of the existence of the public trail. Under state law, a “paper road,” one never opened, may be abandoned, but it is not a paper road and cannot be abandoned if it is “in use by the public.” The existence of the path means that it is in use. Use is not defined as vehicular traffic. There is a separate requirement a road to be abandoned not be a public highway.

The very fact that the applicant offers to give back an easement so the public can continue to use the road proves that it cannot be abandoned. It is already in use. There is no way to square this circle.

The town is not forbidden from selling a road, even if it is in use, but must obtain fair market value.

It cannot give gifts of public land. A multi-millionaire wants an illegal gift of town property. Chris Kelley’s law firm is trying to get it for him. That the town is even considering such a thing is appalling. The aroma of improper influence is unmistakable. When a client of Jeff Bragman’s (before he became a member of the town board) wanted something similar, the price tag was $500,000.

Sincerely, David Gruber Editor’s Note: The Independent reported about the controversy in our August 18 edition, with a follow-up story this week.

Gone Vegan

Dear Editor, As “The Big Bang Theory” CBS juggernaut rolls into a record 12th season on September 24, most of the gang exploring mysteries of the universe have gone vegan, opting for plant-based eating. Leading actress Kaley Cuoco (Penny) also campaigns against Canadian slaughter of baby seals. Mayim Bialik (Amy) and Kunal Ayyar (Raj) are asking the U.S. to join the European Union in ending cruel cosmetic testing on animals.

Johnny Galecki (Leonard) did it for personal health.

Dozens of other celebrity entertainers have gone vegan in recent years. They include Casey Affleck, Pa-

mela Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Bob Barker, Beyonce, James Cameron, Jessica Chastain, Miley Cyrus, Ellen DeGeneres, Emily Deschanel, Peter Dinklage, Sara Gilbert, Ariana Grande, Daryl Hannah, Woody Harrelson, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Alicia Silverstone, and Stevie Wonder.

Most seek to avoid oppressing and killing animals. Some look to reduce their risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Still others care about the devastating impacts of animal agriculture on climate change, water quality, and wildlife habitats. Compelling reasons for every one of us, as we get ready for The Big Bang Theory #12!

Sincerely, Elijah Hannesburg

Wasteful Spending?

Dear Rick: Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has decided to run for Suffolk County Comptroller in order to bring about a change in the way the finances of the county are managed.

It pays, therefore to shine some light on the largest development in Southampton, a proposed 600-acre golf course resort in East Quogue formerly known as The Hills PDD. The application for the PDD was denied, however, the developers have re-submitted the application as the Lewis Road PRD.

Before Supervisor Schneiderman was elected, a new recharge basin was built on Lewis Road in East Quogue. The new basin was supposed to prevent street flooding and deter an old basin from overfilling.

The new basin fails to do either.

The basin, which cost taxpayers about $1 million, was proposed by Southampton’s Highway Department with input from consultants for The Hills/ Lewis Road golf course resort. This is all documented.

Thus, it can be argued that the developers of the golf course resort were involved in the wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. Even though the nonessential basin was constructed prior to Supervisor Schneiderman’s time in office, the supervisor supported The Hills resort once elected.

In my opinion, the supervisor should have questioned whether the construction of an unnecessary recharge basin foreshadowed debatable management practices in The Hills/Lewis Road development. Further, because two acres of environmentally-desirable woodland were clear-cut to build the basin, he might also have hesitated before concluding that the developers of the proposed golf course resort were committed to protecting the environment.

In other words, it appears Supervisor Schneiderman supports big development, land-use mismanagement, and wasteful spending.

Respectfully, Susan Cerwinski

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Southampton Town officials presented a list of planning recommendations detailing what residents would like to see along Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays as part of a revitalization project. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Hoping For A Bustling Downtown Southampton Town presents Hampton Bays revitalization updates

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Southampton Town is emphasizing design over use when it comes to revitalizing downtown Hampton Bays, and plenty of residents had things to say about both during a community update this week.

Proper placement of businesses, bringing in ones that can help the area compete with online retailers, and encouraging those that would draw young people downtown, were some of the topics brought up before nearly 100 people packed inside the Hampton Bays Community Center on Ponquogue Avenue September 17. Currently, the

town is in a rezoning transition — along Good Ground Road to the south of Good Ground Park, between Springville and Ponquogue roads along Montauk Highway to the Hampton Bays train station — with an eye toward turning properties zoned for highway business to commercial use.

Listening to the wants and needs of residents, town Planning and Development Administrator Kyle Collins said he believes the plan put forth, while taking a long-term approach, will yield the results residents hope for.

“In order for a downtown to compete with online shopping, it needs to create a place where people want to be,” Collins said, agreeing with residents in attendance who shared similar opinions. “If it’s not a place where people want to be, they’re going to sit on their couch and buy things online.

It’s really critical to create a downtown with a sense of place.”

Hampton Bays resident Kevin McDonald sided with the panel of Collins, town Principal Planner Janice Scherer, and Nelson, Pop and Voorhis Senior Partner Carrie O’Farrell who said creating better traffic flow through the downtown district, creating more pedestrian access with walkways, and attracting storefronts designed with character were all ways in which the town is heading in the right direction for drawing people in. But he also had other opinions to share, especially when it came to placing businesses across from the park.

“What about sidewalks that enable café-style dining?” he asked, adding that he doesn’t want to see businesses

like a nail salon or a wood-chipping facility taking up space that could be better suited for other stores. “If you have a coffee shop where you can sit outside, and not up against a car grill but up against something pleasant, or you had a view overlooking the park — that’s what we’re hoping for at this conclusion,” he said. “Maybe even a microbrewery like they have in Patchogue.”

While there isn’t space for this currently along Montauk Highway, where stores such as 7-Eleven, Chase Bank, and Advance Auto Parts currently sit, the streets that run north and south, and the north side of the district facing Good Ground Park, will have the 10-foot setback and 10-foot façade zone needed to accommodate outdoor dining and larger sidewalks. The zoning change will not affect pre-existing businesses, according to Scherer, but will be mandatory for new buildings or when a current business is looking to expand or make modifications.

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Southampton Town has incorporated residents’ feedback into its plans for downtown Hampton Bays. Once additional studies are complete, a final pattern book will be presented to the town board for approval. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

What’s Next?

Bike lanes, crosswalks considered

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The results of a community survey done last year were presented to the Hampton Bays committee for the first time in January. The meeting was led by mem-

bers of the Southampton Town Planning Board and representatives of Historical Concepts Architecture and Planning, a Georgia-based architecture firm

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hired to help the town create a “pattern book” — an illustrated guide for potential property owners and architects to see what type of businesses and buildings, including design elements and allowable heights, the community thinks would benefit the neighborhood.

Now that adjustments have been made, the next step is to wait for results from an environmental impact study, which had begun in February and is expected to be completed this month. Once it is, final additions and modifications will be made to the pattern book.

The town added bike lanes in the design of the roadways, and town Principal Planner Janice Scherer said a larger bike network study will also be done to see about incorporating other ways to make biking safer, if the study finds there is a need for that. Other residents requested the addition of more crosswalks to make navigating Montauk Highway safer.

Once the pattern book for the downtown district is completed, the town board will vote on whether or not to adopt the findings. In December 2015, the board approved a similar overlay district, known as the Riverside Action Plan, in the hamlet of Riverside as part of ongoing revitalization efforts in that community.

BOO! Short And Scary Story Contest Calling young Stephen Kings and Anne Rices out there — The Independent’s BOO! Short and Scary Story Contest is underway again.

Students are invited to submit Halloween-themed artwork and spooky essays and poems to The Independent for publication, and possibly be awarded a medal too!

Thirteen winners will be chosen and have their work published, but we also publish artwork and pullquotes from other stories as well.

Stories should not exceed 800 words, and can be as short as a couplet. All ages from pre-K to high school seniors are invited. Art can be delivered to our offices at the Red Horse Plaza, 74 Montauk Highway, Suite 19, East Hampton, or images can be scanned and emailed to bridget@indyeastend.com.

Include the name of each student, teacher’s name, grade, and school on every submission.

Stories can be emailed to bridget@indyeastend.com, subject heading “BOO Submission.” The deadline is Tuesday, October 16.

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Architectural Structures And Patterns

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Hampton Bays residents voted in an online survey for images that portrayed buildings with the desired characteristics they’d like to see in their downtown. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

Residents were asked to complete an online survey during Southampton Town’s visioning process to get their preferences on the look and feel of an updated Hampton Bays downtown.

The building guidelines that came out of that process include a call for all structures to face the street with large windows and to be moderately set back from the curb to allow for plantings. A recess within lots was also found to be a welcome respite for shoppers. Of 1222 people surveyed, the majority said they wanted to see wide sidewalks, additional street trees, and benches. The highest-rated downtowns Hampton Bays residents wanted to see theirs model were Sag Harbor and Southampton.

In general, feedback outlined in the data gathering found residents wanted the heights of buildings along

Montauk Highway to be kept low (1 to 2.5 stories) to reflect and strengthen the existing character, but they supported the idea of taller buildings (1 to 3.5 stories) along Good Ground Park, Good Ground Road, and future connecting streets. Ground-floor ceilings would be 10 feet, while upper floor ceilings would need a minimum clearance of eight feet. The maximum height of any building cannot exceed 35 feet, but to accommodate for pitched roofs, which were overwhelmingly supported by community members, there would be a 50-foot allowance to give the structures a 45-degree pitch.

Survey responses also called for parallel or angled parking along streets, with additional parking being located in lots at the rear of the buildings and connecting streets running east to west to create cross access between lots.

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The Nitework Band will provide music from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. A $20 ticket includes unlimited access to any beer or wine of your choice.

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Rain Garden To Replace Old Post Office Driveway HBBA plans “one of the prettiest post offices on Long Island”

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Coastal Management trucks begin construction to add a rain garden at the post office as part of a Hampton Bays Beautification Association project. Independent/Courtesy Hampton Bays Beautification Association

A new Hampton Bays rain garden is an aesthetic and ecological win-win.

The Hampton Bays Beautification Association, which adopted the post office years ago, is taking on another project at the site facing Ponquogue Avenue. After removing hedges and planting grass, adding a sprinkler system and brick walkway, and planting flowers, association president Susan von Freddi Gassman announced the addition of a rain garden.

“It is important to have ecosystems in the community — that you don’t just plop a garden somewhere, you try to make it sustainable and economically advantageous,” von Freddi Gassman said of the rain garden, which will replace an old and unused driveway. “It will also be a teaching thing — for students to come up to and learn about it.”

Rain gardens can reduce runoff by allowing the water to soak into the ground, as opposed to flowing into storm drains and surface waters which causes erosion, water pollution, flooding, and diminished groundwater.

Permaculturist Mark Fasanella from Ecological Cultural Initiative, a local nonprofit that develops environmental programing and field projects, in collaboration with community groups, cultural institutions, and government, came up with the idea a few years back. Fasanella did not have

“We thought we could come up with some ideas to naturalize that area.” the funds to make it happen, so von Freddi Gassman adopted the idea, and brought it to life with association funds and a grant from the Muriel F. Siebert Foundation.

According to Coastal Landscapes owner Daren Poles, climbing hydrangeas, wild bergamot, swamp milkweed, Northern blue flag, and echinacea magnus, among other native flowers and plants, will pack the rain garden. It will also attract butterflies and bees. According to Poles there will also be native stones, a recreation of a riverbed, and a bridge to cross over it.

The rain garden will be revealed ahead of the eighth annual San Gennaro Feast of the Hamptons, which begins Saturday, September 29.

“We thought we could come up with some ideas to naturalize that area,” Poles said of the previous concrete slab. “I think the project adds interest and value downtown. We also wanted to leave a section of it closer to the road for artists to display their work.”

The HBBA president said being that the area is close to the train station along Good Ground Road, and across from the community center, she saw it as an important corner that needed aesthetic improvement.

She said the project fits the goals of the association, which spends time planting flowers, hanging plants, fixing town pergolas, cleaning medians, and enhancing signage.

“It improves the look of Main Street, improves quality of life,” von Freddi Gassman said. “People like and respect what we do. This will leave us with one of the prettiest post offices on Long Island.”

Another environmentally-friendly addition was purchased by the association this year. New pots for hanging plants along Good Ground Road contain reservoirs that act as a water-saving feature. In the hot summer months when there’s little rain, the town waters the plants, which cost the HBBA $10,000 a year. The association hopes this project will alleviate the stress placed on town water trucks.

“I grew up in Hampton Bays, so for me it’s personal,” von Freddi Gassman said. “To me it’s important that the main streets look good. We just want to make Hampton Bays look beautiful.”

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September 26, 2018

Town Beach Improvements Come At Higher Cost

“I’d propose we loan the money short-term so we can start the work now, and then we’ll borrow it next spring from the general fund and then reimburse it when we get the proceeds,” Town Comptroller Len Marchese said.

“Beaches are in the parks fund, but if there’s a shortfall in the funding of an enterprise fund, we fund it with a transfer from the general fund.”

The plan is to update the entryway with a new attendance booth; repair the parking lot, including adding additional drainage; put in a rain garden; update the roof and siding of the pavilion; and complete bathroom and shower updates.

The town will also be using green materials to use best practices in a marine environment, said board member John Bouvier. “It’s also economic for us too, they’re longer lasting,” he added.

“The structure was built in the 1960s and there’s been very little done to it since then. The needs are infrastructure related without a doubt.”

Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera said she thinks investment in facilities is a good thing. “I plan to support this,” she said, “but the town has added a lot of projects over the past two years, and something’s got to give at some point.”

Resolutions slated for bond approval to reflect new construction bids

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Renovations for what Southampton Town officials are hoping will be the area’s flagship beach are coming in at a higher cost than anticipated.

Town Parks Director Kristen Doulos asked the town board at a work session meeting September 20 to approve a resolution to bond additional funds to undergo construction at Ponquogue Beach in Hampton Bays. The total dollar amount needed to complete renovations is now $3.3 million, up from a second-round estimated $2.1 million at the beginning of this year. A plumbing bid was accepted after three offers came in, but bids on general construction and

electric came with a larger price tag due to higher cost of materials and just one offer coming in for each.

“Construction is a booming industry on Long Island and companies are being very selective with what they even bid on,” Doulos said. “Bids came in much higher than anticipated, but I’d like to get this passed now because if we shelf the project, costs are only going to go up.”

After deliberation, board members unanimously agreed to add a resolution to next week’s town board meeting to bond the additional $1.2 million. The town will carry the loan in 2020.

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Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni asked if the higher cost will affect other projects, to which Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said he doesn’t believe it will, especially with the town retiring what he said is a lot of old debt this year.

“I walked around the pavilion this summer, inspected it, and it’s not a matter of if but when it’s going to be replaced, because it needs to happen,” the councilman said. “So long as we have improvement in our debt service and that this won’t increase it in any significant way or effect other projects we want to do, then I will support it.

It’s like buying a new pair of sneakers — once you have them, you realize how bad your old pairs are.”

Councilwoman Julie Lofstad also voiced support for the project. “I think financially it’s doable. There won’t be a huge negative impact on the taxpayers,” she said. “And I think it’s going to be a boon. I think a new beach pavilion will attract more people and it can help us generate more revenue.”

There is an aggressive timeline for the project to be completed between Labor Day and Memorial Day. The town has already increased permit fees residents pay, but Schneiderman also Continued On Page 55.

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Dude, It’s Gonna Be Like, Epic New York set to legalize marijuana use

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

New York is considered one of the most progressive states in the nation — especially under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s reign — but it has lagged behind the other states jumping on the legalize marijuana bandwagon. That is about to change.

There is strong impetus in Albany to make New York the 10th state to legalize recreational use of the evil weed.

A group of legislators recently announced they will hold a series of hearings later this year to consider proposals to fully legalize marijuana in the Empire State.

Cuomo, who took some heat over his lackadaisical attitude toward the issue from Cynthia Nixon during their primary battle, is also coming around.

The announcement was made by Assembly Codes Committee Chair Joseph Lentol, Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, Governmental Operations Committee Chair Crystal PeoplesStokes, and Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee Chair Linda Rosenthal.

“These hearings will give New Yorkers an opportunity to provide in-

put and allow the committee chairs to learn from several other states that already allow adult use,” the committee chairs wrote in a press release.

Cuomo has embraced a report by the NYS Department of Health.

The department found that the “positive effects” of legalization “outweigh the potential negative impacts.” In August, Cuomo said he intended to “implement the report’s recommendations through legislation.”

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Manhattan district attorney ordered prosecutors in the borough to suspend all marijuana possession cases. The aim of the mandate, similar to an earlier policy change made by Brooklyn’s district attorney, is to significantly reduce cannabis-related prosecutions — in this case by an estimated 96 percent.

There are nine states where recreational use of marijuana is legal: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. It is also

Harry Minetree, 83 Harry Eugene Minetree — journalist, author, documentarian, and former East Hampton resident until 1995 — passed on Monday, September 17, in Glendale, CA. He was 83 years old.

Minetree was born on April 7, 1935, in Poplar Bluff, MO, the son of Richard Herbert and Ruth Esther Minetree, attended Harvard and Vanderbilt universities, and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. While at college, he developed his love of the media, editing the Chase humor magazine, the Hustler newspaper, and as a radio announcer for WVU.

After receiving his MFA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1962, where he was an Industries Scholar and teaching assistant, Minetree spent the next seven years teach-

legal in the District of Columbia.

Oklahoma became the 30th state to legalize medical marijuana earlier this month. Residents voted 56-43 percent in support of the ballot initiative, which is one of the most permissive medical marijuana laws in the U.S.

The rest of the states — mostly so-called “Red” states — are opposed to making pot laws more lenient, and the Trump administration is against it as well.

In May, the New York Democratic Party adopted a resolution supporting adult-use marijuana legalization in the state, calling it “an important social justice issue.”

A 2017 Gallup poll showed that 64 percent of Americans support legalization.

Marijuana prohibition began 80 years ago when the federal government put a ban on the sale, cultivation, and use of the cannabis plant. It remains illegal on the federal level.

The film Reefer Madness, released in 1936, fed the anti-marijuana propaganda machine. It opens with a discus-

sion about a 15-year old boy who killed his entire family with an axe while stoned on pot.

ing at Columbia College, Memphis State University, Syracuse University (SS), Lindenwood College, and as a guest lecturer at the University of London.

His biography of heart surgeon Denton Cooley, Cooley: The Career of a Great Heart Surgeon, published by Harper’s, was a book club selection and was subsequently printed in German and Spanish as well. Minetree hit his stride as a hard-hitting journalist in the early 1970s, with articles appearing in Time Magazine, The New York Times, and the Hearst publications.

Minetree was twice-nominated and received citations for excellence in foreign reporting (Africa) from the Overseas Press Club, and his short stories appeared in several literary quarterlies including the Kenyon Review and Arlington Quarterly, along with other anthologies.

He wrote and produced three documentary films for PBS: The Most Endangered Species . . . George Adamson (narrated by John Huston); The Most Endangered Species . . . Dr. Den-

ton Cooley, and A Reporter in Grenada.

The films were broadcast worldwide, the latter screened at the International Conference on Broadcasting in Marseille, France, in 1985.

Minetree belonged to many organizations, including the Overseas Press Club, the Eagle Scouts of America, the Quill Club (Harare, Zimbabwe), the Flying Doctors (Kenya), and the East Africa Press Club. Locally, he was on the board of directors of LTV.

He was married to Judith Ann Garner on November 13, 1955; the couple had six children: Harry II, Lee Vernon, Elizabeth Jett, Hugh Quenton, Garner Jay, and Judith McVey. Grandchildren include Lee Garner Minetree of Burlington, VT, Madeline Leigh Minetree of Orlando, FL, and Lilah Rose Minetree, who is in college at Rollins in Winter Park, FL. Elizabeth Jett now lives in Van Nuys, CA, and her daughter is Sarah Tennessee Jett, who is in college at Lewis & Clark in Portland, OR. He is also survived by a brother, Dr. Thomas Minetree, of Alabama.

Over the years, the government’s resolve against marijuana use has softened. Independent/National Institute On Drug Abuse

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Deepwater: Deep Footprint On Land Wainscott streets will be disrupted

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Deepwater Wind has filed an Article VII application with the state, seeking approval to run a power line from its offshore wind farm yet to be built off Montauk and connect it to an existing substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton.

Deepwater wanted easements for the project, dubbed the South Fork Wind farm, to allow the cable to come onshore on Beach Lane in Wainscott. The East Hampton Town Board, after some delay and by a split vote, “memorialized” its intention to grant an easement.

The Town Trustees, however, hopelessly deadlocked, could not reach an agreement. With time flying and already behind its stated goal of filing by June 30, Deepwater opted to enter the process without the easement in hand. Instead the trustees intend to participate in the Article VII process as an intervener.

Towards that purpose, the trustees have hired Dan Spitzer of the Albany based law firm Hodgson Russ LLP Albany. Spitzer concentrates his practice on issues involving environmental law, renewable energy, sustainable development, land use law, municipal law, and real estate development. His practice “involves numerous renewable energy projects, including representing municipalities, developers, land owners, and financing entities,” according to the company website.

The town board also intends to monitor the state review. The town has retained John Wagner of Certilman Balin Adler Hyman LLP in Hauppauge.

Wagner, a partner in the Land Use and Zoning, Environmental Law, and Litigation Practice Groups at the firm “brings over 30 years of real property, land use, environmental, and litigation experience to the firm. He represents private clients, from individual landowners to multi-state development companies, as well as municipalities,” according to the company website.

Deepwater submitted a detailed route plan for the underground pipe

that will run from Beach Lane to the substation should that plan be approved. It differs slightly from one presented to the town and the press. In the Article VII filing, Deepwater was veered off course with the route the underground cable will be buried.

Clint Plummer, VP/development for Deepwater, told the town board and press the route. Once ashore, the cable would be buried under Beach Lane, Wainscott Main Street, Wainscott Stone Road, and Hedges Lane to the Long Island Rail Road tracks in Wainscott, where it would run east to connect to the substation.

Trade Secrets In the filing however, Hedges Lane has been removed. The proposed route now reads, “to Wainscott Northwest Road and travels approximately 1.1 miles, generally northwest past Montauk Highway/State Route 27 to the LIRR.”

That would mean the East Hampton Town Police station would come into play at some point.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said Deepwater has discussed the alternate route on occasion, however, “DWW has represented for some time that there are two potential routes through Wainscott, Hedges Lane and Wainscott Northwest Road,” he said.

“Due to potential ownership questions of Hedges Lane, they have included Wainscott Northwest as an alternative route,” Van Scoyoc added.

Van Scoyoc did not say if the police were informed of the change. Police Chief Michael Sarlo did not return calls.

Deepwater continues to press hard for “confidential treatment” of certain information critics say should be common knowledge. A law firm hired

by Deepwater urges the state to allow, “trade secrets which discussed would cause substantial injury to the competitive position,” to remain confidential.

Critics say the true cost of the project to rate holders cannot be cal-

Deepwater now wants to run its cable under a portion of Wainscott Northwest Road. Independent/Rick Murphy

culated without certain information.

Deepwater has said certain public officials have signed nondisclosure forms agreeing not to share this type of sensitive information but has not identified who signed. Van Scoyoc says he didn’t.

Critics say judging from the Article VII language burying the cable will be more disruptive than originally stated. Rights of way to install the cable could be between 35 to 75 feet wide — perhaps too wide for police vehicles to pass. That would mean patrol cars and other police department vehicles would have to take a circuitous route by the airport when answering emergency calls.

Deepwater also appears to greatly expand, “laydown and staging areas”

that may be used while the onshore cable is being buried. The potential total area is now estimated to, “not exceed five acres” and include, “work trailers, power transformers, steel framing, reels of cable, etc.”

“Originally they told us it would be a manhole cover,” said Bonne Brady, who represents commercial fishing interests that also intend to carry “Intervener” status into the hearings.

The company has said the review of the applications is expected to take two years and construction of the turbines another two years.

Should the Beach Lane entry point be rejected, Deepwater officials declined phone and email requests for comment.

Critics Oppose Proposed Land Deal Town Board urged to reject Amagansett application

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

The East Hampton Town Board has once again come under fire for a proposal that would have the town abandon a portion of an unopened road to a private landowner in Amagansett in exchange for a trail easement over the land.

David Buda of Springs, speaking at a September 20 hearing, said the proposal,

requested by the property owner Galaxy Group Investments, LLC, “would result in a substantial increase in the development of the property.” He added that he had previously raised serious legal concerns about the propriety of the arrangement.

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Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em, ASAP Straws and smoking to be banned in East Hampton Village

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com The East Hampton Village Board on September 21 adopted legislation, which prohibits smoking or vaping on any public property in the village. This includes all village streets, sidewalks, and parking lots. Although a revision was submitted for consideration and proposed to only include village-owned buildings, Herrick Park, village beaches, and any pavilion or any other improvement related to the beaches, the revision was not accepted.

Trustee Richard Lawler voted “no” on the proposed smoking ban. “I think it’s too broad,” he sated. “But I applaud the fact that we’re doing this. I’m not a smoker. I don’t like smoking, but I am a little bit empathetic to those who are smoking and may be trying to quit. It’s a difficult enough task and to then take

away the opportunity to step out of a restaurant and be away from people to have a cigarette if it’s necessary . . . I’m not comfortable with that part.” With no further objections, the legislation was adopted by the rest of the board.

In a unanimous vote, the board adopted legislation prohibiting establishments located in the village from distributing single-use, plastic straws, unless specifically requested by a customer. This stipulation was added in recognition of medical reasons that may require the use of a plastic straw rather than one made out of paper.

Merchants are allowed to keep a small supply on hand in the event a customer specifically requests one. The village’s action is part of a larger trend across the country to reduce the use of plastics

The Village Board welcomed Christian Denton into the Village Police Department. Independent/Justin Meinken

to protect wildlife and reduce pollution.

The board also discussed a proposed amendment to the village’s solid waste law. According to Mayor Paul Rickenbach, the board has received numerous complaints about “people just dropping newspapers and other periodicals and other venue magazines.

And for a great extent, they’re not on private property. They’re just helterskelter on the public corridor.”

As proposed, the law would require that a publisher of a periodical have an agreement with a local tenant to accept the periodicals. Fines would be imposed for noncompliance. Kirby Marcantonio, publisher of Montauk

Life and Hampton Life for over 25 years, addressed the board and admitted that he was “sensitive to litter and waste and the overdistribution of solid publications.” He said he was concerned, however, about the “free speech issues that I suppose could impact this law.

That is, the right to distribute materials is something that has usually been safeguarded in terms of publications.”

“Public speech also has to do with the ability of local merchants to be able to communicate with their customers,” he continued.

Marcantonio added that it is important to his advertisers that readers Continued On Page 55.

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EH Village Considers Solar Powered Trash Bins Bigbelly bin technology may also boost cellular coverage

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Alexander Gamota, Senior Vice President of Bigbelly, a smart waste collection company, presented the East Hampton Village Board with a proposal to install its solar powered trash bins in and around the village.

The trash collection bin, known as a Bigbelly, is an enclosed system which contains a trash compactor and utilizes wireless technology to send an alert when it is full. A Bigbelly bin has been in place in front of Scoop du Jour on Newtown Lane for several years but upgrades to the technology since then have prompted Bigbelly to approach the board with one of its new smart waste collection solutions, the Bigbelly Telebelly.

Addressing the room, Gamota asked how many had cellular devices

and how many experience poor cell coverage. He stated that Bigbelly has a solution that may help the village with its poor cellular coverage issues.

Known as the Telebelly, this double station contains one unit which is the standard waste system with a fully enclosed trash compactor and another unit which houses a telecom cabinet containing cell radio equipment. A 20foot multi-band antenna is integrated into the unit.

According to the Telebelly representative, a unit can provide anywhere from a 600 to 1000-foot radius of cellular coverage, and a 75 to 200-foot radius of Wi-Fi depending upon the line of sight. The Wi-Fi is, according to Gamota, “solar-power supported” and is simiContinued On Page 19.

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By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

The 27th annual Largest Clam Contest was once again held at the Donald Lamb Building on Bluff Road in Amagansett on Sunday, September 23. Primarily judged and sponsored by the East Hampton Town Trustees, the contest was held for who-

ever managed to dig up the largest clam and also for the best clam chowder chefs. Ed Hoff won for the largest clam contest with a massive 2.3-pound specimen, and Spencer Guptill won unanimously for the tastiest clam chowder.

Ed Hoff was the winner of the largest clam competition with a whopping 2.3-pound clam.

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Editorial More Than Energy Savings Well over a year ago, a group from Westchester County appeared before the Southampton Town Board to tout the advantages of moving forward with something called Community Choice Aggregation.

The program is one component of the New York State’s Reforming the Energy Vision strategy, which seeks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels across the state. Residents in communities that opt for CCA are able to band together to negotiate with their electric utilities to demand that the power they use comes from sustainable sources — be it solar, wind, or hydropower.

In doing so, they gain more than a clear conscience. In Westchester, residents have saved about $10 million since the program was established in 2016.

So, what’s not to like about that?

Two weeks ago, town employees and members of its sustainability committee, who have been charged with helping the town obtain its goal of providing all its electricity through green sources by 2025, appeared before the town board to ask its members to schedule a public hearing on creating its own CCA.

Lynn Arthur, a member of the town’s sustainability committee and a local expert and valuable resource on energy issues, said the value of a CCA went beyond savings going into consumers’ pockets. Communities with such programs in place gain the right to have their voices heard when their local utility plans major capital projects.

She noted that the Long Island Power Authority, which provides our electricity, has plans to install a $513 million transmission line to bring in more juice to eastern Southampton Town and East Hampton Town, where demand for power continues to grow.

Strangely, though, the request drew some resistance from Supervisor Jay Schneiderman, who seemed more interested in erecting roadblocks than in giving residents a chance to weigh in on the matter. We’d like to think the supervisor was just being extra careful and considering every angle, as he typically does, and the board will move swiftly to schedule a hearing on this proposal.

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What were this summer’s highlights?

Jaan I went to Slovakia, with my mom— she’s from there—and then went to New Hampshire to see my grandma.

I learned card magic. I might try to go on “America’s got talent.” I’m not sure but I might.

Angie I went to Splish Splash. That was so much fun. There’s this tunnel ride that you go in and it spins you round and round. And there’s a ride that’s like a roller coaster but it’s just you, going way up high and after you reach the top you come shooting down the slide so fast!

Jeremy The best part of summer is that you don’t have to go to any more school!

I like that I can just spend the time pIaying with my friends. I also got to go to the beach a lot with my family.

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Government Briefs Compiled by Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

First Responders Honored On Tuesday, September 18, Congressman Lee Zeldin joined the U.S. Postal Service and local first responders for the dedication ceremony of the Honoring First Responders Stamp. The stamp portrays three first responders as they race into action.

“Our nation’s first responders put their lives on the line each and every day to protect ours, and they have earned nothing less than our utmost gratitude,” said Congressman Zeldin after the dedication ceremony. “It is so important that in everything we do we honor these brave men and women for their service to our communities and nation. Now as we mail letters and cards to our family, friends, and loved

ones, we will always be reminded that their safety and security is thanks to our local first responders.”

Schumer Decries Cuts U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is railing against a White House proposal to cut more than 20 percent of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration budget. Schumer said the cuts could cripple the federal government’s ability to gather critical weather data that translates into the forecasts we all rely upon when hurricanes, tropical storms, and other major weather events occur.

“A storm is brewing at the federal level when it comes to our ability to robustly track the paths of severe weather events and deliver early warning

forecasts to the public,” Schumer said.

“That is why we need to put high pressure on Congress to stop the unwise cuts proposed by the Administration that could impact everything from our weather forecasters to our critical data gathering and modeling methods that scientists use to perfect predicting and in turn save lives on the ground when an erratic storm begins its churn.”

Under the Administration’s proposed plan for NOAA, the agency would see a 23 percent slash to its overall budget. Funding for NOAA for the 2018 fiscal year was allocated at $5.9 billion. Schumer’s plan to prevent these cuts rests on his ability to negotiate a bi-partisan spending bill by the end of this month, also known as a continuing resolution, which he hopes can fund NOAA at levels experts would say allow it to perform its critical work.

Schumer says this agreement must be bi-partisan if it is to pass and noted high hopes for getting this done.

“Tracking dangerous storms and ensuring the federal government has the tools, the satellites, and the manpower

necessary to forecast wild weather should not be a political undertaking, and so I am hopeful I can work with colleagues to stop the Administration’s cuts to NOAA via the upcoming spending bill that we should pass by the end of the month,” Schumer noted.

One of the largest cuts within NOAA includes a massive cut to critical NOAA research. The NOAA is the federal government’s scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce. The mission of NOAA is “to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts, and to share that knowledge and information with others, and to conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources.” NOAA is the federal entity responsible for weather satellites, storm tracking, and scientific modeling.

The Atlantic Ocean currently has four named storms churning, a largely unprecedented occurrence, that Schumer says should help propel bi-partisan cooperation to stop unwise and ominous cuts to NOAA and its operations.

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To provide the cellular service, Bigbelly would partner with a cellular provider such as AT&T or Verizon.

However, only the customers of the selected provider would benefit from the Telebelly unit. Another unit would need to be installed within 100 feet with a different provider to accommodate other customers. Gamota admitted that this may not be a solution everywhere in the village, especially at the beaches. However, it may provide a solution for public safety by enhancing the cellular service for emergency services.

“We applaud the innovation and

technology that you are offering here today,” said Mayor Paul Rickenbach.

However, the mayor indicated that “our village is very sensitive to aesthetics and that would be an important criterion.”

He asked, “Has the company looked into any way of making the antenna smaller or shorter, and with technology as it is unfolding, do you see this becoming a reality?” Gamota responded that the company was “very receptive to the concept.”

Village board members requested that Bigbelly do a pilot program and put both units in place for a period of time. The Bigbelly representative stated that he will get back to the board to work out the possibility of a pilot program in the village.

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Celebrating Maritime Heritage Photos by Ed Gifford

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Everyone’s four-legged friends came out to play for Southampton’s Paws on Parade on Saturday, September 22. Dogs of all shapes and sizes got to play with dog lovers and their companions on Meeting House Lane. From there, they marched down to the Bathing Corporation beach to play in the sand, and each dog was blessed in honor of Saint Francis by St. John’s Church. The parade was organized by and raised funds for the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation, with representatives walking several of their furry friends alongside their supporters.

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Southampton Town has announced it will hold a lottery for 15 affordable townhouses at the Southampton Pointe development on Village Green Drive off of County Road 39 in Southampton. Each townhouse has two bedrooms and one and a half baths.

To be eligible, families must meet income requirements set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for 2018-19. The sales price for those earning 80 percent of the median income is $233,375, while those earning 120 percent of the me-

dian income can purchase one of the townhouses for $350,125.

In Southampton, a family of two can earn up to $74,700 and a family of four can earn up to $93,350 to be considered earning 80 percent of the median income. Those earning $112,050 for two people or up to $140,050 for four people are considered at the 120 percent level.

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Applicants must submit a new lottery application to the Long Island Housing Partnership in order to be entered into the lottery. The lottery will establish the ranking number to submit a formal application to LIHP for eligibility to purchase the home.

Applicants are required to pay a non-refundable application fee and submit their application by 5 PM on October 12. Lottery applications and

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The lottery itself will be held at Southampton Town Hall on October 25, at 3 PM. Applicants do not have to attend the lottery to be placed on the ranking list.

The Long Island Housing Partnership, a certified HUD counseling agency, is conducting the lottery and application process for this program.

For questions about the lottery and applications, contact the Long Island Housing Partnership at 631-435-4710.

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High Speed Chase Stolen Truck Riverhead Town Police said an employee of Glenwood Village stole a company truck Sunday night, September 23.

Terry Smith, 55, was allegedly spotted driving the truck on Middle Road in Riverhead at about 10 PM. Police, responding to a call from another employee, tracked the truck and saw it parked at 434 Middle Road, where Smith allegedly lives.

Smith, charged with one count of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, a class D felony, was placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters and held for arraignment. During processing, police said they learned that Smith is currently on parole in New York State for a previous conviction of criminal possession of stolen property and was released from state prison last November.

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Police identified the suspicious vehicle as Mushkolaj’s car and searched the area.

With assistance from the K-9 Unit, officers located Mushkolaj and his cousin — the passenger in the vehicle — Fatbardh Mushkolaj, 25, of Sag Harbor, just south of Sunswyck Lane.

The younger Mushkolaj was charged with third-degree unlawfully fleeing a police officer, second-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, and reckless driving, all misdemeanors. He was also charged with multiple violations, including failure to comply with a lawful order, unlicensed operation of a vehicle, operation of an uninsured vehicle, operation of a vehicle with improper plates, unsafe lane change, operation of an unregistered vehicle, four counts of unreasonable speed, and three stop sign violations.

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According to Westhampton Beach Police Officer Brian Prescott, Mushkolaj “refused to stop” and a brief pursuit, involving two patrol cars, ensued. Police called off the chase around 2:04 PM and proceeded to search the village for the vehicle — at which point officers from the Southampton Town Police Department, Quogue Village Police Department, and the Suffolk County Police Department K-9 Unit responded to the village to aid with the search and investigation.

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East Hampton Police Charge Three Drivers With DWI

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It’s a sure sign that summer is over: The number of drivers being arrested on East Hampton Town roads has dropped sharply, with town police reporting only three arrests in the past two weeks.

Yvette D. DeForest, 35, of Mt. Vernon, was pulled over at about 12:30 AM on September 18 on South Edison Street in Montauk. According to the police report, DeForest failed to stop before making a right turn onto Montauk Highway. She was charged with a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated and held overnight before being released by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky after posting $500 bail.

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Hampton was pulled over by town police on Cedar Street near Cedar Court at about 10 PM on Sunday, September 22. Police said Hoppe failed to stay in her lane and showed signs of being intoxicated when questioned. She was held overnight and released on her own recognizance by Justice Lisa Rana.

East Hampton Town police said Mary E. LaPenna-Lee, 62, of East Hampton, who was driving on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett at about 9:30 PM on September 10, failed to stop for a stop sign and also made an improper left turn. She was charged with misdemeanor DWI and held overnight. She was released without bail the following morning by Justice Lisa Rana.

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Rock For Our Rights Singers and artists come together for Planned Parenthood

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

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Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic will be the beneficiary of a benefit auction and cocktail party on Friday, September 28, at Tutto Il Giorno in Sag Harbor, followed by a concert at the Bay Street Theater. The event begins at 5 PM at the restaurant, and moves to the theater, and there are different levels of ticket prices. All proceeds go toward PPHP’s programs on the East End for health services, education, and advocacy for reproductive rights.

Rock for Our Rights is curated by Pamela Willoughby and features art from some popular names; Linda Alpern, Marissa Bridge, Delta 2, Robert Otto Epstein, Eric Fischl, Dora Frost, Tara Israel, Nathan Slate Joseph, Mar-

tine Langatta, Noel De Lesseps, Matt Magee, Steve Miller, Christine Newman, Dalton Portella, Sarah Prescott, Mason Saltarrelli, Bastienne Schmidt, Blair Seagram, Agathe Snow, Cynthia Talmadge, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, Athos Zacharias, and April Gornik.

Live music will be performed by Nona Hendryx (LaBelle) with Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Zach Zunis Band, and special guest Big Pete. The concert is produced by Bronte Zunis with music producer Danny Kapilian and coordinator Nitchie Zunis.

Indy spoke with artist April Gornik; Jenifer Van Deinse, director of development at Planned Parenthood

Hudson Peconic; producer Bronte Zunis; and curator Pamela Willoughby.

generosity. We would love to build on the success of this event for the future.

Is this the inaugural Rock for Our Rights? Do you have plans for future events?

What type of music will be performed? The photo used in the event flyer sends a message of female empowerment.

Jenifer Van Deinse: This idea for this event came from 16-year-old East Hampton resident Bronte Zunis, a passionate supporter of the Planned Parenthood mission. She recognizes the disparity in reproductive health education in schools on Long Island and wanted to create awareness of the breadth of services Planned Parenthood offers. It is thanks to her vision and tireless efforts that this event got off the ground in a very short amount of time.

PPHP has wanted to offer an event like this to the local community. We are indebted also to Pamela Willoughby who curated some fantastic pieces for the art auction. We have the works of 23 artists, including April Gornik and Eric Fischl, available to purchase. The East End art community has long supported Planned Parenthood and we are extremely grateful to them for their

JVD: Nona Hendryx and Vernon Reid will bring down the house with a soulful mix of rock/fusion/funk. They have something special in mind for our event, but they’re keeping it under wraps for now. As longtime supporters, they recognize the importance of supporting Planned Parenthood.

More than 2.4 million patients rely on Planned Parenthood annually for highquality, affordable health care.

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Maria Bacardi: Songs Of Her Mother East End resident sings the music of her homeland, Cuba

By Georgia Warner

Artist, actress, poet, and now singer Maria Bacardi only ever lived in her birth country of Cuba for three years, but, as she says, “I am not in Cuba.

Cuba is in me.” If anything, Bacardi’s identity with her native land has only intensified over the years, as her ventures into each artistic medium have been inspired by her family’s history and culture.

In 2013, Bacardi released her first album, Deseo, which explored metaphors and tension within the traditional Cuban songs she heard her mother sing while in exile in Spain. Her second album, Duele — a passionate, twinkling, swanky album which she describes as “a fusion of Cuban master composers’ old school tunes and contemporary beats” — will be performed live at Joe’s Pub in New York City on December 17 with a 12-piece band composed of “the best Cuban musicians” of NYC and Havana, and will be launched digi-

tally soon after. In the meantime, samples from Deseo and Duele can be found on Bacardi’s website.

This week, Bacardi spoke to The Independent about her art, her family, and the journey to finding her voice.

Tell me about what your relationship with Cuba is like today.

I was born in Cuba in 1957, three years before the revolution in 1960, when my parents fled into exile. I grew up in Spain, Switzerland, and France, but I felt Cuban all along. Since I was too young to remember Cuba, the trauma of exile was passed along to me by my elders and it has affected me all my life.

I have been in Cuba numerous times over the past 20 years, but I have a very ambivalent relation with Cuba — a land of extreme physical, cultural,

emotional synergies, and political contradictions.

My family has been a very prominent family in Cuba since the 1850s, as they founded the Bacardi Rum company, and my great grand-uncle was a very important mayor of Santiago de Cuba, supporting the mambises who wanted independence from the crown of Spain. I don’t have any more family left there, but I have made many wonderful Cuban friends. Cubans are wonderful, warm, intelligent, cultured peoples.

In my singing persona, Cuba has had a great influence, since I enjoy and specialize in singing a certain Cuban music style: the Bolero, a romantic ballad, which is supposed to be danced by the couple on a square tile, very close.

The Bolero started in the end of the 1800s and evolved until the revolution in the early 1960s, when it was banned for being a bourgeois and anecdotal form of music.

And the Hamptons? Do you feel artistically connected to the East End? I have lived in the Hamptons for the past 30 years, while coming on weekends for 10 years before that. I loved the sleepy village quality of our town, and I miss that tremendously. My two sons were born in Southampton Hospital and grew up in Amagansett, and my stepchildren as well.

When I moved from the city to

marry the town veterinarian, I was afraid I would feel culturally isolated, so I started a theater group at Oddfellows Hall (where Eileen Fisher is now) called The Oddfellows Players. We did lots of site-specific performances at benefits, galleries, Guild Hall . . . All the theater pieces were written, choreographed, styled by many of the area artists of all ages and sizes, and the actors’ director and artistic project director was me. We had a great success of esteem, but not financial.

You say on your website you only embarked on the path of song in 2013?

Yes, not intentionally. When my mother had a tracheotomy and lost her voice, I began to sing the songs she sang throughout my childhood.

My mother was in deep grief until she died, pining incessantly for the Cuba she had grown up in.

She used to sing with her guitar, every week, to a group of exiled Cubans who would find refuge in our home.

They sang, cried, sobbed for their loss, and drank rum, and played the records my mother had smuggled away in her blue trunks in 1960, each with an instrument they had managed to smuggle out.

Is that what inspired you to start singing when you did?

Well, I knew my youngest son, Liam, would be going to college, and I pre-

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pared myself to cope with the major empty-nest feeling I knew I would have. So, I began studying singing as a way to continue expressing my art in more urban areas, such as New York City, where the Cuban musicians reside. Now, with a big empty home, I tend to feel bit isolated in our beautiful Hamptons, where I still spend a lot of time with my beloved four old doggies.

How did you come to create your albums Deseo and Duele? And when you started on Deseo, did you have an inkling that Duele would follow?

Well, I have the enormous luck to have the best and finest maestros of Bolero that are left on the planet: the duo Carlos y Marta, from Miami, and David Oquendo, in New Jersey. They three are true encyclopedias of a musical art that has almost been lost. I also have the most fantastic band members, who cushion and trampoline my voice into the compositions of the geniuses of Bolero of the 20th Century.

My second album, Duele (It Hurts), came about by chance when I met a wonderful young Cuban producer and hip-hop artist, Edgaro Gonzalez, productor-n-jefe, who came from

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Cuba to the States on a grant to Berklee College of Music. Leaving Cuba for young Cubans is very difficult, you have to be very talented and get grants, and he was very interested in the genre of Bolero. We hit it off immediately, perfect synergy, and together with David Oquendo, maestro in traditional Cuban music, we created Duele.

This innovation — using the old master composers’ songs and melodies and fusing them with modern grooves and samples — has never been done, and I am very excited about how it is sounding. We call it the “Neo-Bolero,” this musical fusion of Cuban and North American musical genres. So Duele is a musical piece of art, lovingly created, and dedicated to the Cuban union and collaboration between Cuban musicians in Havana and in New York, and the rest of the world. The new Cuban is a citizen of the world.

Who have been your biggest artistic inspirations, musical and otherwise?

So many. Too many to list! But so many singers, composers, filmmakers, writers, painters, philosophers are a constant source of inspiration for any art that I profess, because each one of these creative beings has helped me

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build the tiny facets of the imperfect whole that I am.

What is the intended audience for your music?

Deseo and Duele are both lounge music and dancing music, as well as for listening to, like you would hear in a cabaret in days past. I want young people of all sorts to groove with the music. But also, older ones, who remember these compositions from their youth.

You’ve explored so many artistic realms already, but are there any others you haven’t yet explored that call to you?

I have never yet written songs nor composed my own music. I don’t know if I have talent for that, but it would be very neat if I did!

Also, when I was a very small child, I fervently and seriously wished to become a professional ballet dancer.

I am a good dancer. But my mother, a hobbyist dancer, told me flat-out that I was “too skinny and tall to be a prima ballerina,” and that to be in the chorus was not worth it. So, she figuratively cut my feet off.

The rigor and discipline of a prop-

er ballet school would have been very good for me and kept me out of a lot of adolescent dangerous trouble. I definitely could have been a contender. I would have been a good contemporary or modern dancer. Well, I ended up on stage anyway.

What are you working on now?

I am hoping to find the right American pianist to accompany me in my translations in French of the American standards of Cole Porter, Gershwin, and other geniuses of the Great American Songbook.

With such a beautiful voice, why had you never attempted music before 2013?

Thank you for your compliment, but I don’t know. I was busy doing other kinds of art: art boxes, theater and performance pieces, diapering my kids — I feel that everything I do is art.

More information about Bacardi and her various forms of art, along with her music and upcoming performances, can be found at www.mariabacardi. com.

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— Thursday, September 27 to Sunday September 30 — The Sag Harbor American Music Festival returns for its eighth season with a weekend of free music. Sag Harbor Village will become a music lover’s dream as performers take over public spaces, restaurants, stores, and galleries.

— Friday, September 28, at 5 PM — Rock for Our Rights, a concert benefiting Planned Parenthood, will feature Nona Hendryx with special guest Vernon Reid and Friends, with a set by the Zach Zunis Band. Tickets range from $75 to $250.

The event will be held at Tutto Il Giorno and Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Illuminations: Max Moran

— Talk: Saturday, September 29, 2 PM William Ris Gallery, Jamesport — The William Ris Gallery presents renowned artist, Max Moran, in his solo exhibition “Illuminations.” An artist talk will be held Saturday, September 29, from 2 to 4 PM.

Rising Stars

— Saturday, September 29, at 6 PM Southampton Cultural Center — Southampton Cultural Center presents the Rising Stars Piano Series with Tomer Gewirtzman, distinguished Pianofest artist and 2015 Young Concert Artist winner. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and free for students under 21.

SCC Offers Diverse 11th Season Center Stage docket offers music, drama, and romance

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty.

A rousing pop musical, a beloved twoperson play, a thought-provoking drama, and a toe-tapping, feel-good event are all on the docket as the Southampton Cultural Center’s Center Stage begins its 11th season in November.

Just in time for the beginning of the holiday season, Center Stage offers up the Long Island premiere of Joe Landry’s radio version of Meet Me in St.

Louis featuring Irving Berlin’s classic score with favorites like the title song, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “The Trolley Song,” and more.

The show will be performed November 23 through December 9. Michael Disher directs. Alyssa Kelly choreographs.

Amanda Jones musically directs.

A new year begins with a modern tale on the importance (or not) of phys-

ical beauty — Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty. Performances are January 11 through January 27. Joan Bennett Lyons directs.

For Valentine’s Day (or month, if you’re really romantic), SCC presents A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters for two weekends only. The two-person play follows the lives and love of Andy and Melissa through their decades of continued correspondence. This perennial favorite will be staged February 9

through 17, with Michael Disher directing.

Eye-popping colors and songs you walk out of the theater singing frame ABBA’s Benny Andersson’s and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s crowd-pleaser, Mamma Mia! Performances begin March 7 and run through March 24 with Disher directing, musical direction by Amanda Jones, and Alyssa Kelly choreographing.

For further information or tickets, visit www.scc-arts.org.

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Why the mix of music and art?

always seemed a lifeline to me for all women of reproductive age.

PW: Both are the highest forms of art and such an enjoyable experience when mixed together. A feast for the eyes and spirit.

What does an event like this mean to women and young girls of today/tomorrow?

Amid a politically heated climate, do you find the timing of this benefit especially important?

April Gornik: Absolutely, we have to remember why our rights are important, and the great and expansive work that Planned Parenthood has represented since long before Roe v.

Wade.

Why is Planned Parenthood important to the East End community?

AG: There’s no Planned Parenthood in America that’s not important to its community. So many women I know obtained their first birth control there or had their first gynecological exam there.

Do you have a personal story involving the organization you’d like to share?

AG: I first got the pill at a Planned Parenthood, and went there for exams subsequently. I can’t imagine having gone somewhere else, and it’s

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Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of sexual and reproductive health education in the country.

Our affiliate has five health centers in Suffolk County (in Riverhead, Patchogue, West Islip, Smithtown, and Huntington) and offers a full range of services, including prenatal care, well-woman exams, life-saving cancer screenings, birth control, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, HIV testing, and abortion services. Our affiliate recently launched gender affirming care in our Smithtown health center.

How did you choose the artists that are involved?

Pamela Willoughby: All have homes or visit the East End frequently, having their roots here. All have their own experiences with Planned Parenthood.

Each one — a loved one, friend, or their own children — had a story to tell.

Mainly they believe in Planned Parenthood and will do anything to help raise consciousness at this time in history.

What sort of paintings can guests expect to see?

PW: First, the artists were sensitive with the nature of the art they each chose for this event. Eric Fischl’s work of the mother and daughter holding each other, wrapped in the American Flag was the perfect choice to be our banner artwork. Cynthia Talmadge made a drawing of a rose titled Crumpled Lord & Taylor, also apropos yet whimsical at the same time. As I gathered the work, there seemed to be an excitement, the artists really wanted to rise to the occasion. Another work that stands out in my mind is the quiet serenity of April Gornik’s Forest Light.

Nathan Slate Joseph gave a signature small sculpture which he constructed just for this auction. Steve Miller made a print of the most exquisite tulips in black and white. But don’t take my word for it, visit all on our Paddle 8 auction.

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AG: It celebrates women, and choice, and self-reliance. That will always be something important to young girls for their self-esteem and their futures.

Bronte Zunis: Just the simple act standing together demonstrates that there are so many people with us and for us, and is alone an incredibly powerful affirmation.

Women have endured and prevailed and will continue to overcome everything that is thrown at us. Just showing up to an event such as Rock for Our Rights and being vocal about your support for PPHP and women’s rights is an inspiring and an empowering indication of strength. It’s what I hope will become one more building block towards shaping a better future for young girls and young women like myself.

Lower priced tickets are for the concert only, which begins at 7 PM at Bay Street. The $250 tickets includes the pre-concert cocktail party and benefit auction at Tutto Il Giorno. Tickets are available at www.baystreet.org, and the art can be bid on in advance of the auction at www.paddle8.com/auction/ planned-parenthood.

Writers Speak Reconvenes October 3 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding (Tinkers) will join other members of the Stony Brook Southampton faculty — including Cornelius Eady, Amy Hempel, Julie Sheehan, Susan Scarf Merrell, Roger Rosenblatt, and others — at the 2018 fall Writers Speak Wednesdays on October 3. This series of free author talks and readings open to the public begin at 7 PM in Duke Lecture Hall, following a reception at 6:30 PM.

The event will be preceded by an Open House and informational session at 5:30 PM for those seeking an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature. Program Director Lou Ann Walker and other faculty members will discuss the MFA workshops in fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, and more, all taught by distin-

guished working writers.

All prospective students interested in attending the Open House are asked to email rsvp_mfa@stonybrook.edu. No RSVP is required to attend Writers Speak programs.

Other writers scheduled for the fall series include Jonathan Santlofer, November 7; Alison Fairbrother and Alexandra Scholldorf, November 28; and Lloyd Schwartz, December 5.

Until completion of renovations in the Radio Lounge, all programs will be held in Duke Lecture Hall on the first floor of Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton, at 39 Tuckahoe Road. For more information, call 631632-5030 or visit www.stonybrook. edu/mfa. On Facebook, visit Writers Speak Wednesdays. Follow on Twitter, @WritersSpeakWed.

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Joan Hornig Is PavĂŠ-ing The Way The jewelry line gives back to the charity of your choice

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

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oan Hornig makes jewelry that gives back, and in a major way.

Throughout her career as a designer, her namesake line has donated more than $1 million to charitable foundations across the globe. Not only are her designs worn by the likes of Meghan Markle, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Michelle Obama (to name a few), but her new line, Pavé The Way, which soft launched this September, will continue to donate all of its proceeds to the charity of the buyer’s choice.

On a September afternoon I stopped by Joan Hornig’s Southampton home where the designer enthusiastically described to me the new line and what it represents. One part of the collection, which consists of many options, includes designs of miniature construction tools — like a hammer, wrench, and screw.

Delicate in structure, but with an edge, these collectible pieces are all meant to tell a story. Each of the charms are “familiar but powerful,” Hornig stated.

“It’s their story,” she said of the consumer wearing and showcasing the pieces, which can be worn individually, but look fantastic layered, dangled delicately over one’s décolleté.

One of the causes the collection represents is female empowerment and it’s evident with statement pieces that also include a microphone, ruler, barbell, and scale — all meant to spark conversation. It’s also about “empowering the non-profits. You’re telling the non-profit of your choice’s story,” explained Hornig.

“This is about self selection.” With these pieces you can add to the story, remove from the story, or your story can change.

Among what looks like a hundred necklaces, Hornig pulls out a miniature scale hanging on a delicate sterling silver chain.

“When you think that a woman gets paid 79 cents on a dollar, I think it’s very important to keep the scale even. I went off of the idea of weighing gold . . . We are gold. We are platinum. We are diamonds. We are everything as women. I think this is a very important piece,” she said.

Speaking of gold and diamonds, for the base of each piece “we do every one in sterling, gold, and rose gold,” said Hornig. The pieces also include conflict-free diamonds as accents, creating the perfect balance.

The first piece to be developed was the microphone, “a key piece in really launching this line,” said Hornig. This could represent a few different meanings, but “speaking out” is what comes to mind for many.

“The microphone launched it in a big way, be-

cause — at the point of MeToo and Times Up — the idea that not every woman who has a story to tell has the ability to speak out and be heard. Because most people with a story could not risk it. People began to notice that everyone has something to say and they should be heard. That’s what inspired me to do all of this,” she said.

“It’s a very interesting way to tell a story about yourself,” she continued. “Inevitably someone will comment on it, and the whole point of this jewelry is to get people to talk about what they care about. And to create a donation.” Each piece is a collectible and meant to evoke conversation and represent something about the person wearing it.

A few other causes represented are gun violence and environmentalism.

“The ‘No Bracelet’ is unfortunately much too relevant,” she said pointing out a necklace made up of bullets that spell “N-O.” She worked with the students who survived the Parkland school shooting to create this one. “Gun safety is all of our problem,” she stated, referencing another shooting the day prior.

She noted that despite anyone’s political views, “No one wants gun violence.”

The “Plastic Straws Suck” has also been a hit within the collection, and represents the push for the ban of straws for environmental reasons.

Wellness and healthy eating are also represented in the “Food For Thought” portion of the collection.

These charms include almonds, pomegranate seeds, a heart made out of asparagus, kale, mushrooms, and sweet potatoes — “two, to remember we have sweethearts,” said Hornig. This portion of the line can represent energy. Food, especially healthy food, fuels us.

“I think that any woman can have as many carrots as they want,” she said about the carrot piece, also a play on words, which is a consistent theme within the collection.

The pear, which could also represent a pair, holds a special meaning to Hornig.

“It’s referencing the World Trade Center for me,” said Hornig. “I started my whole line because of what happened on 9-11. There were Twin Towers.

Something lived through it and that was the pear tree. It was then struck by lightning years later; it’s still living. This is to remind us that we can be resilient and that we can have hope. This is a very important piece to me.”

The designs are two years in the making. And the price points are accessible, yet still aspirational, with most in the $200 to $400 range, some lower and some higher.

“It doesn’t have to be a $3000 item to have great meaning,” she said. Remember, these pieces are all respectively made with ethically sourced diamonds, sterling silver, and 23 karat gold.

“I don’t look at this as the new kind of charm bracelet. I look at this as a new kind of ice breaker and conversation starter,” she said, emphasizing that the goal is to have conscious consumers “wearing what we want to communicate.”

The collection is available online or you can just “buy it off my neck,” joked Hornig, recalling when someone at the Hampton Classic last month did just that.

The website is www.pavethewayjewelry.com. It’s also sold at the Museum of Art and Design at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, where “I can’t keep the drills in stock,” said Hornig, as well as at actress Phoebe Cates’s (Fast Times At Ridgemont High) boutique Blue Tree on the Upper East Side.

Coming up, Pavé The Way will be at Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in Sara’s Armoire, on Thursday, September 27, on the fourth floor, from noon to 7 PM.

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The Secret Lives Of Celebrities Revealed ‘Little Known Facts’ with Ilana Levine airs intimate conversations

By Heather Buchanan

What if you had the chance to be a fly on the wall to an intimate and revealing conversation with one of your favorite actors? Actress Ilana Levine opens this window on her popular podcast “Little Known Facts” when she sits down with celebrities to have discussions which are, in turn, hilarious, revealing, and inspiring.

Levine, whose credits include playing Lucy on Broadway in the revival of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and starring in the infamous “The Contest” episode of "Seinfeld," among many other film and TV appearances, combines a quick wit with curiosity and compassion to give a safe space to her guests, with revelations on both sides. The result is an invaluable library of the private lives and inspirations of a generation of artists including Hamptons residents John Slattery, Edie Falco, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Rob Morrow, Matthew Broderick, and Sarah Jessica Parker. In a world of canned sound bites on red carpets, the luxury of time and space to explore their passions and the causes they care about provides a refreshing and fascinating experience for guest and listener.

“I am so incredibly honored to sit with someone when they share something true and deep. I don’t take it lightly,” said Levine. “I say that my podcast booth is the confessional. It is the co-

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The idea started with a conversation with her husband, actor Dominic Fumusa (Edie Falco’s husband on “Nurse Jackie”), where she was looking for a new creative spark. The very next night she was approached by a friend who was producing podcasts to launch one of her own. “And without blinking an eye I said, ‘Ok,’” said Levine, “I’ve done a lot of voice over and love that style of storytelling. As a woman, it’s also a joy to not worry at all what you look like. You can go into a studio in a baseball cap and pajamas and tell a story.”

Instead of starting with what you know, she started with who you know.

She recalled, “I thought of the incredible abundance of talented people in my life whose stories overwhelm me because I am so proud of these people.

I’ll invite people to talk about being an artist in a way I would have liked when I first started out. I bumped into John Slattery of ‘Mad Men’ that week and he said, ‘Yes.’ And because he said yes, so did the next 119 guests,” she added with a laugh.

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perience inspiring. Afterwards, Slattery told her, “I felt like I was so safe, that this conversation could go anywhere, and I was in great hands. Suddenly I was revealing things about myself that I had never revealed before.”

Levine shared some memorable moments, “Edie Falco auditioned on Tuesday and was cast the next day on ‘The Sopranos.’ Thinking it would only be a pilot, she took every dime she made for shooting the pilot and put a down payment on a studio apartment believing this might be her only chance to get a substantial paycheck from an acting job. Patti LuPone, who gained international acclaim in her role on Broadway as Evita Peron in the musical Evita revealed that she felt tormented throughout the process of working with director Hal Prince. And Molly Ringwald shared what it was like to grow up with her blind father, who is a well-known jazz musician.

She never thought of him as having a disability. I found it poignant that someone who gained world-wide stardom in the visual medium was raised by someone who never saw her work.

She also shared how hard it is for people to accept her as an adult. They want her to still be 16!”

Of her podcast experience Levine commented, “It took me on this ride

that has brought me such unexpected pleasure. Not just because I get to talk to these people, but it’s the people I’ve met who’ve listened to the podcast who share their stories with me how the podcast has helped them or inspired them. What it means to not give up when everyone says no all the time. Even in countries where they are not allowed to listen to Broadway cast albums, they secretly listen to my podcast.”

The “a-ha moment” for Levine is how vulnerable all of these awardwinning actors, writers, and artists feel.

She commented, “The celebrity culture is that they’re just like us because they went to Whole Foods and bought a pineapple. But really, they are like us because they go through the entire gamut of emotions and struggles every day in their lives. Sure, many of them have financial stability — but it doesn’t change the day-to-day fears and heartbreak and loss.”

For Levine, it’s about the world of mindfulness, a positive oasis in a toxic world. She sums it up, “To turn away from the chaos in life and be in the present moment is everything.” And we are lucky little flies to join her there.

You can find the "Little Known Facts Podcast" with Ilana Levine on iTunes.

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Escola de Samba Boom at Windmill Beach, SHAMF 2017. Independent/ Tom Kochie

Sag Harbor Hosts Weekend Of Free Music American Music Festival features a variety of performers

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival returns for its eighth season with a weekend of free music. From Thursday, September 27, through Sunday, September 30, Sag Harbor Village will become a music lover’s dream as performers take over public spaces, restaurants, stores, and galleries.

Kicking off the festival will be two

ticketed concerts, providing support to music programs at local schools for the SHAMF charitable organization.

Directed by Sag Harbor’s own Dan Koontz, East End musicians will bring a special performance with a Sly & The Family Stone Celebration at Bay Street Theater on Thursday, September 27, at 8 PM. On Friday, September 28, Old

Whalers Church will welcome 14-time Grammy winning country/bluegrass artist Dan Tyminski at 8 PM. Both of these ticketed concerts are $30, then, Saturday and Sunday, delight in complimentary music for the public.

“We believe in the power of live music — it brings people together and strengthens our community. As you walk around the festival, it’s like a sea of smiling faces and dancing in the streets, music everywhere. Pure joy!” Kelly Dodds, president and co-artistic director said. Many performances will take place at The Jackson Dodds & Co. Stage, in the alley next to American Hotel, and the Sag Harbor Express Stage, under the tent at Dodds & Eder Home.

Saturday and Sunday, at various times, join fellow concertgoers to the sounds of blues with Jack Lear Trio, ska with The Scofflaws, psychedelic rock with The Montauk Project, Americana with The Vine Brothers, Americana/ roots/bluegrass with Cold Chocolate, and American roots rock with Inda Eaton.

Saturday’s lineup begins at 10 AM at Windmill Beach with a 30-piece percussion ensemble, Escola de Samba Boom.

Walk into Harbor Books at 11:30 AM to hear singer/songwriter Rorie Kelly. Listen to acoustic-rock/folk artist Dante at the Sag Harbor Inn at 1 PM, or the rock jazz sounds of Unsung Heroes at Sag Pizza at 2 PM. Dine at Sen Restaurant with music by singer/songwriter pop artist Liam Meaney at 3:30 PM. Stop for a musical treat at Provisions at 4 PM to hear the American/blues Bodega Tall Boys. Sip and savor to Latin jazz of Ritchie Siegler Trio at Wölffer Kitchen at 4:30 PM, or Alfredo Merat Trio at Lulu Kitchen at 5 PM. Conclude the night with 21st Century Jazz at Barron’s Cove at 7 PM.

Sunday, listen to the likes of folk/ rock band The Kennedys at the Sag Harbor Express Stage or conclude the American Music Festival with The Nancy Atlas Project at 5 PM.

All shows are rain or shine and subject to change. For a full list of concerts, visit www.sagharbormusic.org.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Human Trafficking On The East End A symposium on the hidden blight in the Hamptons held this week denishamill@gmail.com

Is human trafficking a major local issue?

This heinous crime is serious enough locally that this Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28, there will be a two-day symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus called “Human Trafficking on Long Island — Identify and Respond,” where professionals from law enforcement, medicine, education, and social work will be trained to spot and do something about trafficked victims.

“Mostly girls, and young women, but many boys too, from the immigrant and Native American community, are being exploited in this harrowing epidemic of modern slavery,” said Paula Collins, organizer of the Shinnecock Community Health Worker Program that is sponsoring the event with the Shinnecock Substance Abuse Mobilization Project.

“I am involved because I’m a Shinnecock and the Native American community is highly susceptible to this human trafficking slave trade. Traffickers go after the vulnerable. They might come onto a reservation peddling opioids, and they will spot the homeless kids, the addicts, the orphans, the runaways, the lost, and those from broken homes. They will sweep them up with the promise of opioids and money, and soon they are enslaved prostitutes.

Native American women disappear in staggering numbers across this country, often never found, never looked for. They become prostitutes. Murder victims. Native American kids also disappear,” she continued.

“In my research I have found that Southampton is the capital of child pornography,” said Collins. “I never, ever knew this.”

The East End is the tip of a peninsula where many people have lots of disposable income. “Because of this,” Collins continued, “rich men can have prostitutes delivered to them by

boat and yacht, by helicopter and by car, by train and by bus. These slaves are swept into expensive estates behind high hedges and locked gates where rich men pay top dollar to the greedy traffickers for self-gratification.

The trafficked prostitutes range from children to women in their 30s. Most people never see this. It happens in the shadows in our midst. We want to shed some bright light on it.”

The main speaker for the symposium is Jeri Moomaw, a Native American whom Collins heard speak last year at a similar event in Akwesasne in upstate New York. “Jeri is a spellbinding expert on the trafficking rackets,” said Collins. “Members of the newly formed Suffolk County Police Department Human Trafficking Task Force will be coming to listen and learn from Jeri and other speakers and workshop presenters.”

Other speakers include Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine Mount Sinai Brooklyn, and Roxanne White, Indigenous Outreach Coordinator, Innovations HTC. The event is co-hosted by the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons, Stony Brook School of Social Welfare, Organización LatinoAmericana of Eastern Long Island, and The Retreat.

Collins said doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, and social workers will all be coming to the symposium to listen and get training. “The experts will help these professionals that might come in contact with trafficked and enslaved victims to be able to identify them by their behavior, tattoos, and other telltale signs,” she said. “They will also learn how to properly report these victims to liberate them from their lives of hell.”

Collins says gangs like MS-13 and the Bloods have long been into human trafficking. “But there are other gangs you’ve never heard of,” she said.

Networks of “coyote” smugglers have long exploited the Hispanic community and “snakeheads” have enslaved Asian women and boys into prostitution or forced labor.

Staggering and Shameful The problem has grown so severe in Suffolk County that on July 30 the Suffolk County Police Department announced the formation of a Human Trafficking Task Force. “What we are stating loud and clear today is that this is not a victimless crime,” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said at that presser. “These are criminal organizations, these are individuals, who are targeting the most vulnerable among us in order to advance their criminal enterprise. This will not be tolerated, not accepted, in any way in Suffolk County.”

The HTTF — which consists of four detectives, two police officers, and four high-ranking Suffolk County cops — was actually secretly started in March and by the end of July had liberated 37 enslaved victims, made 19 arrests on 47 felony counts of trafficking-related offenses, and indicted nine more traffickers on 160 counts, 75 counts for sex trafficking and 50 for promoting prostitution.

The U.S. Justice Department estimates that 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the country every year.

The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimates that including U.S. citizens and immigrants, 57,700 people are victims of human trafficking, earning some $150 billion a year for traffickers, two thirds of it from sexual exploitation, and one third from forced labor.

That’s a staggering and shameful black market of enslaved human flesh.

The three states with most human trafficking cases are California, Texas, and New York. There were 332 human trafficking cases reported to the Human Trafficking Hotline in New York State in 2016, with 180 human trafficking reports in the first six months of 2017. Three-quarters — 252 of the 332 human trafficking reports made in 2016 — were sex trafficking-related.

“Indeed, human trafficking is a silent epidemic,” SCPD Commissioner Geraldine Hart said at that July 30 press conference for the HTTF. “These individuals who are being trafficked are vulnerable, alone, are being forced or coerced into prostitution, and they need help.”

“The Suffolk County Police Department is doing a fantastic job with this task force,” said Collins. “I salute them for their work. We welcome working with them to end this slave trade.”

This outrageous criminal plague that exists in a rarely-seen nether-

world of brothels, indentured servitude farms, and forced construction labor sites, and through hidden escort services to the wealthy serves as a shadowy untaxed economy where human beings are exploited in lives of unspeakable daily misery.

“We need to identify and report as many victims as possible,” said Collins.

The Thursday evening event, from 7 to 9 in Chancellors Hall, is free and open to the general public. The Friday event, which runs all day, is $35 and includes a lunch and snacks and speakers and training sessions for the professionals who might come in contact with the trafficked victims, “who are afraid because of language barriers, physical threats, and immigration status to alert authorities. We want to spot them and report them and rescue them right here in our backyard on the East End.” Is human trafficking a real problem on the East End? “More than most people out here know,” says Collins. “It’s time we all did something about it.”

To register for the full-day event, visit humantraffickingli.eventbrite.com.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Running In Place Getting into gear for a morning jog takes work rmurphy@indyeastend.com

I knew it was a mistake when I agreed to take up running a few weeks back.

Yes, back in school I was a runner, and a fast one. In those days you wore the same sneakers no matter what sport you were playing.

Nowadays, the choices are endless.

Nike offered basketball “shoes” — they are sneakers, I kept telling the sales kid — as well as tennis, baseball, running, and so on. All the big companies like New Balance, Reebok, Adidas, et al, offer sneakers for cross training, though, I explained, I was a heterosexual.

There were colors combos for every taste and style. They had Metcons, Pegasus, Air Force 1, VaporMax, Free, Cortez, Air Max, Huarache, and Janoski, which was the name of my grade school janitor. Nike had the new Kaepernick, for kneeling. “That’ll come in handy in church,” I pointed out.

When I say the color combos were ugly, I mean ugly, like lime green and day-glo orange. All the “shoes” were at least $90 and some of them were upwards of $200.

I informed the salesman I was in-

terested in returning to my first love.

“A blow-up doll?” he asked. “No. Running.” Once I’d clarified that point, the young salesman was very helpful.

He suggested I buy the Nike Epic React Flyknit Men’s Running Shoe, which provides crazy comfort. “Nike React’s foam cushioning is responsive yet lightweight, durable yet soft.” This attraction of opposites “creates a sensation that not only enhances the feeling of moving forward, but makes running feel fun, too.”

Of course, I was more concerned about minor little things like my pounding lungs, my aching back, and my aging heart. “Well, these are for cross country,” he said. “If you want to go shorter distances there are other models.” What if I want to run over to the basketball courts? Will I need three pair of sneakers?

I agreed to buy them but I was by no means finished. It turns out I needed the outfit. There’s the Men’s Dry Element Half-Zip Running Top (preferred color Sequoia, I kid you not); Under Armour undershirts. There are tops, Tshirts, hoodies, pullovers, vests, pants, and shorts.

All of these items are “sweatwicking,” which I found comforting to know.

Then there are the half-socks, as I call them, which come up to the ankle and abruptly stop. Most guys are used to the white socks that come halfway up our lower legs and have a colored double stripe up near the top. They were three for $14.95. The ankle sock, which uses a lot less cotton, is more expensive. It didn’t seem logical, and when I tried a pair on, I felt like I was walking around with something missing, like wearing no underwear under my jeans. Maybe it was just me, because sometimes as I get older I actually forget to . . . Well, that’s a subject for another column.

I got out the door for under $500, which, all things considered, was a reasonable amount considering the gear would provide me incentive to pursue by new healthy lifestyle.

Did I mention the ventilated running arm band? That’s where you stash your cellphone with the ultra-light mobile phone case, and of course, your Marlboros and a lighter. Now I would have thought you put that stuff in the fanny pack, but apparently that’s just for show. One other thing: men sweat, so I loaded up on wrist bands, arm bands, head bands, etc. “Do you have big toe bands?” I asked. “Mine really sweat.” He assured me the “wicking process” would keep them nice and cool tucked in there under the half socks.

The first morning I got up and put my gear on. Then I realized I had spent so much time getting ready that I didn’t leave any time for running. I had to go to work.

About a week later I started feeling a twinge in my lower back that got progressively worse, as if all the nerves in my spine were stinging my lower back discs, sending excruciating pain

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I went to the doctor and asked what was wrong. He said, “Technically speaking, all the nerves in your spine are stinging your lower back discs, sending excruciating pain into your central nervous system. Are you doing anything new in your life that may be triggering this irritation?”

“I run in the morning,” I said.

“Don’t,” he advised.

Epilogue: Last night, at the All You Can Eat Italian Meat night at the Holiday Inn, I had on my velour yellow and pink running suit, my Flyknits, my Janoskis, and numerous sweat bands, including under my nose. There were several tomato sauce stains on the pants. “Thank God I have underwear on,” I told myself. I thought I did, anyway.

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Operation International Summer Benefit Saturday’s benefit raised funds for medical outreach jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze On Saturday night, we boarded a Hamptons Luxury Liner shuttle and headed to Operation International’s 21st annual summer benefit at Laurel Lake Vineyards on the North Fork.

Operation International is a non-profit medical mission organization based in Southampton. The event honored Jack Van De Wetering and, in memoriam, Maryellen Spandonis.

All funds raised at the September 22 event went to benefit medical outreach and continued work to improve the living conditions at the Rakai Infant & Elementary School Orphanage in Uganda.

The event featured dancing under the stars with That Motown Band, dinner, drinks, and live and silent auctions. A video presentation of the group’s work left few with dry eyes in the audience. At this year’s event, Operation International also offered the opportunity to join one of the medical missions and experience first-hand what it’s like to be an integral part of a life-saving mission.

“We are looking forward to celebrating with old and new friends as we raise funds to support our continued volunteer work offering free medical treatment, education, and training to adults and children suffering from the lack of quality health care in impoverished countries around the world,” said

Operation International’s co-founder and chairman of the board of directors, Dr. Medhat Allam, prior to the event.

Operational International’s Team NY was the first group to make a mission to Haiti with the organization in 1997. Since then, the team has helped many in need in Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Vietnam, Nepal, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Zambia, Peru, India, Egypt, Kenya, Chile, Ghana, Myanmar, and Tanzania.

The foundation has grown to over 200 medical professionals with numerous chapters. Partners include the United Nations, Rotary International, Agnes Varis Trust, Americares, AFYA Foundation, Soles 4 Souls, and Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach.

Highlights from recent medical missions include a refurbished hospital in Uganda, an eye hospital in the Himalayas, a five-year program to feed vulnerable children at orphanages in the Philippines, a five-year program to train therapists on managing victims of gender violence in Kenya with expansion to South Africa, and the delivery of mattresses, bedding, clothes, shoes, and food and installation of solar panels, lights, and computer terminals at four orphanages in Uganda.

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September 26, 2018

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READING OUR REGION

By Joan Baum

Former Congressman Israel Brings Out Big Guns His book is entertaining and irreverent, with East End resonance

In a recent interview, shortly after the Parkland shooting and referencing Sandy Hook and other similar horrors, 16-year former Long Island Congressman Steve Israel noted that a small city in Georgia had passed an ordinance mandating gun ownership.

In fact, Nelson, GA is one of five towns in the country that passed compulsory gun ownership laws — statements of principles, it would seem, more than enforceable or enforced legislation. Yes, the gun lobby pours lots of money into its cause, but it’s the “intensity” of gun supporters that disturbs Israel the most. The President and Congress, he contends, fear the gun lobby more than gun violence.

In a New York Times Op-Ed last fall in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, a piece Israel called “Nothing Will Change,” he wrote that voters opposed to National Rifle Association policies failed to harness “savvy” and “strategy.” He has now chosen a differ-

ent tack — a comedic work of fiction, his second political send-up after The Global War on Morris (2014), about Washington’s bungling the war on terrorism. Don’t rule out Israel’s mocking of the Left (hard-boiled veterans of soft causes, among them CLUC — Chicken Liberation United Committee), but for sure it’s the firearms-loving, Jesus-God invoking Alt Right that’s his main target.

Big Guns is entertaining and irreverent, with lots of East End resonance.

It opens in Asabogue (right!), a village in between Southampton and East Hampton that includes the summer residences of the rich, famous, and infamous on Billionaires Bluff, as well as historic and lower-income dwellings.

The action gets underway courtesy of Asabogue’s mayor, 72-year-old, bikeriding Lois Leibowitz, her ACLU bag flapping in the wind, a force of nature who wants Asabogue to join Chicago’s beleaguered mayor and ban handguns.

It’s only a short matter of time before Asabogue’s big money, wellconnected political captains of industry and their powerful compatriots on The Hill and in the media push back.

They’re managed by a brilliant, cynical political lobbyist who will press for the passage of AFFA — American Freedom from Fear Act — requiring every individual over the age of nine to own a gun. (The acronyms in the book are a riot.) But wait: the ruthless lobbyist is Sunny McCarthy (née Sunshine Leibowitz), a Washington whiz who’s estranged from her mother and, it would appear, from ethics and morality as well.

The big question about Big Guns, however, is this: Can it be effective, and what does “effective” mean? Satire, parody, lampoon, farce — all related genre — differ, satire being the sharpest mode of savaging flaws and vices and implicitly calling for reform. Big Guns is not satire. Nor is it farce, though the plot involves exaggeration, stereotypes, and shtick. The problem is — as stand-up comedians well know — how to address real-life lunacy that already seems satiric. It’s now 16 years since Michael Moore’s provocative anti-gun documentary, Bowling for Columbine, and just weeks after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s recent declaration that she was looking at federal grants to arm staff and teachers in schools.

The Asabogue police chief points out that there are 3.25 million Americans, and 300 million guns: “Random violence is coming to a theater near you. Or a mall, a school, maybe where you work.” One of the villains of the book, a Charlton Heston mini-me, the chairman of American Gun Owners Defense (AGOD), throws his own money and everyone else’s at the NRA. He suffers an ironic fate toward the end of this wacky tale but not before he spends plenty to achieve his goal: “Instead of passing laws taking our guns away, pass laws giving them out. Every-

one gets a gun. Annie gets a gun. Andy gets a gun. Two cars in every garage and a gun in every pot.”

Let it be said that Israel can also deliver some lovely lyrical passages, especially nostalgic ones about days gone by when screen doors would squeak open and clack closed, when one heard “the rhythmic groaning of metal rockers; the eruptions of laughter up and down the block,” days when “neighbors gathered on porches. Before neighborhoods became communities and communities became gated.”

Not insignificant — let it also be noted that Big Guns is dedicated to Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate, founders of the NRA. “If they only knew then . . . ” Israel adds. What he means is that the organization, started in 1871 by Union officers to improve the disastrous lack of marksmanship on the part of recruits in the Civil War, has certainly shifted its purpose. What he likes to believe is that the founders would likely be critical of the evolved direction. And what he implicitly urges is for readers to make their voices heard at the polls.

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September 26, 2018

KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Buchanan examines the hot specimens at The Bridge car show kissandtellhb@gmail.com

When I was invited to the super exclusive car show known as The Bridge at The Bridge golf course my answer was, "Hell, yes!" I don’t know a thing about cars but there is one thing I do know. At this event, it is all men.

Started three years ago by The Bridge golf club founder Robert Rubin, luxury PR and event organizer Shamin Abas, and attorney and car enthusiast Jeffrey Einhorn, it is sort of the Pebble Beach of the East Coast. So, I was set.

Shave legs, check. Blow out, check.

Uber ordered to allow champagne drinking, check. Gentlemen, start your engines. I also am sensitive to ghosts and the golf course was once the site of the famous Bridgehampton Race

Circuit where Mario Andretti, Richard Petty, AJ Foyt, Al Unser, and Stirling Moss put the pedal to the metal. Super hot.

The classic and contemporary gems of the automotive world dotted the rolling fairways and greens of the course. I heard a lot of heavy breathing and exclamations of pleasure as murmurs were uttered, “600LT by McLaren Special Operations, Bugatti’s new Chiron, 1957 Maserati 300S XKSS, 1965 Shelby GT350 R, 1954 Aston Martin DB2, and 1960 Lancia Flaminia SZ.” Clearly, this was serious car porn.

Like being a visitor in a foreign country who doesn’t speak the language, I decided to admit my ignorance

and ask for help understanding these amazing specimens. I was expecting something about engine capacity or chassis or racing history but instead one car owner pointed out the rip in the fabric of the ceiling from his now wife’s stiletto. This started a group confessional of men’s deepest admiration for cars as the place where they first had sex. Clearly, they had better taste or parents’ money as my family Ford Pinto was never going to be a den of iniquity.

One woman chimed in that thank God skinny jeans weren’t invented then because they would be better than birth control as they are impossible to shed quickly or put on before police flashlights shined in.

I asked one man if he could have a hot wife and an average car or an average wife and hot car he said, “Look I can always buy another car. But if she’s a pain in the a** wife that’s another question.” Men freely admit their polygamous nature when it comes to cars.

One can be a smooth luxe ride, one tight handling on crazy curves, and one that is too valuable and he just polishes her in the 12-car garage.

I have to admit that my attraction to certain cars was purely superficial.

I liked the pink racing Porsche that matched my outfit and the new RollsRoyce Cullinan SUV that sported the

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most amazing picnic basket ever and would inspire me to drive friends’ children to soccer practice. Oh, and the Terrafugia’s new Transition prototype of the world’s first practical flying car had me envisioning picking up and flying over the traffic on the LIE. But just looking at the expressions of surprise and delight on these men’s faces as they perused the amazing assortment of autos was better than a group of fashionistas flocking around a vintage Birkin bag collection.

I have to admit that women, contrary to some opinion, can love cars too. Their own. I have named mine the White Rose and she has special monogrammed floormats in Gothic font. Seriously. She has had more spa days of detailing than I have. I am not only a monogramist but a monogamist when it comes to cars. I buy one and keep it for at least a decade, then have a formal goodbye ceremony when I finally sell it for about five hundred bucks.

I am sorry to say that every time I have bought a car including in the past few years the dealer has always been looking over my shoulder for a husband. What they don’t know is that a woman’s independence can be equally expressed in her desire for a car as any man’s.

So ladies, start your engines.

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

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25th Annual ARF Dog Walk The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will host its annual Stroll to the Sea Dog Walk at Mulford Farm in East Hampton on Saturday, October 6. The walk is a fun, family event that promotes responsible dog ownership and awareness of ARF from 9 AM to 12 PM, presented by the Corcoran Group.

Mutts, purebreds, and pedigrees are invited to take the two-mile charity walk to the ocean and back to help the animals at the ARF Adoption Center. The morning includes free refreshments, a free T-shirt (artwork by Isaac Mizrahi), free ARF tote bag, free nail clippings for dogs, contests, a dog agility course, and music by noted Hamptons folksinger Sandy Rapp.

Pre-registration starts at $30, and

day of the event, it’s $40. Children 13 and under walk free with a registered adult. Visit www.arfhamptons.org.

Wines & Canines The Kent Animal Shelter presents the Wines & Canines Run/Walk on Sunday, October 7, from 11 AM to 2 PM at Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard. There will be auctions, prizes, food and wine, pets for adoption, and more. The cost is $30 per person. Tickets are available at www.kentanimalshelter.com.

Shelter Island 5K The 19th Annual Shelter Island 5K Run/Walk, a USA track and field certified course, will be held on Saturday, October 20, at 11 AM. The race is held in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness

Month and supports the North Fork Breast Health Coalition, the Coalition for Women’s Breast Health at Southampton Hospital, and Lucia’s Angels.

All proceeds go directly to patient care via these local breast health organizations. The beautiful and scenic 5K course starts on a tree-lined street with stunning fall foliage and finishes along the beautiful Crescent Beach.

Visit www.shelterislandrun.com for more info.

Pet Philanthropy Circle Pet Philanthropy Circle presents its Pet Hero Awards sixth anniversary ceremony on Friday, October 19, at Gotham Hall in New York City. Join honorary chair Naomi Judd along with co-hosts David Frei and Jewel Morris. Terri, Bindi, and

Robert Irwin will be receiving the Inaugural Humanitarian Family of the Year Award for their tireless commitment to saving animals across the globe.

The Pet Hero Awards showcase outstanding contributions, inspiring everyone to become involved in defending the rights of animals. Visit www.petcircle.org/tickets.

Girls Night Out Gurney’s in Montauk presents its annual Girls Night Out benefit on November 16. The event benefits The Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Southampton Hospital. Enjoy wine and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, spa pampering, dancing, psychic readings, and more.

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25 Years Of Strolling To The Sea ARF brings together canines and companions for a cause

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons presents its annual “Stroll to the Sea” Dog Walk on Saturday, October 6, from 9 AM to noon, beginning and ending at Mulford Farm on 10 James Lane in East Hampton. Dog lovers and supporters of four-legged friends will

participate in the two-mile walk to the water and back.

This family fun event celebrates its milestone 25th year of mutts, purebreeds, and pedigree pups all strolling for a cause. ARF, founded in 1974, takes in 1700 cats and dogs annually, and has

provided homes for more than 27,000 rescues.

Registrants receive free nail clippings for their dog, refreshments, including Starbucks coffee, for a pick-me-up, Dreesen’s Famous Donuts, dog treats, bottled water, a tote bag, and a T-shirt featuring artwork by Isaac Mizrahi.

“In a world where so many bad things happen, I see the good things ARF is doing and it actually improves the quality of my life, the quality of my perception of what it means to live on this planet. The goodness gets clearer the more I see the results of their efforts, and how much they help animals and people that love animals. I am proud to be involved with them in any way I can be,” Mizrahi said. Those individuals who collect $250 or more in pledges will receive a special gift from the designer himself.

After a nice, brisk fall walk, guests

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can partake in “adogable” contests starting at 11 AM. See what dog and companion look most alike, what pooch has the best smooch, or who learned the art of “stupid pet tricks.”

For the energetic canine, there will be a dog agility course. All of this will go on while singer/songwriter Sandy Rapp performs on the guitar. Finally, a silent and lucky numbers auction will be available, with prizes including experiences, products, and services.

Scott Howe, ARF Executive Director, said, “Every year at the Stroll to the Sea Dog Walk, we see ARF’s mission come full circle, to see our former ARFans with their new families and to see all the dogs in the community whose families support our work makes it a very special day of the year. And the cats at ARF are perfectly happy not to participate.”

There will be prizes for the top fund raisers, including a two-night stay with breakfast at The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee, GA; seven nights of premium accommodations at the St. James’s Club, Antigua; and a summer share for the 2019 season at Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett. Children are also encouraged to participate, with the top prize for those 13 and under receiving a bicycle from the Sag Harbor Cycle Company. All those who register collecting $150 or higher will be invited to an exclusive Kick-Off Cocktail Party on Friday, October 5, from 6 to 8 PM at the East Hampton residence of Gordon Hope and Michael Dehn Breault.

The ARF Adoption Center is located at 124 Daniels Hole road in East Hampton.

The event, presented by The Corcoran Group, has gates open at 9 AM and the walk begins at 10. Pre-registration fee is $30; $40 day of event; and free for children under 13 with a registered adult. Rain date is Sunday, October 7, at 8 AM. Dog walkers can register at www.arfhamptons.org or by phone, call Jean 631-537-040, ext. 219.

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Fall Member Exhibit Ashawagh Hall, Springs

Illuminations: Max Moran Talk: Saturday, September 29, 2 to 4 PM William Ris Gallery, Jamesport The William Ris Gallery presents renowned artist, Max Moran, in his solo exhibition “Illuminations,” featuring never-seen, newly created plein air paintings inspired by North Fork cloudscapes through October 14. An artist talk will be held Saturday, September 29, from 2 to 4 PM.

With Abstract Certainty The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton

The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton presents “With Abstract Certainty.” Four diverse artists exhibit abstract paintings, sculptures, and decorative drawings. Artists include Tanya Minhas, Kathy Buist, Ryan Schmidt, and James Leonard. The exhibit runs through October 22.

Art Show & Sale Water Mill Museum, Water Mill Twenty-three creatives will show their best and newest paintings, prints, and drawings for the fourth year in a row at Water Mill Museum. Artist and daily painter Aubrey Grainger inspired this community of artists to paint daily a few years ago. Her enthusiasm caught on, building over time into the active art community known as 30Squared, supporting and inspiring each other all

The Artists Alliance of East Hampton presents its “Fall 2018 Member Exhibit.” The exhibit will be up at Ashawagh Hall in Springs through September 30.

Visit www.aaeh.org for more info.

Against The Wind Art Sites Gallery, Riverhead “Against The Wind,” a show at Art Sites Gallery in Riverhead, presents eight artists who are connected by their reflections upon nature. It will remain on display through September 30.

Peter Lipman-Wulf Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor

Romany Kramoris Gallery presents an exhibition of watercolors by the late Peter Lipman-Wulf (1905-1993).

The show runs through September 27.

Along with Lipman-Wulf, artworks from Christopher Engel, Suzzanne Fokine, and Barbara Groot will also be featured. Lipman-Wulf was primarily known as a sculptor and graphic artist.

His paintings were rarely the focus of exhibits.

As a German of Jewish descent, Lipman-Wulf was forced to flee during WWII — first to France in 1933, then to Switzerland in 1942. Particularly in Switzerland, where, as a refugee, he was formally prohibited from working as a sculptor, he diverted his creative impulse to works on paper. Along with sketches and drawings, Lipman-Wulf completed numerous impressive landscapes and portraits in the South of France and Switzerland.

Stephen Wilkes Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor presents artist Stephen Wilkes, displaying his popular “Day to Night” series, including exciting images of the most beloved cities and sites of the world.

Wilkes photographs from a stationary 50-foot crane. The exhibit will continue through September 27. For more info, visit www.tullaboothgallery.com.

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The Pollock-Krasner House presents the film The Mill and the Cross.

Entertainment

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Mill and the Cross Friday, September 28, at 7 PM The Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton presents its free Fall Film Series. This week is The Mill and the Cross, directed by Lech Majewski.

All singing, all dancing? Readings, stagings, and slams? We can’t print it if we don’t know about it. Send your entertainment events to nicole@indyeastend.com

by Thursday at noon.

Comedy Shut Up And Laugh Friday, September 28, at 8 PM www.ourfabulousvarietyshow.org Our Fabulous Variety Show presents a comedy show at The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton with Anita Boyer and Kasia Klimiuk.

Film

Boys Do Cry

Friday, September 28, at 6 PM www.parrishart.org Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents Boys Do Cry, guest curated by filmmaker Jack Kendrick. It is a showcase of works by young filmmakers that engage with emotionally charged moments in the lives of adolescent males.

A talk will follow the screening.

Esteban Friday, September 28, at 6 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org Presented with the Havana Film Festival NY, the Southampton Arts Center presents a screening of Esteban in Spanish, with English subtitles.

Silent Film Program Saturday, September 29, at 1 PM www.suffolkcountyhistoricalsociety.org Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead presents “The Silver Screens of Suffolk,” featuring Long Island composer J.K. Hodge.

Hamptons Take 2 Doc Fest Sunday, September 30, at 6 PM 631-267-3810 Hamptons Take 2 Doc Fest presents Souvenirs: The Many Worlds of Micky Wolfson with a Q&A with filmmakers Max Scott and Vera Graaf. It will be held at the Amagansett Library; reservations are required.

Music Stephen Talkhouse www.stephentalkhouse.com The Hackensack Men & The Trenton Horns will perform at The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Friday, September 28, at 10 PM. On Saturday, September 29, will be Langhorne Slim and The Lost at Last Band at 8 PM, followed by LHT at 10 PM.

Live Music In East Quogue Thursday, September 27, at 7 PM www.hamptonsfarms.com Farm Chic kicks it up a notch with live music every Thursday from 5 to 7 PM at Hamptons Farms. The venue features an all-night happy hour at the outdoor and indoor bars along with farm fresh cuisine.

Sly And The Family Stone Thursday, September 27, at 8 PM

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Zach Zunis Band. Tickets range from $75 to $250. The event will be held at Tutto Il Giorno and Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents the classic musical talents of Italian pianist Niccolò Ronchi and French violinist Esther Abrami.

Doo Wop Battle

Gene Casey

Friday, September 28, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com

Saturday, September 29, at 8 PM www.baystreet.org

The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents Who Loves You staging a Doo Wop battle: New York v New Jersey.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents a rock and roll dance party: “30 years of Maximum Rhythm & Twang” with Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, as part of the kickoff of the eighth season of the Sag Harbor American Music Festival, will host a special concert featuring Sly and the Family Stone.

Tickets are $30. See this week’s Arts & Entertainment feature on the festival for more info.

Townline Tunes Friday, September 28, at 6 PM www.townlinebbq.com Townline BBQ in Sagaponack hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. This Friday will be Woody Boley.

Rock For Our Rights Friday, September 28, at 7 PM www.baystreet.org Rock for Our Rights, a concert benefiting Planned Parenthood, will feature Nona Hendryx with special guest Vernon Reid and Friends, with a set by the

Rising Stars Piano Series Saturday, September 29, at 6 PM www.scc-arts.org Southampton Cultural Center presents the Rising Stars Piano Series with Tomer Gewirtzman, distinguished Pianofest artist and 2015 Young Concert Artist winner. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and free for students under 21.

Violin v Piano

Book & Bottle Thursday, September 27, at 6 PM www.suffolkcountyhistoricalsociety.org Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead presents Book & Bottle, featuring Frank Turano on “Weather and Long Island History.” It is $5 for nonmembers; includes wine and cheese.

Untrue Saturday, September 29, at 4 PM www.bookhampton.com

Springs Tavern Saturday, September 30, at 9 PM 631-527-7800 The Springs Tavern will host karaoke night every Saturday beginning at 9 PM. No cover, just bring your best singing voice. There’s also open mic every Sunday, 2 to 6 PM.

Words

BookHampton in East Hampton presents Wednesday Martin, PhD, with her book Untrue.

Strange Paradise Saturday, September 29, at 5 PM Poet Grace Schulman reads from her new memoir Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor.

Saturday, September 29, at 7 PM www.whbpac.org

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LongHouse Garden Tour Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday afternoon, a who’s who of LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton joined special guests at a LongFellows private reception and garden tour at the home of NYU Dean Carol Mandel and world-renowned infectious disease expert, and trustee of LongHouse, Dr. Vincent Covello.

LongHouse founder Jack Lenor Larsen joined Matko Tomicic, Peter Olsen, Dr. Rebecca Chapman, Selena Rothwell, trustee Nick Martin, and others in welcoming everyone to take off their shoes to fully enjoy the soft mossy ground of Yugen Gardens, which features 31 interconnected areas in a variety of styles, including a Chinese Passage of Life Stream, Garden of the 80 Mosses, and a Himalayan Birch Woodland.

Potatolicious Photos courtesy Hallockville Museum Farm Hallockville Museum Farm in Jamesport celebrated “Potatolicious” on September 14, an evening celebrating the opening of Potato Island, a new exhibit in the historic Homestead Barn.

The event was a celebration of Long Island’s most famous crop.

Guests were treated to a sampling of potato dishes from savory to sweet prepared by local farmers, an exploration of Long Island’s oldest working barn and potato cellar, and live music by the Old Time Jam Band.

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Oktoberfest Photos by Richard Lewin Names like “Warsteiner,” “Tap Hacker-Pschorr,” “Spaten,” and “Erdinger” were the special beer guest stars on Saturday, September 22, as the 10th Annual Oktoberfest Festival began at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton. The outdoor beer garden, special menu items, traditional decorations, and communal spirit created the perfect party atmosphere.

Women Artists: Reshaping the Conversation Photos by Richard Lewin On Saturday afternoon, at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, a standingroom-only crowd attended this year’s last in Toni Ross’s series of panel discussions, called “Women Artists: Reshaping the Conversation.” Art expert Barbara Toll moderated a lively discussion among artists Alice Hope, Sheila Pepe, Brie Ruais, and Kennedy Yanko.

Topics included creative techniques and visions, gender identity, and discrimination.

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Montauk Farmers Market Photos by Richard Lewin The Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s Montauk Farmers Market was held on Main Street on Friday, September 21. Local food artisans, bakers, and farmers offered their broad variety of goodies.

TEDx VIP Dinner Photos by Nicole Teitler On Friday evening, September 21, guests joined members of The Spur and thought leaders from the Hamptons and around the world for a special VIP dinner at The Spur in Southampton, prior to Saturday’s event, “TEDx Shinnecock Hills: STASIS.” The evening was hosted by comedian and entertainment reporter Bill McCuddy, who introduced the speakers and led guests through a thought-provoking Q&A.

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East End Media Club Photos by Ty Wenzel Last Thursday, September 20, marked the inaugural get-together of the newly-formed East End Media Club — a chance for those with jobs in press, radio, and TV on the Twin Forks and beyond to mingle, mix, and exchange tips and war stories. The event was held at Claude’s restaurant at the Southampton Inn.

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Farm Fresh: 8 Hands Farm Food Inc. inspires firsthand change

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

In 2008, the documentary Food Inc. was released by Robert Kenner and it shone a dark light on the mass consumerism of modern-day America. The film also exposed large-scale animal processing plants, turning many off from eating meat, and highlighted local farm practices. That’s when Carol Festa, an assets manager at the time, and her husband Thomas Geppel, an accountant, were inspired to do their part in helping change the way Americans eat.

In 2011, with no experience but a deep passion for effecting change, 8 Hands Farm in Cutchogue opened its barn doors with Festa, Geppel and their two children, Olivia (now in college) and Max (now 14 years old). The 28-acre farm began with 13 Icelandic sheep that were brought in from Maine and Virginia and has since grown to include Tamworth pigs and a variety of

heritage breed chickens. Though they had no hands-on farm experience, a financial background forged an efficient mentality. Sheep were economically desirable, producing meat, cheese, and fiber products from their biannual sheering for wool and yarn. They also allowed for the couple to differentiate themselves from other farms.

“We never thought much about behind the scenes with animals and production,” Festa said of how Food Inc. influenced her. Wide scale animal production forces the animals to eat products their bodies cannot naturally process, such as grain, in addition to being raised in horribly confined environments. Festa notes that the word organic doesn’t mean enough, as animals are oftentimes still unable to express their basic instincts, like running outside.

At 8 Hands Farm, the sheep are 100 percent grass fed and raised on pastures. Their pigs are outdoors, allowing them to dig their noses into the ground, and are supplemented with organic feed. The hen coops are moved every three days and the birds have complete free range. All of these simple, basic practices allow the “fundamental behavior of the animals” whereas the traditional food economy is “counterintuitive,” Festa opined.

“These animals make the ultimate sacrifice but in the interim they’re not treated well,” said Festa, about the mass market slaughterhouses. Festa, along with the rest of her family, still maintain a carnivorous diet. She takes each animal from 8 Hands Farm to a certified humane facility where they are slaughtered and processed as humanely as possible. She added, “Wouldn’t you rather be able to see them grazing and knowing they’re having a good life?

In the end, we enjoy eating meat, and we would rather know they’re being raised well.”

Farm tours are currently based on demand and available on Saturdays at 11 AM. They are approximately 45 minutes to an hour long, allowing people to feel a connection to their food. Festa said, “That’s what we think is so rewarding. We have people who genuinely want to know more than ‘How do I cook this piece of meat?’ They want to understand what the animals consumed, how it was raised, and even how it was slaughtered.”

Next for this family of eight hands

is a proposal for a food truck to add value to their business, aiming to add true definition to the term “farm to table,” with food cooked on the truck directly from elements on their farm, on their property.

Festa and Geppel had a dream to start a farm and live a healthier, more environmentally conscious, life for themselves and their children. In turn, Olivia and Max have learned something a school cannot teach: what it’s like to push through adversity and come out successfully, added Festa.

Their connection to animals is done through observation, watching the basic behavior and drawing conclusions on what it needs.

It’s all about “having a goal and trying to achieve it in the best way possible,” added Festa.

8 Hands Farm is located at 4735 Cox Lane in Cutchogue. Call 631-4946155, email 8handsfarm@gmail.com or visit www.8handsfarm.com.

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John Papas Embraces The Reliably Delicious Restaurant emerges from fire, remains a local favorite

By Hannah Selinger

Part of the magic of longevity in the restaurant business is learning how to roll with the punches. Such is true of John Papas Café, the East Hampton diner that owner John Papas opened in 1992. On October 22, 2017, the restaurant suffered a devastating electrical fire, which gutted the kitchen. A report from the fire marshal concluded that the fire began with a malfunctioning steam table cord. The odds were not forever in their favor.

Still, through Hades and high water, Papas and his crew were able to rebuild, reopening the hailed establishment that December, two months postcatastrophe.

Prior to his tenure as a restaurant owner, Papas worked, for over a decade, at Estia’s (then in Amagansett, now in Sag Harbor on the Bridgehampton Turnpike). Before that, he cut his teeth at Bridgehampton’s Candy Kitchen, where he worked as a dishwasher.

East Hampton needed, it turns out, its own version of Estia’s or Candy Kitchen, a breakfast and lunch haunt suited to the appetites of average, everyday people. Faced with an uptick in upscale, it was incumbent on someone to embrace the reliably delicious, a job pretty well suited for greasy spoon veteran John Papas.

Yes, John Papas Café gets as

busy as anywhere else in the summer months, but it’s also a respite, in winter, for hungry East Enders looking for a down-to-earth meal. And yes, you can expect to see celebrities hanging out here, too, casual ambience notwithstanding. The décor has not changed much since the restaurant’s inception (even the rebuild looks mostly the same), and the owner famously blames Alec Baldwin for this stuck-in-time nature of the beast. If it’s good enough for Papas regular Alec Baldwin, one must surmise that it’s good enough for anyone who isn’t Alec Baldwin.

Of course, John Papas Café offers far more than just American diner cuisine. Calling upon his roots, Papas includes a wide array of Greek specialties in his menu, including souvlaki, gyros, moussaka, spinach pie, pita pizzas, and, of course, Greek salads. These dishes are supplemented by traditional diner fare, of course: hamburgers, grilled cheese sandwiches, BLTs, all manner of eggs cooked to one’s breakfast-sating desires, bacon, sausage, short stacks, and more.

At dinner time, an additional category, pasta, appears on the menu as well, as does shell steak, rib eye steak Diane, chopped steak, London broil, and other 1960s steakhouse classics.

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It would be nearly impossible to park oneself in a green booth and find nothing appealing to eat. In fact, too often, the opposite is true, as it is at most diners — there are so many choices, so how is one to choose?

But choose one must, although the good news is that you can always come back. That may be one lesson apparent in the café’s recent reinvention, post-fire. Even after the worst possible scenario has played out, John Papas Café rises like a phoenix from the ashes, dusting itself off and flipping those eggs in short order. The restaurant has

been open nearly three decades, with no sign of slowing. The clientele, happy to wait in the crowded doorway for somewhere — anywhere! — to sit, still returns, week after week, to this, their favorite spot.

They come and they come back, regardless of the prices (this is the Hamptons, after all, and yes, you will pay $11 for an omelet, and that may or may not bother you). Alec Baldwin’s green booths have been replaced, of course. Such is the way of fires. The spirit inherent in John Papas Café, however, remains a true original.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Gemelli With Duck Confit Ingredients 4 duck legs 1/2 c sugar 1 c salt 1 Tbsp black peppercorns (ground) 1 tsp star anise (ground) 10 tomatoes 2 cloves of garlic, sliced thin 1/4 c olive oil 1 lb dried gemelli pasta

1 c mâche leaves (washed) Grated Parmesan 1 c diced butternut squash 1/2 c sliced leeks 2 Tbsp butter 1 gallon duck fat (or canola oil will work in a pinch) Salt and pepper to your liking

Directions You will start the night before you are

going to serve this dish. The duck legs need to sit in the cure over night before you confit them. Start by mixing the salt, sugar, and spices together, then generously coating the duck legs. Cover and let sit in the fridge overnight.

When you are ready to begin cooking, set your oven to 350 degrees. Wash the excess cure from the duck legs and pat them dry. Find a large, oven proof vessel to cook the duck legs in. Submerge them in the fat — either duck fat if you can find it, or canola oil will work fine.

Place in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes, just to get the oil up to temperature. Reduce the heat to 275 and let the duck legs cook for three and a half more hours.

While the duck legs are cooking, you can dice the leeks and squash. Go ahead and make your tomato sauce by first cutting the tops off of the tomatoes. Put them in the oven with the duck legs for 15 minutes.

When you remove the tomatoes

from the oven, allow them to cool for 10 minutes, then simply peel the skin off. Crush them with your hand. Then, on the stove top in a large sauce pot, heat the olive oil and garlic, but do not brown the garlic. Put the tomato into the pot and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.

When the duck legs are ready, remove them from the oven and use a slotted spoon to remove them from the hot oil. Place them on a towel and let them cool until they can be handled.

When they are cool, pick the duck meat.

You are now ready to cook the pasta. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.

Cook the pasta, stirring often, for about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat a large sauté pan.

Add a bit of olive oil and sauté the leeks and squash. When the squash gets a bit of color, add the sauce, then the duck.

When the pasta is cooked, add the pasta and the butter. Garnish with the mâche and grated cheese.

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out the segments, leaving any white peel behind. Set aside the orange segments.

Cut the limes and lemons in halves, then quarters. Set aside.

In a small mixing bowl, combine the chopped herbs, garlic, cumin, curry powder, mixed zest, and oil.

Squeeze half of the lemons and limes into the bowl, and add half of the cleaned oranges and their juice.

Whisk all to combine and then pour over shrimp mix to coat all the shrimp evenly. Cover and refrigerate for one to four hours.

Meanwhile, prepare the Avocado Cream. See below.

When ready to cook, heat your grill to medium hot if using propane (about 400-450 degrees). If using charcoal, build your fire heavier to one side so you have a hot spot to sear.

Remove the shrimp from the marinade and lightly wipe off any excess oil or bits of marinade. Excess oil will cause flare ups on the grill, and while we are looking for a nice char on the shrimp, the flare ups will ruin the flavor.

Season the shrimp evenly with salt and pepper, then grill about two to three minutes per side over medium high heat until pink and lightly charred.

Remove the shrimp to a clean mixing bowl, add the remaining orange pieces and their juice, then squeeze one to two pieces of lime and lemon into the bowl as well. Pick the last few pieces of mint, then add and mix all to combine.

Plate the shrimp on a platter, garnish with mint and extra citrus wedges on the side. Serve with your chilled avocado cream for dipping.

Citrus and Herb Grilled Prawns

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Who: Chef Marc Marrone, Corporate Executive Chef of TAO Group

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Chef Marrone's Guest-worthy Recipe: Citrus and Herb Grilled Prawns, Cool Avocado Yogurt Dip at The Highlight Room, TAO Group Los Angeles

chopped, about 1 c 4 sprigs mint, picked and chopped, about 4 Tbsp, plus 2 sprigs for garnish 8 garlic cloves, chopped, about 3 Tbsp 1 Tbsp cumin, ground 1 tsp curry powder, optional 1 c canola oil or grapeseed oil 1 Tbsp Kosher salt 1 tsp black pepper, fresh ground

“This dish is perfect for sharing because you can prep a ton of shrimp and an even bigger bowl of the dip. You can leave it out as an appetizer during a dinner party, or something to snack on/ pass around.”

For the Avocado Cream 3 medium avocados 1 small jalapeño 1 c Greek yogurt 1/4 c lime juice, fresh 1/4 c extra virgin olive oil 1/4 c water, as needed 1/2 bunch cilantro, freshly chopped Kosher salt, to taste Black pepper, ground, to taste

Ingredients:

Directions:

For the Shrimp 36 pcs of shrimp, about 3 lbs, peeled and deveined 3 oranges 2 limes 2 lemons 1 bunch Italian parsley, cleaned and

For the Shrimp Clean and set aside your shrimp in a large mixing bowl.

Finely zest the limes, lemons, and oranges. Combine all and set aside.

Using a sharp knife, remove the remaining peel from the oranges and cut

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Clean the jalapeño and remove seeds and ribs, then finely mince.

Add the avocados, cilantro, and jalapeños to a small food processor or blender. Briefly pulse together. Add the yogurt and pulse again to mix. Then, add olive oil and lime juice and puree until smooth, using water to thin the texture as needed. Season with salt, pepper, and more lime if needed.

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Students from Peconic Community School in Aquebogue celebrated International Day of Peace on September 21 by asking themselves, “What is peace?”

The school’s Upper Primary class pondered the meaning of peace and wrote their thoughts about it on photographs of their hands creating the peace sign.

“This project was really just student perspectives and responses to what peace is,” said the class’s teacher Shannon Timoney. “After a week fully engaged in researching and thinking about peace, students were invited to share their own definitions and explanations.”

The International Day of Peace, aka Peace Day, is observed around the world each year on September 21.

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Riverhead High School will be retiring the football jersey of RHS graduate Tech Sgt. Dashan Briggs during a ceremony at the school’s football field on Saturday, October 13, at 12:30 PM.

The ceremony serves to honor the memory of Briggs, who was a member of the New York National Guard’s 101st Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, who passed away in March while serving in Iraq. Briggs graduated from RHS in 2007, and was a stand-out football player and member of the lacrosse team. The football field is located at 700 Harrison Ave. in Riverhead.

In early September, The Independent reported that East End Arts’ Executive Director Patricia Snyder stepped down from her position on August 31 after 23 years with the organization. Shawn Hirst was named the new executive director and brings a background in community and social services, with 15 years of management experience in the non-profit sector.

Hirst reports to the EEA board of directors and works with them to build and lead staff and volunteers in fundraising, marketing, and communications and will implement comprehensive and diverse philanthropic efforts to meet the mission, vision, and programmatic objectives of the organization.

“I am humbled and excited to lead this important organization into its next chapter. I want to thank everyone for their warm welcome. I want to thank Pat Snyder, EEA staff, and the board of directors for their support and assistance in helping me transition into this position,” said Hirst. “Following in Pat’s shoes will not be easy, but with your input, participation and support, we can be assured that East End Arts has a bright future.”

Hirst spent her first few weeks at EEA working as incoming Executive Director alongside Snyder. “I recognize I have a lot to learn and I intend to invest time and attention to get to know and understand the EEA culture, policies, and procedures, and the legislative environment impacting the broader community,” Hirst said. “I stand with the EEA board in its commitment toward the growth and success of EEA.”

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Sylvia Catena Smith St. Rosalie’s organist for over six decades recalls her early life

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Above: Smitty (L), with daughters Sharon and Sylvia, wife, Sylvia and (R) son, David.

Top right: Sylvia and Smitty on their honeymoon.

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I enjoy life,” stated Sylvia Catena Smith with conviction. “I’ve slowed down a little but I’m still active in the community and enjoy going for a walk and stopping to talk to the friends I’ve made along the way.” At 94, Catena Smith is one of the few remaining charter members of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas in Hampton Bays.

One of five children to Silvio and Juliet Catena, Catena Smith proudly spoke about her father’s arrival in the United States. “My father was born in Italy on the island of Ponza. His father was a sea captain on a sailing ship. He was working as a cabin boy on one of the ships when he decided to come to America. I don’t think he was even 17 years old. He found a job working on a road crew building roads in the Bronx. He learned to use explosives to clear the rocks for the roads to be built. There weren’t many roads at that time. They were mostly gravel and dirt,” she explained.

“My father did anything he could to make a living. He went to dance classes and became so good at it that the owner of the dance studio had him help teach students. He went to school to learn English and became a citizen. He saved money and would go to Ellis Island every weekend to see if any of his fellow Ponzese needed a sponsor. He would vouch for them and help them to get a job. He would also teach them English so that they could get their citizenship just like he did,” she said.

“Sometime around 1905, my father opened a fish market in the Bronx.” Around the same time, he met Juliet and the couple had children. But when a diptheria epidemic struck the area, Catena sent his family out to live with his wife’s relatives in Hampton Bays. “My father commuted every weekend from the Bronx on the train, The Cannonball, to be with his family,” she said.

“On one of his trips he heard about a piece of property on Argonne Road known as the Fanning Property that was up for sale. It cost $500. That was very expensive for that time,” Catena Smith said.

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According to Catena Smith, when her father decided in 1913 that he wanted to build a home for his family, things did not go smoothly. “There weren’t any lumber yards in Hampton Bays so my father, my uncle, and my brother took a horse and wagon to Valhalla to buy the lumber. The horse died on the way back and they had to find a place to buy another horse to get the lumber back to be able to build the house.”

Once the house was built, Silvio opened a fish market and converted the garage as a store. “After a while, they opened a restaurant and my brother built the tables, my sisters were waitresses — we all did something.

But when the war started, people couldn’t come out for the summers anymore because there was no gas. So my mother closed the restaurant,” she recalled.

One of her earliest memories is with her sisters, Rose and Juliet. “We called my sister Juliet, Jukie.

Jukie and I were on a sled. Our dog, Achow, and Rose were pulling the sled. It was loads of fun but probably not so much for Rose since she wound up being the babysitter most of the time. It was Rose’s job to get all five of us ready for school.”

She continued, “One morning, my brother David had a hole in his pants and Rose sewed his pants while they were still on him. She was trying to get it done fast so we weren’t late for school. David had long johns under his pants and when he tried to go to the bathroom in school, he found out that Rose had accidently sewed his pants to the long johns. He had quite a problem.”

Catena Smith added, “Rose was always the last one to be able to get ready. There was a bell tower on top of the school and a man would ring the bell when school was supposed to start. When he stopped ringing the bell, you were late if you weren’t in your classroom. This one morning, Rose is running across the road to school and the man had already started ringing the bell. He saw her and he just kept ringing it until she got all the way in the building so she wouldn’t be late. He was a very nice man.”

She also recalled the day she watched the Shinnecock Lighthouse be demolished, just before Christmas in 1948. “They tried to knock it down but they weren’t able to get it to fall that easily. They wound up setting the inside on fire and it finally collapsed.

It was sad, but they blamed it for several shipwrecks including the John Milton, a 145-ton clipper ship from Peru. Sailors would mistake it for the Montauk Lighthouse,” Catena Smith said.

“When I was 10 years old, my father decided that Rose and I should take piano lessons. When I graduated from Sacred Hearts Parochial School in Southampton, I performed a piece on the piano at graduation. Ollie Gessner, the organist from St. Rosalie’s Church, was in the audience and suggested to my mother that I should learn to play the organ. At 13 years old, I began playing the organ at Christmas High Mass, and played for the adult and youth choirs.

I played the organ at St. Rosalie’s for 67 years. I retired in 2005 when I was 80 years old. I was replaced by a guitar group,” she said.

Married to Francis C. Smith, known to everyone as Smitty, Sylvia and Smitty met in 1946 while he was still in the service. A highly decorated and Purple Heart World War II veteran, Smitty and Sylvia were married on April 20, 1947. “We went to Washington D.C. on our honeymoon. Smitty didn’t have a car so we borrowed my father’s car and we drove down. I remember the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. They were beautiful and we were in love. Everything was new to us.”

Sylvia and Smitty have three children, Sharon,

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Sylvia and David. The Smiths have six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. “I am proud of all of the children. They are all wonderful,” she said.

When Sylvia reflects back again she admits that she misses her music. “Having an aging esophagus and having been replaced by concert organists and pianists, I can only reflect on my memories. I guess

When I was 10 years old, my father decided that Rose and I should take piano lessons.

When I graduated from Sacred Hearts Parochial School in Southampton, I performed a piece on the piano at graduation. that’s part of old age which I must accept whether I like it or not. My hubby and I enjoy each other so much. Sometimes when I play Smitty’s favorite songs, I often think that my mom knew what she was doing when she went to all the expense and trouble to have me take lessons, especially in times of Depression and war. Now whenever I play "Chopsticks", I can hear mom saying, ‘Sylvia, that’s not your music lesson.’

God bless my mom, for I have enjoyed my talent more than can be said.”

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The Tag Team Moving & Shaking The Real Estate Scene

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he whole is greater than the sum of the parts when it comes to Linda Kabot and Robert Tomich. Together, the two have risen from unexpected backgrounds in the world of real estate, and have managed to make a name for themselves thanks to their acumen and expert service.

Tell us how you got your start in the business. We know you both come from diverse backgrounds.

Linda Kabot: I served for 14 years in Southampton Town government, including eight years as an elected official — two years as Town Supervisor and six years as Councilwoman. This experience gave me an in-depth understanding of local zoning and permit regulations as well as great familiarity with all the hamlets and villages throughout the East End. My work ethic and local government experience dovetails well with the important responsibilities we have as realtors and brokers representing buyers and sellers.

Robert Tomich: As a Life Member of the PGA of America, my livelihood from 1973 to 2002 depended upon building relationships with people who valued knowledge, discretion, and professionalism. Those values continue to serve me well in real estate where knowing your clients’ goals and keeping their confidence is equally important.

Over the past 16 years as a real estate broker, I’ve developed solid relationships with clients, customers, and fellow real estate professionals. I’m proud to call many of them my friends.

How did you start working together at Town & Country Real Estate?

RT: When Linda first appeared in our Southampton brokerage office, everyone was amazed by her energy and enthusiasm. It was infectious. You couldn’t help but notice her. From the beginning of our team partnership, she has been a constant source of inspiration, affirmation, and reinforcement.

The depth of her knowledge has pushed our business to another level.

She’s decisive, efficient, and an inexhaustible source of town and village information. She’s also passionate, kind-hearted, and genuine. There’s no better measure of a business partner than that.

LK: Bob is recognized as being Town & Country’s top producing agent for several years running and for his wide

array of connections and market experience spanning Remsenburg to East Hampton. Working with Bob has been an easy fit for me, and our partnership continues to grow with every success.

His know-how coupled with my comprehensive skill set blend perfectly to create a powerful service-oriented team. Together, we bring the power of two working attentively to provide the expert representation discerning clients expect and deserve.

How do you approach the sale of your properties, and how has the team mentality been beneficial to you?

RT: We believe in customer service, which means we’re focused on the details that deliver exceptional service from listing presentation to closing. We understand that helping people achieve their real estate goals is how you earn their referrals. That’s everything in our business.

Getting our clients the best price for their home and finding our customers the right home at the best price is what we do. Being able to positively impact the way people experience the buying and selling process never gets old. It’s the best feeling when you help someone achieve their goals.

LK: Both Bob and I are experts in the Hamptons real estate market. We know the communities and all the neighborhoods from Remsenburg to East Hampton. This local knowledge, along with my in-depth government experi-

ence, instills confidence in our customers and clients, whether they are buyers, sellers, or investors.

We pride ourselves on being an innovative, resourceful, and hard-working team that gets results. The power of deep roots, integrity, and exceptional customer service — that’s what our partnership is all about.

You both specialize in some innovative forms of marketing. Which ones have served you best in the last year?

LK: In today’s world, buyers rely on speed of information for everything, including real estate. They often begin their search using internet listing portals. They’re often on their cell phones, so it’s critical that we engage in marketing across a wide variety of platforms, including social media. We supplement these efforts with print and direct mail marketing to highlight various properties, new listings, and open houses.

We engage in marketing through email communications, newsletters, and customer relationship marketing strategies. We also understand the power visual imagery has to promote our listings, so drone photography and video tours are essential to our marketing as well.

We work regularly with the marketing department at Town & Country, which enables us to customize our advertising. Town & Country’s talented support staff is accessible to us at all times, which enables us to best serve our clientele.

We hear you develop homes as well. How did this interest come along?

LK: My husband, Lance, is a retired Industrial Arts teacher experienced in the construction trades, so we have a common interest in the development process. Over the years, we have built and renovated homes, subdivided land, and bought and leased several properties.

This experience, along with the background I have in local government, helps me guide customers and clients smoothly through the buying, building, and permitting processes. My ability to analyze attributes and constraints of a property helps me to explain to buyers and sellers what can and cannot be achieved on a property in terms of improvements.

You take an active role in several causes too. Are there a few you can highlight for us?

RT: I was recently asked by a client of ours if I would give golf lessons to a group of wounded Israeli soldiers to support Israeli Defense Forces Wounded Warriors for Belev Echad. I was honored to do this, and I look forward to doing it again in the years to come.

My wife, Liz, and I also donate to other charitable causes and attend fundraising events here and in NYC in support of cancer research.

LK: My husband and I enjoy supporting local charity events and fundraising

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brothers or Mardini — is a good day for me, even if I hack it.

LK: Hobbies! Who has time for hobbies?

If/when you get any time to relax, where can we find you out east?

LK: I wish I had more time to relax, but it seems that the life of a realtor is 24/7.

If and when I do have time to relax, you can find me in my backyard with a glass of wine, a good book, and my dog, Lucy.

RT: I do a little writing on the subject of golf instruction in my free time. Whoever said “Hell is a blank sheet of paper” knew what they were talking about.

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programs, including East End Hospice, Southampton Town Animal Shelter, Hamptons Wildlife Rescue Center, and others.

You’re both quite diverse in your hobbies. Tell us all about them.

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As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale.

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By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

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Home Technology Options Made Easy Home Technology Experts is offering clients a new way to discover the elite technology available for upscale residences, with a new showroom in Southampton.

The center mimics the home installations of the company’s systems, incorporating the functionality of luxury technology into high-end décor.

Features in the crisp, modern space include products by Alexa, Control4, Lutron, Paradigm Persona, Samsung, Savant, Séura, Sonos, Sony, and more.

With a goal of giving prospective clients and partners a resource to become more knowledgeable about home technology, the showroom was designed to emulate a home environment.

“We always felt that in order for our clients to truly understand all the available home technology options, they need to be able to experience it for themselves in a home-like environment,” said HTE president Alex Karoussos. “Our showroom emulates a typical home, complete with a full kitchen by Ciuffo Cabinetry, a dining room, living room, lounge and study. Each area features one or more different solutions that we have found to work well for our clients over the years.”

“In our lounge, we feature a Sonos surround system and a much higher end

‘true’ surround sound system,” Karoussos explained. “We did this so that our clients can get a better understanding of why it may or may not make sense to spend the extra money on a higher end system. It’s one of those things that you really need to hear for yourself to decide. We also feature very high-end invisible speakers that can be spackled and painted over so that they completely disappear into the room.

Again, this concept is hard for most people to understand without hearing it for themselves.”

The showroom is located at 241 County Road 39A, Unit 4, in Southampton. It is open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 4 PM, and on Saturday and Sunday by appointment from 11 AM to 4 PM. For more information about the Home Technology Experts experience center and their residential, commercial, and system design services, call 631-771-3199 ext. 1.

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Sports Bonackers Bounce Back From First Loss East Hampton girls tennis team shuts out Southampton 7-0

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

East Hampton’s No. 1 doubles team lit up the court and ignited the home crowd Thursday.

Olivia Barris and Chiara Bedini took the longest match of the evening, 6-2, 6-2, to help the Bonackers sweep Southampton 7-0 Thursday, September 20. “They had a great match, excellent poaching,” head coach Kevin McConville said. “I put them together because one of them is a really good ground stroker and the other one is a good volleyer, and they’re both getting better at that other part, which is what I’m real happy with.”

Southampton head coach Juni Wingfield moved two of his top singles players to face the East Hampton duo.

He said while his team has struggled moving from League VIII to League VII, especially after losing six seniors, he thinks his girls rose to the occasion.

The team was also without No. 1 singles player Charlotte Ferguson.

“I’m very pleased with the way they’ve been performing and the way they’ve focused on not getting upset about the winning and losing, because you see too much of that,” he said. “I tell them I want them to go out there

and forget about competition and rely on personal excellence — try to do something a little bit better every day.”

The coach pointed to No. 4 singles player Olympia Campbell (2-6, 0-6) and the No. 3 doubles team of Sarah Eckert and Virmarsha Sital (1-6, 0-6) as big proponents of that.

“These are kids who you wouldn’t believe are the same ones if you saw them in the beginning of the season,” Wingfield said. “They’ve improved tremendously.”

McConville also likes seeing the transformation of his No. 2 singles player Juliana Barahona, who moved to East Hampton from Colombia just two months ago. She bested her Southampton opponent Alexa Pariz 6-1, 6-2.

“She doesn’t speak a lot of English, but she’s finally getting comfortable and playing great,” the coach said.

“She almost beat Westhampton Beach on Monday, so she’s been a good and a welcomed surprise.”

East Hampton has its sights set on dethroning Westhampton, the top tennis team in the league. After a 6-1 loss Continued On Page 44.

Becca Kuperschmid winds up to slam the ball in her 6-0, 6-0 sweep at first singles. Independent/Desirée Keegan

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Alexandria Woods battles a Smithtown Christian player for possession of a loose ball. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Freshmen Keep Scoring For Southampton Cameron finds the net twice, Zukosky once in 3-0 shutout

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Southampton’s fearless freshmen may be foreshadowing a bright future for the next four years. And Carli Cameron is leading the way.

The young striker scored two goals and an assist to lead the Mariners to a 3-0 shutout of Smithtown Christian (0-5) September 21. Freshman outside midfielder Taylor Zukosky also found the back of the net in the win.

Cameron was first to light up the scoreboard on a cross from freshman Gabrielle Avallone at the 27-minute mark. She rocketed her shot front and center past a diving Sofia Cantarero (eight saves).

“I was ready to take a touch,” Cameron said. “I didn’t even care if I missed it. My goal was to just shoot it as hard as I could. And I made it past her.”

After taking more shots in the second half, she scored from left goal side with 1:52 left in the game to give it its final score.

“We were trying to control the ball and take as many touches as we could, just keep shooting, because that was

the way we were going to win,” Cameron said. “A lot of our crosses were amazing and we had some beautiful control, especially in the second half.”

Coming off a 5-1 loss to undefeated Babylon (6-0) a day prior, Zukosky said communication was key. She, too, received a cross pass at the top of the box for her goal that gave Southampton (4-2 overall, 3-2 in Division II) a 2-0 lead at halftime.

“We needed to establish who was going to get the ball, who we’re passing it to,” she said. “We also needed to work on controlling the ball — making a great leading pass but being able to keep the ball on the ground.”

Southampton boasts just one bench player, so head coach Rossely Nava said she’s been impressed by her girls maintaining their energy and keeping their spirits high. Especially through back-to-back games.

“We can’t believe it,” she said.

“That loss to Babylon was a tough game.

We’re a young team trying to do our best and are finally getting some wins.”

A little winning can lift any team, but it does even more than that for the Mariners, which went 0-13 in 2017. The win over Smithtown Christian is Southampton’s second shutout of the season. The team blanked East Hampton 2-0 September 12.

“We’ve created this chemistry,” Cameron said. “Everyone gets a piece of the ball and we’re working beautifully together. This is great for our team and our school.”

Nava, who said most of the freshmen have been playing together for nearly seven years on a travel team, said she sees her team being unstoppable in the near future. Especially with players like Cameron and Zukosky.

“Carli, she’s a beast — we love the way she plays,” the head coach said.

“She’s strong. She never gets tired. She’s always on the field trying to find the ball.

And Taylor is doing great. We’ve tried to condition her to kick from far because she has a beautiful touch.”

Southampton traveled to Pierson/Bridgehampton (1-5) September 24, but results were not available by press time. Also on Friday, Nidia Bravo, and Asha Hokanson each had one goal and one assist to lead East Hampton (1-3 in Division II) to a 4-0 shutout of the Whalers, despite Pierson goalkeeper Katie Kneeland making 15 saves. After starting off Division II play with three losses, Westhampton Beach is finding its rhythm. The Hurricanes topped visiting Mount Sinai 4-2 Friday for their third straight win. Trinity Velenzuela had a goal and an assist to lead Westhampton, which saw four other girls get on the scoresheet, and Jade Merrell stopped 13 shots.

Carli Cameron (two goals) grabs a pass. Independent/Desirée Keegan

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Westhampton Beach Juggernaut Keeps On Rolling There was big football action under Friday night lights

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Frankly, it wasn’t pretty.

Under the lights Friday, September 21, the Long Island champs, playing before an adoring crowd on Homecoming Weekend, faced a rebuilding squad with a lot of missing pieces, Harborfields.

The result was a 49-8 drubbing. The mighty Hurricanes, ascending to the top of Division III, took it easy, using its magnificent multi-pronged running attack to eat up yards and move the clock.

Liam McIntyre, the bruising fullback, was the early beneficiary. Last season, the team held its breath when he went down to an injury: In addition to being the key blocker for tailback Dylan Laube, he was also one of the best middle linebackers on Long Island.

He still is, but now he’s inherited some of Laube’s ball carrying duties as well.

McIntyre finished with 85 yards on 12 carries and his two first quarter touchdowns gave the home team a 14-0 lead.

Then there is Jaden Alfano St. John, who shares some of Laube’s explosiveness. He rushed for 134 yards on only 12 carries and also scored twice, one a 47 yarder. The highlight of the game, though, was Alfano-St. John opening the third quarter with an 85-yard kickoff return that ended any upset hopes Harborfields (0-3) might have harbored.

Matt Leotta also scored as the Hurri-

canes ran for 319 yards to dominate the affair. The finale was 49-8.

Next week should prove interesting. Perennial champion Sayville comes to Westhampton Beach for a Fridaynighter and the Golden Flashes (2-1) are a dangerous opponent indeed.

Riverhead, playing in Division II, lost to Smithtown East (2-1) 35-19 to drop to 1-2 on the season. The Blue Waves get Deer Park (0-3) Saturday, September 29, at 1:30 PM.

In Division IV action Glenn upended Southampton 35-14 (1-2) Friday night to run its record to 3-0. The Mariners, playing at home, could not cope with the Knights, who opened up a 28-0 lead and have to travel to the North Fork on September 28 to take on Greenport/Southold/Mattituck.

The Porters enjoyed one of the greatest wins in the program’s history Friday night, besting Hampton Bays at home 52-0. Ahkee Anderson, the basketball sensation who led Greenport to the state finals earlier this year, can tout the football as well: He rushed for 93 yards on four carries including two touchdowns and broke a 50-yard punt return for another score. Tyrus Smiley also scored twice. The Porters won their first game of the season after suffering two losses.

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Continued From Page 42. to the Hurricanes September 17, the Bonackers may have bounced back to improve to 7-1, but are looking to build up to hopefully besting Westhampton on the road in the final game of the regular season October 2.

“I’m especially excited about the development about the doubles teams — they’re getting better and better,” McConville said, adding that historically his team has won matches with strong singles and losses in doubles matches. “We always have solid singles, but we’re trying really hard and I think we’ve seen a lot of improvement

in the doubles teams. We’re trying to get better every match so we can have a chance to share the league title.”

Westhampton last beat William Floyd 7-0 September 20. Onalee Batcheller and Brooke DelPrete defeated Hailey Loughlin and Alyssa Deeli in first doubles (6-4, 7-6, 8-6) to lead the team.

Mattituck, which is also undefeated, edged Southold/Greenport 4-3 September 22 to remain on top in League VIII. Riverhead is one win behind after Ryan Waski defeated Brianna Hemmings, 6-3, 6-1, at first singles during a shutout of Hampton Bays September 20. Each of the teams had matches September 24, but results were not available by press time.

Casey Annicelli makes contact with the ball during her 6-2, 6-0 win at fourth singles. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Juliana Barahona reaches for the ball to keep her volley alive in her 6-1, 6-2 win at second singles. Independent/ Desirée Keegan

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The East Hampton football program is not dead yet. The Bonackers have been unable to field a varsity football team for several seasons, but the JV team this year shows promise. Santi Maya (9) is one of Bonac’s young guns. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

Sports Shorts Compiled by Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

East Hampton Girls Swimming The senior team captains of the East Hampton Girls Swimming team, Oona

Foulser and Emma Wiltshire, were both nominated to Homecoming Court, a nice way to start the week.

The Homecoming Meet Friday, Sep-

tember 21, was against Hauppauge High School, and the home team prevailed 88-60.

The visitors were able to take first in the 100 butterfly events; Bonac cruised to an easy victory in the rest of the events. Sophia Swanson, a junior, took first in the 100 free and the 50 free (leading off the 200 free relay). Also, EHMS eighth grader, Margaret Breen, continues to drop time in the 200 free and the 100 breast while taking first

and second, respectively.

After the meet, the captains recognized sophomore Nicole Guitierrez as their choice for Swimmer of the Meet.

Congratulations to the Section XI Championship Meet qualifiers: Sophia Swanson and Julia Brierley.

The next meet is at the East Hampton RECenter at 5 PM on Thursday, September 27, against Sayville High School.

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The First One Of Its Kind A history of East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue

By Helene Forst

Did you know that in the Town of East Hampton, there dwell super heroes — brave ocean swimmers, who are on call all the time? No matter the day, no matter the weather, they always respond from morning until night?

East Hampton has a rich history of everyday heroes, ordinary men and women who do extraordinary things.

Since the 1770s, when local volunteers patrolled the coastlines of New York, these heroes have courageously saved many lives in the waters surrounding the town.

In 1848, the United States LifeSaving Service, a governmental agency, formed with the mission to save the lives of shipwrecked seafarers and their distressed passengers.

Then, in 1915, it was merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard.

Fast forward to 1978, when a group of local East Hampton baymen organized themselves into what would become the East Hampton Baymen’s Association Dory Rescue Squad, a volunteer organization that

grew out of humanitarian efforts to protect the lives of people in distress in the ocean and bay.

Due to their unique understanding of surf conditions, these men provided emergency response teams for the town’s lengthy ocean coastline. At its peak, the Dory Rescue Squad had 130 members, all men.

In 1990, however, the Department of Environmental Conservation banned haul seining, a fishing practice that provided livings for many of the local baymen. Haul seining was a unique way of fishing that involved the use of 20-to-25-foot flat-bottomed wooden dory boats that had a narrow bow and a narrow stern. Baymen would launch their boats from the beach into the surf. Once out far enough, the fishermen laid seine nets in a U-shaped pattern. They would then bring the nets together, and row back to shore where the trapped fish would be flopping in the huge nets.

With haul seining banned, many baymen were forced to give up fishing.

Plus, fewer young fishermen learned

the skills needed to safely launch a boat into the surf.

Sadly, in 2005, there were 17 members left when the group disbanded.

In 2003, however, a group of local, ocean-certified lifeguards formed a rescue organization called East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue.

These lifeguards and ocean rescue swimmers, to this day, train yearround to carry on the time-honored tradition of surf lifesaving that was passed on to them by the United States Life-Saving Service and the East Hampton Baymen’s Association Dory Rescue Squad.

The transition from the use of a dory rowed by its crew to the use of a motorized dory to the acceptance of a jet ski as a recognized rescue craft took place over many years.

Since 2003, East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue has been responding to all water emergencies in the ocean and in the bays, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The organization is 77 strong with 66 certified rescue swimmers. This is the first volunteer ocean rescue organization of its kind in the country.

The mission of EHVOR is to make expedient and safe water rescues year-round at all unprotected beaches in the Town of East Hampton by responding quickly while coordinating with East Hampton Emer-

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gency Services. This coordination is accomplished through training with many agencies in many different scenarios and locations throughout the year. This allows the group to be prepared for any water emergency from Wainscott to Montauk.

EHVOR protects and coordinates many charitable events such as Paddle for Pink that benefits Breast Cancer Research, Surfers Healing for Autism, A Walk on Water, benefiting children and teens with disabilities, and a local community swim for cancer survivors and their families that benefits Fighting Chance. The volunteer organization safeguards thousands of swimmers each year in all permitted open water swims and triathlons in East Hampton.

Members promote water safety and education by assisting the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s mission in waterproofing the East End. Along with East Hampton Town lifeguards, EHVOR assists in training and testing children from ages nine to 14 from Main Beach to Montauk. The successes of this year’s program led to a winning national team at Virginia Beach.

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September 26, 2018

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By Bob Bubka

Rose Blooms, A Tiger Roars Tiger Woods delivers 80th Tour win bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com

Just a mere six months ago, if I wrote this story, many of you would have said what a lovely fairy tale. Well, this same story is now a Tiger tale. I have had the privilege of covering Tiger for over 20 years.

I was here when he won his first Masters. I was there when Tiger won a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by 15 shots.

I was standing next to the 18th green in St. Andrews when he won a Claret Jug. All monumental victories to be sure, but to be honest, none of the 14 majors he has won were anywhere near as jawdropping as Tiger’s win on Sunday at the Tour Championship.

I still can visualize the huge hug that Tiger gave his dad after finishing out on the 72nd hole stunning the golf world and earning his first Green Jacket. I will never forget what happened with Tiger immediately after he signed his card for a record-setting 15-stroke victory at the U.S. Open. At the time, I was doing interviews for the USGA and was positioned inside a van to wait for Tiger. As Tiger stepped into the van, he

was actively involved in a conversation on his cell phone. Tiger ended his call by saying “Thank you, Mr. President.”

Then, without skipping a beat, he said, “Alright, Bobby. What do you need?”

At St. Andrews, as I was broadcasting live on talkSport, the world’s largest sports radio station out of London, I found myself standing alongside Tiger’s mom, Tilda. Never before had she allowed herself to be interviewed.

I took a chance, and to this day, it remains the only interview she has ever granted. So, you get the idea there have been many big-time moments with Tiger that I’ve somehow been part of, but nothing can stack up to Tour win number 80 on Sunday. This victory puts Tiger just two wins shy of the all-time win record of Sam Sneed at 82.

On our flight to Paris for this week’s Ryder Cup, I struck up a conversation with Andrew Magee, who played on Tour for 20 years. His big claim to fame is the fact he recorded a hole-in-one on a par four hole, the only player ever to do so on Tour.

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I asked Andrew his thoughts on Tiger’s win. Andrew said not only did he believe it would never happen, many of his Tour pro friends echoed those sentiments.

Tiger, in his prime, was so good that he was ranked number one in the world for 4781 days racking up 79 Tour wins which include his 14 majors.

It seemed like no one was capable of knocking Tiger off his lofty perch.

However, once the tide turned for Tiger, it seemed like it would ever end.

His medical history now looks like something you would read in a medical case journal. Neck injuries combined with shoulder problems, combined with knee operations, quickly

It seemed like no one was capable of knocking Tiger off his lofty perch.

However, once the tide turned for Tiger, it seemed like it would ever end. began to erode his massive skills.

Once the back problems manifested, many thought the end was near.

His mind remained strong until the problem with the nine iron came into play. No, Tiger did not have

47 a problem with hitting his nine iron but after being hit with one by his wife at the time, Elin, Tiger’s world came crashing down.

On November 27, 2009, his wife discovered Tiger not only had plenty of partners to play with during the day but an overabundance at night. Besides the shame and embarrassment, Tiger was forced to shell out around $97 million.

That is what I call a very steep penalty for playing out of bounds.

So, here we are with a plethora of medical and mental issues plaguing Tiger. A win on Tour seemed as likely for him as it would be for me. You and I knew that was not going to happen and many in the game felt it was the same case for Tiger.

So, this past Sunday, when Tiger began the final 18 with the lead, a birdie on his first hole let everyone know that this day was going to be special, and boy, was it! Let me put the number 80 in perspective. If four pros win 20 times each, that would be good enough to get all four into the Hall of Fame. With Tiger seemingly back in the mix, the excitement level for next year’s Masters will most definitely reach an all-time high.

By the way, next time someone says to you winning is everything, you can just point out that it wasn’t so for Justin Rose. Two weeks ago, Justin lost in a playoff to Keegan Bradley but earned enough world ranking points to become number one in the world. This past week, once again, Rose did not win, but earned enough points to be crowned FedEx Cup Champion. Oh, by the way, that honor earned Justin Rose a cool $10 million in bonus money.

As far as those young guns on Tour, saying it would be fun having Tiger back and playing well, all I can say is be careful what you wish for. I know what I am wishing for, and that is an exciting week here at the Ryder Cup . . . something along the lines of what Tiger delivered last week will do just fine.

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Pumpkin Spice Not So Nice Don’t get tricked into these treats nicole@indyeastend.com

Pumpkin Spice season is upon us, which has many feeling the warm and fuzzies. Since Starbucks successfully created the Pumpkin Spice Latte in 2003, it has become the unofficial flavor of autumn. Although I’m more of an apple cinnamon girl myself, I’m

still a sucker for the occasional orange themed treat, particularly because mass consumerism has marketed the flavor in everything from drinks to doggy dental treats (yes, if your pup is craving some spice Greenies offers up just the thing).

But what’s really in them?

Let’s start with the sip that started it all. A Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte has 380 calories in a Grande (16 oz) with 14 g of fat, 240 mg of sodium, 52 g carbs, 50 g sugar, and 14 g protein. To put this in perspective, the American Heart Association recommends the maximum amount of added sugars in a day are 37.5 g for men and 25 g for women.

If you’re a do it yourself type, brewing coffee directly at home but using that flavored creamer, you may want to think again. Nestle Coffee-Mate Pumpkin Spice Liquor Coffee Creamer, and International Delight, have 35 calories and 5 g sugar in a single tablespoon. In moderation, that’s a sweet option, but don’t get stuck with a heavy pour.

Dunkin Donuts Pumpkin Donut has 340 calories, 19 g fat, 380 mg sodium 39 g carbs, 19 g sugar and 3 g protein. In a single donut. How many of us honestly stop at one? Pepperidge Farm Milano Pumpkin Spice Cookies have a serving size of two cookies (25 g) which includes 130 calories, 7 g fat, 40 mg sodium, 16 g carbs, 10 g sugar and 1 g protein. Not much of a comparison, Pumpkin Spice Oreos of two cookies (29 g) has 150 calories, 7 g fat, 80 mg sodium, 20 g carbs, 12 g sugar and 0.5 g of protein.

Terra Chips, considered a fairly

healthy snacking choice, deceives when looking at nutritional facts for its Pumpkin Spice Sweets chips. Only 17 chips (28 g) have 150 calories, 9 g of fat, 15 mg of sodium, 16 g carbs, 4 g sugar and 1 g protein. Although, compared to the rest, it’s still on the better end of the scale.

Now, what you should try. Tazo Chai Pumpkin Spice tea is simply black tea, classic chai, and pumpkin spices — but at least with this you can add in your own sugars and creamer. Halo Top Pumpkin Pie ice cream has 360 calories per pint, 8 g fat, 340 g sodium, 17 g carbs, 28 g sugar, and 20 g of protein. RXBAR Pumpkin Spice is 52 g with 210 calories, 8 g fat, 105 mg sodium, 24 g carbs, 14 g sugar, and 12 g of protein. Cheerios Pumpkin Spice flavor cereal has 28 g worth of 110 calories, 2 g of fat, 120 mg sodium, 22 g carbs, 8 g of sugar, and 2 g of protein. Siggi’s skyr pumpkin and spice two percent yogurt has 150 g per container for 140 calories, 3 g of fat, 60 g of sodium, 14 g carbs, 11 g of sugar, and 15 g of protein.

The next time you’re in line at the grocery store or local perk me up, think twice before you decide to spice up your life. Better yet, opt for good ol’ fashioned pumpkin picking on the East End and make the real deal yourself!

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A night earlier, police said a man entered Kmart on Route 58 with a clear mission: come out with a TV. Unfortunately, his plan didn’t include paying for it. Instead the man knocked a female employee to the ground and marched out the door.

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would like to see complementary uses.”

Bruce Doscher, a resident who spearheaded an effort to incorporate Hampton Bays into a village, made another comparison to Patchogue and Farmingdale.

“They put in huge apartment complexes, that is what is driving the economic activity to make it all happen,” he said. “There needs to be some economics being generated. More density is the only way.”

Scherer said the town is contemplating mixed-use spaces with a residential component, but said a supplemental environmental impact study is being developed to find what the thresholds are in terms of traffic and school district impact.

“We want to come to a number that everyone is comfortable with, and not just unfettered density,” she said.

“I don’t want the message to get lost there. We do need an activated downtown where people live, work, and recreate, but we also need to do it in a way that is sensitive to our surroundings.”

Other residents disagreed that density was an issue. Many said it’s just about having stores that locals want to shop at, and ways in which to draw higher-end buyers in. Having the railroad station nearby, coupled with a vibrant downtown that would entice outsiders to stop, could also do just that.

Looking into what types of shops residents would like to see, Nelson, Pope and Voorhis have found a demand for businesses relating to clothing and shoes; jewelry, luggage, and leather goods; books and music; general merchandise; and specialty foods like meat markets. Other gaps found included grocery stories, gas stations, health and personal care, and florists.

“The uses contemplated are focused on things that aren’t high-order goods that would require a larger site,” Collins said, using a car dealership as an example. “We want it to be pedestrian friendly.”

Town Beach

Continued From Page 11. asked the town to look into increasing one-day parking fees for tourists to make sure it’s appropriate. He thinks this and changing prices for purchasing things at the pavilion are other ways to offset the increased costs.

“I think it’s one of the highestused beaches in the town and the pavilion is in really bad shape. It needs repair,” Schneiderman said. “I think it’s something that will strengthen property values and is a good invest-

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ment. I don’t think we should abandon it because we know the community members have their hearts in it.”

Doulos also asked for additional funding for repairs at a nearby beach, which she said can be addressed with extra money found in the Community Preservation Fund.

East Quogue’s Hot Dog Beach, which was closed for several years after a restaurant fire affected most of the facilities, was reopened last summer.

“One of the walkovers is in total disrepair and is fenced off,” Doulos said. “It’s become one of our most popular beach facilities in a two-year period. We had a contract with a mobile taco truck this summer and the place was packed. We want to see it improved and be in good shape for families and surfers next summer.”

Doulos added a deck would be built to connect the two access points, with benches for seating, and a handicap railing added to make the area Americans with Disabilities Act compliant. Five handicap parking spaces would also be created.

An extra $70,000 is needed to fund the improvements, with bids coming in $40,000 over budget and the rest being needed for inspection costs. Doulos said CPF and Community Development Block Grant funding is already covering $405,000, and the town is putting in $90,000. The board approved adding a resolution to amend the CPF budget to cover the additional $70,000 to move forward with awarding the work to the contractor. Renovations at Hot Dog Beach would be expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Land Deal Proposal

Continued From Page 13. in August, Buda told the board the property owner wants to move a house to the property, and acquiring the additional three-quarters of an acre would make that possible under current zoning.

Buda repeated that he had uncovered records that the town highway superintendent had accepted that portion of Cross Highway into the town highway system back in 1914, making it illegal for the town to abandon ownership of what is today a trail.

Furthermore, he told the board he had discovered the owner’s attorneys had miscalculated the amount of land for development that would be available after the transfer.

He urged the board to discuss the matter with its attorneys, adding, “So far, the only attorneys that have been participating in this have been of the applicants.”

Galaxy is represented by the Riverhead law firm Twomey, Latham,

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This Week In Indy – 25 Years Ago September 22, 1993 Erosion Concerns — The East Hampton Town Department of Natural Resources began a detailed, long-term survey of local beaches after the past winter’s storms battered the coastline and swept away enormous amounts of valuable sand. Larry Penny, the department’s director, and Walter Galcik, his assistant, established a system of metal pegs to serve as fixed reference points to monitor shoreline recession.

Balloons Are Bad — At the Concerned Citizens of Montauk meeting, Rav Freidel told more than 100 people that rare leatherneck turtles mistake balloons — which are floated by fishermen to mark their baits — for jellyfish, and can swallow them and die. According to Freidel, the Okeanos Foundation in Hampton Bays had found four or five leatherbacks in recent months which had died from ingesting balloons.

New Catalog Store — J.C. Penney began a catalog service in East Hampton.

Shea, Kelley, Durban & Quartararo, LLP. Christopher Kelley, one of the partners in the firm, has long been a major player in the local Democratic Party. When a fissure developed in the party leadership earlier this year, some of Kelley’s rivals questioned whether the town board was either asleep at the switch or doing Kelley’s firm a favor by failing to fully examine the Galaxy request.

Those concerns were echoed by David Gruber of East Hampton, who has been a leader of the Reform Democrats. He praised Buda for looking after the public’s interest and criticized the board for not being transparent.

“Somebody has worked awfully hard in order to create a misrepresentation to the public that it is the town receiving something when, in fact, the town is giving something,” he said.

Because Galaxy’s law firm has close political ties to town government, he said the town board was obligated to review the application “to the highest possible legal standard.”

Karen Hoeg, an attorney representing Galaxy, told the board the miscalculations in lot coverage allowances had been corrected and a new survey submitted with the application.

She differed with Buda’s assessment of whether the road was public or not,

Rock revetment under construction at Calvin Klein’s oceanfront home in Georgica.

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“For East Hampton residents who enjoy mail-order shopping, the new J.C. Penney’s will replace the Sears catalog outlet, which closed earlier this year. To assist customers with their decorating needs, a collection of swatch books containing bedspread, curtain, and drapery samples from the current catalog will be available at the catalog desk.”

Terry Turns 100 — Esther Tuttle Terry’s weekend celebration of her 100th birthday began with East Hampton Town Supervisor Tony Bullock presenting her with a proclamation before the town board meeting. saying the property owner’s title company had found no record that the town owned the trail.

The board did not discuss the matter, but closed the hearing.

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view the ads in his publications. “The maintenance of their businesses is important to the vitality of each community not simply the Village of East Hampton,” he said.

“I understand that you want to keep the village as pristine and orderly as possible. However, the law as written seems vague at best,” he added.

Rickenbach responded, “We recognize constitutional issues and we’re not trying to usurp anything that would be detrimental to the right of freedom of speech, but again it becomes to a great extent many of these periodicals and other handouts become fodder for the sidewalk and trash, and it’s just a nuisance, so we’re trying to make it better.” The board opted to keep public commentary open on the matter until 4 PM on October 1.

The board began its meeting by appointing Christian Denton as a member of the East Hampton Village Police Department.

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