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Child Life Services Brings Comfort to Hospitalized Kids OUR EXPERT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS Joan Alpers, MPS, CCLS, LCAT Director, Child Life Services Stony Brook Children’s Hospital

with an emphasis on human growth and development, education, psychology or creative arts therapies. We have years of experience in observing how children respond to the many aspects of hospitalization. We are also “on call” to children who may need support because an adult family member is struggling with illness and hospitalization.

When are Child Life Services used?

Child Life Services at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital helps children and their families feel comfortable during hospital and outpatient visits. Here’s what Child Life Services Director Joan Alpers wants parents and families to know about Child Life Specialists’ critical role at children’s hospitals.

What does Child Life Services do? The American Academy of Pediatrics calls Child Life “an essential component of quality pediatric healthcare.” In fact, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital believes that Child Life Services are among the key distinguishing factors of a children’s hospital. Hospitals can be frightening for children and challenging for families. Stony Brook’s Certified Child Life Specialists work to make hospital visits more comfortable, anxiety-free, child-friendly and, in many cases, fun.

Who are Child Life Specialists? Our specialists are certified healthcare professionals with a strong background in child development and family systems. Each specialist typically holds a Master’s Degree

Child Life Services are most commonly used to help to familiarize children with the hospital environment and cope with the stress that often accompanies hospitalization. We also do community outreach to help children understand what a stay could be like if they are ever hospitalized. In the hospital, Child Life Specialists collaborate with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to reduce anxiety and fear of pain. In conjunction with an “ouch-less” approach to care, we prepare children for treatment using age-appropriate education, and introduce coping techniques such as guided imagery, relaxation and diversion. We also incorporate medical play, which lets children use real or toy medical equipment to become familiar with equipment and procedures. This includes our special “Kitten Scanner,” a miniature play version of a CAT scanner.

Child Life Specialists work in the inpatient units, the Pediatric Emergency Department, Radiology, Pre-Operative Services and the Stony Brook University Cancer Center. The specialists organize special events in collaboration with various community organizations and businesses, including special birthday parties, our annual prom and holiday events. They also coordinate special visits from expressive therapists, museum and educational groups, sports figures, community costumed characters, entertainers, horticulture therapists and pet therapy dogs, as well as medical students who perform magic. Child Life Services supports our hospital’s nationally recognized School Intervention & Re-Entry program, which helps students with cancer and blood disorders transition back to school. In addition, the Child Life Program has partnered with BOCES to help eligible young patients keep up with their classwork by providing an on-site teacher to coordinate with schools and/or tutors.

Why is play so important for hospitalized children? Play is children’s “work,” and their means of exploration, discovery and conflict resolution. Play is also the primary tool of the Child Life Program, as it provides a safe outlet for self-expression. Child Life staff maintains playrooms on the inpatient units for any child who is medically cleared, and provides bedside toys, play and art therapy sessions for children who need to stay in their room.

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KNOWLEDGE SEEKERS

SBU’s Heather Lynch records plunge in chinstrap penguin population Harnessing the Technology of our Research Giants

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF The canary in the Arctic coal mines, chinstrap penguins need more ice. These multitudinous ﬂightless birds also depend on the survival and abundance of the krill that feed on the plankton that live under the ice. With global warming causing the volume of ice in the Antarctic to decline precipitously, the krill that form the majority of the diet of the chinstrap penguin have either declined or shifted their distribution further south, which has put pressure on the chinstrap penguins. Indeed, at the end of December, a team of three graduate students (PhD students

in Ecology and Evolution Alex Borowicz and Michael Wethington and MS student in Marine Science Noah Strycker) from

the lab of Heather Lynch, who recently was promoted to the inaugural IACS Endowed Chair of Ecology & Evolution at Stony Brook University, joined Greenpeace on a five week mission to the Antarctic to catalog, for the first time in about 50 years, the reduction in the number of this specific penguin species.

‘Chinstraps have been understudied in the last few decades ... in part because they nest in such remote and challenging places.’ — HEATHER LYNCH

The group, which included private contractor Steve Forrest and two graduate students from Northeastern University, “saw a shocking 55 percent decline in the chinstrap on Elephant Island,” Lynch said. That drop is “commensurate with declines elsewhere on the peninsula.” Elephant Island and Low Island were the targets for this expedition. The scientiﬁc team surveyed about 99 percent of Elephant Island, which was last visited by the Joint Services Expedition in 1970-1971. The decline on Elephant Island is surprising given that the conditions in the area are close to the ideal conditions for chinstraps. In some colonies in the Antarctic, the declines were as much as 80 percent to 90

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percent, with several small chinstrap colonies disappearing entirely. “We had hoped that Elephant Island would be spared,” Lynch said. “In fact, that’s not at all the case.” While many indications suggest that global warming is affecting krill, the amount of fishing in the area could also have some impact. It’s difficult to determine how much fishing contributes to this reduction, Lynch said, because the scientists don’t have enough information to understand the magnitude of that contribution. The chinstrap is a picky eater. The only place the bird breeds is the Antarctic peninsula, Elephant Island and places associated with the peninsula. The concern is that it has few alternatives if krill declines or shifts further south. “Chinstraps have been under-studied in the last few decades, in part because so much attention has been focused on the other species and in part because they nest in such remote and challenging places,” Lynch explained in an email. “I hope our findings raise awareness of the chinstraps as being in serious trouble, and that will encourage everyone to help keep an eye on them.” While these declines over 50 years is enormous, they don’t immediately put the flightless waterfowl that tends to mate with the same partner each year on the list of endangered species because millions of the sea birds that feel warm and soft to the touch are still waddling around the Antarctic. Researchers believe that the biggest declines may have occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s, in part because areas with more regular monitoring showed reductions during those times. Still, where there are more recent counts to use as a standard of comparison, the declines “show no signs of abating,” Lynch explained. The evidence of warming in the Antarctic has been abundant this year. On Valentine’s Day, the Antarctic had its hottest day on record, reaching 69.35 degrees Fahrenheit. The high in Stony Brook that day was a much cooler 56 degrees. “What’s more concerning is the long term trends in air temperature, which have been

SBU team member Steve Forrest scales the rock face as chinstrap penguins look on. Photo by Christian Åslund

inching up steadily on the Antarctic Peninsula since at the least the 1940’s,” Lynch wrote in an email. At the same time, other penguin species may be preparing to expand their range. King penguins started moving into the area several years ago, which represents a major range expansion. “It’s almost inevitable that they will eventually be able to raise chicks in this region,” Lynch suggested. The northern part of the Antarctic is becoming much more like the sub Antarctic, which encourages other species to extend their range. Among many other environmental and conservation organizations, Greenpeace is calling on the United Nation to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030. The Antarctic was the last stop on a pole to pole cruise to raise awareness, Lynch said. One of the many advantages of traveling with Greenpeace was that the ship was prepared to remove trash. “We pulled up containers labeled poison,” Lynch said. Debris of all kinds had washed up on the hard-to-reach islands. “People are not polluting the ocean in Antarctica, but pollution ﬁnds its way down

there on a regular basis,” she added. “If people knew more about [the garbage and pollution that goes in the ocean], they’d be horrified. It is spoiling otherwise pristine places.” Lynch appreciated that Greenpeace provided the opportunity to conduct scientific research without steering the results in any way or affecting her interpretation of the data. “We were able to do our science unimpeded,” she said. Counting penguins on the rocky islands required a combination of counting birds and nests in the more accessible areas and deploying drones in the areas that were harder to reach. One of Lynch’s partners Hanumant Singh, a Professor Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University, flew the drones over distant chinstrap colonies. The researchers launched the drones from land and from the small zodiac boats. The next step in this research is to figure out where the penguins are going when they are not in the colony. “Using satellite tags to track penguins at sea is something I’d like to get into over the next few years, as it will answer some big questions for us about where penguins, including chinstraps, are trying to find food,” Lynch said.

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This week’s shelter pet is Max, an eight-year-old Corgi mix, patiently waiting at the Smithtown Animal Shelter for his furever home. A surrender, Max may have experienced some type of trauma in the past. As a result, he is a little cautious when meeting new people before warming up to you. However, anyone who knows Max will tell you it is well worth a few visits to gain his trust. Once he lets you into his heart, the affection and love he gives is truly endless. Max would be best suited in a home without cats and young Photo from children. He does get along with Smithtown mellow dogs who know not to play Animal Shelter too rough. *Due to the health risk presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be limited public access to the shelter. If you are interested in meeting Max, please fill out an adoption application online. Once you have an approved application, you may meet with Max outside. The Smithtown Animal & Adoption Shelter is located at 410 Middle Country Road, Smithtown. For more information, call 631-360-7575.

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YOUR TURN

Curious things upon my book shelf

BY JOHN L. TURNER

This is the first of a two-part series. ike most people I’ve always liked to collect things. Some objects were mainstream — baseball cards and comic books as a kid, for example, but some were decidedly not. As an adult I’ve had a prolonged passion for old bird books dating from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. Looking around my study from where I write this, I realize I have a lot of objects that fit the latter “non-mainstream” category — deer antlers, assorted shells and other marine objects, mammal skulls, numerous pine cones, and a bird nest or two lying scattered along the leading edge of the shelves that hold the beloved bird books. I also realize these objects, collected from countless outdoor explorations, represent a window to the world of nature that lays accessible on the other side of each of our front doors. I’ve especially liked to collect items found along the shore, of which we have a lot. I have a favorite piece of driftwood, its edges rounded and softened from years in the elements. In it sits two species of whelk shells — Knobbed and Channeled Whelk, both species of sea snails native to Long Island’s marine waters. Knobbed Whelk gets its name from knobs or projections that lay along the coil situated on the top of the shell; the Channeled Whelk’s name comes from a coiled channel or suture that runs along the inside edge of the spiral. These two species are closely related,

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belonging to the same genus; sometimes referred to as conch, they are the source of scungilli, the Italian dish especially popular around the holidays. If you spend anytime strolling along the shoreline of Long Island Sound you’ve probably seen further evidence of whelk — their tan-colored egg cases washed up in the wrack line. Complex objects they are, consisting of upwards of a dozen or more quarter-sized compartments, connected by a thread, reminiscent of a broken Hawaiian lei. If you find an egg case shake it vigorously; if it sounds like a baby’s rattle you’ll be rewarded by opening up one of the leathery compartments, because the objects causing the sound are many perfectly formed, tiny whelks. As I recently found out, you can identify the whelk species by the shape of the egg case compartments — Channeled have a pinched margin like what a chef does to a dumpling while the margins of Knobbed have an edge like a coin. How an adult whelk makes this highly complex structure with several dozen baby whelks in each unit is a complete mystery to me. On the shelf next to the driftwood is another egg case — this one from a skate and, as with whelk egg cases, it’s often found as an item deposited in the beach’s wrack line. Black, with a shine on its surface, it is rectangular with four parentheseslike projections sticking out from the four corners. Skates, related to sharks, are

distinctive shaped fish with “wings” and several species are found in the marine waters around Long Island including Winter, Barndoor, and Little Skates. The cases are sometimes called “mermaids purses,” a wonderfully colorful name, although I’ve never seen any items a mermaid would carry inside one. If you look closely you can see the broken seam, along one of the shorter edges, where the baby skate emerged. The distinctive shell of Northern Moon Snails are another common item found by beachcombers and a common item on my shelf — with four prized specimens, including the largest I’ve ever seen, they are the second-most common item I have. (Various pinecones are the most common but that’s for a future column). Moon snails are shellfish predators, possessing a massive foot that’s 3x to 4x the size of the shell when it spreads out that it uses to push through sand. If you’ve ever picked up a clam or mussel shell with a round little hole through it you’ve just picked up a Moon Snail victim. They use a specialized “tongue” called a radula to rasp their way into the shell of a bivalve. Once through the shell, the snail secretes a weak acid that helps dissolve the tissue of the clam or mussel which the snail slurps up. Twice while beach combing I’ve found other evidence of a Moon Snail — a sandy, semi-circular collar made of sand grains held together by gluelike mucus the snail secretes.

These are egg masses, an intact one shaped like a nearly closed letter “C” (the two I found were half of that as they are fragile and easily broken). Each collar contains scores of snail eggs which develop and hatch if not predated by smaller snails like oyster drills and periwinkles. Rounding out the discussion of my study’s marine objects are two other shells: Jingle Shells and Slipper Shells — the first a bivalve, the second a species of snail. Jingle shells, get their name from the jingling sound they make if you shake a few together in your hand and are used to make wind chimes you’ll sometimes see hanging from beach houses. They are beautiful and iridescent, coming in several different colors — orange, yellow, white, and grey. Jingle shells are also known as “mermaid’s toenails.” Slipper shells are also fascinating animals. All slipper shells start off as male but as they mature they become female. They often stack with the larger females on bottom and the smaller males on top, making the species a “sequential hermaphrodite.” Occasionally you’ll see a slipper shell attached to a horseshoe crab. These gifts and others await you on a stroll along Long Island’s hundreds of miles of shoreline. A resident of Setauket, John Turner is conservation chair of the Four Harbors Audubon Society, author of “Exploring the Other Island: A Seasonal Nature Guide to Long Island” and president of Alula Birding & Natural History Tours.

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MEDICAL COMPASS

Strategies to reduce irritable bowel syndrome's effects Lifestyle plays an important role in reducing symptoms

According to estimates, 10 to 15 percent of the population suffers from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms, although only five to seven percent have been diagnosed (1). The general perception is that IBS symptoms are somewhat vague. They include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, constipation and diarrhea. Physicians use the Rome III criteria, an international effort to create scientific data to help diagnose and treat functional gastrointestinal disorders, plus a careful history and physical exam for diagnosis. What epitomizes IBS is the colonoscopy By David study, where IBS Dunaief, M.D. patients who underwent colonoscopy had diagnostic findings of nil. This tended to frustrate patients more, not reduce their worrying, as the study authors had hoped (2). Rather, it plays into that idea that patients don’t have diagnostic signs, like in inflammatory bowel disease, yet their morbidity (sickness) has a profound effect on their quality of life. Socially, it is difficult and embarrassing to admit having IBS. Plus, with a potential psychosomatic component, it leaves patients wondering if it’s “all in their heads.” So, what can be done to improve IBS? There are a number of possibilities to consider.

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In a small randomized clinical trial, patients who were given gluten were more likely to complain of uncontrolled symptoms than those who were given a placebo (68 percent vs. 40 percent, respectively). These results were highly statistically significant (5). The authors concluded that nonceliac gluten intolerance may exist. Gluten sensitivity may be an important factor in the pathogenesis of a portion of IBS patients (6). I suggest to my patients that they might want to start avoiding gluten and then add it back into their diets to see the results.

Fructose intolerance

Some IBS patients may suffer from fructose intolerance. In a prospective (forward-looking) study, IBS patients were tested for this with a breath test. The results showed a dosedependent response. When patients were given a 10 percent fructose solution, only 39 percent tested positive for fructose intolerance, but when they were given a 33 percent solution, 88 percent of patients tested positive. The symptoms of fructose intolerance included flatus, abdominal pain, bloating, belching and alternating bowel habits. The authors concluded that avoidance of fructose may reduce symptoms in IBS patients (7). According to another study, about onethird of IBS patients are fructose intolerant. When on a fructose-restricted diet, symptoms appeared to improve (8). Foods with high levels of fructose include certain fruits, like apples and pears, but not bananas.

What is the role of lactose?

Another small study found that about onequarter of patients with IBS also have lactose intolerance. Two things are at play here. One, it is very difficult to differentiate the symptoms of lactose intolerance from IBS. The other is that most IBS trials are small and there is a need for larger trials. Of the IBS patients who were also lactose intolerant, there was a marked improvement in symptomatology at both six weeks and five years when placed on a lactose-restrictive diet (9). Though small, the trial results were statistical significant, which is impressive. Both the durability and the compliance were

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excellent, and visits to outpatient clinics were reduced by 75 percent. This demonstrates that it is most probably worthwhile to test patients for lactose intolerance who have IBS.

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Treatment with probiotics from a study that reviewed 42 trials shows that there may be a benefit to probiotics, although the endpoints were different in each trial. The good news is that most of the trials reached one of their endpoints (10). Probiotics do show promise, including the two most common strains, Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteri, which were covered in the review. All of the above gives IBS patients a sense of hope that there are options for treatments that involve modest lifestyle changes. I believe there needs to be a strong patient-doctor connection in order to choose the appropriate options that result in the greatest symptom reduction.

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(1) American College of Gastroenteroloy [GI. org]. (2) Gastrointest Endosc. 2005 Dec;62(6):892899. (3) Am J Gastroenterol. 2011 Sep;106(9):16781688. (4) American Academy of Neurology 2016, Abstract 3367. (5) Am J Gastroenterol. 2011 Mar;106(3):508-514. (6) Am J Gastroenterol. 2011 Mar;106(3):516-518. (7) Am J Gastroenterol. 2003 June;98(6):1348-1353. (8) J Clin Gastroenterol. 2008 Mar;42(3):233-238. (9) Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2001 Aug;13(8):941-944. (10) Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2012 Feb;35(4):403-413. Dr. Dunaief is a speaker, author and local lifestyle medicine physician focusing on the integration of medicine, nutrition, fitness and stress management. For further information, visit www.medicalcompassmd.com.

The “brain-gut” connection is real. It refers to the direct connection between mental state, such as nervousness or anxiety, to gastrointestinal issues, and vice versa. Mindfulness-based stress reduction was used in a small, but randomized, eight-week clinical trial with IBS (3). Those in the mindfulness group (treatment group) showed statistically significant results in decreased severity of symptoms compared to the control group, both immediately after training and three months post-therapy. Those in the treatment group were instructed to do meditation, gentle yoga and “body scanning” — focusing on one area of the body for muscle tension detection. The control group attended an IBS support group once a week. A preliminary study has suggested there may be a link between IBS and migraine and tension-type headaches. The study of 320 participants, 107 with migraine, 107 with IBS, 53 with episodic tension-type headaches (ETTH), and 53 healthy individuals, identified significant occurrence crossover among those with migraine, IBS and ETTH. Researchers also found that these three groups had at least one gene that was different from that of healthy

participants. Their hope is that this information will lead to more robust studies that could result in new treatment options (4).

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MOVIE REVIEW

Horoscopes of the week

Winston Duke and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from the film. Photo by Daniel McFadden/Netflix

Too much of Mark Wahlberg in Netflix's Spenser Confidential BY JEFFREY SANZEL Netflix began as a DVD rental source before it moved into streaming. Eventually, it began to produce its own material, including some exceptional films, series, and specials. These have included Beasts of No Nation, Roma, Mudbound, Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Stranger Things, and recently The Irishman and Marriage Story. Not everything has been this intense: Glow, Dear White People, and John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch, among many other smart, amusing offerings. It is unfortunate that Netflix now offers the disappointing action comedy Spenser Confidential. Spenser Confidential is loosely based on Ace Atkins’ novel Wonderland, with characters created by Robert B. Parker. Here, the responsible parties are Peter Berg (director) and Sean O’Keefe and Brian Helgeland (screenplay). Mark Walhberg plays Boston police officer Spenser who is now being released from five years in prison for assaulting his captain (a stock villain played by Michael Gaston). While at first it seems that Spenser’s sole motivation was breaking up a domestic dispute, it is gradually revealed that there is more to it than just the captain’s mistreatment of his wife. On the day of Spenser’s release, the captain is murdered. The suspicion falls on a dirty cop who appears to have killed himself over it. Spenser seems to be the only one who suspects that all is not what it seems. While all he wants to do is learn how to drive big rigs and move out to Arizona (!), he realizes that he is the only honest man in Boston and capable of seeing what no one else does. He sets out on a quest to clear the deceased officer’s disgraced memory. He teams up with his new roommate, Hawk, a gentle giant who had gone to prison for manslaughter. They are, of course, a caricature of a mismatch; while it tries, hilarity does not ensue.

What follows is a plot that includes a host of standard tropes including a corrupt police force, white supremacists, gang violence, goons-forhire, drug trafficking, and shady business at the soon-to-be-built casino, Wonderland. There is the obligatory “cops like doughnuts” joke and a boxing montage. Spenser even provides lists for the camera reading “Who killed him?” and makes bold statements like, “I couldn’t let it go.” The tone strips its gears as it shifts between sitcom and deadly serious. A vicious dog attack is played as slapstick in this bizarre mix of real and cartoon violence. Perhaps there was an attempt to make this a common man as super hero vehicle — there are various references to Spenser as Batman — but there is no followthrough on that concept either. The jokey moments come across as precious, with glib quips often followed by an exceptionally ugly moment. It is not impossible to pull off this seemingly incongruent blend; the Dirty Harry movies did it brilliantly. Spenser Confidential doesn’t even try. It just lopes along, leaving a trail (and trial) of clichés. Mark Wahlberg is the star and obviously the only reason for the film being made; he appears in nearly every one of the one hundred and eleven minutes. He has a natural ease and, with a better script, he could have used his warmth to offset the character’s anger. But his Spenser (“a Boston cawp with a tempah”) seems to be a relic from television of the 70’s and his rage comes with a wink, making it all seem phony. As we now live in an age of complex anti-heroes — Tony Soprano, Walter White, Saul Goodman — Spenser comes across as insufferably self-righteous and squeaky clean. He is constantly spouting aphorisms about honesty and integrity and “doing the right thing.” The movie lacks subtlety and much of this can be attributed to Wahlberg’s mostly two-dimensional performance. Perhaps the character’s constant need to be liked, even when punching or being punched, is at the root of the

The movie lacks subtlety and much of this can be attributed to Wahlberg's mostly twodimensional performance. problem. The writers failed to give Spenser any genuine emotional texture and this prevents him from engaging us. For the most part, the supporting cast, with a few exceptions, are interchangeable. Alan Arkin is fine if a bit low energy; he does what he usually does but there is a vague sense that he is walking through it. Winston Duke has a certain charm but his Hawk seems never committed to being one thing or another, floating through the story as a generic sidekick. The only thing we learn is that he likes animals; this doesn’t seem enough to flesh out a character who is basically to the second lead. Iliza Shlesinger is Spenser’s on-again offagain girlfriend, Cissy, a dog groomer with an attitude. She manages to make the most of what she is given, finding a few of the film’s only real laughs. Her scene with Spenser in a restaurant bathroom is particularly funny and tells us everything we need to know about their relationship. (It should be noted that this scene, along with the violence and the language, are what would earn this an R rating.) Overall, the Boston accents fade in and out like the hackneyed desaturated flashbacks. At nearly two hours, it is overstuffed. Trimmed down to eighty minutes would not have solved the many problems but it would have eliminated the movie’s repetitiveness. It is obvious from the final moments that the intention is to launch a series of films centered on Spenser and Company. Like Spenser Confidential¸ they will be for Mark Wahlberg fans only. If even them. Spenser Confidential is now streaming on Netflix.

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, having friends in high places can open doors to some unique places. But you can only keep those doors open through hard work. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Widen your social network to have the best opportunities for success this week, Taurus. New people can provide useful information and approaches you never imagined. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, surround yourself with people who can help advance your career. The changing landscape of your job means you need to be open to all possibilities. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 There is no need to keep a calm facade if you are experiencing some anxiety, Cancer. Be honest with those closest to you and you’ll benefit from their feedback. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 The strong force of your sensitivity may surprise you over the course of the next few days, Leo. Just try not to let emotions cloud your judgment on the professional front. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Single Virgos will have plenty of opportunity to be flirty and fun this week. But even those in relationships can get in on the action, putting romance to the forefront. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, others may see you as the advice guru this week. That is a role you excel in, but you must balance the extra counseling work with your existing responsibilities. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Someone who lays on the flattery can win you over in an instant, Scorpio. But once you delve deeper, you may grow suspicious. Accept praise but don’t let it cloud your vision. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you tend to give freely without worrying about the bottom line. But today’s stars flash warnings that you may need to keep a tight hold on your cash. CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 It is never a good idea to enhance the facts, Capricorn. However, you can be enthusiastic about your efforts and what those efforts may lead to. Stand behind your work and opinions. AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, no matter how busy your schedule may be, carve out some time to take care of some financial issues that have cropped up in the last few weeks. PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Take a new approach to a similar task and you may come away with something surprising, Pisces. Take that leap of faith.

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Chariot Collision 91 Gnarled Hollow Road East Setauket, NY 631-751-1515 Lee Myles AutoCare & Transmissions 929 Middle Country Road St James, NY 631-724-3332 • stjamesleemyles.com Middle Country Automotive 839 Middle Country Road Selden, NY 631-698-4455 middlecountryautomotive.com Middle Country Automotive 2435B Middle Country Road Centereach, NY 631-737-4585 middlecountryautomotive.com Munch Auto Repair 999 N. Country Rd (Rte 25A) Stony Brook, NY 631-675-6675

Handy Pantry 684 Route 25A, Rocky Point, NY 631-821-2535 • handypantrystores.com Handy Pantry 280 Echo Avenue, Sound Beach, NY 631-744-9085• handypantrystores.com HOME SERVICES Cheyenne Electric 631-366-4666 Costello’s Ace Hardware of Nesconset 246 Smithtown Blvd, Nesconset, NY 631-724-8300 • acehardware.com Costello’s Ace Hardware of Northport 822 Fort Salonga Road, Northport, NY 631-925-5500 • acehardware.com Costello’s Ace Hardware of Rocky Point 360 NY-25A, Rocky Point, NY 631-392-1206 • acehardware.com Costello’s Ace Hardware of Smithtown 52 E Main Street, Smithtown, NY 631-863-3200 • costellosace.com Home Ops 640 Building D,Belle Terre Rd Port Jefferson, New York 631-509-2000 • callhomeops.com

PET SERVICES Animal Emergency Services 280 Middle Country Road, Selden, NY 631-698-2225 • longislandaes.com Animal Health & Wellness Veterinary Hospital 150 Main Street, Setauket, NY 631-751-2200 animalhealthwellness.com Corner Animal Hospital 24 Woods Corner Road, Setauket, NY 631-941-3500 • corneranimal.com Feasts For Beasts 45 Route 25A, Mount Sinai, NY 631-331-1150 Hamlet Pet Supply 732 Route 25A, Setauket, NY 631-751-6789 Hounds Town 509-1 N Bicycle Path Port Jefferson Station, NY (631) 476-9320 • houndstownusa.com Jefferson Animal Hospital 606 Route 112 Port Jefferson Station, NY 631-473-0415 portjeffersonanimalhospital.com

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COOKING COVE

In quarantine, take comfort from food

BY BARBARA BELTRAMI

I never thought I’d be living through a time of pandemic virus and quarantines. In light of that, writing about food seems rather frivolous. Or does it? After all, we still have to eat and build our resistance, and we have to eat well. With cabin fever, boredom and fear occupying our very existence, there seem to be very few pleasures left to us. So why not turn to food, the comfort that never quits. If your pantry, fridge and freezer are well stocked, and I hope they are, it’s a good time to take to the stove and oven and revitalize your cooking and baking skills, your appetite and your spirits. This is a time for comfort food. Make some soups and freeze them; skim off some broth for future use (just in case). Use up leftovers in casseroles and stews; revert to the habits of our ancestors who wasted nothing. Bake a batch of cookies or brownies and whip up some soothing puddings and custards. Clean out the pantry, fridge and freezer to make room for new additions. Use long forgotten items, if they’re still okay, as the inspiration for creative concoctions. Here are two recipes for the ultimate in comfort food, Roast Chicken and Pot Roast.

Roast Chicken

YIELD: Makes 4 servings. INGREDIENTS: • One 3 to 4 pound chicken, trimmed of excess fat, rinsed and patted dry • Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste • 1/4 cup olive oil • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 475 F. Remove innards and rub inside cavity generously with salt and pepper. Place chicken, breast side down, on a rack in a roasting pan and roast for 20 minutes. In a small bowl, whisk together oil, herbs (sage, rosemary and parsley work well) and salt and pepper. Drizzle half the oil mixture over chicken, then turn so breast side is up and drizzle remaining mixture over it. Roast until breast starts to brown, about 8 to 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 F. Baste with pan juices and roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh reads 160 to 165 F, about 50 to 60 minutes. When chicken is ready, tip pan so juices run from cavity into pan, remove bird to platter or cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, transfer juices to small saucepan and skim off as much fat from juices as possible. Reheat juice and pour over carved chicken. Serve hot or warm with rice or potatoes and a salad or green veggie. (Reserve carcass for chicken soup.)

Pot Roast

YIELD: Makes 6 to 8 servings. INGREDIENTS: • One 3 1/2 to 4 pound beef brisket • Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste • 1/4 cup oil • 4 smashed garlic cloves • 2 medium onions, coarsely chopped • 6 carrots , peeled and cut into large chunks • 2 celery ribs, cut into quarters • 1 bay leaf • 2 cups dry red wine • 3 cups beef or vegetable broth • One 14 ounce can whole plum tomatoes, coarsely chopped with their juice DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 325 F. In a large Dutch oven heat the oil over medium-high heat. Season the brisket with salt and pepper and add it to the pot, fat side down. Cook until dark brown, about 5 minutes; turn and cook 5 more minutes. Remove and set aside. Add the garlic, onions, carrots,

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celery and bay leaf, and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until onions are transparent and start to brown, about 10 minutes. Return brisket to pot, add wine, broth and tomatoes, cover and place in oven. Cook, turning once, for 3 hours. Remove brisket, remove celery and bay leaf from pot and discard. Mash vegetables in pot, then over medium-high heat, cook veggies and liquid until reduced and somewhat thickened, about 10 minutes. Return brisket to pot; over medium-low heat, cook in liquid until heated through, about 10 minutes. Remove brisket from pot, slice, place on platter and smother with liquid. Serve immediately with noodles or mashed potatoes and a green vegetable.

We normally use this space to advertise products from our vendors but since we can’t guarantee all items will be in stock we would like to use this space to thank our employees who have continued to work through exhaustion and demands while they also have had to deal with our new challenges going on in the world. We are currently receiving rather normal deliveries with some things being shorted or rationed while immediate demand has skyrocketed. Let me stress that I don’t believe any one of us will starve. We may have to go without our favorite flavor of ice cream for a few days but we will prevail. The food supply will adjust to the shifting demands. We have tried to maintain a calming atmosphere even during our busy times and have gotten to speak with many of our long time customers and I understand the concerns of the unknown, but together as a community we can do this. If you have a neighbor who is in need of something please share or offer to pick something up for them while you are out. If you have a neighbor who is running from store to store to hoard products because they got a tweet that they are in short supply- please don’t let them know that Buttercup’s exists. We enjoy our long term loyal customers support and will continue to serve the community as long as we are able to. ©157232

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ovid-19 is affecting every aspect of our lives. Businesses are being told to reduce staffing or if deemed “non-essential” to shutter altogether; unemployment claims are soaring; individuals are being urged to practice “social distancing” or simply stay home if possible; parents are experiencing a growing concern about their children’s education as school closings seem indefinite; necessary medical resources remain in short supply; and the most vulnerable among us — the homeless — are reaching new levels of despair and hopelessness. However, even though we are told that the situation “will get worse before it gets better,” it is vitally important that we focus on planning ahead for both our personal well-being and that of our communities. Lost in the relentless bad news is the immediate AND long term importance of our decennial Census. The 2020 Census will determine congressional representation, inform hundreds of billions in federal funding every year, and provide data that will impact communities for the next decade. Each one of us should educate ourselves, prioritize our response, and support efforts to ensure that ALL members of our communities are aware and participating in the Census. According to the New York Times, “Even at its smoothest, the decennial census is among the most sprawling and complicated exercises in American society, mandated by the Constitution to count every person in the nation, whether in homes, prisons or under freeway viaducts; whether citizens or undocumented immigrants in hiding. The 2020 census already was destined to be an even more daunting venture — the first ever conducted mostly online, in a deeply polarized nation where mistrust of the government and immigrants fearful of authorities could make an accurate count harder than in recent memory.” A few basics: You should have already received the census invitation in the mail. You can easily complete the survey via online, telephone or USPS mail, whether or not you received the invitation. Visit http s : / / 2 0 2 0 c e n s u s . g ov / e n / w ay s - t o respond.html for a clear explanation of this part of the process and to submit your response. Telephone responses are encouraged at 844-330-2020 (English) and 12 languages are also supported (these phone numbers are on the website). The Census period runs from midMarch until late August. You will receive

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several reminders if you haven’t responded, including a paper questionnaire in early April and a follow up in person. All 2020 Census responses are kept confidential and private. Under Title 13 of the U.S. code, the Census Bureau cannot release any identifiable information about you, your home, or your business, even to law enforcement agencies. Your responses cannot be shared and cannot be used against you by any government agency or court in any way. The answers you provide are used only to produce statistics. You are kept anonymous. Many consider the Census an invasion of our privacy or worse, thus ALL of us should more clearly understand the representation and resource allocation impact if we don’t complete the survey. In 2017 the Census Bureau examined the 2015 distribution of funds based on the 2010 Census, and included those federal programs using Census Bureau data to distribute funds in one of three ways: selection and/or restriction of recipients of funds, award or allocation of funds and monitoring and assessment of program performance. The 2017 study https://2020census. gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/ partners/2020-01/Uses-of-Census-BureauData-in-Federal-Funds-Distribution. pdf found more than $675 billion thus distributed, up from more than $400 billion in a 2009 study. The 2020 could have nearly $1 trillion at stake, and our communities

will suffer if our negligence denies us our “fair share.” The U.S. Constitution mandates that the country count its population once every 10 years. The results are used to adjust or redraw electoral districts, based on where populations have increased or decreased. State legislatures or independent bipartisan commissions are responsible for redrawing congressional districts. By April 1 of the year following the decennial census, the Secretary of Commerce is required to furnish the state officials or their designees with population counts for American Indian areas, counties, cities, census blocks, and state-specified congressional, legislative, and voting districts. Thus, in mid 2021, our New York State Legislature will receive the data from which they will redistrict and redraw lines. Our number of Congressional seats will also be reflected; it is expected that New York State may lose a seat because of uncounted populations. We ALL need to complete the census — our representation and our share of federal and state resources are at stake! Lisa Scott is president of the League of Women Voters of Suffolk County, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy. For more information, visit www. lwv-suffolkcounty.org or call 631-862-6860.

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RESURRECTION BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH

38 Mayﬂower Avenue, Smithtown NY 11787 631–759–6083 resurrectionsmithtown@gmail.com www.resurrectionsmithtown.org FATHER VLADYSLAV BUDASH, PAROCHIAL VICAR DEACON ROBERT KNAPP JOSEPH S. DURKO, CANTOR Divine Liturgy: Sundays at 10:30 am Holy Days: See website or phone for information Sunday School Sundays at 9:15 am A Catholic Church of the Eastern Rite under the Eparchy of Passaic.

Catholic ST. GERARD MAJELLA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

300 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station 631–473–2900 www.stgmajella.org REV. GREGORY RANNAZZISI, PASTOR Mass: Saturday 5:00pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am & 11:00am Weekday Mass: 9:00am Confessions: Saturday 4:00-4:45 or by appointment Baptism and Wedding arrangements can be made by calling the Parish Ofﬁce Thrift Shop: Mon-Fri 10am-4pm Saturday 10am-2pm

INFANT JESUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

110 Myrtle Ave., Port Jefferson, NY 11777 631-473-0165 • Fax 631-331-8094 www.www.infantjesus.org REVEREND PATRICK M. RIEGGER, PASTOR ASSOCIATES: REV. FRANCIS LASRADO & REV. ROLANDO TICLLASUCA To schedule Baptisms and Weddings, Please call the Rectory Confessions: Saturdays 12:30-1:15 pm in the Lower Church Religious Ed.: 631– 928-0447 Parish Outreach: 631–331-6145 Weekly Masses: 6:50 and 9 am in the Church, 12 pm in the Chapel* Weekend Masses: Saturday at 5 pm in the Church, 5:15 pm in the Chapel,* Sunday at 7:30 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm, and 5 pm in the Church and at 8:30 am, 10 am, and 11:30 am (Family Mass) in the Chapel* Spanish Masses: Sunday at 8:45 am and Wednesday at 6 pm in the Church *Held at the Infant Jesus Chapel at St. Charles Hospital

ST. JAMES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

429 Rt. 25A, Setauket, NY 11733 Phone: 631–941–4141 • Fax: 631–751–6607 Parish Ofﬁce email: parish@stjamessetauket.org Ofﬁce Hours:Mon.-Sat. 9am - 2pm REV. JAMES-PATRICK MANNION, PASTOR REV. GERALD CESTARE, ASSOCIATE PASTOR ASSOC. PASTOR REV. JOHN FITZGERALD, IN RESIDENCE In response to the COV ID-19 virus, Bishop Barres has mandated that there will be No public celebration of Mass until the Tuesday after Easter. We have

unexpectedly and suddenly moved from Lent to a Prolonged Good Friday...but this too shall yield its austere loss to the glory of Easter’s Joy of Jesus’ Resurrection. While we are in this prolonged Good Friday, let us commit ourselves as a parish to the following: • private prayer (a rosary, reading of scripture, adoration before the tabernacle) each day. The church will be opened from 8 am to 5 pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 8 am to 12 noon on Sundays. • attend mass, by watchingThe Catholic Faith Network (CFN) which will provide televised and online daily Masses, including Holy Week and Easter Liturgies, as well as other devotional and spiritual programs. (Optimum channel 29/137, Verizon FiOS TV channel 296, and Spectrum channel 162/471.) • for Palm Sunday, palm will be available by Our Lady’s statue. • for Easter, blessed Easter Holy Water will be available by Our Lady’s statue. Check web page for an announcement of a possible video livestream of the mass from our own church. • when that first Sunday comes when we can once again gather at our ‘family table of the Lord’ and break the bread and drink of the cup, it will be a celebration of great Joy! Where can the weak find a place of firm security and peace, except in the wounds of the Savior? Indeed, the more secure is my place there, the more he can do to help me. The world rages, the flesh is heavy, and the devil lays his snares; but I do not fall, for my feet are planted on firm rock. - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

75 New York Avenue, Sound Beach, N.Y. 11789 Parish Office: 631-744-8566; FAX 631-744-8611 Parish Website: www.stlouisdm.org Office Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs.: 9 am to 5 pm Wednesday: 9 am to 8 pm; Friday: 9 am to 4 pm; Saturday: 9 am to 1 pm; Closed on Sunday Mission Statement: To proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ’s love through our active involvement as a parish family in works of Charity, Faith, Worship, Justice and Mercy. ALL ARE WELCOME! No matter what your present status is in the Catholic Church. No matter your family situation. No matter your practice of faith. No matter your personal history, age or background. YOU are invited, respected and loved at St. Louis de Montfort. REV. MSGR. CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER, PASTOR REV. ALPHONSUS IGBOKWE, ASSOCIATE PASTOR REV. MSGR. DONALD HANSON, IN RESIDENCE REV. FRANCIS PIZZARELLI, S.M.M., PARISH ASSISTANT REV. HENRY VAS, PARISH ASSISTANT Weekday Masses: Monday through Friday: 8:30 am in the Chapel Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil: 5 pm Sunday: 7:30 am; 9:00 am; 10:30 am; 12 noon. Baptisms: Most Sundays at 1:30 pm. Please contact Parish Office for an appointment. Reconciliation: Sat.: 4-4:45 pm or by appointment. Anointing of the Sick: by request. Holy Matrimony: Contact Parish Office at least six months in advance of desired date. Religious Education: Contact 631-744-9515 Parish Outreach: Contact 631-209-0325 Our Lady of Wisdom Regional School: Contact 631-473-1211.

Catholic Traditional Latin Mass ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL

Society of Saint Pius X 900 Horseblock Road, Farmingville, NY 11738 631–736–6515 • sspxlongisland.com Please consult sspxlongisland.com for current Mass dates and times.

Congregational MT. SINAI CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

233 North Country Road, Mt. Sinai • 631–473–1582 www.msucc.org • REV. DR. PHILIP HOBSON Please think of your friends at our church who do not typically get our emails and give them a call to let them know. What is On-Line Worship? How does it work? If all goes as planned, a few of us will be live-streaming worship from the church at 10 am Sunday morning, on our church’s Facebook page. You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/ Mt-Sinai-Congregational-United-Church-of Christ-175000241113/ Afterwards, the service will be uploaded to YouTube, which is available here: https://www. youtube.com/channel/UCoY0iKWN2v8NTDtSFjFpS3Q Whether via Facebook or YouTube, you will be able to watch and participate in the service at a later time as well. (One strange benefit to all this is you can sleep in and still make it to church!) A few more reminders: 1. We will be doing “Communion Where You Are” so if you want to have some bread and drink available, you can join in. 2. There will be an offering time. While we won’t be passing the plates, we will be reminding people that there are ways to donate via the church website https://www.msucc.org/ giving/, by mailing in a check, or by setting up bill pay through your bank. 3. While we have livestreamed and recorded the sermon, we haven’t done a full service before. Also, Facebook may have added viewer volume as lots of churches are going on-line this Sunday. If it does not work right away, please have patience. We will still try and get it uploaded even if livestreaming has difficulties. Take care of yourselves, wash your hands, check on your neighbors. Grace and Peace, Phil

Episcopal ALL SOULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

“Our little historic church on the hill” across from the Stony Brook Duck Pond Main Street, Stony Brook • 631–751–0034 www.allsouls–stonybrook.org • allsoulsepiscopalchurch@verizon.net Sunday Holy Eucharist: 8 and 9:30 am All Souls now offers a 30 minute Inter-Faith Service every Tuesday Morning at 8:00 AM This is a small eclectic Episcopal congregation that has a personal touch. We welcome all regardless of where you are on your spiritual journey. Walk with us.

CAROLINE ESPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SETAUKET

THE REV. CN. DR. RICHARD D. VISCONTI, RECTOR 1 Dyke Road on the Village Green, Setauket

Web site: www.carolinechurch.net email: ofﬁce@carolinechurch.net • 631–941–4245 Please note that the Episcopal Diocese of LI has suspended all public worship services. Please check our website for the latest information or call the ofﬁce. Let God walk with you as part of our family– friendly community.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

127 Barnum Ave., Port Jefferson • 631–473–0273 email: ccofﬁce@christchurchportjeff.org www.christchurchportjeff.org FATHER ANTHONY DILORENZO: PRIEST–IN–CHARGE BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, WE ARE NOT CERTAIN IF WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE OUR SERVICES. PLEASE CONTACT OUR OFFICE TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY BETWEEN 9 AM AND 12 PM (631-473-0273) FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. PLEASE DON’T CALL AFTER HOURS. LET US PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER. GOD BLESS YOU. Father Anthony DiLorenzo It is the mission of the people of Christ Church to grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ and to make his love known to all through our lives and ministry. We at Christ Church are a joyful, welcoming community. Wherever you are in your journey of life we want to be part of it.

ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH

490 North Country Road, St. James, NY 11780 631-584-5560 www.stjamesstjames.org Parish Ofﬁce email: stjamesc@optonline.net THE REV. IAN C. WETMORE, RECTOR Where is God calling us? To grow in faith through Scripture and prayer, To build relationships in Christ, To serve one another and the world. While we all work together to ﬁght the coronavirus, please join us in worship online. Please go to our website (StonyBrookCommunityChurch.org), click on the Announcements page, and then click on the link to Sunday’s service.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

“To know Christ and to make Him known” REV. DUNCAN A. BURNS, RECTOR MRS. CLAIRE MIS, SEMINARIAN ALEX PRYRODNY, ORGANIST & CHOIR DIRECTOR 12 Prospect St, Huntington ● (631) 427-1752 On Main St. next to the Library www.stjohnshuntington.org ● LIKE us on Facebook Sunday Worship – Live Stream 10:00 AM – Rite II with music Morning Prayer – Live Stream 9:00 am – Monday thru Friday Tuesday Lenten Series – Live Stream 5:30 pm – Stations of the Cross 6:00 pm – Evening Prayer visit our website for more information

Evangelical THREE VILLAGE CHURCH

To Know Christ and To Make Him Known 322 Main Street, East Setauket www.3vc.org • 631-941–3670 LEAD PASTOR JOSH MOODY All Services and Activities are Canceled. Join Us As We Celebrate 60 Years Of Proclaiming The Good News Of Jesus Christ!

PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT MANY RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS HAVE CANCELLED SERVICES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PLEASE CALL OR VISIT YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP’S WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE. Continued on next page •

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Religious D irectory

Greek Orthodox

CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION

430 Sheep Pasture Rd., Port Jefferson 11777 Tel: 631-473-0894 • Fax: 631-928-5131 www.kimisis.org • goc.assumption@gmail.com REV. DEMETRIOS N. CALOGREDES, PROTOPRESBYTER Sunday Services: Orthros 8:30 Am - Divine Liturgy 10 Am Services Conducted In Both Greek & English* Books Available To Follow In English* Sunday Catechism School, 10 Am - 11 Am* Greek Language School, Tuesdays 5 Pm - 8 Pm* Bible Study & Adult Catechism Classes Available* Golden Age & Youth Groups Banquet Hall Available For Rental* For Information Please Call Church Ofﬁce*

Jewish VILLAGE CHABAD

Center for Jewish Life & Learning “Judaism With A Smile” 360 Nicolls Road, East Setauket Next To Fire Dept. 631-585–0521 • www.MyVillageChabad.com RABBI CHAIM & RIVKIE GROSSBAUM RABBI MOTTI & CHAYA GROSSBAUM RABBI SHOLOM B. & CHANIE COHEN Membership Free Weekday, Shabbat & Holiday Services Highly Acclaimed Torah Tots Preschool Afternoon Hebrew School Camp Gan Israel • Judaica Publishing Department Lectures And Seminars Living Legacy Holiday Programs Jewish Learning Institute Friendship Circle For Special Needs Children The Cteen Network N’shei Chabad Women’s Club • Cyberspace Library Chabad At Stony Brook University – Rabbi Adam & Esther Stein

NORTH SHORE JEWISH CENTER

CANTOR EMERITUS MICHAEL F. TRACHTENBERG Sabbath Services Friday 7:30 pm And Saturday 10 am Religious School • Monthly Family Service Monthly Tot • Shabbat Youth Groups • Senior Club Adult Education Sisterhood Brotherhood • Book Club-More

Lutheran–ELCA HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH AND ANCHOR NURSERY SCHOOL

46 Dare Road, Selden 631-732-2511 Emergency Number 516-848-5386 REV. DR. RICHARD O. HILL, PASTOR ERIC FARET, VICAR Email: office@hopelutheran.com Website: www.hopeluth.com Has suspended public services through March 31. We are livecasting a worship service at our regular service times, however. Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday as 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. This can be accessed by using any one of three links on our church website: www.hopeluth.com. It is also available to anyone who joins our “Friends of Hope Lutheran Church” Facebook group where notifications will be given when services are going live. Weekday devotions at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday are posted on Facebook for those who join the group. Our YouTube channel can be found by searching on YouTube. com for “Rev Dr Richard O. Hill.” Please leave comments when watching the livecasts. At this time the food pantry will provide pre-filled bags of food on Thursdays from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. We thank Selden Masjid for their generous food donation. Those wishing to make a similar donation should also call the church before bringing food: 631-732-2511. Members wishing to make cash donations should use the “Share God’s Mission” tab on the church website. All regular programs and meetings will not be held at the church. When necessary, they will be set up on Zoom.us. In emergencies, call the pastor at 516-848-5386.

ST. PAUL’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH

309 Patchogue Road, Port Jefferson Station 631-473-2236 REV. PAUL A. DOWNING PASTOR E-mail: Pastorpauldowning@yahoo.com Pastor’s cell: 347–423–1523 (voice or text) www.StPaulsLCPJS.org facebook.com/stpaulselca Service Times: Sundays 8:30 am and 10:30 am Adult Bible Study 9:30 am Sunday School during 10:30 am service Holy Communion offered at both services Fridays: Power of Prayer Hour 10:30 am Meal provided by Welcome Friends Sundays at 1:00 pm and Wednesdays at 5:45 pm We continue to seve the Port Jefferson Community Now in our 102nd year

TEMPLE ISAIAH (REFORM)

Messiah Preschool & Day Care 465 Pond Path, East Setauket 631-751–1775 • www.messiahny.com PASTOR STEVE UNGER We welcome all to join us for worship & fellowship. It would be wonderful to have you with us. While these times are difﬁcult for each of us, we remember all our brothers and sisters in our prayers. Please remember that we are called to unite at this

385 Old Town Rd., Port Jefferson Station 631-928–3737 • www.northshorejewishcenter.org RABBI AARON BENSON • CANTOR DANIEL KRAMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MARCIE PLATKIN PRINCIPAL HEATHER WELKES YOUTH DIRECTOR JEN SCHWARTZ Services: Friday At 8 Pm; Saturday At 9:15 am Daily Morning And Evening Minyan- Call For Times. Tot Shabbat • Family Services • Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Seniors’ Club Youth Group • Continuing Ed • Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah • Judaica Shop Food Pantry • Lecture Series • Jewish Film Series NSJC JEWISH LEARNING CENTER RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Innovative Curriculum And Programming For Children Ages 5-13 Imagine A Synagogue That Feels Like Home! Come Connect With Us On Your Jewish Journey. Member United Synagogue Of Conservative Judaism

1404 Stony Brook Road, Stony Brook 631-751–8518 • www.tisbny.org A Warm And Caring Intergenerational Community Dedicated To Learning, Prayer, Social Action, And Friendship. Member Union For Reform Judaism RABBI PAUL SIDLOFSKY • CANTOR MARCEY WAGNER RABBI EMERITUS STEPHEN A. KAROL RABBI EMERITUS ADAM D. FISHER

Lutheran–LCMS MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH

difﬁcult time and care for one another. And let God’s presence carry us through. Our church ofﬁce is open 9 am - 1 pm, Monday through Friday. While we will not have formal services on Sunday our sanctuary will be open for meditation and prayer from 8:15 am until 12 noon. Call 631-751-5584 for updates. Thank you so much. Praying for all!

Methodist BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

33 Christian Ave/ PO 2117, E. Setauket NY 11733 REV. GREGORY L. LEONARD–PASTOR • 631-941–3581 Sunday Worship: 10:30 Am Adult Sunday School 9:30 Am Lectionary Reading And Prayer: Wed. 12 Noon Gospel Choir: Tues. 8 Pm Praise Choir And Youth Choir 3rd And 4th Fri. 6:30 Pm

ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

532 Moriches Road, St. James 11780-1316 REV. PRINCE DONKOR, PASTOR 631-584-5340 All are Welcome Sunday Service and Sunday School at 10 am Tuesday Evening is Prayer Group at 7:30 pm Wednesday Morning Bible Study at 7:30 am Wednesday Afternoon Bible Study at 1 pm Wednesday Evening Choir Practice at 7:30 pm AA Ministry Every Monday and Wednesday Evenings at 6:30 pm

SETAUKET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

160 Main Street, Corner Of 25A And Main Street East Setauket • 631–941–4167 REV. STEVEN KIM, PASTOR www.setauketumc.org sumcny@aol.com Adult Bible Study: 9am Sunday Worship Service & Church School: 10 am Holy Communion 1st Sunday Of Month Mary Martha Circle (Women’s Ministry) Monthly On 2nd Tuesday At 1pm No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you’re welcome here!

STONY BROOK COMMUNITY CHURCH UNITED METHODIST

216 Christian Ave., Stony Brook, 11790 Church Ofﬁce: 631-751-0574 stonybrookcommunitychurch@gmail.com www.stonybrookcommunitychurch.org REV. CHUCK VAN HOUTEN, PASTOR Connecting People To God, Purpose And Each Other While we all work together to ﬁght the coronavirus, please join us in worship online. Please go to our website (StonyBrookCommunityChurch.org), click on the Announcements page, and then click on the link to Sunday’s service. Renewing, Restoring, Reviving For The 21st Century!

Presbyterian FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PORT JEFFERSON

107 South/Main Streets • (631) 473-0147 We are an accepting and caring people who invite you to share in the journey of faith with us. THE REV. DR. RICHARD GRAUGH Email: office@pjpres.org Website: www.pjpres.org Sunday Worship Service -10am (Childcare Provided) Christian Education-Sunday School: 10:15am Coffee and Fellowship 11:15am Bible Study: Tuesday 3pm Holy Communion 1st Sunday of the Month Meals Provided by Welcome Friends every Friday at 6pm Call the church office or visit our website for current activities and events. NYS Certified Preschool and Daycare - Noah’s Ark The purpose of First Presbyterian Church of Port Jefferson is, with God’s help, to share the joy and good news of Jesus Christ with the congregation, visitors and the community at large; to provide comfort to those in need and hope to those in despair; and to seek justice for all God’s people.

SETAUKET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

5 Caroline Avenue ~ On the Village Green 631- 941-4271 Celebrating and Sharing the love of God since 1660. THE REV. KATE JONES CALONE, INTERIM PASTOR THE REV. ASHLEY MCFAUL-ERWIN, COMMUNITY OUTREACH PASTOR “Visit Our Website: setauketpresbyterian.org for updates on worship. Our service will be streamed live at 9:30 on Sunday mornings until further notice.”

Quakers RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

4 Friends Way, St. James 631–928-2768 • www.cbquakers.org Worship Sundays: Sept. - June 11 am , July - Aug. 10:00 am We gather in silent worship seeking God • the Inner Light • Spirit. We are guided by the Quaker testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. Weekly coffee and fellowship, monthly discussions, Religious Education for children.

Unitarian Universalist UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP AT STONY BROOK

380 Nicolls Road, East Setauket, NY 11733 631–751–0297 • www.uufsb.org • ofﬁce@uufsb.org REV. MARGARET H. ALLEN (minister@uufsb.org) We are a religious community that seeks diversity, individual spiritual growth, social and economic justice. Sunday Service: 10:30 am Children’s Sunday Religious Education Classes: 10:30 am Senior High Youth Group Adult Faith Development Choir, Folk Group, classical music Vespers, Sangha Meditation, Labyrinth Walks, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Yoga, Essentrics, Grounds & Sounds Café, Le Petit Salon de Musique

PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT MANY RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS HAVE CANCELLED SERVICES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PLEASE CALL OR VISIT YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP’S WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE.

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SBU SPORTSWEEK STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY

MARCH 26 TO APRIL APRIL 1, 2020

America East cancels all competitions and practices through end of academic year

Effective immediately, all competition and practices for all teams and individual student‐athletes at America East Conference institutions have been canceled for the rest of this academic year, including any spring sport events that occur beyond the academic year. The decision was made in light of the recent developments, including the cancellation of all NCAA winter and spring championships, regarding the spread of the COVID‐19 virus. This is a proactive decision to protect the health, safety and well‐being of everyone.

Senior Chris Hamilton eyes MLB draft after Stony Brook baseball season halted With a handful of major league scouts on hand, senior Chris Hamilton had started to heat up at the plate of late for the Stony Brook baseball team. In fact, when college athletics was halted throughout the nation on March 12 as a result of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Hamilton had been enjoying a seven-game hitting streak, during which he produced a .379 average. Now, Hamilton — and other draft-eligible college baseball players throughout the nation — are left to wonder the impact on their draft status of the season abruptly ending. Hamilton had expected to use a solid senior season as a springboard to becoming a professional baseball player. A first baseman and outfielder from Rotterdam, northwest of Albany in upstate New York, the athlete is on track to graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. With Stony Brook classes moving online for the remainder of the semester after an extended spring break that now will last two weeks, he plans to relocate to a family home in Sarasota, Fla., and intends work out daily in Tampa. He will complete his final four college classes remotely. Barring a delay, the Major League Baseball draft is scheduled to be held June 10 to 12. “I’m just trying to work hard and get my name called in June,” Hamilton said. “It’s been a

‘I’m just trying to work hard and get my name called in June. It’s been a goal my whole life.’ — CHRIS HAMILTON

Chris Hamilton Photo from SBU Athletics

goal my whole life. There are a lot of unanswered questions. I’m sure they will be answered in the coming days. I’m just going to work hard and work out every day. I’m going to make the most of it and hopefully things work out.” It was early in the draft evaluation process for major league clubs, but Hamilton already had received contact from organizations and had filled out an official draft questionnaire via an online MLB portal.

“Just learning I may have played my last game in a Stony Brook uniform is starting to set in,” said Hamilton, who owns a career .288 average with 16 homers and 88 RBIs in 496 atbats over four seasons with the 2019 America East champion Seawolves. “You don’t work this hard to see a season end in March. I was excited to play with the guys this year. We really were starting to come together. I really wanted to win another ring with these guys.”

The NCAA has pledged to grant an extra year of eligibility to student-athletes from spring sports who had their seasons curtailed. Stony Brook’s baseball team had played only 15 games of a 54-game regular season. For a women’s lacrosse standout such as Ally Kennedy, it is a no-brainer to return to Stony Brook as a graduate student. But Hamilton played his last college game on Wednesday against Merrimack if he is drafted and turns pro. “There are a lot of unanswered questions that hopefully will be answered soon,” said Hamilton, who was rated by D1Baseball. com during the preseason as one of college baseball’s top 150 hitters. “Some of my best years have been at Stony Brook. I made lifelong friendships the past four years. I can’t say enough for the coaches to put me in this position to get drafted. “Returning to Stony Brook is an option now that the NCAA extended eligibility. It’s not my focus, but I’m grateful that is an option. There is no other college baseball program I would play for.”

SBU alum Ryland Rees selected in premier lacrosse league draft

Ryland Rees Photo by Jim Harrison/ SBU Athletics

Stony Brook alum Ryland Rees is the newest member of the Waterdogs. Rees was drafted in the second round (eighth overall) by the Premier Lacrosse League club during the 2020 Entry Draft on Monday evening. Rees had earned a Major League Lacrosse All-Star game selection last July as a member of the Boston Cannons, but now is poised to switch to the PLL. He played indoor lacrosse this winter with the Rochester Knighthawks in the National Lacrosse League. He had

four goals and seven assists in 12 games before play was suspended due to the coronavirus spread. Rees played for Stony Brook from 2016 through last season. He was an all-conference selection as a junior and senior long-stick midfielder. He completed his collegiate career with 15 goals, seven assists, 60 caused turnovers and 164 ground balls. Rees likely will have an opportunity to return to Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium with the PLL this summer. The league is playing three

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games on Stony Brook’s campus June 12-13. Stony Brook assistant coaches Mike Chanenchuk and Tommy Kelly also are expected to play at LaValle Stadium that weekend with the PLL. “I am super excited to join the PLL and compete against the best players in the world,” Rees said. “Being able to play at LaValle Stadium again, and being able to be back at Stony Brook and being able to see the teammates and friends I was able to make there, is the icing on the cake.”

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From left, Michael Bernstein, Kelli O'Hara, Sutton Foster and Alan Inkles Photo by Millie Elangbam/ Staller Center

Staller Center season cut short

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On March 7 Kelli O'Hara and Sutton Foster joined forces for the first time in a double headline show at Stony Brook University's Staller Center for the Arts for their 2020 Gala and, though no one knew it at the time, this would be the last show of the Staller Center season. Performing songs from their lengthy repertoires, both Tony-winning performers gave it their all to a sold-out crowd despite mounting precautions and fears surrounding COVID-19. "I know this is a time of a little bit of nerves and wonder and mystery and anxiety … we want to give you a night away from that," O'Hara said during her performance. The show went on, but out of an abundance of caution, the Gala's reception was canceled. Little did O'Hara know, her comment about it being the last time audiences would be together, quickly became true. (see more photos at www.tbrnewsmedia.com) Days later, on March 10, at the urging of Interim Stony Brook President, Michael Bernstein, the Staller Center announced that all March events were canceled. Bernstein's bold and forward-thinking guided Staller Center Director, Alan Inkles, in his decision to cancel the Starry Nights concert, which was scheduled that same evening. One week after that, Inkles also took the lead and stated that all events at the Staller Center through May 15 would be canceled. In the following days, other theaters and arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, followed suit. In a time of considerable unease, theatre venues across the world have closed their doors to limit the spread of COVID-19. "We were the first East Coast Arts Center that canceled shows for March last week and second in the country," Inkles said. Indeed, the

Staller Center decided to close before larger venues such as Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera House, and London's West End. Performances by the Russian National Ballet, America's Got Talent finalist Diavolo, and the 30th-anniversary show of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, among many others, are no longer coming to the Staller Center this season. "We are working with all of our artists and their managers in attempting to reschedule their shows in upcoming seasons and working together to find creative ways to minimize the financial hardships that appear imminent for these performers," said Inkles. Other canceled events include: three remaining MET Opera Live in HD screenings, the Spring Film Series, A Capella Live, Starry Nights, Jack Licitra: U are the Music!, the Emerson String Quartet, Carol Wincenc, and the Doo Wop Project. The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery is also closed to all in-person visitors through the end of May. The Box Office is closed to in-person visitors, but patrons are asked to call or email the box office at 631-632-ARTS[2787] or boxoffice@ stallercenter.com with questions or concerns. While Staller is offering credit or refunds for all ticketholders, generous sponsors, donors, and partners are offering their help, and many patrons have kindly donated their tickets back. "We are certainly seeing some great humanity in the art world as everyone scrambles to help each other," Inkles said. Stay tuned for announcements on the Staller Center's 2021-22 Season at www.stallercenter. com and visit www.stonybrookfilmfestival.com for information on this July's 25th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival.

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BOOK REVIEW

‘Hope and Freckles’ By Bill Kiley

Children’s Book Reviewed by Melissa Arnold

Author Bill Kiley

Retired police officer encourages empathy for refugees in powerful first book Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world flee their homes. They have any number of motivations, among them political turmoil, threat of violence, discrimination and climate change, to name a few. Retired police officer Bill Kiley has deep compassion for asylum seekers of all kinds, and recently felt a strong desire to help them in some way. Kiley, 71, of East Northport, hopes that educating children about the plight of refugees can bring about a more supportive, empathetic culture in the next generation. His new book, “Hope and Freckles: Fleeing to a New Forest” tells the story of a white-tailed deer named Hope and her spotted fawn, Freckles, as they attempt to escape the growing number of hunters in their forest and go in search of a place where they will be safe. The sharply written story and whimsical, beautifully-illustrated characters will stir the hearts of children and adults alike.

What was your childhood like? I was raised in Brooklyn, lived in Queens after I got married, and came to this area when I started working for the Suffolk County Police Department years ago. Were you creative from an early age? I wasn’t creative at all. I’m one of nine children, and we lived in an apartment with one bathroom, so you can imagine what that was like! We played a lot of sports with our friends, and I started working during the summers when I was 11 to help contribute to the family. What did you end up doing for a career? After high school, I spent a couple of years working at the FBI as a clerk while I went to college at what is now John Jay College at night. My initial plan was to become an agent. Simultaneously, when I was 17 I joined the Army National Guard. I went away for six months of training right after my 18th birthday, and continued to go for additional training at other points which

meant some breaks from school. I ultimately began working for the Suffolk County Police Department in 1972. You must have met a lot of people from diverse backgrounds, then. Of course. That was part of my motivation for writing this book. I wanted to shine a light on the struggles of refugees and asylum seekers all over the world. After 30 years in law enforcement and serving as an Army reservist, I recognize that this crisis threatens free democracy if it’s not dealt with. If we don’t step up, then our children and grandchildren will be left to deal with the global implications of people being pushed out of their countries and living in tent cities. Something needs to change. When did you first start writing? In retirement, I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of babysitting for my granddaughters. We’re a few blocks away from a local library, and so when the kids were with me we’d sometimes go down to the library and head to the children’s section. I began reading to them, and then as they grew I’d read along

with them. At that point I began to see the incredible power that children’s books have on young minds. All the while, I’d been looking for a way to help with the refugee crisis, and I began to think that maybe I could help young children understand what’s happening and have some positive influence on the future. I never had any ambitions to become an author. How did you learn about publishing and sharpen your writing skills? I read a lot with my grandkids. But in the spring of 2019, I found out about an annual convention in New York City called Book Expo at the Javits Center. I spent three days there. For me, it was a three-day immersive educational experience. I had the opportunity to meet lots of people from every aspect of the writing and publishing world, including some very generous folks who were authors of children’s books. They spent a lot of time sharing their experiences and advice with me, and then I went home and continued to read and learn as much as I could. BOOK REVIEW continued on page B22

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BOOK REVIEW

Continued from page B21 How did your family react when you told them you wanted to write a book? Well, my wife, Kathy, and I were in school together since the first grade. We go back that far. And no one in my life has been as supportive of their spouse in life as my wife has been for me. In everything I’ve ever tried, she’s been there, and this was just another one of those things. My granddaughters have been involved in this project from the get-go. They gave great feedback and I’ve had the chance to share the book with their classmates, too. Is there a reason why you chose to make the characters animals instead of people? I thought that since this is such a sensitive subject to explain to children, it would be less upsetting to use animals. The national animal of Honduras is the white-tailed deer, and as many refugees come from that area, I thought it was an appropriate choice.

‘I hope kids who read this book come to understand that there are people their age that are in that situation, and empathize with the plight of refugees all over the world’ — BILL KILEY How did you go about getting published? I met a number of people from traditional publishing companies, independent publishers and hybrids. One of them was a man who recommended his publisher, Mascot Books in Herndon, Virginia. I submitted my manuscript and was happy to learn that they were going to accept it. What about the illustrations? I contacted freelancers all over the world, and Mary Manning’s work is so unique and beautiful. I’m so happy with what she’s done for the book. Once the manuscript was finalized, Mary broke the manuscript into logical scene breaks, then made pencil sketches for me to approve. She took it from there. To see the final copy was like holding my children and grandchildren for the first time. There was a feeling of, “Oh my gosh, we just gave birth to a book!” This book also includes vocabulary words and questions for discussion. Why did you choose to add those? As I was researching and reading different children’s books, I found a couple that had some variation of continuing discussion. My hope is that this book isn’t just read by 7 to 10 year olds, but that their families will read along with them and share in the experience and conversations that can

Author Bill Kiley visited with his granddaughter Keira and fourth grade students from Mrs. Dennis’ class at St. James Elementary School in the Smithtown Central School District on Feb. 4. Kiley spoke to the students about the writing, editing and illustration processes of producing a book. He then read ‘Hope and Freckles’ to the class followed by a Q&A session. Photos courtesy of Smithtown Central School District

happen afterward. A parent or other adult might feel ill-equipped to start a discussion on their own, so I thought having some starter questions might be helpful. What do you want children to take away from reading this book? The response from the classes I’ve read to so far has been wonderful. Kids have shared that they never thought about what it would

be like to leave your home because of danger; to not have a school to go to or books to read; that they are grateful for what they have. That has been like gold to me. It’s easy for people in our country to automatically look at the U.S,-Mexican border as the only place of crisis. But this is a global issue. The U.N. estimates that around 26 million people around the world have had

to flee their homes, often to places where they are unwanted. Half of those refugees are children. I hope kids who read this book come to understand that there are people their age that are in that situation, and empathize with the plight of refugees all over the world. What’s next for you? My hope is to do a series of four books, all with these same characters, following their journey as it continues on. I’ll be reading from the book at Barnes and Noble stores around Long Island and New York City in the future. I am also available to speak about the book at schools, religious congregations and events. “Hope and Freckles: Fleeing to a New Forest” is available online at www.mascotbooks.com, www.Amazon.com or www.BN.com. To learn more about Bill Kiley, this book and future projects, visit www.hopeandfreckles.com.

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COVER STORY

'Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.' ― Amit Ray

WELCOME SPRING! Photographer Mimi Hodges of Sound Beach ventured out in her backyard on March 15 to capture images of these beautiful flowers, "reasons for joy," and which she now shares with you as we welcome spring to our neck of the woods. Clockwise from left, crocus, hellebore, vinca, yellow primrose, crocus, white primrose

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