The Times of Middle Country - October 20, 2022

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Lane Memorial Elementary School celebrates 100 years of fire safety

New Lane Memorial Elementary School students celebrated Fire Prevention Week from Sunday, Oct. 9, to Saturday, Oct. 15. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Fire Prevention Week.

In honor of Fire Prevention Week, firefighters from the Selden Fire Department visited the elementary school to speak to students about preventing fires and what to do in case of a fire emergency.

The elementary school students also asked questions and learned about the fire safety types of

equipment the firefighters use in their fire trucks.

“It was wonderful to have the Selden Fire Department visit our students to educate them on fire safety,” said Phyllis Saltz, principal of the elementary school.

“Thank you to the Selden Fire Department for taking the time to visit us and teach our students the essentials of fire safety.”

For more information regarding the Middle Country Central School District and its students’ many achievements, visit the district’s website: www.mccsd.net.

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New Lane Memorial Elementary School students learning about fire safety with the Selden Fire Department. Photos courtesy MCCSD

Anker, Kornreich host educational forum on substance misuse

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Despite the pouring rain outside, dozens of locals gathered at Mount Sinai High School on Thursday, Oct. 13, for an educational forum on substance misuse prevention.

Hosted by Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai), who chairs the county’s addiction prevention and support advisory panel, the event brought together various entities. In her presentation, Anker emphasized the outsized rate of drug-related fatalities in the area.

“Right now, the town of Brookhaven has the highest number of opioid deaths in Suffolk County — one of the highest in the state — and we have to do more,” she said. The legislator added, referring to the county government, “We’re trying, but it’s really up to the community. It’s up to the parents, kids and peers to do more and get us in a better place.”

Anker highlighted the need for drug addiction and prevention workshops, stating that these provide an outlet for community members to better prepare themselves in case of an emergency. She also noted that drug education has evolved in recent years, addressing victims’ needs rather than creating stigma.

The county’s DASH [diagnostic, assessment and stabilization hub] program was cited by her as a model for responsible drug intervention.

“When people overdose, they go to an emergency [room] at Stony Brook or Mather or St. Charles or one of the hospitals here in Suffolk County, but what do you do after?”

Anker said. “Before, they would just go home or go somewhere. There would be no support, no direction. Now there is.” She added, “New York State is taking that example and making

more throughout the state.”

Also present at this community forum was Town of Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook), chair of the town’s Drug Prevention Coalition. He considered the coalition a valuable public resource for Brookhaven residents.

“That’s a model of getting the school districts involved, of all kinds of community organizations from a grassroots level, so that we can really get down to that family level,” he said. For Kornreich, the goal of the coalition is to “be accessible and get people connected to the services they need and bring prevention programs to schools ... so that we can break that cycle of use and abuse before it starts.”

Another essential component of the forum was its presentations on drug awareness. Among the speakers throughout the night was Mark Murray, chief of the narcotics bureau for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Murray delivered a detailed presentation on the dangers of fentanyl, which he said has become increasingly problematic for county communities.

“Since 2016 here in Suffolk, fentanyl has viciously made its mark,” he said. “We have easily averaged over 300 fatal overdoses a year here in Suffolk, due primarily to the presence of fentanyl.”

Murray characterized fentanyl as a highly potent substance, requiring just “a grain or two” to deliver a lethal dose. According to the narcotics chief, fentanyl is found in nearly every drug on the black market.

“Fentanyl is popular, it’s addictive — and there’s no such thing as a scrupulous drug dealer,” he said.

Given the frequency of fentanyl-related overdoses in Suffolk, Murray stressed the importance of the Good Samaritan Law. This New York State statute protects victims and witnesses of overdose events.

“It covers a witness or a victim of any medical episode — but more specifically a drug or alcohol overdose — who decides to call 911 either for themselves or that third person,” he said. “It’s not a trick. It’s statutory. It was codified by the state because they wanted to encourage people to realize the importance of the situation and to pick up the phone, call and get help.”

Following the presentations from Murray and other speakers, attendees were given training instructions in naloxone.

To learn more about the addiction resources, including emergency hotline numbers, visit the Long Island Addiction Resource Center website: longislandaddictionresourcecenter.org.

Above: Mark Murray, chief of the narcotics bureau for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Photo by Raymond Janis

Long Island fish kills climb to over 50 this summer

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

than colder water, because oxygen can escape more easily from water in higher heat.

With temperature as the primary driver, a combination of factors robs the water of oxygen.

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Fish kills in waterways around Long Island climbed to over 50 this summer from about five per year in earlier years, driven by increasing water temperatures, algal blooms and increased nitrogen in local waters.

With temperatures climbing more than 2 degrees Celsius over the last two decades, waters around Long Island don’t have as much oxygen, particularly at night when photosynthetic plants are no longer able to catch sunlight and turn it into oxygen.

The fish kills represent a “pretty big number,” said Christopher Gobler, endowed chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Members of Gobler’s lab sample Long Island waters routinely as a part of their research. While his team was out gathering data, Gobler asked them to report any fish kills that included 10 or more fish. The area between Hempstead Harbor and Northport Harbor routinely included observations of fish kills.

Warmer water holds less dissolved oxygen

“The warmer the water gets, the quicker the bacteria take oxygen out, the faster the fish are respiring” Gobler said.

He added the fish kills often included menhaden, or bunker, fish. These fish have returned in larger numbers in recent years to the waters around Long Island amid other conservation efforts. More menhaden this summer also brought sharks to the area, as these apex predators hunt bunker fish.

While global warming likely had a significant impact on the number of fish kills, Gobler said, an increase in nitrogen in local waterways also contributed to anoxic conditions and is something residents can control locally.

With more nitrogen, typically from onsite wastewater, algae have more nutrients to grow.

At the same time, when more abundant algae dies, the bacteria that break down the algae consume oxygen.

An additional emerging perspective suggests that the more abundant algae at night are respiring, removing oxygen from the water.

Gobler said people can reduce the release of nitrogen into local waterways, which can also affect groundwater, by upgrading their sewage

treatment systems. Suffolk County has created rules, including a Reclaim our Water Septic Improvement Program, which protects the environment by reducing nitrogen emissions.

Gobler remains concerned not only for the fish that wash up in numbers along the shore, but for the marine organisms that aren’t as mobile, such as the invertebrates at the bottom of the waterways.

The fish kills are a flag that “these water bodies are impaired and are not capable of

sustaining marine life in a way we’d like them to,” Gobler said.

As for the future, Gobler said it’s difficult to predict how the combination of factors, from global warming to nitrogen runoff, will affect marine life.

“Maybe next year, we go back to five [fish kills] in the summer,” he said. This year was “unlike anything we’ve seen” with a combination of high temperatures and numerous fish kills.

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Pictured clockwise from top-left: Centereach senior co-captain Lauren Hoppe heads the ball; junior Nora Pedersen settles the ball; junior Ashley Reid pushes upfield; and Centereach eighth grader Alexa Nullet settles the ball in a home game against Connetquot Oct. 14.

Cougars battle Connetquot to a 1-1 tie

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For the Centereach Cougars, it was a low-scoring battle during a League II road game against Connetquot on Friday, Oct. 14

Connetquot struck first, coming out to a 1-0 lead just 23 minutes into

the first half. But Centereach senior co-captain Lauren Hoppe’s foot evened the score with a solo shot in the closing minutes. Following the equalizer, time ran out, and the contest resulted in a draw.

Keeper Gabrielle Hirsch made six saves in net.

At 6-2-2, the Cougars had

their hands full on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during a road game against undefeated Ward Melville.

This matchup was their regular season finale, one last test before postseason play begins.

— Photos by Bill Landon

Pictured clockwise from top-left: Centereach 8th grader Alexa Nullet settles the ball; senior co-captain Lauren Hoppe settles the ball; 8th grader Alexa Nullet throws in; and senior co-captain Lauren Hoppe clears the ball.

Middle Country Public Library holds teen volunteer recognition ceremony

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Volunteers and their families enjoyed a reception immediately followed by refreshments and a green screen photo booth. It was a wonderful night to celebrate this hardworking group of teens in the Middle Country community who helped make a difference all year!

Middle Country Public library teen volunteers hold recognition certificates. Photos courtesy MCPL

Members of the Middle Country Public Library Teen Advisory Council. Photo courtesy MCPL

Middle Country Public Library Green Teens at work. Photo courtesy MCPL

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Editorial

Drive with care or pay the price

The last few days marked National School Bus Safety and National Teen Driver Safety weeks. The lessons and tips organizations shared during these respective periods are vital to remember all year.

School bus laws seem easy for drivers to understand when they are behind the easy-to-spot, yellow vehicle. However, confusion seems to ensue when it is situated elsewhere on the road. If a driver is in the vicinity of a school bus with its red lights flashing and its “stop” sign extended, it means to stop and wait. This applies not only when a driver is behind the school bus but also when it’s on the opposite side of the road, whether it be on a two-way street, divided highway or multiple-lane roadway. The rules also apply in parking lots and school grounds.

In New York, respecting the law can mean saving anywhere from $250 to $1,000 in fines, avoiding jail time, having points on a license or its being revoked. Most important of all, stopping when seeing a school bus saves children’s lives.

When those children grow up and are ready to learn how to drive, there is a lot to take in, and safe driving behaviors should be of the utmost importance. Parents need to have meaningful conversations with their children about making sure seat belts are used and traffic laws are followed.

The repercussions of distracted driving, such as loud music, goofing around with friends and checking text messages, must also be brought up. Parents can lead by example by ensuring when their teens are behind the wheel, they avoid bad driving habits, especially when other young people are in the car.

One of the most important conversations parents can have with their children is that if using alcohol or drugs at a party, make sure to have a designated driver, sleep over or use Uber or Lyft. While the use of these apps has increased, providing rides when needed, some still insist on getting behind the wheel after drinking. With the holidays around the corner, incidents of people too impaired to drive will inevitably increase. A car can always be retrieved from where it was left the night before, but a life can never be replaced.

With the cooler weather here, there is another traffic safety reminder for people of all ages to heed. It’s the beginning of mating season for deer, also known as rutting season. The animals can run out on the road without warning. Usually when a driver sees one, there may be another or a few right behind the first, especially around dusk. When one is spotted, proceed with caution — and respect deer-crossing warning signs.

Dangers on our roadways seem to be increasing every day, but with a little bit of education and care, we can make our roads safer for all.

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Letters to the Editor

Broader discussion necessary for Long Island’s energy policies

I may agree with your conclusion in the Oct. 13 editorial, “Say ‘no’ to nuclear energy, Long Island,” that without easy exit from Long Island nuclear power is out of the question. So what is the solution? Long Island already pays some of the highest electricity rates in the nation.

First, convert the decommissioned Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant to natural gas, wind and solar. We already have the transmission lines and rights of way in place.

Next, encourage fracking everywhere, in a responsible, environmentally friendly manner. Our neighbors in Pennsylvania encourage responsible fracking, mostly for American Natural Gas, and their economy is booming with excellent, highpaying jobs and phenomenal tax revenue to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Now, encourage on Long Island conservation and retrofitting to LED lights, newer appliances, focusing on air conditioning and refrigeration which are the No. 1 users of energy on the Island. In the water area, mandate steep fines for watering in the rain and require a rain sensor on all irrigation systems — a very cheap item. All toilets must be dual flush, one for “lighter,” one for “heavier.” These are in use throughout Europe and will save substantial fresh water.

Now encourage every homeowner to install solar and wind power. There are vertical wind turbines that make little noise and generate energy. Wind, plus solar, plus natural gas are Long Island’s future as we lessen our dependence on oil and gasoline.

Alan Cohn Nesconset

Additional national debt clocks are needed

Our national debt has now reached more than $31.1 trillion and is on a path to grow by trillions more for years to come. Today’s ever-moving tab averages some $93,000 per citizen or about $247,000 for every taxpayer

(source: National Debt Clock).

It is time to install national debt clocks with daily updates in both Congress and the White House. They can see how much they are adding to long-term debt every time they pass spending bills dependent upon borrowing to pay the tab.

Who is going to bail out Uncle Sam to pay for this? Government, the private sector and citizens must make difficult financial decisions on how to use existing resources. Americans prioritize their own family budgets. They make the hard choices in how existing household financial resources will be spent. The President and Congress should do likewise.

The world’s favored currency is our dollar. This could end if Washington will not control annual increases in spending and debt. If things continue the way they are, China may surpass us and the yuan becomes the world’s favored currency. Our reign as the No. 1 superpower will come to an end like all empires.

Larry Penner Great Neck

American leaders are suffocating the nation

We are living in a time of “information overload” and being bombarded with many lies, deceit, corruption and the orphan of “truth” has been attacked. This present administration is attacking every principle, tradition, institution and virtue that has made America historically exceptional. U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin [RNY1] is being “borked” … lies, lies, lies from this radical Democratic Party that effectively implements “Rules for Radicals” (Saul Alinsky) and are “master distractors.”

Here are questions we all need to ponder:

•Why is this administration inviting “illegal” immigration resulting in a government-made humanitarian crisis? (Mass invasion of a country is an “act of war” and a government failing to protect a country is an “act of treason.”)

•Why is there a hiring of 87,000 IRS

agents to go after the American citizen and not hiring of border agents to protect the American citizen?

•Why are we allowing the castration and mutilation of our children?

•Why are we letting men who say they are women compete in women’s sports and then give them a medal when they win?

•Why are we tolerating a dystopian delusional world? (Finally, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase stood up stating, “You are destroying the country” when in Congress Rep. Rashib Tlaib [D-MI] challenged Dimon over ceasing funding to fossil fuels.)

•Why are cars called “gas guzzlers” and electric cars not called “electric guzzlers”? Electricity has to be created. What creates it? Coal, oil, nuclear power. And what would they do to the batteries that weigh 1,000 pounds and are very toxic to the environment after 10 years?

•Why are we allowing President Joe Biden [D] to deplete our oil reserves that are supposed to be used for the military and emergency crisis that President Donald Trump [R] found “empty” and filled them when cost was low. Why has Biden given our reserves to China? (Be prepared for the fictitious gas prices to go sky high after the election.)

•Why was the president of the USA begging an enemy — Saudi Arabia — for “dirty” oil, when God has blessed our nation with plentiful resources. (Biden had placed a “lockdown” and has created an act of war on our coal and oil industry.)

•Why are all the government agencies arming their untrained staff members with ammunition, guns, etc. Why does social security need weaponry? (Remember, the first thing that Hitler did to control the people was to take away the guns. By the way, Hitler was a “left-wing socialist,” according to “Mein Kampf.”)

•Why is this administration spending, spending, spending, continually weakening the dollar? We do not hear mention of “posterity” anymore.

•Why is this administration doing everything opposite to prevent a recession? (JFK quote: “Now is the time.”)

•Why are parents being labeled and targeted as terrorists for speaking out at school board meetings?

America is not being conquered by a foreign enemy — yet it seems it is being strangled to death by its own leaders. This election has nothing to do with whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Independent but everything to do with “American Marxism.“ We need to vote out those politicians that are pushing for “anti-American” policies in our local, state and federal government. God help America.

Lisa Pius Old Field

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COVID woes reduced the level of climate change concerns, SBU study says

My grandmother was a worrier. Even she, however, would have had a hard time worrying about other major challenges, problems and threats during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That, it turns out, was also true for the world during COVID when it came to discussions about the threat from climate change.

developed, environmental and climate concerns decline amid worries about other major threats.

Smirnov found that the total number of tweets that mention climate change dropped to 5.6 million in 2020 and 5.3 million in 2021, from 8 million in 2019. This, Smirnov points out, occurred despite an increase in Twitter users, more climate disasters and more climate news in 2021.

While Smirnov understood the need to focus on the pandemic, he suggested a lack of concern about climate change could disrupt efforts to protect the planet

“This has profound implications,” Smirnov said. “Without a focus on climate change, without an emphasis on its importance, there is less urgency and less pressure on politicians to do something about it.”

course of days, such an approach provides “no substantial improvement in your health” longer term, he said.

So, what about now, as concerns about the pandemic abate, people have stopped wearing masks and schools and stadiums are full?

“The psychological foundation tell us that people may only really respond to one threat at a time,” Smirnov said in an interview. The anxiety and the reaction to that threat may be limited because it requires major energy.

“Maybe, for biological reasons, [people] put all their energy into responding to the most immediate threat,” Smirnov added.

Even in better times, climate change efforts are “fragile,” he said, which adds to the uncertainty about the ability to address the challenge adequately.

Smirnov plans to continue to collect Twitter data for the remainder of this year, to see whether a return to normalcy brings the focus back to the threat from climate change.

As for his own experience, Smirnov recognized that climate change took a back burner amid the worst of the pandemic.

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF

In a recent study published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oleg Smirnov, associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University, examined the level of concern on Twitter about climate change during 2020 and 2021 and compared those numbers to 2019, the last year before COVID.

According to the pool of finite worry, which Princeton professor of Psychology Elke Weber

By tracking daily tweets and various measures of COVID cases, Smirnov found on a finer scale as well that discussions of climate change diminished amid higher infections and mortality.

For every thousand new COVID-19 cases in the United States, climate change tweets decreased by about 40.5 tweets per day. Every thousand new deaths resulted in 3,308 fewer climate tweets.

Indeed, even the sentiment analysis, in which Smirnov reviewed the emotional content of words used to describe climate change and the threat to the planet and humanity, became less negative during the worst of the pandemic.

When asked about the possibility that climate change concerns might have declined during COVID in part because the carbon footprint declined amid travel restrictions and slowdowns in industrial production, Smirnov likened such an approach to short-term fasting or extreme dieting.

While spending a few days on these extreme diets can reduce a person’s weight over the

“My attention certainly was hijacked by COVID-19, despite the fact that climate change is part of my work,” Smirnov said. In April of 2020, Smirnov recalled worrying about where his family would find food instead of thinking about greenhouse gases and rising sea levels.

In the present, Smirnov remains concerned about the kind of tipping points and climate inertia that threatens the future.

Ever the worrier, my grandmother might be relieved enough by the less virulent form of the virus and the availability of vaccines and treatment to return to worrying about the threat climate change poses.

When you have the urge to get away, here’s a possible destination

Itwas time to get away, even for a day, and when better than on foliage weekend! So Saturday, we took the ferry to Connecticut and started up Route 8 to get to the Berkshires and the seasonal colors.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF

Were we too late in the fall? Shortly after we left Bridgeport, our choice of time and place were confirmed. It was a perfect autumn day, sunny, bright, soft breeze, balmy even, and the colors burst upon us, the reds, oranges, yellows mixed with a still significant amount of green as we began to drive through the hills. No, we were not too late.

We had been concerned, too, about the effects of the summer’s drought on the leaves.

We needn’t have worried. Perhaps, it wasn’t the most dramatic foliage we had ever witnessed, some trees were already bare, but it was brilliant enough to excite our eyes. We whooped around every bend in the road that presented us with a new palette of hills and color.

The timing of foliage season has altered somewhat over the past few years. Climate change has impacted peak leaf peeping by extending the warmer weather that keeps trees green. Hence the optimal viewing time has also been delayed. This year, according to records, seems like it will clock in as the fifth warmest. So it turned out that our urge for an outing was right on.

Where to go?

While it was possible just to drive slowly, drinking in the scenery, it was also fun to have a destination in mind. We left the highway, or rather it left us as it ended in Winsted, incidentally, my dad’s birthplace, and we started on a local road that eventually led us to Southfield, the home of a long-ago college

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roommate with whom we had lost contact. She, and her family, as we discovered, no longer lived there, but that didn’t stop us from enjoying the tiny town. Yes, it was one of those “blink and you will miss it” villages, but we didn’t blink. We parked and had lunch at The Store, a delightful coffee, pastry and sandwich shop with tables inside as well as out front. Happily installed in one corner of the patio with a turkey and avocado sandwich and a generous slice of chocolate-banana bread, to be washed down with ambrosial coffee, we chatted up the couple at the adjoining table, who were smiling at us.

In fact, it was the kind of day that prompted everyone to smile. There we were, amid glorious leafage, basking in ideal temperature and bright sunlight in the peaceful countryside. They told us their names, Paul and Julia, and that they were from Westchester County and celebrating their anniversary. For the first time, they were at leisure to do that because their two children, a son and a daughter, were at college. She was a psychologist, he worked in finance,

and they had left their responsibilities behind to stay at the historic inn in the next village for the weekend.

They were fun to talk to, as was every other person who went by, walking their dogs. We asked each one if they knew the roommate’s family, but just about each one apologized and explained that they had only moved there 20 years ago. What a coincidence, we thought. They had all come more or less at the same time. It wasn’t until the next day that we realized what had happened those two decades ago: 9/11 happened. If one wanted to escape from a city to a safe and bucolic place, here was one such location. Perhaps that was what brought them there.

We stayed in the area, driving around, enjoying the typical New England white clapboard church with its distinctive steeple, the inn and the village common along with glorious Nature. Then, as night fell, we had dinner at the inn before returning home.

The next day, I felt as if I had been aired out.

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