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Elementary school principal does what’s best for kids and his community BY elana Glowatz

Tom Meehan is the kind of principal who would give a child the clothes off his back — literally. When he saw an Edna Louise Spear Elementary School student was not wearing a jacket, the Port Jefferson principal took off the one he had on and gave it to the boy to wear home. “He understands that it’s about the kids — that they’re the priority,” school board President Kathleen Brennan said, adding that Meehan goes “above the call of duty to make sure kids get what they need.” For his dedication to Port Jefferson’s kids and the greater community, Tom Meehan is the Port Times Record’s Person of the Year. Meehan was hired for the 2011-12 school year, originally

on an interim basis. District officials expected to hire a permanent elementary principal, but soon found the best choice was right under their noses. Tony Butera, a longtime kindergarten teacher at Edna Louise Spear, has worked under a bunch of principals in his time there, but said Meehan has “a nice sense of what Port Jeff is supposed to be about.” “He just sees it as, these are his kids,” Butera said. Early on in Meehan’s time in Port Jefferson, there was an issue with one of the bus routes and it was running late. Brennan said the principal “got on the bus, rode the bus around the route and reassured the parents at every stop about why they were late and what happened.” That leadership instinct is not something that can be taught, Brennan said.

“Tom has … what I call ‘horse sense’ about what school administration is about.” One initiative Meehan started in the elementary school is a safety patrol for the fifth-graders to teach them responsibility. Among their activities, they help with dismissal, making sure younger kids get onto the school buses. School board member Ellen Boehm, a former district employee, said it gives the kids a sense that “what they did was important.” And for the less outgoing kids, she added, “He built them up during their time as a safety leader.” Meehan, a longtime volunteer for the Port Jefferson Fire Department, was also responsible for starting the tradition of elementary school kids singing at the fire department’s annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony.

Brennan said the experience is significant for the kids who attend, and they’ve been able to see Meehan in uniform a few times. It’s “important to see adults have other roles in the community,” she said. Christian Neubert has worked alongside Meehan both in the school district, where he is a music teacher, and as a volunteer for the Port Jefferson Fire Department. He said the 9/11 ceremony is not the only way Meehan bridges the school and the department — he also gets firefighters involved in the school’s evacuation drills, and some high school kids now in the junior firefighter program had Meehan as a principal and look up to him at the firehouse. Neubert, a lieutenant, noted Meehan is still qualified to fight fires inside buildings, despite MEEHAN continued on page A30

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above, Vincent DeMarco, center, poses for a photo with some members of the youth re-entry task Force during a regular bi-monthly meeting. Below, DeMarco is reducing the rate of recidivism in county jails.

County sheriff reduces return rate of inmates

DeMarco became Suffolk County sheriff in 2006, the first uniformed memSuffolk County Sheriff Vincent De- ber of the office to be elected sheriff, and Marco has worked diligently over the one of the youngest sheriffs ever elected in last nine years, going above and beyond Suffolk County. From the beginning of his what’s asked of his position. tenure, DeMarco said he has made workHis creation and development of the ing with youth inmates a priority. In 2011, Youth Re-Entry Task Force, a program DeMarco began assembling the partners created to rehabilitate youth inmates, needed for an undertaking like the Youth among his other initiatives, has earned Re-Entry Task Force. him the distinction of a 2015 Port Times “We needed partners on the outside in Record Person of the Year. order to make this a success,” DeMarco “The sheriff has truly changed the cul- said. “We needed housing. … We also ture of corrections in Suffolk County, and had to find not-for-profits that were willhas put particular emphasis on rehabili- ing to come into the correctional facilities tation of incarcerated youth,” said Kris- and do some counseling: drug counseltin MacKay, director of ing, anger management, public relations for the ‘He looks at the big life skill counseling, voSuffolk County Sheriff’s cational counseling, all Office. “He has been at picture beyond the walls types of stuff to fill our the forefront of the fight of his jail and that has program, so when they to eliminate state manleave the facilities they dates for new county allowed him to make a actually have the tools jail construction, which significant impact on to succeed instead of saved the county’s tax- the lives of many young just warehousing them payers hundreds of milin a correctional facilpeople on Long Island.’ lions of dollars.” ity where you’re not givThough you wouldn’t — Thaddaeus hill ing them any tools and know it from speakthey’re going to fail.” ing with him, DeMarco did not initially Among the most essential resources intend to go into law enforcement. A DeMarco and his administration found Ronkonkoma native, DeMarco went to was housing for youths at Hope House St. John’s University, graduating with a Ministries in Port Jefferson and Timothy degree in economics in 1991. Hill Children’s Ranch in Riverhead. “I always had an interest in law enforceThaddaeus Hill, executive director of ment,” DeMarco said. “But I didn’t think it Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch — created was going to be my career.” and named in memory of his older brother After two years working in the financial — said the program has seen great success, industry in New York City, DeMarco tran- highlighted by the 50 percent drop in resitioned into law enforcement, becoming a cidivism among youths who go through. deputy sheriff for Suffolk County in 1994. “Sheriff DeMarco has pioneered proHe took to the job quickly. grams that few in this country have had “I think I have the best job in the world, the courage to take on,” Hill said. “He I really do,” he said. “I love coming to work looks at the big picture beyond the walls of every day. I love what I do.” his jail and that has allowed him to make By Clayton Collier

a significant impact on the lives of many young people on Long Island.” Another key component was Eastern Suffolk BOCES to incorporate education into the program. Barbara Egloff, divisional administrator for Eastern Suffolk BOCES and Oversight of the Jail Education Program and Career, Technical and Adult Education, said DeMarco has effectively used the strengths of all of his partnerships to make the program a success. “It is inspiring to work with Sheriff DeMarco,” Egloff said. “He has instilled the importance of effective collaboration to all who have the opportunity to work with him.” Suffolk County Court Judge Fernando Camacho, who heads the County’s Felony Youth Part, a program created in conjunction with Sheriff DeMarco, said it is rare to come across a sheriff so dedicated to creating better lives for his inmates after they have served their time. “I’ve worked in criminal justice my entire professional career, over 30 years, and I’ve worked with a lot of individuals running correctional facilities, and I can honestly say I’ve run across somebody who’s actually bringing in social workers and service providers into his jail to help young people to identify what the issues are, and to try to come up with solutions,” Camacho said. Camacho said it is important to work with youth inmates to improve their situations upon leaving the jail. “Rather than putting them upstate for three years and forgetting about them, we’re actually thinking about it in a different way,” Camacho said. “Let’s see if we can figure out why this kid got in trouble, and let’s see if we can put a plan in place that’s going to give this kid an opportunity to break out of the cycle and get back on track.”

As DeMarco explains, the program’s numbers speak for themselves. “Nationally, the average inmate has an 83 percent chance of returning,” DeMarco said. “The kids that come through our program have a 23 percent chance of coming back; that’s a big difference.” Overall, the program contributes to lowering the number of inmates in county jails, allowing DeMarco to prevent the costly undertaking of additional facilities. “It doesn’t cost us any more to provide these services to the youth in this facility, but the return we get is that they don’t come back to the facility and we lower the jail population.” In the future, DeMarco hopes to expand for additional age groups. The more people he can help, he said, the better. “If someone winds up touching the criminal justice system and they wind up in this facility, and we can find out the underlying reason why this crime was committed,” he said, “we can change that and change their behavior when they get out, we’ve increased public safety, and that’s the goal.”

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DiNunzio does it all Port Jefferson Rotary member gives time and limitless energy to make his world a better place By Elana Glowatz

Jumping out of a plane, mentoring younger people and planting flowers are all in a day’s work for Ed DiNunzio. He’s officially the head of membership for the Port Jefferson Rotary but he has worn many more hats during his years with the service organization, filling in wherever he can to make his community a better place to live. For selflessly dedicating his endless energy to serving his neighbors, DiNunzio is a Port Times Record Person of the Year. One of DiNunzio’s biggest roles is in the Gift of Life program, which started in Suffolk County 40 years ago — but has expanded through Rotary International — and provides lifesaving heart procedures to children around the globe. The Person of the Year has been involved since the beginning, Port Jefferson Rotary member Debbie Engelhardt said, using his skills as a lawyer to help it get organized and off the ground. Suffolk Rotary clubs have most recently raised funds and brought a 4-year-old girl to Long Island from Kosovo, for a surgery to repair a nickel-sized hole in her heart called an atrial septal defect. Gift of Life also works to provide medical staff in other countries with equipment and training to perform such procedures, so children will not have to travel so far for treatment in the future. DiNunzio has gone to extremes for the program. He once raised money for Gift of Life by skydiving. “That was a great thing that he did personally,” fellow Rotarian Dennis Brennan said, noting the physical risk involved in jumping out of a plane for charity. “That was a large sacrifice on his part to do that.” Each jumper in that fundraising effort

was supposed to bring in $1,500 but DiNunzio collected $2,150 for Gift of Life. “He’s true blue,” said Engelhardt, who is also the director of the Comsewogue Public Library. “He’s got more energy than basically anybody I know.” Skydiving isn’t the only way DiNunzio brings in funding for Rotary. Engelhardt said the club holds an annual raffle fundraiser in which each member is expected to sell at least 25 tickets, but “without fail, Ed sells over 200 every year.”

But it’s not just about the money — between attending to his family in Mount Sinai and his law practice in Port Jefferson, DiNunzio also gives his time. He is heavily involved in the Rotary Youth Exchange program, through which students study abroad and stay with a host family. According to Engelhardt, DiNunzio has lent a hand on an organizational level for the Northeastern region for many years and has opened his home to exchange students from other areas.

Photos at top from Debbie Engelhardt; file photo above by Dennis Brennan

Clockwise from top left, Ed Dinunzio skydives for a Gift of life fundraiser; Dinunzio, kneeling, gets painting in downtown Port Jefferson; and he digs deep to beautify a camp for kids with disabilities.

Between those kids and others from the Northeast who had life-changing experiences overseas through the program, DiNunzio has made an impact on the lives of numerous young people. Engelhardt explained that a lot of them are now grown adults living all over the world, but whenever they are in the area they look up DiNunzio. She said Rotary is about using your life to make the world a better place, and DiNunzio does that. “Everybody’s part of something bigger,” Engelhardt said. “He’s not a child, but he’d be our poster child.” Brennan described DiNunzio’s meticulous nature, which is obvious when the volunteer manages one of the Rotary’s bank accounts. “He watches it like a hawk,” Brennan said. And he is meticulous about his physical fitness too. Brennan said DiNunzio brings an important strength to the Rotary: The club uses a heavy wooden sign when it collects food for donation, and “we depend on Ed” to bring it to the collections because he’s the only one who can lift it on his own. Once at Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck, a Center Moriches camp for kids with disabilities where the Rotary does cleanups and beautification, a group was planting perennials by a flagpole but the ground was hard, making digging difficult. “Old Ed, he just kept going at it,” Brennan said. “He never quit.” Brennan refers to the Person of the Year as “Mr. Rotary” because he has his hand in every program and gives his all. “When he gets involved with something … he puts his whole self into it and the results are easy to see,” he said. “He’s a very caring person and I think that he’s demonstrated that.”

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But she too has been involved in outreach and drug abuse prevention, aside from being to co-administrator of Budd’s Facebook page. “I get a call just about every day from a parent saying they have a kid that’s addicted and they don’t know what to do,” she said. “We’re losing kids left and right. We’re losing a generation, is what we’re losing.” Longo is a part of a 501(c)3 not-for-profit program, Steered Straight, which spreads prevention in schools. Recovered addict Michael DeLeon leads the program. “You can hear a pin drop in the auditorium, that’s how dynamic of a speaker he is,” she said. “I can’t tell you how many kids come up to us at the end of the program and say, ‘I have a problem.’” Longo was the chapter coordinator for New York State for a website called The Addict’s Mom, and is currently the head of Before the Petals Fall, Magnolia Addiction Support’s New York chapter. She is a 12-step yoga teacher to recovering addicts, and does post-traumatic stress disorder programs to help those dealing with grief. As a retired nurse, Longo said she thought she’d know where to turn when she found out her son was an addict, but said she really didn’t know what to do. “There was such a bad stigma about addiction that you didn’t want to talk about it — you kind of suffered in silence,” she said. “If I was a nurse and had these contacts and didn’t know what to do, the average mother may have no idea. I’m trying to open the community up to what we have here on the North Shore.” Longo has helped mothers like Sheila “Terry” Littler, of Rocky Point, whose son is a second-time recovering heroin addict. Currently, he is three months sober. Knowing about treatment and where to get help, because it was something that started for her 13 years ago, Littler reached out to Longo for mental support. “It was nice to have somebody else that’s gone through it to talk to, to know you’re not alone,” Littler said. “But at the

same time, it’s sad that I’m not alone.” When her son relapsed after being four and a half years sober, she reached out to Budd. “It takes a lot of guts to come out in the open and do this and help people,” she said. “There are a lot of hurting people out there.” She recently reached out to Longo about a friend of her son, who is a drug user, and the two were calling each other back and forth to find ways to overcome addiction. “She cared to take the time to help me,” she said. “She spent a whole day doing that with me — that’s dedication right there.” With the contacts Longo’s made with support centers and prevention agencies and Budd’s relationship with the county after creating the PSA, the two are teaming up to use their resources to form a coalition based on the Facebook page. It was also have the same name. It’s in its early stages, but the hope is to help spread awareness about prevention through schools. As part of a coalition, Budd said, you can also apply for grants, which she hopes will help fund the spread of their advocacy. “I felt Tracey was on the same path that I was on,” Longo said. “She is as tenacious as I am in what we’re trying to do.” Longo said that she and Budd are trying to be vigilantes and have started Narcan training classes, like ones they’ve previously hosted in Miller Place and East Setauket, to continue to help fight the Island’s drug addiction problem. Narcan is a medication that stops opioid overdoses. “I think together we’re a good team,” Budd said. “To me, you have a choice. You can either dig your head in the sand and be embarrassed that your child is an addict, or you can be proactive and say, ‘Enough of this, let’s help each other.’ When you speak to another parent that’s going through it, there’s a bond that you automatically create. In a way, I feel like my son is right there with me, helping these families. It’s very important to me, and I’m never going to stop doing it.”

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LaValle makes lasting impact on North Shore By Daniel Dunaief

Quality health care and, to hear state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) describe it, home cooking are good for the body, mind, soul and community. That’s the argument the Republican senator has been making for years on behalf of the Stony Brook University medical center and its hospital. After the university lost out earlier this year on a partnership with Peconic Bay Medical Center, which agreed to team up with North Shore-LIJ Health System, the longtime local senator has continued his unflagging support of Stony Brook, particularly with John T. Mather Memorial Hospital. “If we think of a wheel, the hub of a wheel, and the local community hospitals are its spokes,” LaValle said, referring to Stony Brook as that hub in the center. “This is my vision and one that I think is good for the people I represent” to allow them to have the “best quality health care” close to home. For his consistent and long-term efforts to lend the support of his office to an important area institution, and for the passion and dedication he has shown to the residents of the region for close to four decades, LaValle is a Port Times Record Person of the Year.

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Stony Brook officials appreciated LaValle’s work on their behalf and suggested that he played a seminal role in keeping their ongoing relationship with Southampton Hospital on track. “It took perseverance to continue to push the Southampton relationship

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Rybak’s got your back Social ministry director tirelessly helps needy in area By Rachel SifoRd

Vicki Rybak has been serving the Long Island community for more than a decade, known by her friends and coworkers as one of the busiest and most resourceful people they know. As the director of social ministry and outreach for Infant Jesus R.C. Church in Port Jefferson, Rybak has gone above and beyond her job description. For that reason, she has been named a Port Times Record Person of the Year. “She is a last resort for a lot of people,” said Debbie Engelhardt, director of the Comsewogue Public Library and a Port Jefferson Rotary Club member. The Rotary Club works closely with Rybak and the church. One of their biggest collaborations is on The Open Cupboard at the church, a food pantry for needy Long Islanders that the Rotary donates to. According to Engelhardt, one in eight on Long Island currently need help from food banks. “Year-round she is involved in projects like this,” Engelhardt said about Rybak. “She tries to be everything that anyone needs, which can be exhausting. She is helping families from falling through the

cracks and they are really fortunate to have someone who has the time and energy to be that person.” Jim Fenton is one of the oldest volunteers at Infant Jesus and has worked with Rybak closely. “Vicki is extremely resourceful when someone comes to her with a problem,” Fenton said. “She has all these phone numbers at her fingertips, and is very compassionate too.” Fenton added that Rybak devotes time to applying for grants to keep the food pantries stocked and keep the equipment working — “all of her own initiative.” “She goes above and beyond what is in her job description,” Fenton added. “There is nothing she won’t do.” Sharon Brennan, another Rotary Club member, shared an anecdote of working with Rybak. Once, a couple went to her office crying because a fire had destroyed everything they owned. “Vicki started making calls immediately, getting them stuff over the phone, getting Christmas presents for their children,” Brennan said. “She just goes into high gear and makes stuff happen.” Rybak is involved in many different programs throughout the year, includ-

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ing the Adopt-A-Family program for the holiday season, through which volunteers purchase Christmas presents such as toys and clothes for families who do not have enough money to spend on those items themselves. That project gets a lot of residents and community groups involved,

including the Interact Club at Port Jefferson’s Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, right down the road from the church. The Person of the Year also works on a back-to-school project, filling up 150 backpacks with school supplies — such as composition notebooks and pencils — for children at the start of the each new school year, with the help of community donations. “Vicki somewhere, somehow finds a way to help them, no matter what they need,” Laszlo Girhiny, a church member, said about Rybak’s dedication to local people in need. “Hundreds of people have walked through her doors.” If Rybak cannot help people herself, she connects them with other social service agencies so the job can get done. “She has the right attitude and always treats the people she helps with dignity,” Brennan said. “She says everyone has been there one time in their life.” File photo

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Turano takes Three Village history to another level By SuSan RiSoli

Setauket resident Frank Turano delves deeply into local history. He uncovers compelling stories of everyday people and brings those tales to life for the rest of us to share. For that reason, and for his ongoing service to the Three Village Historical Society as board member and past president, Turano is one of the Port Times Record’s People of the Year. Beverly Tyler, the society’s historian, has known Turano since the early 1970s and described Turano’s leadership in unearthing details about Chicken Hill, the area of Route 25A around the current-day Setauket Methodist Church. It was once a thriving community of immigrants who helped each other make a new life in America. An exhibit about Chicken Hill is on display at the society’s headquarters in Setauket. Tyler said Turano, who is manager of the Chicken Hill project and curator of the exhibit, led the search for the community’s almost-forgotten past and wrote a successful funding proposal to create the exhibit. “He’s there almost every single weekend, to give tours of the exhibit,” Tyler said. He and Turano traveled in September to the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History, where the Chicken Hill exhibit received the association’s highest distinction, the

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Award of Merit. Karen Martin, archivist for the Historical Society, said Turano leads the organization’s Rhodes Committee. At the group’s weekly meetings in the Emma Clark Public Library, Martin said, Turano facilitates the group’s far-ranging and free-wheeling conversations about the history of our area, and then mines the discussions for ideas to dig into. “The big names, like the Ward Melvilles, make the headlines,” Martin said. “But Frank also wants to know about everyone who lived in a community, the

everyday person, the guy who owned the general store.” If a historical topic comes up in a Rhodes committee meeting, Turano “wants to know all the details. He’ll say, ‘Who’s going to know about this? Let’s give them a call.’” Turano also volunteers for the Society’s annual Candlelight House Tour every December, Martin said. He explains the history of houses on the tour, and in general “he loves to give presentations.” Local resident Hub Edwards, who has worked with Turano on many history projects, said, “If people want to know

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“Now that I’m an adult and I can look at how [Foley] handled [coaching] and how Just keep shooting. he managed his team ... you’ve got to kill That’s what Kevin Foley used to tell the yourself to prove anything to him [beplayers on the Suffolk County Community cause] he already sees what your potential College women’s basketball team. And is and he’ll nurture it.” encouraging them to never give up wasn’t Quinn played for Foley when she atjust a message for between the paint — it tended the college in 1997, graduating went for when they were off the court as from SCCC two years later. Quinn, of well. Even his retirement as the women’s Middle Island, was a senior in high school basketball head coach earlier in 2015 when Foley approached her after watchdidn’t stop Foley from continuing to sup- ing her play a game at the college. port his players — he returned to SCCC She didn’t plan on playing basketball at as the institution’s athletic director that the college level before Foley spoke to her. same year. But Foley helped her, and many students That is why Kevin Foley is a 2015 Port just like her. Times Record Person of the Year. SCCC’s Athletics and Intramurals Vice President of Student Affairs Coordinator Kerry Swanson met Foley Christopher Adams 20 years ago when she said Foley has worked ‘You’ve got to kill yourself was one of his players. at the college nearly 37 Swanson attended the years as a professor and to prove anything to him college in the early to member of the school’s [because] he already sees mid-1990s. athletic department. what your potential is She admitted that While Adams described she was unsure of what Foley as dedicated and and he’ll nurture it.’ she was doing with her passionate, he said it’s — Colleen Quinn life and Foley helped his overall approach to steer her in the right life that resonates with him. direction. According to Swanson, Foley “He’s very big on success in the class- has a knack for helping those who are lost room and the athletic fields.” find their way, regardless of who they are Adams said Foley instilled important or his relationship with them. life lessons into all of his players: You’ll “He tries to connect with people on be successful if you’re a “good sport” who some level. If he can go out of his way follows the rules. for someone, he just goes out of his way,” Foley was like a father figure for some Swanson said about the current athletic of his players in his 19 years of coaching, director. those close to him said. Former SCCC stuAdams said Foley also put the college dent and basketball player Colleen Quinn on the map, as many SCCC sports teams said she remembers Foley differently from have improved under his leadership. other coaches she had when growing up. He’s also earned several awards on mulAs a high school student, Quinn said she tiple occasions, including the NATYCAA always felt like she wasn’t doing well on the Cup, otherwise known as the Pepsi Cup; basketball court. the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup; the “I only really had a few coaches to Mickey Crowley Metropolitan Officials compare him to, and those coaches were Sportsmanship award; and the Joe DeBonis similar [to one another],” Quinn said. Sportsmanship Award. The college received By Giselle Barkley

this regional award 12 times in the past two decades. He also celebrated his 400th career win earlier in 2015, along with several other awards for his work as a professor. In honor of Foley and all his achievements on and off the court, SCCC will rename the basketball court on the school’s Ammerman Campus in Selden after him. As a senior attending Seton Hall High School in 1965, Foley averaged 30 points

per game. He also received a basketball scholarship to attend Seton Hall University, where he served as the team’s captain from 1968-69. In 1994, he was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame. “He is someone that could have gone anywhere to coach big-time athletics,” Adams said. “He’s been at the college for almost 37 years. That speaks to his dedication and it speaks to his love for our college and for the students.”

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Top, kevin Foley has his team huddle around him for a mid-game discussion. above, Foley watches a basketball game from the sidelines.

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Pinkenburg makes Rocky Point robotics real By Rachel SifoRd

chris Pinkenburg, far right, poses with some members of his Rocky Point robotics Gearheadz team.

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Chris Pinkenburg has been trying to get Rocky Point students more interested in math and science. So he created his own robotics club called GearHeadz to do so. Because of this, he has been named a 2015 Port Times Record Person of the Year. Pinkenburg, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was inspired to create his own robotics club in the Rocky Point school district after attending an educational symposium at BNL. He thought this was the perfect way to get more students involved in engineering. GearHeadz is a privately run FIRST LEGO League team from Rocky Point. “For years, he was the one who was very vocal about how having robotics in the school is important,” said Bea Ruberto, president of the Sound Beach Civic Association. “Encouraging science and technology is very important for kids.” PINKENBURG continued on page A28

Stony Brook researchers on front lines of medicine By daniel dunaief

They have a sense of urgency that motivates those around them to push for better results. In fighting against diseases that kill millions of people every year, they are doing what they’ve done from the time they left their home country of Lebanon until they arrived at Stony Brook three years ago: They are supporting their colleagues, recruiting top talent from around the world and encouraging their staff to train and encourage the next generation of researchers. Yusuf Hannun, the director of the Cancer Center at Stony Brook, and Lina Obeid, the dean for research, continue to build a deep and talented team, adding researchers focused on curing diseases while also developing the next generation of Stony Brook scientists. The Port Times Record recognizes Hannun and Obeid as People of the Year for their day-to-day leadership, their discoveries in their labs, and their focus on the future of science at Stony Brook. “In terms of what they are building at Stony Brook, their vision is to grow that Cancer Center into a NCI-designated Cancer Center,” said Gerard Blobe, a professor and research director at the Division of Medical Oncology at Duke University Medical Center who earned his Ph.D. in Hannun’s lab more than 20 years ago. They want to make it a “force in clinical care and research and training. They have a mission up there and I have no doubt that they’ll accomplish it.” Blobe said the National Cancer Institute designation is just the “icing on the cake” that enables the center to seek

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yusuf hannun, left, and lina obeid, right, are constantly working to improve their team of dedicated researchers with the hopes of curing complicated diseases.

funding for some projects. What’s more important, he said, is “what they will accomplish by getting that prize,” in building and developing Stony Brook’s research abilities. Scientists in the same field as Hannun were quick to praise his achievements and innovation. Discoveries by Hannun about sphingolipids, which are molecules that are involved in a range of roles, including cell division, differentiation and cell death, provided key insights. Hannun “pushed the field into the modern age,” said Tony Futerman, the Joseph Meyerhoff professorial chair of biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. “He’s been

innovative for 30 years in the field.” In her lab, Obeid, who is the dean for research and a professor at the Stony Brook School of Medicine, is exploring the role of enzymes that control molecules involved in cell growth and others that play a role in cell death or differentiation. Futerman said Hannun and Obeid have been instrumental in the careers of many other scientists, developing talented and dedicated researchers who have also made significant contributions. “They are excellent mentors of younger people,” he said. “There’s a whole school of former post docs who went on to get independent positions. This speaks to their mentorship. ... They push young people into leadership positions.”

Those who have worked for Obeid and Hannun in the past suggested that they offered the kind of guidance, discipline and approach that was applicable in and outside the lab. “Part of [Hannun’s] success is he’s very good at planning,” said Supriya Jayadev, who was a graduate student in Hannun’s lab at Duke and is now the executive director of Clallam Mosaic in Port Angeles, Washington. “He plans out an experiment such that it works the first time.” Corinne Linardic, Hannun’s first graduate student, said, “I remember him saying, ‘It’s important not to look where the light is, but to try to look into the dark and turn the light on. ... I thought that was very brave.” Linardic, who is now an associate professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, also said she felt fortunate to work with Obeid. “It was extraordinary to have a female mentor as well,” Linardic said. While they have come a long way from the beginning of their careers and their family, Hannun and Obeid have kept a consistent focus on the potential clinical benefits of their research. “They get the translational aspects,” Futerman said. “When [Hannun] moved to Stony Brook to head the Cancer Center, that was one of the aims for his move, to be in a position where he can apply basic science to translational research.” Futerman said Hannun and Obeid deserve recognition in the Long Island and scientific communities. “They are considered leaders,” Futerman said. “They contribute a lot to the academic community.”

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Reference librarian keeps Three Village informed By Giselle Barkley

She is the librarian’s librarian and one of Emma S. Clark Memorial Library’s longest-serving employees. Throughout her 30 years at the East Setauket library, reference librarian Carolyn Emerson, 61, can find almost anything, her colleagues said. But it’s her involvement with the library and caring attitude that’s made her an intricate part of the library and the community, and that is why the Port Times Record selected her as a Person of the Year in 2015. Photo by Dianne Trautmann

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Every other Wednesday, this soft-spoken librarian has organized the library’s senior bus program, which transports residents who would otherwise be unable to make it to the library. Although she didn’t start the program, Emerson took it over to help these seniors. She also used her position at the library and her knowledge of Three Village history to organize and create programs like last year’s Culper Spy Day, which paid homage to the community’s ties to spy rings during the Revolutionary War. On June 20, 2014, the library held its first Culper Spy Day program, in which residents could learn about the Revolutionary War, the Culper Spy Ring and its ties to Long Island. Three Village Historian Beverly Tyler, of the Three Village Historical Society, helped organize the event and said Emerson established a user-friendly site to spread the word about the spy ring throughout the community. “She’s a very community-oriented [person] and easy to work with,” Tyler said. “She really makes the library a good common resource for more than just books and videos, but also history.” Her efforts to inform the community stemmed from a desire to share her vast array of knowledge with others and help those in need, those close to her said. And her hard work is not only for the bigger programs, but also for little tasks that accompany her title as a reference librarian in Emma S. Clark’s adult section. “Whenever anybody comes up to the reference desk, she just gives it 110 percent,” said co-worker Jennifer Mullen, the public relations manager and community outreach librarian. “She doesn’t stop looking until she finds it either, and everybody appreciates that. She digs deep.” Mullen met Emerson a little more than 10 years ago. They worked side-by-side as reference librarians. Now, Mullen works alongside Teen Services Librarian Nanette Feder, who also commended Emerson for her insight on art, local history and literature, and dedication to her work and the community members she serves. Emerson’s husband, Mark Rothenberg, said his wife comes from a line of people who share her tenacity and need to give back to their community. Emerson’s mother was recognized for her work following Hurricane Andrew, building homes for storm victims. Her father, a psychiatrist who ran a family clinic, counseled families in the Miami area. While her parents did their part to actively help those around them, they encouraged a young Carolyn Emerson and her siblings to be compassionate and stand up for themselves and their beliefs, Rothenberg said. Emerson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. Despite the diagnosis, chemotherapy and surgery, Emerson remained resilient. She was cleared of cancer the following year and continued her work inside and outside the library. “Many times, I’m in awe of her,” said Rothenberg, who works as the head of the Patchogue-Medford Library’s Celia M. Hastings Local History Room. “She’s been through a lot, including cancer.” In addition to being a reference librarian, Emerson has also worked as a published poet. She has written poems in both English and French for publication. The librarian has also overseen poetry and book discussions at the library, which are a hit among residents, her coworkers said. Mullen said Emerson acquired a large following for her evening book discussions and monthly poetry meetings. Her ability to listen appears to be one of Emerson’s many positive qualities that help further assist those who request her help. While Feder didn’t pinpoint a specific moment illustrating Emerson’s character, she said, “It’s just how she works everyday at the library. She could be on a reference desk [or] helping a member of the library.”

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have been heard loud and clear. State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) has been a consistent voice in the North Shore’s environmental discussion, having held previous positions as a geologist and biologist before becoming a public servant. And with his expertise, Englebright referred to the Setauket Harbor Task Force as an epicenter of community pride that has made a tremendous impact on the North Shore. “We have a sense of purpose now to work between our civic community and the town and the state — it’s just wonderful,” he said. “I guess everybody would hope that government would do all of this on its own, but the additional attention and focus being brought by citizens who have taken this initiative on is just terrific. So my sense is that by establishing the Setauket Harbor Task Force, and providing a forum where issues that relate to the overall health of the ecosystem in our harbor can be discussed, we have a

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matter of focus.” The group has received support from Brookhaven officials as well. Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said the Task Force represents the best of Brookhaven. “These are citizens coming together and recognizing a common problem and looking to make a positive difference,” Romaine said. “We are prepared to spend money to enact some of the things they are trying to achieve. This is a commitment and what helps us is that we have partners on the local level — people who step up to the plate.” Town Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) echoed those sentiments after spending the year working closely with the Task Force. “The formation of the Setauket Harbor Task Force is a significant step in addressing some of the environmental concerns in the area,” she said. “It is a vehicle for the community to work together to assist in preserving our harbor and improving our water quality. I thank the members of the Task Force for all of their hard work to bring awareness of the needs

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Members of the Setauket Harbor Task Force work alongside government officials near the water earlier this year.

of the Harbor to the community. I had the privilege of attending the first Setauket Harbor Day this past summer, which I believe was a success, as it was both entertaining and educational.” Looking ahead, Englebright said he’d hope to see the group follow through in working with

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the Town of Brookhaven to see what kinds of progress can be achieved in addressing road runoff issues and restoring the ecological balance of some of the most disrupted areas along the harbor. “The fact that the town is planning to dredge the basin

is, in part, a response to the initiative of local citizens,” Englebright said. “That partnership is really all too rare, and it’s ideally what government should be doing. I hope the town continues to realize that this is a wonderful and promising partnership.”

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Religious ASSEMBLIES OF GOD

CATHOLIC

EPISCOPAL

STONY BROOK CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY

ST. JAMES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Connecting to God, Each Other and the World

400 Nicolls Road, E. Setauket (631) 689–1127 • Fax (631) 689–1215

www.stonybrookchristian.com Pastor Troy Reid Weekly Schedule Sunday Worship w/nursery 10 am Kidmo Children’s Church • Ignited Youth Fellowship and Food Always to Follow Tuesday Evening Prayer: 7 pm Thursday Morning Bible Study w/Coffee & Bagels: 10 am Friday Night Experience “FNX” for Pre K-Middle School: 6:30 pm Ignite Youth Ministry: 7:30 pm Check out our website for other events and times

BYZANTINE CATHOLIC RESURRECTION BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH

38 Mayflower Avenue, Smithtown NY 11787 631–759–6083 resurrectionsmithtown@gmail.com www.resurrectionsmithtown.org Fr. Jack Custer, SSL., STD., Pastor Cantor Joseph S. Durko Divine Liturgy: Sunday, 11:15am followed by fellowship in the parish hall. Holy Days: 7:00pm. See website for days and times. Faith Formation for All Ages: Sunday School (Ages 4-13), alternate Sundays at 10:00am ByzanTeens (14-18), alternate Tuesdays at 7:00pm Adult Faith Formation: Mondays at 7:00pm. PrayerAnon Prayergroup for substance addictions: Wednesdays at 7 pm See the website for current topics and schedule. The Sacraments: Baptism, Chrismation and Eucharist for infants, children and adults arranged by appointment. Sacrament of Matrimony arranged by appointment. Sacrament of Repentance: Sundays 10:50 to 11:05am and before or after all other services. All services in English. A parish of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic.

CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. GERARD MAJELLA 300 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station (631) 473–2900 • Fax (631) 473–0015

www.stgmajella.org Rev. Gennaro DiSpigno, Pastor Oﬃce of Christian Formation • 928–2550 We celebrate Eucharist Saturday evening 5 pm, Sunday 7:30, 9 and 11 am Weekday Mass Monday–Friday 9 am We celebrate Baptism Third weekend of each month during any of our weekend Masses We celebrate Marriage Arrangements can be made at the church with our Pastor or Deacon We celebrate Penance Confession is celebrated on Saturdays from 4–5 pm We celebrate You! Visit Our Thrift Shop Mon. – Fri. 10 am–4 pm + Sat. 10 am–2 pm

INFANT JESUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 110 Myrtle Ave., Port Jefferson, NY 11777 (631) 473-0165 • Fax (631) 331-8094

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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 Religious Education: (631) 928-0447 Parish Outreach: (631) 331-6145

429 Rt. 25A, Setauket, NY 11733 Phone/Fax: (631) 941–4141

Mission Statement: In faith we come together to celebrate the Eucharist as a Parish Family; and as a Catholic community of faith, we are sent to be Christ to the world around us. Rev. James-Patrick Mannion, Pastor Rev. Daniel Opoku-Mensah, Associate Rev. Jon Fitzgerald, In Residence Weekday Masses: Monday – Saturday 8:00 am Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm Sunday 8:00am, 9:30 am (family), 11:30 am (choir), 6:00 pm (Youth) Office Hours: Monday–Thursday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Baptisms: Sundays at 1:30 pm (except during Lent) Reconciliation: Saturdays 4:00 – 4:45 pm or by appointment Anointing Of The Sick: by request Holy Matrimony: contact the office at least 9 months before desired date

CONGREGATIONAL MT. SINAI CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

233 North Country Road, Mt. Sinai • (631) 473–1582 www.mtsinaichurchli.org “No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here” Sunday Services at 10 am Sunday School and childcare oﬀered at the 10 am service and open to all infants to 8th grade. Last Sundays of the month: 10 am Welcome Sunday Service A service welcoming those with differing abilities We are an Open and Affirming Congregation.

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 Please come and welcome our new Priests: The Rev. Dr. Richard Visconti, Priest–In–Charge The Rev. Farrell D. Graves, Priest Associate Sunday Holy Eucharist: 8 and 9:30 am Religious instruction for children follows the 9:30 am Service 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 CHURCH OF BROOKHAVEN The Rev. Cn. Dr. Richard D. Visconti, Rector The Rev. Farrell Graves, Priest Associate

1 Dyke Road on the Village Green, Setauket Web site: www.carolinechurch.net Parish Office email: office@carolinechurch.net (631) 941–4245

Sunday Services: 8:00 am, 9:30 am and 11:15 am Church School/Child Care at 9:30 am Church School classes now forming. Call 941-4245 for registration Weekday Holy Eucharist’s: Thursday 12:30 pm and First Fri. of the month 7:30 pm (rotating: call Parish Oﬃce for location) Youth, Music and Service Programs oﬀered Let God walk with you as part of our family–friendly community.

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127 Barnum Ave., Port Jefferson (631) 473–0273 email: ccoffice@christchurchportjeff.org www.christchurchportjeff.org

Father Anthony DiLorenzo: Priest–In–Charge Sunday Eucharist: 8 am and 10 am/Wednesday 10 in our chapel Sunday School and Nursery at 9:30 am Our ministries: Welcome Inn on Mondays at 5:45 pm AA meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 pm/Prayer Group on Wednesdays at 10:30 am/Bible Study on Thursdays at 10 am. 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.

EVANGELICAL THREE VILLAGE CHURCH Knowing Christ...Making Him Known

322 Route 25A, East Setauket • (631) 941–3670 www.3vc.org

Lead Pastor Josh Moody Sunday Worship Schedule 9:15 am:Worship Service Sunday School (Pre–K – Adult), Nursery 10:30 am: Bagel/Coﬀee Fellowship 11:00 am: Worship, Nursery, Pre–K, Cornerstone Kids (Gr. K–4) We oﬀer weekly Teen Programs, Small Groups, Women’s Bible Studies (day & evening) & Men’s Bible Study Faith Nursery School for ages 3 & 4 Join us as we celebrate 55 years of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ!

JEWISH CHABAD AT STONY BROOK “Judaism with a smile”

Future site: East side of Nicolls Rd, North of Rte 347 –Next to Fire Dept. Current location: 821 Hawkins Ave., Lake Grove

(631) 585–0521 • (800) My–Torah • www.ChabadSB.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 www.ChabadSB.com Chabad at Stony Brook University – Rabbi Adam & Esther Stein

CORAM JEWISH CENTER

Young Israel of Coram 981 Old Town Rd., Coram • (631) 698–3939 YIC.org – YoungIsraelofCoram@gmail.com

RABBI DR. MORDECAI & MARILYN GOLSHEVSKY RABBI SAM & REBECCA GOLSHEVSKY

“THE ETERNAL FLAME–THE ETERNAL LIGHT” Weekly Channel #20 at 11 am Shabbat Morning Services 9 am Free Membership. No building fund. Free Hebrew School. Bar/Bat Mitzvah Shabbat and Holiday Services followed by hot buffet. Adult Education Institute. Women’s Education Group–International Lectures and Torah Study. Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Kaballah Classes. Jewish Holiday Institute. Tutorials for all ages. FREE HEBREW SCHOOL 2015–2016 Details (631)698–3939 Member National Council of Young Israel a world–wide organization. All welcome regardless of knowledge or observance level.

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NORTH SHORE JEWISH CENTER

BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP AT STONY BROOK

385 Old Town Rd., Port Jefferson Station (631) 928–3737 www.NorthShoreJewishCenter.org Rabbi Aaron Benson

33 Christian Ave/ PO2117 E. Setauket NY 11733 (631)941 3581 Rev. Gregory L. Leonard–Pastor

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Brook’s role and mission, as well as for all the hospitals in our community,” Englebright (D-Setauket) said. LaValle suggested his role as chairman of the Senate Committee on Higher Education gives him an opportunity to advocate on behalf of the SBU medical

school. His chairmanship provides “a vehicle to be able to work with other people in the state university system and within state agencies,” he said. The approximately 129 students in each medical school class contribute to area health care while they pursue their education, LaValle said. “That is one of the very first helping points for the university,” LaValle said. “It’s being able to fulfill the education

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of their medical students. There are also people doing their clinical work and residencies.” LaValle is contributing to Stony Brook’s effort to secure a longer-term connection with Mather. He cited numerous such two-way benefits for a potential longerterm alliance. Stony Brook can provide services that “will save Mather a lot of money,” LaValle said. For patients of the two hospitals, the quality and convenience are also a winning combination. “If someone needs cardiac care, it is a hop, skip and a jump to get that care,” LaValle said. “They don’t have to be helicoptered some place or drive a long time distance.” Kaushansky appreciated the support from the senator. “He’s doing everything he can,” Kaushansky said. LaValle has “been a strong proponent of getting us and Mather to work together for the benefit” of the patient population in the area. Kaushansky cited several other benefits to Mather of an ongoing and deeper connection with Stony Brook, including support for Mather’s stroke center with back-up cerebral artery intervention, and support for their radiology department. While a deeper connection with Mather would be mutually beneficial for the hospitals, LaValle suggested, it would also create an important level of convenience for patients. “I have started with the premise that patient care closest to home is the best care for the patient,” LaValle said. “The

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Legals Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Suffolk Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Suffolk ---------------------------------------------------------------X Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff, vs. Karen J. matz if living, and if he/ she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to Plaintiff; Michael J. Matz, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Capital One Bank USA NA, Danielle Matz, People of the State of New York, United States of America Acting Through the IRS; John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, person orcorporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the proper t y

described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.) Defendants. ---------------------------------------------------------------X Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index No.: 607543/2015 Mortgaged Premises: 3 Andrew Street Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 DSBL #: 0200 - 284.00 - 01.00 002.000 To the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Suffolk. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. To: Karen J. Matz, Defendants In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by

publication, pursuant to an order of HON. ANDREW G. TARANTINO, JR. of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the First day of December, 2015 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, in the City of Riverhead. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Michael J. Matz and Karen J. Matz dated August 21, 2006, to secure the sum of $365,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Book 21382, Page 631 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk, on the September 14, 2006. Said Mortgage was subsequently modified by a Loan Modification Agreement executed by Michael J. Matz and Karen J. Matz on August 22, 2014 and recorded February 11, 2015 in Book 22566, Page 59 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk. The property in question is described as follows: 3 ANDREW STREET, PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NY 11776 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACTAN ATTORNEY OR

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NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: December 9, 2015 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose 523 12/24 4x ptr

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT SUFFOLK COUNTY BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff against SONY CLERVOIX; FRANTZIE JOSEPH CLERVOIX A/K/A FRANTZIE JOSEPH-CLERVOIX ,et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered JANUARY 29, 2015. I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the BROOKHAVEN TOWN HALL, 1 INDEPENDENCE HALL, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738 on JANUARY 12, 2016 at 9:30 A.M.. Premises known as 72 GIANT OAK ROAD, RIDGE, NY 11961. District 0200 Sec 407.00 Block 01.00 Lot 055.004. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in Ridge, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $426,664.89 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 18916/11 . DEIRDRE J. CREIGHTON, ESQ. , Referee 486 12/10 2x ptr

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Photo from Chris Pinkenburg

Above, the Rocky Point robotics GearHeadz team demonstrates one of their projects.

PINKENBURG Continued from page A20

Pinkenburg has three children in the Rocky Point school district, all of whom have participated in his robotics club at one point. “He is very passionate about education,” Wlodek Guryn, Pinkenburg’s colleague at BNL, said. “He wants children to learn as much as possible in school and give them as many opportunities as possible, which is also why he got involved in the robotics club.” Pinkenburg started to prod his school district to implement a robotics club into the schools. He eventually formed his own private team that won first place in programming in the qualifiers the first

time they competed. After this, a club was introduced to Rocky Point Middle School with Pinkenburg leading it as a mentor. They competed in a worldwide competition in St. Louis, Missouri. According to Rocky Point Middle School Principal Scott O’Brien, the school was involved with a program associated with BNL that focused on math and science. There were multiple sections of the program, one of which was robotics. “I had put out a survey looking for feedback about the program and the kids noted that the robotics section was their favorite part, and said they benefited the most from it,” O’Brien said. “We knew we needed to expand it, and, at the same time, Pinkenburg was there and created this club. A lot of kids are very highly

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hours. Weir said Lunde’s dedication and desire to spend as much time as possible makes the Medford resident more special. “She will never complain,” Weir said. “She never says boo.” While every child who registers for the prom dress program gets special attention, Polack remembers Lunde going above and beyond for one high school student who thought she was too overweight to attend her prom. Lunde didn’t only get her a dress, she organized for the student to get her Photo from Brookhaven Town

Josephine Lunde poses with Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine.

interested in robotics. Over 100 students came to the first meeting.” Each year, teams are presented with a new challenge and must try to develop a solution using robotics. This year’s theme is Trash Trek, which prompts them to explore the world of trash and invent a solution to help minimize trash issues. They must also build and program a LEGO robot to accomplish trash-themed missions on a playing field and show how well they work together as a team. “The team has been very successful,” Ruberto said. “They won last year’s Long Island Championship and went on to compete in the North American Open Championships against 75 other national and international champions in California.”

nails and hair done. “The determination in Josie is bigger than both of us when she makes up her mind that she’s going to help somebody,” Polack said. Brookhaven Town Superintendent of Highways Dan Losquadro (R) said Lunde is one who focuses her attention on those in need in the community, especially those who don’t always want to ask for help. “A lot of those folks that she works with are people who are very proud, and who might not otherwise seek assistance. These things have gotten really expensive,” Losquadro said about Lunde and buying gifts around the holidays. Lunde’s son Mike said his mother has always been one to help others but, almost to a fault.

As a physicist at BNL, Pinkenburg has been passionate about programming and simulations. One part of robotics is to build the robot itself, which is more engineering-based, but the other big part, which is Pinkenburg’s specialty, requires computing, which helps in programming the robot so it does exactly what it is meant to do. “He is very pleasant and passionate, and works very hard on computing aspects and simulations of his work,” Guryn said. “He is very dedicated. Physics requires a lot of passion and dedication and he has a lot of both.” Pinkenburg’s efforts are being spread to the high school, as he starts his FIRST Tech Challenge team, a higher-level team, to continue to spread his love for computing and physics.

“She doesn’t think of herself,” the son said. When Mike was a child, his mother was a den mother for his Boy Scout troop, and took on other responsibilities when her kids were getting older. Regardless of her accomplishments, Lunde likes to stay in the background. But whether she’s in the forefront at an event or working behind the scenes, Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said the Town is happy to have her. “Someone like her really adds to what it means to be a part of a town,” Romaine said. “She’s the heart of Brookhaven because she takes the heart of all the problems and tries to make them better. … We should have more people like her in this world. If we did, it’d be a much better place.”

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being older than most guys who do that, since the physical requirements are high. As a testament to his fitness, Meehan can be seen walking to school every morning, Neubert said, and students and teachers can sometimes catch a glimpse of him walking the school halls “in his suit and hiking boots.” That’s not the only place they can see him. He’s at his students’ sports games and all around the village. During the Charles Dickens Festival earlier this month, Superintendent Ken Bossert said, he watched his students perform and then roasted marshmallows with them. “He is just everywhere at all times,” Bossert said. “All the kids know him and love him.” Well, almost everywhere: “Mr. Meehan is rarely in his office,” Neubert said, because he frequently drops into classrooms around the school. Meehan has joined Neubert’s class a few times to share musical facts he knows, which the kids loved. “In their minds, Mr. Meehan knows everything,” Neubert said. That goes for sports too. A physical education teacher was once absent and a swimming class at the end of the day needed a qualified teacher or it would have been canceled. Meehan, a certified lifeguard, didn’t want to disappoint the kids, Bossert said, so he went home to get

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his swimsuit and taught the class. Bossert said he was the “first principal that they ever saw in the water.” According to a letter the superintendent wrote, nominating Meehan as a Person of the Year, “He was dry and back in his dress suit in time for dismissal.”

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Clockwise from top: Tom Meehan participates in the Royal Educational Foundation’s fun run through Port Jefferson Village, and receives an award for his contributions to the community; he stands, seventh from the left, with his fellow firefighters for a recent group photo in front of the firehouse on Maple Place; and Meehan, far right, poses with singers from the elementary school at the fire department’s annual 9/11 memorial ceremony in September.

Meehan has helped kids on an individual basis as well. Bossert described a time when Meehan pulled some strings with the Long Island Rail Road on behalf of a special needs student who had “a fascination with trains,” and the child was able to conduct a train between the

Port Jefferson to Stony Brook stations. He also brings gifts to kids during the holidays when he knows their families can’t afford them. Those close to him said he knows every child’s name and if one needs extra attention, Butera said, “he’ll find ways throughout the day of stopping by” to check on that student. But his subtle approach to offering that extra attention puts the kids at ease, Boehm said. She described it as, “Hey, I’m here, and we’ll take care of this together.” Around the hallways, Meehan is also known for his sense of humor, cracking jokes with kids and dressing up as Mario for Halloween, making him more approachable. “He has such a great rapport” with all the parents, the staff and the kids, and everyone in the community knows who he is, said Sean Leister, the assistant superintendent for business. Usually that kind of reverence comes with someone who’s been in his position for 20 years, Leister said, but Meehan’s attained it in five. Even so, he doesn’t take credit for most of what he does. “He’s not the kind of guy that likes any limelight or fanfare,” Boehm said. “He would never make a big deal about what he was doing.”

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Legals PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Sections 264 and 265 of Town Law, a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven at the Town Board Auditorium at One Independence Hill, Second Floor, Farmingville, New York, on January 14, 2016, at 6:30 P.M. to consider an application known as Simco Management @ Port Jefferson Station, for a change of zone from J Business 2 to J Business 5, special permit for a motor vehicle fueling station, special permit for convenience store accessory to a motor vehicle fueling station and waivers of special permit criteria, on a parcel of property located on the n/w/ corner of N.Y.S. Route 347 and Old Town Road, Port Jefferson Station, New York, further identified as SCTM Nos. 0200-253.00-02.00-003.001 and 003.002. A more detailed diagram of the subject property is on file at the office of the Town Clerk and may be examined during regular office hours by any interested person. At said public hearing, any persons interested shall be given the opportunity to be heard.

by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Elmsford, New York December 1, 2015 Respectfully submitted, KNUCKLES, KOMOSINSKI & ELLIOTT, LLP By: HEINO J. MULLER, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590 Elmsford, NY 10523 (914)-345-3020- #87200 514 12/24 4x ptr

Dated: December 3, 2015 Farmingville, New York DONNA LENT, TOWN CLERK TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN 513 123115 1x ptr SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX # 10429/12 Original Filed With Clerk on Plaintiff Designates Suffolk County as the Place of Trial The Basis of Venue is that the Subject of the Action is situated in Suffolk County. Plaintiff resides at 3415 Vision Drive Columbus, OH 43219 County of Franklin SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION S/B/M TO CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC S/B/M TO CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, — against — JEFFREY I. BAUM, as Temporary Administrator for the Estate of Vincent Capuano, his respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and

successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, NICOLETTA CAPUANO INDIVIDUALLY AND AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF VINCENT CAPUANO, WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, A FEDERAL ASSOCIATION, DANIELLE NICOLE CAPUANO A/K/A DANIELLE N. CAPUANO A/K/A DANIELLE CAPUANO AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF VINCENT CAPUANO, CYPRESS FINANCIAL RECOVERIES LLC, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America may appear or answer within

60 days of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to Order the Hon. Daniel Martin a Justice of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, dated Nov. 12, 2015 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office, Riverhead, NY. Prem. k/a 53 Elmwood Avenue, Selden, NY 11784 a/k/a Section 491.00, Block 02.00, Lot 057.00. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above caption is for the foreclosure of: Mortgagor, to Premier Mortgage Corp., d/b/a PMC Mortgage Co., as Mortgage, to secure the sum $100,153.00 which Mortgage was duly recorded in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on Aug. 18, 1997 in Reel 19233 at Page 251 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises INDEX NO. 061945/2013 38 FLAMINGO ROAD ROCKY POINT, NY 11778 Section: 077.00 Block: 05.00 Lot: 038.00 District: 0200 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES OOMC 2005-HE6, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES OOMC 2005-HE6, Plaintiff, vs. PETER H. CLAUSEN, if living, and if he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants,

persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $99,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on July 11, 2015 in Liber 21083, Page 548 covering premises known as 38 FLAMINGO ROAD, ROCKY POINT NY 11778. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. SUFFOLK County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: October 7, 2015 RAS Boriskin, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Thomas Zegarelli, Esquire 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 (516) 280-7675 496 12/10 4x ptr NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Benjamin Crespin; Encarnacion Crespin; Samuel Crespin a/k/a Sauel Crespin; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 5, 2015 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, 11738 on January 12, 2016 at 10:15AM, premises known as 18 Minerva Lane, Centereach, NY 11720. All

that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of NY, District 0200 Section 514.00 Block 06.00 Lot 017.00. Approximate amount of judgment $374,790.95 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 16440/11. James K. Hogan, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: November 5, 2015 483 12/10 4x ptr NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP TRUST 2007-FM1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-FM1, Against

Plaintiff(s),

No.: 21128/2007

Index

CECILIA A. JONES AND WILHELMINA P. JONES A/K/A WILHELMINA JONES, MS. JONES, Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on 9/16/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on 1/11/2016 at 10:00 am, premises known as 3 Teller Avenue, Coram, NY 11727, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Suffolk County Treasurer as Section 496.00, Block 03.00, Lot 037.004 F/K/A 035.00 and P/O 024.00, 036.000 and 037.000. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $495,758.96 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 21128/2007. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Donald Novick, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 11/6/2015 TMC 499 12/17 4x ptr

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