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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion

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41st annual Setauket Artists exhibition opens this weekend Also: Halloween Happenings on the North Shore, Halloween Kills reviewed

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The Huntington Hispanic Task Force celebrated its 30th Anniversary at the town’s 27th Annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration Dinner Gala on Friday, Oct. 15. Town, state and county officials as well as community leaders joined the task force members at the event that took place at the Huntington Moose Lodge in Greenlawn. The gala featured keynote speaker Mercy Peña, a retired native language arts and Spanish language teacher from Huntington School District. Photo from Town of Huntington

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Huntington honors residents affected by breast cancer Councilman Mark Cuthbertson (D) and the Town of Huntington partnered with Pink Aid, which helps underserved breast cancer patients, to turn Huntington pink with 54 pink and white flags that were placed on Main Street and New York Ave Oct. 18 to bring awareness to Breast cancer. Lauryn Koke, president of Pink Aid, supplied the flags.

Pink Aid and the Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition’s goal was to get the message out that early detection through screening saves lives and that there is hope for those battling this terrible disease.

“I am happy to partner with Pink Aid and Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition to bring awareness to this disease,” Cuthbertson said. “Our hope is when people see the flags they serve as a reminder to all to make a screening appointment. Early detection saves lives.”

According to a press release from Cuthbertson’s office, in the last year, screenings and early detection rates declined.

According to the American Cancer Society when breast cancer is detected early and is in the localized stage, the five-year relative survival rate is 99%. Breast cancer mortality rates have been declining since 1989 due to early detection and improved treatment.

“Breast cancer education and screenings can save up to 37 lives every day in the U.S. according to the World Health Organization, so please if you have been lax about your screenings, please make an appointment today, it can save your life,” Cuthbertson said.

“Huntington township has always taken

a progressive approach when talking about the health of our community,” said Karen Joy Miller, founder Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition, Inc. “We can indeed hope to create sweeping health changes when there is a personal and political will.”

Councilwoman Joan Cergol (D) said she was grateful for Pink Aid and the Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition due to their work “to raise awareness and support individuals with breast cancer.”

“It is an honor to help them commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” Cergol said.

Koke said breast cancer didn’t pause during the pandemic.

“Pink Aid provided emergency assistance to underserved breast cancer patients already struggling to make ends meet,” Koke said.

“Food insecurity reached all-time highs.

Pink Aid was able to help women in need by covering the basics like food, rent and utility payments and transportation to and from treatment. In our first seven years, Pink Aid has provided over $2 million to 25 different Long Island organizations, helping thousands of uninsured and underserved patients get through their breast cancer diagnoses with dignity and compassion.”

“Breast cancer awareness is not just a woman’s issue, it is everyone’s issue,” said Councilman Ed Smyth (R). “On behalf of my mother, my sisters, my wife, and my daughters, I am deeply concerned about breast cancer and hope this event brings us closer to better treatment and a cure.”

Councilman Eugene Cook (I) thanked

Huntington elected officials and representatives from Pink Aid and Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition placed 54 pink and white flags along Main Street and New York Avenue. Photo from Mark Cuthbertson’s office

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“A breast cancer diagnosis has a huge impact not only on the person who has this disease but the whole family,” Cook said. “I know personally how critical early diagnosis is, as I have a dear friend whose life was saved, due to swift treatment for an

aggressive breast cancer in its early stages, allowing her to be here with her family seven years later, which would not have been possible if the cancer was found six months later. I ask all women and men, please remember how important it is to have regular screenings for breast cancer.”

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Why the LIPA resolution was the best solution

BY EDMUND SMYTH

The Long Island Power Authority resolution was the best resolution to a decade-old, unwinnable problem.

Huntington Town Board members Mark Cuthbertson [D], Joan Cergol [D], Supervisor Chad Lupinacci [R] and I voted to resolve the case, joining the Northport-East Northport school board which voted 6-1 to accept the settlement.

In a recent editorial, a Northport-based newspaper misinformed its readers. Taxes will not increase by “well over 50%.” The widely circulated settlement terms are unambiguous and show this is false. This idea that the settlement was “misguided” ignores that it was approved 6-1 and 4-1 by both school and town boards, and supported overwhelmingly by the public — finally ending a decades-old fiasco. The two individuals who voted “no” failed to articulate a legally and financially coherent alternative plan.

They made a politically motivated decision, failed to protect taxpayers and demonstrated an appalling lack of leadership.

Every sober lawyer, financial consultant, tax expert and engineer advised both boards that this was the right deal at the right time. That diverse team of advisers put politics aside and calculated,

properly, that the settlement achieved the $825 million refund due back to LIPA. I have greatest possible benefit to the town and school yet to hear any plausible way to pay this massive district under the circumstances. The true fiscal refund. The settlement required LIPA to waive impact to Northport residents will prove less this refund.

The town had a strong than was originally estimated, argument with the widely and further mitigated by the discussed “promise”, but those direct payments of millions of arguments were dismissed by the dollars to the school district court and reduced to a political over the life of the settlement. argument. I strongly believe To further reinforce this, New York State failed us. They other municipalities on Long failed to uphold the promise Island have tried to get the made between a government same terms from LIPA only and its people. Even if not to be rejected each time. LIPA legally enforceable, the promise has made it clear: The deal we could have been legislatively struck will not be recreated. ratified, but Albany wouldn’t Any analysis, whether even consider it. This failure to agreeing or disagreeing with uphold this promise represents the end result, must start an unwinding of trust between with facts. The town had no Albany and the people it serves. appraisal to challenge LIPA’s Edmund Smyth Once the promise argument assertion that the plant was failed, and without an appraisal, overassessed. The town the town and school district searched but no appraiser would testify the power plant was worth were legally defenseless. In a court, the town anywhere near the assessed value of $3.4 billion. and school district were going to lose and were The town had no expert who could contradict going to lose big.

The lone Town Board member who opposed LIPA’s $200 million appraisal in court. Most importantly, Huntington taxpayers faced an the resolution, Eugene Cook, ignored all sound

advice to the contrary. In the past year, he has filed various frivolous lawsuits based on absurd legal theories, made incoherent arguments which have not stood up to basic legal scrutiny.

Each case has been dismissed by the court.

He has been forced to withdraw cases and has done so quietly without ever acknowledging the absurdity and incoherent nature of all of his legal arguments. In fact, he previously advocated in favor of a worse settlement, attacking then town Supervisor Frank Petrone [D] for not settling the case. In short, those who opposed the resolution have never presented an alternative workable plan, because there is none. They’ve offered rhetoric and bumper-sticker slogans, and have changed positions with the political winds.

You can agree or disagree on the LIPA settlement. However, misleading the community with continued false information and false hope is irresponsible. The terms are the best course of action for the town and the school district based on the facts.

In the end, there is one stubborn fact at the heart of this issue: The power plant was overassessed.

Edmund Smyth is a Town of Huntington councilman and is running for Huntington supervisor on the Republican ticket.

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Continuing to fight LIPA’s practices that hurt taxpayers

BY EUGENE COOK

I stand with the people and fight for the community. This is why I am continuing to fight the Long Island Power Authority’s deceptive practices, to me, against the taxpayers and the ratepayers with my own personally funded lawsuits. I have uncovered two separate defenses which were never raised by the Town of Huntington-retained tax certiorari attorneys. What is puzzling is why any elected official would have an issue with a lawsuit that is funded with my own money? If I win, it will benefit everyone.

If I lose, it only hurts me, as no taxpayer dollars are being used in this lawsuit. The federal intervention motion I filed is now in the hands of the magistrate where some of these issues may be fully litigated. Did LIPA illegally create “void ab initio” contracts with Cross Sound Cable to end-run the state Public Authorities Control Board submission requirements? If the Cross Sound Cable

contracts are nullities, does the same apply respect their vision for Huntington. They to the National Grid contracts? What then, deserve public officials who understand the importance of our was LIPA’s basis for the tax infrastructure, water quality, challenges? smart development and This Huntington supervisor housing which is affordable election is about so much for all generations. more than LIPA’s continuing I ask uncomfortable schemes to defraud, to me. questions to get answers.

Huntington deserves a town Many times, these questions supervisor who will fight for get answers which help what the residents want for the community. As a result their community, for what of my questions, we now the business owners need to know Long Island Lighting make Huntington’s economy Company, not LIPA, signed flourish, for protecting the the 2012 $500 million taxpayer in hard financial contract with National times. Huntington deserves a Grid. We know LIPA used leader with the skills needed, what seems to me an illegal who isn’t afraid to make the Eugene Cook tactic to avoid submitting tough decisions. the agreement to the PACB. I believe Huntington taxpayers, residents, business owners We know the judge in the 1999 American and voters deserve public officials who Electric Power Co. case ordered LIPA to

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submit any agreement valued at over $1 million to the PACB for approval. Gov. George Pataki [R] provided my attorney with an affirmation stating the LIPA chairman Richard Kessel’s position statement in front of the 1997 PACB board, which committed LIPA and the generation companies not to file tax challenges against the LILCO legacy power plant assessments. In filing the tax challenges, LIPA acted illegally, to me, in using “Long Island Lighting Company” to bypass PACB submission and approval.

I ask you for your vote for Huntington Town supervisor, as Huntington deserves a town supervisor who will fight for you, who doesn’t give up and never takes the easy way out. I continue to work for you and pledge to work with my colleagues for bipartisan government.

Eugene Cook is a Town of Huntington councilman and is running for Huntington supervisor on the Stop LIPA line.

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DEI supporters rally at expressway welcome center

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM School doors across Suffolk County may have been closed to study on Sunday, Oct. 17, but at the Long Island Welcome Center between exits 51 and 52 on the expressway, education was on many people’s minds.

Long Island Parents for DEI headed up the Commack rally to show support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in public schools. The event drew dozens of parents, educators and advocates and was cosponsored

by Suffolk Progressives, Moms Against Racism and student-led Voices for Change.

The subject of diversity, equity and inclusion programs in local schools has been a topic of debate at many school board meetings earlier this year, including Smithtown Central School District. DEI programs aim to make every student feel included and to create a culture of open-mindedness and objectivity regarding race, ethnicity, gender, culture, sexual orientations and disabilities.

In an email after the rally, Shoshana Hershkowitz, founder of Suffolk Progressives, said she believes the misconception many have is that they think the DEI “curriculum is divisive.”

“DEI allows us to gain empathy and understanding for experiences and perspectives that are different than ours, and I believe it is ultimately an excellent preparation for our students becoming global citizens of the 21st century,” she said.

Many have confused the program with critical race theory, which is an academic concept that looks at how racism is embedded in legal systems and politics — and not just a matter of individual bias or prejudice.

According to a press release before the rally, the protesters’ goal was “to highlight the broad support for DEI initiatives.” Among those who stopped by to show support were Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) and county Legislator Jason Richberg (D-West Babylon).

Long Island Parents for DEI president, Amanda Cohen-Stein of Miller Place, founded the group in June to respond to what she described as “the rise of extremist groups on Long Island” who have not only targeted DEI learning but also mask wearing in schools.

“We chose to connect with three other fabulous organizations — Suffolk Progressives, Moms Against Racism and student-led group Voices of Change — to hold our first-ever rally this past Sunday to support our mission of promoting the DEI

Protesters came out to support DEI programs in local schools on Oct. 17. Photo from Shoshana Hershkowitz

initiative passed down by the NYS Board of Regents and to deliver the truth about DEI to our boards of education and our communities,” she said in a statement. “I felt it was important to hold this event at the L.I. Welcome Center on the LIE to amplify the message that the hate these people are displaying toward diverse groups of students and other human beings will not be tolerated

on L.I. and that the majority of Long Islanders do not support this extremist behavior.”

She added Parents for DEI has started a nonprofit with the goal “to continue to bring the truth about DEI to every school district and community on Long Island. We are working toward ensuring that our L.I. schools implement DEI programs and follow through on the commitment to be equitable and inclusive.”

Suozzi honors local police who have displayed exemplary heroism On Oct. 14, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) stood outside the Glen Cove Police Department to host his second annual Hometown Heroes event, where he honored and thanked 11 law enforcement officers from across New York’s 3rd Congressional District who displayed exemplary heroism in the line of duty in service to local communities. During the ceremony, Suozzi shared how the exceptional work of each officer saved the lives of New Yorkers.

“Every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, members of our local police departments are protecting us, and serving us,” Suozzi said. “Police have some of the hardest jobs in the country. These are tough times for them. We must support them and understand they are protecting our community.

We cannot allow defund the police or antipolice rhetoric to discourage them. Today, we are highlighting just a few police officers who represent the good work done by members of our local police departments every day, and we say, ‘Thank you.’”

Among those Suozzi honored were officers from Suffolk County Police Department Emergency Service Section as well as from the Nassau County Police Department, Glen Cove Police Department and New York Police

Department. Each officer was presented with a flag that had been flown over the U.S. Capitol, as well as a congressional citation.

The SCPD officers included Lt. Thomas Zagajeski and Sgt. Ryan Sefton, with police officers Kevin Williamson, Daniel Colondona, Keith Jordan and Michael Cummings. These officers were unable to attend, but Deputy Inspector John Sumwalt came to the ceremony in their place.

Suozzi’s recognition related to an April 25 incident when the Emergency Service Section officers responded to a call that a Medford man had assaulted a woman with a knife, barricading himself in her Kings Park home and holding the woman hostage for approximately eight hours. According to an April 26 press release from the SCPD, the 33-year-old woman sustained knife wounds in the incident. There were also two children in the home who were unharmed.

The perpetrator then fled on foot and entered a neighboring home where he held a 77-year-old woman hostage. The officers involved helped the women and young children escape, as well as carrying out negotiations with the suspect until he finally emerged from the home peacefully.

Congressman Tom Suozzi poses with local officers he honored on Oct. 14. Photo from Suozzi’s office

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Doctors discuss potential mix-n-match COVID boosters

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With the Food and Drug Administration expected to vote this week on boosters for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines for COVID-19, local doctors suggested the current studies may support some switching, particularly for those who received a single dose of Johnson & Johnson.

“There is preliminary data that has demonstrated that mixing and matching the vaccines may be beneficial,” said Dr. Sunil Dhuper, chief medical officer at Port Jefferson’s St. Charles Hospital.

Indeed, recent studies suggested that people who received the J&J vaccine had a considerably higher increase in their antibody response from a Moderna booster than from a second J&J shot.

“There may be some merit” to switching from the traditional method J&J deployed to create an antibody response to the mRNAbased approach from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, Dhuper added.

Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of Infection Control at Huntington Hospital, added that

data from studies with J&J are “showing that folks who received the initial J&J vaccine may benefit from receiving a booster with Pfizer or Moderna as this may lead to a very high immune response.”

As for side effects from the boosters, Popp explained that the reactions are similar to those for the initial series of vaccinations.

In an email, Popp noted that the Moderna booster is half the dose of the original shots, which “may lead to a decrease in side effects.”

Dr. Susan Donelan, medical director of the Healthcare Epidemiology Department at Stony Brook Medicine and assistant professor of Infectious Diseases in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, is pleased that “many people are quite eager to obtain boosters.

This bodes well for enhanced protection as we enter the indoor/ holiday season.”

In another encouraging sign, the percentage of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Suffolk County continues to decline, with the seven-day average falling to 3% as of Oct. 19, which is down from 4.2% a month earlier, according to the Suffolk County Department of Health.

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Meanwhile, people have been attending college and professional sporting events in large numbers, often without masks.

These competitions haven’t yet produced documented superspreader events.

“Outdoor venues overall provide a reduced opportunity for spread compared to indoor events,” Donelan explained in an email. “If proof of vaccination or a negative

test within a set time frame (e.g. 72 hours) before the event is required for entry, it is reasonable to anticipate that inadvertent spread can be limited.”

Other health care professionals also suggested that outdoor events, despite thousands of people standing and shouting to urge on their teams, presented lower risk than indoor gatherings.

“In an outdoor event, the virus would get diluted within seconds,” said Duper. “You’re not going to get a high dose” of any viral particles at such a gathering.

As for the bigger picture, Popp said he is “happy to report that, as of Oct. 6, the fully vaccinated rate is 69% in Nassau and 65% in Suffolk. It is not as high as we would like to see, but it is an increase of 7% to 8% since July 29.”

Health care professionals urged residents who haven’t already done so to get a flu shot soon.

“With all the attention on COVID vaccinations, masks will come off as people are reassured that they are safer in regards to COVID, and flu will ‘take advantage’ of this scenario,” Donelan explained. “We need to be vaccinated against both viruses.”

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U.S. magistrate judge for Eastern District of New York, A. Kathleen Tomlinson, passed away Sunday, Oct. 17, at Huntington Hospital.

Kathleen is survived by Margaret Stolworthy, her sisters Sheila Tomlinson and Suzanne Kunis (Frank), and her brother Dr. Edmund Tomlinson (Staci). She is predeceased by her sister Rosanne, her brother Jimmy (Rose) and her nephew Jimmy Jr. Kathleen is also survived by her nephews and nieces Frankie (Rachel), Steven, Jakkie, Matthew, Lisa (Ryan), Josh, Jiavanna, Ronan and Hudson.

Kathleen is remembered for her commitment to her faith and her unending love of life.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks for contributions to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation or the American Cancer Society in her memory.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Nolan Funeral Home in Northport. Visitation is Friday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday, Oct. 23, at 10:30 am at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Centerport. Entombment to follow at Northport Rural Cemetery.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Centereach Cougars at 1-4 had their hands full when the Huntington Blue Devils (2-2) came to visit in a Division II matchup Oct. 15.

If the Blue Devils meant to set the early tone, they did, when senior defensive back Ryan Porzio picked off a Justin Robbert pass and went the distance for a pick six touchdown a minute into the game. Lucas Petrizzi found the endzone at the 5:01 mark and with the point after Huntington led 14-0. Senior running back Josiah Melendez off a slant pass eluded two would be Centereach tacklers, bolted to the outside and jetted 53 yards for his second touchdown to put Huntington out front 28-0 at the half. After a dormant third quarter Centereach wide receiver Riddick Drab

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caught a 15-yard pass from Robbert to take the goose egg off the board. Huntington delivered a one two punch midway through the fourth when Huntington senior Robbie Smith found the endzone on a 20-yard jaunt and followed by Josiah Melendez’s interception then ripped a 60-yarder for the score to take a 42-7 lead. With two minutes left senior running back Markus Figueroa punched in on a 20-yarder for the final 42-14.

The loss drops Centereach to 1-5 while the win lifts Huntington to 3-2 with two games remaining before post season play begins.

Pictured clockwise from above left, Huntington running back Robbie Smith powers his way up the middle; Blue Devils senior running back Lucas Petrizzi; and Huntington senior running back Josiah Melendez lunges for extra yardage.

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Fall cleanups Over the summer, dozens of nonprofits and organizations hosted beach and park cleanups across Long Island.

People came together with their trash bags in hand to pick up debris and trash. Families made days out of it, grabbing dinner afterward with the kids. Couples turned it Stock photo into a bonding experience.

While it’s inspirational and helpful for members of the community to work together to clean up the communities in which we live, shouldn’t the town government take the lead with these efforts?

To that end, the road along Route 25A in Setauket has eyesores that detract from the beauty and safety of our community, including several dead trees, overgrown gardens, leaves and debris. Street lights that protect pedestrians and help drivers navigate the area are dimming, making them less useful as we approach days with less sunlight.

Long Islanders receive and appreciate the return on investment from their taxes, particularly when roads are cleared after a storm or when children receive excellent educations from public schools. Given the tax bill, however, shouldn’t the town be able to use some of that money for upkeep?

The community doesn’t police itself and shouldn’t need to clean up accumulating messes or detritus from trees or other vegetative growth. Residents can, and should, dispose of their own trash. Landlords should also take responsibility for the space outside their residences.

As for those public places the village, town or county oversees, those responsible for upkeep on those properties should step up their game.

We appreciate the work the municipalities do, particularly under difficult circumstances and, at times, with limited resources. We are also grateful to the go-getters whose efforts enhance the beauty of the communities we share.

At the same time, we need our elected officials and people with authority to take action to remove these dead trees, fix dim lights and remove garbage by the side of the road. The effort they put in now will save money and aggravation later, as well as improve the local environment.

We don’t accept letters of support on behalf of candidates in the last issue before Election Day when there is no chance for rebuttal. We will continue to publish any letters we receive on our website. Instead, we will be featuring our candidate endorsements on this page along with articles based on our interviews and a sample ballot elsewhere in the paper.

Letters to the Editor Huntington Republican Committee backs Smyth

For the last four years, Huntington Republicans have worked hard to protect residents and preserve the suburban character of our community. We held the line on property taxes. And thanks to Town of Huntington Councilman Ed Smyth, we enacted a local law to prevent the overdevelopment of our town.

Republicans have also made town government more accountable to Huntington residents. Smyth led the effort to enact term limits for town officials and stringent new ethics rules, that ensure town residents and taxpayers get transparency and have confidence in our elected leaders.

This progress was achieved through a Republican supervisor and a majority coalition on the Town Board. Unfortunately, Gene Cook — who was a longtime Independence Party member who ran with Republican support — recently turned his back on our coalition and everything we accomplished. He peevishly partnered with Huntington’s Democrats in a selfish stunt to subvert the democratic vote.

This past spring, the Huntington Republicans selected Ed Smyth for town supervisor. Cook could have petitioned to run a Republican primary. But he didn’t. Instead, the Democrats recruited Cook to become a “spoiler.” Democrats circulated petitions to run Cook on a third-party line, in a scheme to siphon votes away from Smyth. The Democrats’ plan is simple: Sneak-in their unqualified, radical-left candidate Rebecca Sanin as town supervisor, with a minority of the vote, by dividing the majority.

In July, Cook’s new alliance with the Democrats was on full display in a Town Board meeting when he and Democrat Mark Cuthbertson sponsored a law to allow highrise apartment developments throughout Huntington. The law would have rezoned downtown Huntington, Cold Spring Harbor and East Northport — to allow huge apartment blocks. Thankfully, Smyth and Supervisor Chad Lupinacci [R] — with the support of thousands of local residents — stopped them.

As chairman of the Huntington Republicans, I know we are stronger when we are all working together. People need to know about this sneaky stunt by the Democrats — to try to split the vote by creating a fake third-party line. For the sake of our community and our town, please let’s not allow them to succeed.

Ed Smyth has been an outstanding councilman. He has accomplished a lot for our community. He has earned everyone’s support and will be a great supervisor.

Thomas McNally, Chairman Huntington Republican Committee

A vote for Eugene Cook

As a veteran and former VFW commander, who is a combat infantryman Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal recipient who served in Vietnam, this country and Huntington, the town I call home, means the world to me. That is why I am writing this letter today. This year’s election is important for Huntington as we need to elect a town supervisor, during a time when our country has gone through events no one expected. As a man who fought during wartime, I know the importance of true leadership and what that is.

Councilman Eugene Cook is running on the Stop LIPA line for town supervisor and he is the man I support. He has a proven track record of putting Huntington first. He has put veterans first, by thinking outside the box and worked with business owners to pave the parking lot of my VFW Post 1469 in Huntington Station at no cost to the post or to the taxpayers. This was not a one-time photo op as he had previously paved the parking lot at the VA golf course for American Legion Post 694 in Northport and helped American Legion Post 360 in Huntington get a new roof for their building through generous donations of supplies and labor from local business owners.

Cook not only respects veterans, he respects all Huntingtonians. He has stood with residents against overdevelopment, not just promising he would. He has voted for public hearings, even when he didn’t agree with what was being proposed, because he values our right to be heard. He hasn’t just given lip service to community members, like other candidates. Most recently, Cook voted “no” when East Northport residents opposed Sunrise Assisted Living due to the lack of traffic information with the recent closing of two local schools, when another candidate was posting on social media, he opposed downzoning but voted “yes,” instead of agreeing to delay the enactment of this downzoning.

I ask you when you cast your vote this election season, vote for the candidate who has proven putting Huntington first, who respectfully listens and fights for us, that is Eugene Cook on the Stop LIPA line. As a veteran who fought for his country, I know a fighter who loves our town. Also as a father of three, I’ve told my children as you get older you can count good friends on one hand — and Cook is my friend, a friend to veterans and a friend to Huntington.

Bruce Brenner East Northport

Why I support Cook

As a former candidate for Huntington Town Council, I understand how important the role of supervisor is in

Huntington. That is why I support Eugene Cook. He has been a proven advocate for Huntington communities. He has stood with the residents, taxpayers and business owners when other Town Board members wouldn’t. He fights for Huntington because, as an elected official, he understands he works for us, not the political parties.

I have watched him firsthand take the interests and concerns of our community members seriously, finding a way to take action to find the resolution instead of just telling community members what they want to hear.

For example, he has been the only member of our Town Board to really listen to the residents regarding their desire to fight LIPA, even going above anyone’s expectations by personally funding his own lawsuit against LIPA’s actions.

When our community asked for help with issues relating to gangs and racial tension, Cook was the first of our elected officials to come alongside the community and bring meaningful discourse, and then following through to put programs in place to bring together kids in the community for a positive activity, with our police department. Many of us saw our elected officials at protests, photo ops and issuing social media posts but only Cook took action when the community asked to build the relationship with law enforcement.

Actions are what we need, not just sound bites and that is what we can count on from the councilman as our supervisor.

Cook not only works to include everybody in the conversation, he robustly supports and understands the importance of bringing women and minorities into leadership positions within our town. In 2017, he even withdrew from the supervisor race because the Republicans refused to put a woman on the ballot. Many said that’s political suicide, I call it integrity.

There are many reasons to support Cook but the one that I’m most proud of is that he is the only candidate who is truly an independent voice. He is not beholden to any political party, and therefore is simply interested to what is best for our community at large. He has proven his willingness to listen and serve the residents of Huntington.

Eugene Cook has my vote on Nov. 2 as I want a town supervisor who not only fights for us but who is a person of action. I hope he is your choice, too. As many of us were disappointed with the “New Direction for Huntington” [in 2017] as they were the same old party partisan politics, he has proven he will lead with hard work, action and inclusivity.

Jennifer Thompson Northport

OCTOBER 21, 2021 • TIMES HUNTINGTON & NORTHPORT • PAGE A23

Opinion Thoughts on items to include in a 2021 time capsule

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— Masks. Even with so many events where people aren’t wearing masks, including huge D. None gatherings of fans at sporting events, masks of the above are still a part of our

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“Madam Secretary,” which include prescient references to our withdrawal from Afghanistan and to the potential (and now real) pandemic.

— Pet paraphernalia. The number of homes with pets has climbed dramatically, as people who seemed unwilling or uninterested in having dogs are out with their collection of poop bags, leashes and pieces of dog food to entice the wayward wanderer in the right direction.

— A zoom app. Even with people returning to work, many of us are still interacting with large groups of people on a divided screen.

Future generations may find all this normal and the start of eSocializing and virtual working.

Many of us today are still trying to figure out where to look and avoid the temptation to scrutinize our own image.

— Cargo ships. The year started off in March with the blocking of the Suez Canal.

For six days, the Ever Given kept one of the world’s most important canals from functioning, blocking container ships from going from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. As the year has progressed, concerns about shortages and supply chains have triggered fears about empty shelves.

— A small model of the Enterprise. The ship from the show “Star Trek” seems apt in a 2021 time capsule in part because William Shatner, who played the fictional Captain James T. Kirk (or admiral, if you’re also a fan of the movies), traveled briefly into space. In many ways, the science fiction of the past — a telephone that allowed you to look at someone else — is the fact of the present, with FaceTime and the aforementioned zoom.

— Competing signs. Protesting seems to have returned in full force this year. As the year comes to a close, people who do and don’t believe in vaccinations often stand on opposite sides of a road, shouting at cars, each other and the wind to get their messages across.

— A syringe. We started the year with people over 65 and in vulnerable groups getting their first doses of a vaccine that has slowed the progression of COVID-19, and we’re ending it with the distribution of booster shots for this population and, eventually, for others who received a vaccine eight months earlier.

— Take-out menus. I would throw several take-out menus, along with instructions about leaving food at a front door, into the time capsule.

While numerous restaurants are operating close to

their in-dining capacity, some of us are still eating the same food at home.

— An Amazon box. Barely a day goes by when I don’t see an Amazon delivery truck in the neighborhood, leaving the familiar smiling boxes at my neighbors’ front doors.

— Broken glass. I would include some carefully protected broken glass to reflect some of the divisions in the country and to remember the moment protesters stormed the capital, overwhelming the police and sending politicians scrambling for cover.

— Houses of gold. I would throw in a golden house, to show how the value of homes, particularly those outside of a city, increased amid an urban exodus.

— A Broadway playbill. My wife and I saw a musical for the first time in over two years. We were thrilled to attend “Wicked.”

The combination of songs, staging, acting, and lighting transported us back to the land of Oz. Judging from the thunderous applause at the end from a fully masked audience, we were not the only ones grateful to enjoy the incredible talents of performers who must have struggled amid the shutdown.

With frogs in my pool and woodpeckers on my shingles, I wonder what Nature plans next

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here I was, tapping on my computer keyboard, when what sounded like a pneumatic drill started tapping right outside my window. I jumped up, ran down the hall, out the front door and around the house to be greeted by the sight of an unperturbed woodpecker. Busily bobbing his beak into my shingles, he ignored me for a few seconds, despite my frantic hand waving and yelling, then cocked his head to see what the fuss was about. We looked at each other but he didn’t leave. I picked up a pine cone that had fallen on my driveway and threw it in his direction, along Between with a couple of words I you and me wouldn’t repeat in polite

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF company. Slowly, letting me know it was his idea, he flew away.

He left behind three black holes on the side of the house, each the size of a quarter. I went back inside to my computer, and then there he was again, rat-tat-tatting on the shingles. The words, “How much wood could a woodpecker peck if a woodpecker would peck wood?” passed through my mind as I again ran out the door and yelled. This time he moved away more quickly. I made a little pile of pine cones along the side of my driveway and returned to my computer. Not five minutes later, the scene repeated itself. I replenished my arsenal, knowing he would be back, and he was.

Good heavens, what was I to do, stand guard all day? What if I hadn’t been home? From the number and size of the holes, he had clearly been there before.

A truce seemed at hand. I pulled out my cell phone and dialed my neighbor. Yes, he was aware that there was an energetic woodpecker among us.

In fact, hadn’t I heard? The neighbor on the other side of my house was having his wood shingles removed and replaced with vinyl that looked like wood but obviously didn’t taste the same. Maybe

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the culprit had just moved over to my shingles.

Next, I called my trusty neighborhood hardware store. Yes, they had heard of such a problem before and they did have one possible remedy, a roll of reflective tape for $7 that I should cut into 3-foot strips and hang from my house.

We rushed down to get the tape and also bought a roll of twine.

Back home we did as instructed, knotted the red and silver streamers to the twine at five-foot intervals as if on a clothesline, then hung the entire line high up across the side of the house.

We repeated the process for the front of the house where he had also started pecking. I am lucky to have saintly friends who executed these maneuvers on ladders for me. When it was done, we stood back and looked at the handwork. The house looked decorated for Halloween.

As you might expect of me, I researched “woodpeckers” on my computer and found four reasons that woodpeckers would carry on this way.

The first was to make a “satisfyingly loud noise and proclaim that this was his territory and attract a

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mate.” Bully for him.

The other three explanations were less romantic but more practical: to find food in the shingles, especially larvae of carpenter bees, leafcutter bees and grass bagworms; to store food; for nesting.

I further found some good news, or at least some consolation. It seems that ancient cultures associated woodpeckers with luck, prosperity and spiritual healing. To other cultures they represented hard work, perseverance, strength and determination.

Woodpeckers are, apparently, among the most intelligent and smartest birds in the world.

More good news in the form of fortune cookie messages: When they appear, it is time to unleash one’s potential and change any situation to one’s best advantage. From woodpeckers one can imbibe the skills of being resourceful and determined.

They encourage the power to unshackle ingenuity and creativity in those around them.

Well, now you know. Whatever success ensues, I will owe it to my woodpecker.

P.S. After one more short visit, he has not come back.

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