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The way someone handles the loss of a loved one can speak volumes about their perseverance and character. Heather Buggee has used her personal loss as inspiration to brighten the lives of others. Splashes of Hope, the nonprofit organization she established in 1996, provides murals for medical and social service facilities to create welcoming environments that facilitate healing. For her efforts to uplift her neighbors, Heather Buggee is a Times of Huntington & Northport Person of the Year. Buggee said in a phone interview that the loss of her friend Will Harvey in 1989 was what drove her to start painting scenes on the ceiling tiles of Blythedale Children’s Hospital

in Westchester County — where she also created her first mural. Harvey was an artist too, and

the projects she took up following his death served as therapy for Buggee.

“While staying with her friend, she realized how sterile and uninspiring the environment was and would talk about how they would brighten up the space and let artwork become a part of the healing process,” Phil Rugile, the Splashes of Hope board president and director of LaunchPad Huntington, said. According to Buggee, what started out as a few volunteer projects on the weekends with friends turned into a nonprofit organization with the mission of turning hospital environments from “clinical to colorful.” “After her friend died, she dedicated herself to creating artwork for hospitals, mostly children’s and then veterans as well, working with staff to understand the therapeutic nature of art in ERs and critical care SPLASHES OF HOPE continued on page A30

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Lifelong Huntington resident gives back By Victoria Espinoza

What started out as a high school camp counselor job has turned into a career of giving back to Huntington Town for Gail Lamberta. Lamberta, 62, is an associate dean at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue, as well as a professor and coordinator of experiential learning. She’s a native Huntington resident, born in Huntington Hospital and graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1971. “I’m proud to be a wildcat,” she said in a phone interview. Lamberta is involved with more than half a dozen organizations throughout Long Island, and people who know her, marvel at her ability to be in 10 places at once, and her commitment to Huntington. It is for this reason she is a Times of Huntington & Northport Person of the Year. “Gale is 100 percent devoted to the town, there is no doubt about it,” Rob Scheiner, chair of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce said. “She is such a dedicated individual. She’ll do whatever we ask of her. Anytime we need a volunteer for a project, she’s there.” Lamberta is on the board of directors at the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, where she works frequently with Scheiner to organize events to provide education opportunities for the residents of Huntington. She has been able to use her extensive network at St. Joseph’s to provide quality educators for training programs organized by the Chamber of Commerce,

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including events like the business leadership competition for local high school students. Lamberta has hosted this conference for the past three years, which takes place at St. Joseph’s in early December and has been running for 13 years. About 350 students participated in the most recent competition, which asks students to present plans about retail markets, graphic design, hospitality and more, regarding scenarios the chamber gives to the students in advance. Students are also tested on their interview skills, and are offered tours of the campus as well as job workshops. “The kids are amazing,” Lamberta said. “To see them pull together and create top-notch presentations is one of my favorite parts of being involved with the chamber. It’s refreshing to see that caliber at the high school level.” Melissa Kuehnle, director of communications and external relations at St. Joseph’s, said Lamberta is an asset to have for any project. “She is a very good person to work with, because she knows so many people throughout the community,” Kuehnle. “She’s a doer and a hard worker. She’s always got her hands on something.” She also works with LaunchPad Huntington and Huntington Business Incubator to provide free courses that teach members of the community skills on organization, leadership, basic computer skills, creating a business plan and more. “She’s heavily entrenched in the local economy and local education,” Phil Rugile, director of LaunchPad Huntington, said of Lamberta. “She is very good at bringing the educational world to a local level.” To further improve Huntington,

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A message from the publisher The Times of Huntington & Northport is proud to continue an annual tradition of honoring members of the community who have contributed in a significant manner to its residents and institutions during the past year. These are the people who go the extra mile to improve the quality of our lives. In these pages, we salute their achievements. We also realize that these men and women are not unique. They are symbolic of the many who devote their efforts to the good of our hometowns. We salute them all and thank them for their service to the community we all love. Two years ago, we changed the format of how we honor our People of the Year. Now we have one edition for each of the three towns we cover — Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington — combining winners from multiple papers. We also eliminated the categories we previously used to organize the winners, such as medicine, sports or the arts, as we found that they were limiting us in how we were able to honor people. Every winner is simply a person of the year, no matter what their concentration. And instead of

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Flower shop plants deep roots in local community By Carolann ryan

Fashions in Flowers has been on the cutting edge of floral design for the past 60 years, and this Northport business shows no signs of stopping any time soon. Current owner Debi Triola serves the community well, providing flowers from around the world for any occasion while also giving back to the village that supports her as much as possible. For this reason, she is a Times of Huntington & Northport Person of the Year. Triola, a lifelong Northport resident, has been the owner of Fashions in Flowers on Fort Salonga Road for 11 years, although the shop has been running since 1955. Among the many hats she’s worn over the years, she is the current director of the Northport Chamber of Commerce. “I am definitely lucky to live here,” Triola said. Barbara Sorelle, a colleague of Triola’s at the Northport Chamber of Commerce who works for Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice of Suffolk, said Northport is just as lucky to have Triola. “Debi is a wonderful, caring person and gives so much to our community,” Sorelle said in a phone interview. “As members of the board of trustees of the Northport Chamber of Commerce, it has been a pleasure to work with her over the years.” It is about more than selling flowers

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Triola said, when asked why she cares so much about her hometown. “We are a tight-knit community here. We all help each other, whatever we can do.”

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Clockwise from top left: The front entrance of Fashions in Flowers on Fort Salonga road; Debi Triola smiles with a floral arrangement; bouquet-displays are for sale inside Fashions in Flowers.

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Local hospital has been caring for a century According to Executive Director Dr. Gerard Brogan, those complex proceHuntington Hospital has more than dures have “won the highest praise based just its age to celebrate. on quality and clinical outcomes.” Because it has been serving the commuIn addition to that praise, the hospital nity for 99 years, working to fulfill its mis- has received several awards for its techsion of providing high-quality health care niques, including one from the Amerito Long Islanders, the institution and its can Heart Association and American staff have been named The Times of Hun- Stroke Association for stroke care, actington & Northport People of the Year. creditations from the Commission on Huntington Hospital has grown since Cancer and the National Accreditation its establishment in 1916. Program for Breast “It has really transCenters and a Breast formed from being a ‘Huntington Hospital Imaging Center of Excommunity hospital to a has placed such an cellence award from the community hospital that emphasis on serving American College of functions more like a uniRadiology. versity hospital,” Chief the community and Its nursing staff has Medical Officer Dr. Mi- providing support.’ been recognized by the chael Grosso said. American Nurses Cre— william ‘doc’ spencer dentialing Center, and Grosso has worked there for 31 years. He said Huntington Hospital the hospital doesn’t simply treat patients was the first to receive such a designation but also helps educate medical students three consecutive times. and residents alike, preparing them for “What makes Huntington so unique is any medical complications that may oc- its commitment to … provide the highest cur inside or outside hospital walls. quality care possible anywhere, and to do Patients go to the hospital for any- it with the greatest caring,” Brogan said. thing from minor health issues to robot- “It’s not just enough to give great quality ic surgical procedures. care. It also has to be quality caring.” The latter treatment could involve, for According to Grosso, prominent example, a hysterectomy with a single in- Huntington resident Cornelia Prime, cision that leads to minimal scaring, less who was already in her 70s, spearheaded pain, low blood loss and a faster recovery. the push to establish a hospital in the By Giselle Barkley

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early 1900s. At the time, the closest facility was in Mineola. Prime wanted the local hospital to be a high-quality medical facility that would cater to the area’s growing population. In December 1914, she purchased the five-acre property on Park Avenue where the hospital still stands. She established the Huntington Hospital two years later. The hospital joined the North Shore-LIJ Health System in 1994. Connecting with other facilities expanded the resources available to medical staff and patients. It isn’t done growing. It’s expanding in 2016 to include a new emergency department to replace its current one and accommodate a recent increase in patients — the entire facility serves 50,000 patients annually. Suffolk County Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) said he is proud to be a part of the institution for the past 20 years, starting as a resident in training and now as the chief of otolaryngology. “Huntington Hospital has placed such an emphasis on serving the com-

munity and providing support,” he said in a phone interview. “They offer superior medical care and continue to update based on the needs of the community.” Grosso said the institution is unique because of its deep roots with Huntington. “The hospital continues to build and expand to meet the needs of the community,” Grosso said. “[It] has an unusual real relationship with the community and one of the reasons … is because it’s been there for 100 years and … there isn’t [another] hospital next door.”

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on hybrid vigor by George Harrison Shull, in which crossbred corn produced some 20 percent higher yields than natural pollination. In the 1940s Milislav Demerec, the lab director, discovered that exposing penicillin to X-rays increased the yield of a drug which was important during World War II. Modern researchers who have spent time at CSHL praise the culture and opportunity. “Science has always driven things here,” said Richard McCombie, a professor who has been at CSHL since 1992. When he moved to an off-campus building, he recalled Stillman said, “It’ll be up

to you guys to make sure the new people are imbued with the culture of the lab.” Jan Witkowski, executive director of the Banbury Center at CSHL, said the lab is unique because of its combination of research and education. “One of the most interesting things is this combination of very high level research and very high level of education and communication,” Witkowski said. “There’s no other institute in the world that does both of those things at the level we do it here.” Giselle Barkley contributed reporting.

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County sheriff reduces return rate of inmates DeMarco was named Suffolk County sheriff in 2006 and became the first uniSuffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMar- formed member of the Sheriff’s Office to co has worked diligently over the last nine be elected sheriff, and one of the youngest years going above and beyond what’s asked sheriffs ever elected in Suffolk County. of his position. From the beginning of his tenure, DeHis creation and development of the Marco said he has made working with Youth Re-Entry Task Force, a program cre- youth inmates a priority of his administraated to rehabilitate youth inmates, among tion. In 2011, DeMarco began assembling his other initiatives, has earned him the dis- the partners needed for an undertaking like tinction of a 2015 Times of Huntington & the Youth Re-Entry Task Force. Northport Person of the Year. “We needed partners on the outside in “The sheriff has truly changed the cul- order to make this a success,” DeMarco said. ture of corrections in Suffolk County, and “We needed housing. … We also had to find has put particular emphasis on rehabilita- not-for-profits that were willing to come into tion of incarcerated youth,” said Kristin the correctional facilities and do some counMacKay, director of pubseling: drug counseling, lic relations for the Suf- ‘He looks at the big anger management, life folk County Sheriff’s Ofskill counseling, vocationfice. “He has been at the picture beyond the walls al counseling, all types of forefront of the fight to of his jail and that has stuff to fill our program, so eliminate state mandates when they leave the facilifor new county jail con- allowed him to make a ties they actually have the struction, which saved significant impact on tools to succeed instead the county’s taxpayers the lives of many young of just warehousing them hundreds of millions of in a correctional facilpeople on Long Island.’ dollars.” ity where you’re not giving Though you wouldn’t — Thaddaeus hill them any tools and they’re know it from speaking going to fail.” with him, DeMarco did not initially intend Among the most essential resources Deto go into law enforcement. A Ronkonkoma Marco and his administration found was native, DeMarco went to St. John’s Univer- housing for youths in Hope House Minsity, graduating with a degree in economics istries in Port Jefferson and Timothy Hill in 1991. 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 recidisitioned into law enforcement, becoming a vism among youths that enter the program. deputy sheriff for Suffolk County in 1994. “Sheriff DeMarco has pioneered proDeMarco took to the job quickly. grams that few in this country have had the “I think I have the best job in the world, courage to take on,” Hill said. “He looks at I really do,” he said. “I love coming to work the big picture beyond the walls of his jail everyday. I love what I do.” and that has allowed him to make a sigBy Clayton Collier

nificant impact on the lives of many young people on Long Island.” Another key component was EasternSuffolk 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, and that has enabled us not to build more jail cells; a huge cost to the taxpayers.” In the future, DeMarco hopes to expand for additional age groups. The more people he can help, he says, 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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became president of the department. Borden is also a consummate historian and a major contributor to local history. “He was afraid that the history of Kings Park was going to get washed away with the rain,” said his brother Noel Borden. “Everyone he talked to didn’t know a whole lot about the town because no one had taken the time to write anything about it.” This fear prompted Miles Borden to author five history books: • “History of the Kings Park Fire Department”; • “The First One Hundred Years (18921992): Lucien Memorial United Methodist Church”; • “History of Kings Park in Words and Pictures”; • “History of Our School District Community: Fort Salonga, Kings Park, San Remo”; • “First One Hundred Years, Fire and Emergency Services: History of the Kings Park Fire Department and the Kings Park Fire District.” “He’s made Kings Park history come alive,” said Gail Hessel, a member of Smithtown Historical Society. “People didn’t really think about Kings Park having a history. And he’s even inspired me to write a book. [Miles] is the kind of person that, if I was working on a book, he would encourage me by saying, ‘Good job.’” Along with his involvement with the fire department, Borden has served on several other local boards, including Suffolk County Parks and Kings Park

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Salonga Market IGA Scholarship, which awards a total of $6,000 to outstanding local high school students. For his contributions, Charles Reichert has been named a 2015 Times of Huntington & Northport Person of the Year. Reichert’s generosity has also extended outside of the IGA’s sponsorship. In 2013 The Charles and Helen Reichert Family Foundation donated $850,000, to be dispersed over several years, for the restoration and preservation of the Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium (formerly the Vanderbilt Museum’s Planetarium), which enabled the facility to purchase new seating, carpeting, lobby and gift shop along with technological updates. “I’ll tell you something,” said Michael Rosato, board member of the Nissequogue River State Park Foundation. “If there were more Charlies around, we’d all be a lot better off.” Rosato was referring to the contributions Reichert has made to the foundation. “We were able to rebuild the parking area around the soccer fields, expand the hike and bike trail and renovate the parks administration building. It was all because of Charlie’s support … He’s given back so much for the community.” Reichert, however, has played some contributions close to the heart. In 2013 the Charles and Helen Reichert Family Foundation donated $100,000 to the

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Huntington Hospital for the purchase of a 3D breast tomosynthesis machine, which can produce 3D images that can more accurately help detect cancer cells in breasts. This year, Charles and Helen Reichert, herself a 24-year breast cancer survivor, donated $1 million for the construction of the brand new, state-of-the-art Charles and Helen Reichert Imaging Center in Huntington, which will offer

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manager “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 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, Mullen said. 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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Coach lends hand on and off court

“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’s why Kevin Foley is a Times of just like her. Huntington & Northport Man 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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Seven Cents Club cleans community’s common spots throughout successful inaugural year, volunteers say that nobody else is making.” On Sept. 21, 2014, Mikell first took it Along Crooked Hill Road in Com- upon himself to clean up an “unofficial” mack, garbage bags are piled up and bus stop on Crooked Hill Road simply filled with everything from fast-food because he didn’t want people to have wrappers to plastic cups and glass to stand in garbage. He went home, bottles. Tires, hubcaps, license plates equipped himself with pails and some and various construction materials are tools and went to work. leaned up against a wooden post. Using an abandoned shopping cart Only an hour or two prior, all these that had been turned sideways so items were littered over the roads, side- people at the bus stop could sit down, walks and grass. However, thanks to Mikell filled up his pail four times, 73-year-old retired Commack resident threw the garbage in the shopping Ed Mikell, the founder of the Seven cart, and wheeled it across the street to Cents Club of Commack toss in a dumpster. — a volunteer group of ‘My father [is] super After making the bus young people and retir- energetic. ... He wants stop pristine, Mikell ees alike — the commureached out to the sunity can enjoy something to make the difference pervisor of Smithtown scarcely seen when trav- that nobody else is along with other Suffolk eling through any town: County representatives making.’ cleanliness. for some help, as he had For all of his work — Jennifer Mikell become driven to clean up cleaning up Commack, his neighborhood. A year Mikell was named a 2015 Times of Hun- later, Mikell has rallied together a small tington & Northport Person of the Year. group of determined volunteers and has It all started when Mikell was cleaning a partnered with Suffolk County’s Adoptbus stop, where he discovered seven cents A-Highway Program to secure cleanups on the ground. on Crooked Hill Road up to its intersec“My father [is] super energetic,” said tion with Commack Road. Ed’s daughter and cleanup volunteer The unofficial bus stop now has a Jennifer Mikell. “He’s been retired for white bench and a brown garbage can eight years and in his retirement he’s re- marked “7 Cents Club of Commack” ally done a lot to help others, whether placed alongside it. it’s helping people balance their finances “This is something that I thought and figure out their own retirement, or would be a nice thing to do for the comhelping out a local charity group that he munity,” Mikell said. “I’m just doing my works at a couple days a week.” part, [and] doing what I can as opposed She explained that her father was to not doing something. I’m not marchfrustrated that so many areas in his ing and championing causes and all that town had become so uncared for and stuff, but this is something I could put unclean for so long. my hands around, and maybe make a “He wants to make the difference difference. Abraham Lincoln once said By Kevin Redding

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Left and above, ed Mikell shows off a clean bus stop in Commack just as his Seven Cents Club launched earlier this year. At top, his newfound club sports its name on a spiffy garbage can.

‘I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives …’ and that’s on the letterhead for the Seven Cents Club.” The place in which Mikell lives has not ignored his efforts. Suffolk County Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset), who was among those first contacted by Mikell, sees him as “the epitome of a good citizen.” “He takes a bad situation and makes it better,” Kennedy said. “Instead of sitting around doing nothing in retirement, this man created something. He called the county to get the garbage picked up, he dealt with the town and he did everything that was needed. Who wants to live in ‘pigginess?’ I don’t think he had any other reason for doing it, other than to make something better. We’ll never

stop people from littering, [but] truthfully, the difference between last week and the end of what was done this week is noticeable. Really noticeable.” With volunteers from Dix Hills, Centereach and Hauppauge, there are hopes that this group will inspire more towns to have their own Ed Mikell and Seven Cents Club, but it won’t be easy. “That’s a big undertaking,” said Ed Feinberg, a Commack resident and club volunteer. “That would require a lot of time and effort. If I’ve walked away from this with one piece of knowledge it’s that it’s not easy, working your way through the red tape of county government and getting corroboration and information, but Ed’s done it. He’s done it very well.”

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Researchers on front lines of medicine By Daniel Dunaief

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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 Times of Huntington & Northport recognizes Hannun and Obeid as People of the Year for their dayto-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 NCIdesignated Cancer Center,” said Gerard Blobe, a professor of medicine and the 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.” Indeed, Blobe said the National Cancer Institute designation is just the “icing on the cake” that enables the center to seek 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. He’s undoubtedly, if not the leader, then a leader. It’s fair to say the same about” Obeid. In her lab, Obeid, who is the dean for research and a professor of medicine at the Stony Brook School of Medicine, is exploring the role of enzymes that control molecules that are involved in cell growth and others that play a role in cell death or differentiation. While Futerman is a competitor to Hannun in some respects, he suggested that Hannun has 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 both have the same attitude: they push young people into leadership positions.” Indeed, 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 was Hannun’s first graduate student. She said someone cautioned her about the risks of joining a new lab. Her first meeting with him, however, HANNUN continued on page A31

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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 Stony Brook 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, the long-time local senator has continued his unflagging support of Stony Brook, particularly with Mather Hospital. “If we think of a wheel, the hub of a wheel and the local community hospitals are its spokes,” LaValle said, with Stony Brook at 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 Times of Huntington & Northport Man of the Year. Stony Brook officials appreciated LaValle’s work on their behalf and suggested that he played a seminal role in keeping the ongoing relationship with Southampton Hospital on track. “It took perseverance to continue to push the Southampton relationship with Stony Brook through,” said Reuven Pasternak, the CEO of Stony Brook University Hospital. “He was absolutely critical in keeping those discussions going and seeing them to fruition.” Pasternak said LaValle also facilitated a connection with Eastern Long Island Hospital. LaValle has been “a big supporter” of that relationship, Pasternak said. “He’s always made himself available to speak to people in Albany.” Indeed, LaValle was instrumental in the building of the new Medicine and Research Translation building, a 240,000-square foot facility that is expected to be completed in 2016. Kenneth Kaushansky, the dean of the School of Medicine and the senior vice president of health sciences, said LaValle helped secure critical state financing. LaValle identified $45 million that was earmarked for a law school at Stony Brook that was never built that he “was able get reallocated,” said Kaushansky. “The state support for MART was hugely dependent on the senator.” Kaushansky said he and LaValle have regular discussions about any potential issues that arise. If things aren’t proceeding the way the university would like, LaValle “always volunteers to help put them back on track.” State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) said LaValle deserves recognition for his work on behalf of Stony Brook and all the area hospitals. “He is firmly supportive of Stony Brook’s role and mission, as well as for all the hospitals in our community,” Englebright said. LaValle suggested his role as chairman of the Senate Committee on Higher Education gives him an opportunity to advocate on behalf of the 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 of their medical students. There are also people doing their clinical work and residencies.” LaValle is contributing to Stony Brook’s effort to LAVALLE continued on page A31

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Turano takes community history to another level By SuSan RiSoli

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Frank Turano leads an interactive discussion delving into the history of Three Village.

owned the general store.” If a historical topic comes up in a Rhodes committee meeting, Martin said, 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, she said, 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 history, they should listen to him. He goes to great lengths to get the true story

of a project, with no shortcuts.” Edwards said Turano is always featured in the Historical Society’s annual “Spirits” tour of local graveyards, dressed as one of the historical figures highlighted by the tour. Turano also frequently writes scripts for the tour’s performances, Edwards said. Turano’s daughter Alyssa said her father is now combing through the archives of the Long Island Museum. He’s working on an exploration of the Long Island whaling shipbuilding industry, she said, “focusing on Mr. Cooper, one specific whale ship builder who lived in the 1800s.” Turano is finding out about Cooper’s life by reading his diaries and looking over ship construction work

logs. Alyssa said her father has been excitedly sharing stories with her and his friends, about the buried gems of history he is finding. “Not everyone appreciates history in the way that he does,” she said. “It’s very inspiring. When you are so passionate about history, you can make it come alive again.” Her father is committed to finding out as much as he can about local history, she said, because he believes strongly that “not all of these people have had their stories told.” And he has told her, she said, that “it’s better to know the back story, so you can know how your community has changed throughout time.”

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Budd, Longo lead fight to keep North Shore off drugs across the Island. “It just seemed that so many people were Tracey Budd’s son died of a heroin over- inboxing me and asking me for help,” she dose in September 2012. said. “I created the page so we could have One year later, Budd, of Rocky Point, was a centralized area where we share inforasked to speak at the North Shore Youth mation, and organize meetings where the Council. Since then, she’s ended up on a group could all meet up. I also organized public service announcement, “Not My meetings once a month so we could to teach Child,” that’s shown in high schools and people about advocacy.” middle schools along the North Shore, aidHaving a 12-year-old daughter, residents ing her in becoming an advocate for drug like Cristina Dimou attended the meetings abuse prevention and rehabilitation. She to begin to gather information on the issue. also teamed up with another mother, DebAbout one week ago, someone Dimou bie Longo, of Miller Place, and the two have knows suffered an unexpected overdose, become advocates for prevention and reha- she said. She immediately reached out to bilitation along the North Shore. Budd asking for guidance. It is because of their hard work and dedi“She gave me three phone numbers tellcation to fighting this issue on Long Island ing me who to call for what and even gave that they are 2015 Times me websites of rehabiliof Huntington & North- ‘It takes a lot of guts to tation centers,” she said. port’s People of the Year. checks up on me evcome out in the open and “She “I made the decision ery day, asking me if I’m not to be ashamed of do this and help people. okay and what’s going on. how he passed away,” There are a lot of people I don’t know her personBudd said. “Just from ally, but she had a sense speaking that one time hurting out there.’ of urgency and a willingat North Shore Youth — Sheila littler ness to help. I think that Council, it was so very speaks volumes.” healing for me, and so many things have Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sicome from that and taken me in a direc- nai) said with Budd’s outspokenness and tion that I never thought I’d be in, but it Longo’s long-standing knowledge of the seems like it’s my calling.” issue, they’ll be successful in their efforts. Janene Gentile, a drug and alcohol “These women put their energy, their counselor and executive director of the anger, their frustration, their sorrow into North Shore Youth Council, helped work something that is helpful to the commuon that PSA. nity,” she said. “I think they’re going to do “It was very powerful,” she said. “It was amazing work.” walking her through her grief. She has a lot Longo has been involved in advocacy of courage.” across the Island for the last five years, after Budd, who is also a member of Families her son suffered an overdose 10 years ago. in Support of Treatment, pulled together as Since then, her son has recovered, and curmuch information as she could, and this rently lives in Los Angeles as a director of past October, created a Facebook page — marketing for a rehabilitation center. North Shore Drug Awareness Advocates She said she found sending her son out — pooling together families from Rocky of state helped him recover, because once he Point, Miller Place, Mount Sinai and Shore- was done with his treatment, he wasn’t goham-Wading River to spread the word ing back to seeing the same people he knew about the rising concern over dangerous when he was using. drugs, like heroin, growing in popularity But she too has been involved in outBy Desirée Keegan

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above, Tracey Budd poses for a photo with her son Kevin norris, who died of a heroin overdose in 2012. Below, Debbie Longo speaks at a Dan’s Foundation for recovery event.

reach 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. “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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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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METHODIST

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

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

380 Nicolls Road • between Rte 347 & Rte 25A (631) 751–0297 • www.uufsb.org • oﬃce@uufsb.org

Rev. Margaret H. Allen

Cantor Daniel Kramer, Rabbi Emeritus Howard Hoffman Executive Director Marcie Platkin Services: Daily morning and evening minyan Friday at 8 pm; Saturday 8:45 am and one hour before sundown • Tot Shabbat Family Kehillah • Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Seniors Club • Youth Group Award–winning Religious School • Teen Community Service Program Nursery School • Mommy and Me • Preschool Summer Program Continuing Ed • Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah • Judaica Shop Thrift Shop • Kosher Catering Panel We warmly welcome you to our Jewish home. Come worship, study and enjoy being Jewish with our caring NSJC family. Member United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

COMMACK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

TEMPLE ISAIAH (REFORM)

SETAUKET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

109 Brown’s Road, Huntington, NY 11743 631–427–9547

A warm and caring intergenerational community dedicated to learning, prayer, social action, and friendship.

Rev. Sandra B. Mantz, Pastor

Rev. G. Jude Geiger, Minister

1404 Stony Brook Road, Stony Brook • (631) 751–8518 Rabbi Sharon L. Sobel Cantor Michael F. Trachtenberg Emeritus Cantor Scott Harris Rabbi Emeritus Stephen A. Karol Rabbi Emeritus Adam D. Fisher

Member Union for Reform Judaism Sabbath Services Friday 7:30 pm and Saturday 10 am Monthly Family Service • Monthly Tot Shabbat • Religious School Youth Groups • Senior Club • Adult Education • Chavurah Groups • Early AM Studies • Sisterhood • Brotherhood • PT

LUTHERAN–ELCA

Sunday Worship 10:30 am Adult Sunday School 9:30 am Lectionary Reading and Prayer Wed. 12 noon Gospel Choir Tues. 8 pm Praise Choir and Youth Choir 3rd and 4th Fri. 6:30 pm

486 Townline Road, Commack Church Office: (631)499–7310 Fax: (631) 858–0596 www.commack–umc.org • mail@commack–umc.org Rev. Linda Bates–Stepe, Pastor 160 Main Street, Corner of 25A and Main Street East Setauket • (631) 941–4167

www.setauketumc.org • SUMCNY@aol.com Sunday Worship Service & Church School 10 am 10 am Worship with Holy Communion Mary & Martha Circle (Women’s Ministry) monthly on 2nd Tuesday at noon Adult Bible Study Sunday 8 am Prayer Group and Bible Study at the Church Wednesdays 10 am

PRESBYTERIAN

Religious Education at UUFSB: Unitarian Universalism accepts wisdom from many sources and offers non-dogmatic religious education for children from 3-18 to foster ethical and spiritual development and knowledge of world religions. Classes Sunday mornings at 10:30 am. Childcare for little ones under three. Senior High Youth Group meetings Sunday evenings. Registration is ongoing. For more information: dre@uufsb.org.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF HUNTINGTON www.uufh.org

(minister@uufh.org) Starr Austin, religious educator (dreuufh@gmail.com) Whoever you are, whomever you love, wherever you are on your life’s journey, you are welcome here. Our services offer a progressive, non-creedal message with room for spiritual seekers. Services and Religious Education each Sunday at 10:30 am Youth Group, Lifespan Religious Education for Adults, Adult and Children’s Choirs Participants in the Huntington Interfaith Housing Initiative Find us on Facebook and Twitter

SETAUKET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

ST. PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH

5 Caroline Avenue ~ On the Village Green ~ (631) 941–4271 • www.setauketpresbyterian.org Email: setauketpresbyterian@verizon.net

Rev. Paul A. Downing, Pastor email: pastorpauldowning@yahoo.com • pastors cell: 347–423–3623 church website: wwwStPaulsLCPJS.org Services Sundays – 8:30 am and 10:30 am Holy Communion Bibles and Bagels 9:30 am Sunday School during 10:30 am service Wednesday Evening 7:30 pm – Holy Communion Friday Morning Power of Prayer Hour 10:30 am ~ All are Welcome ~

Join us in Worship at 9:30 am Church School (PreK-7th Grade) at 9:45 am Adult Christian Education Classes at 11 am: Service Opportunities: Open Door Ministry Open House : November 8th Furnishing homes ... Finding hope Openings for MWF Preschool 4’s program 2015–2016 Janet Craig, Director All are welcome to join this vibrant community for worship, music (voice and bell choirs), mission (local, national and international), and fellowship. Call the church office or visit our website for current information on church activities. SPC is a More Light Presbyterian Church and part of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians working toward a church as generous and just as God’s grace.

309 Patchogue Road, Port Jefferson Station (631)473–7157

(minister@uufsb.org) Sunday Service: 10:30 am

Rev. Mary Barrett Speers, Pastor Rev. Kate Jones Calone, Assistant Pastor

UNITY UNITY CHURCH OF HEALING LIGHT 203 East Pulaski Rd., Huntington Sta. (631) 385–7180 www.unityhuntingtonny.org

Rev. Saba Mchunguzi

Unity Church of Healing Light is committed to helping people unfold their Christ potential to transform their lives and build spiritual community through worship, education, prayer and service. Sunday Worship & Church School 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Night Prayer Service 7:30 p.m. Sign Language Interpreter at Sunday Service

LUTHERAN–LCMS MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE 465 Pond Path, East Setauket (631)751-1775 www.messiahny.com

Rev. Charles Bell - Pastor We welcome all to join us for worship & fellowship Sunday Worship Services 8:15am, 9:30am & 11:00am Sunday School at 9:30 am NYS Certified Preschool & Day Care Program Please call for details

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units,” Rugile said. “That dedication to the mission has resulted in her creating inspirational environments both locally and internationally. Heather has built a small and effective organization that achieves maximum results for minimal personal gain.” Jean Brand, the program director for the Adult Day Health Care program at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, sent a thank you note to Buggee after the hospital received an installation in November. “The positive reaction of our veterans and staff to the new murals is overwhelming,” the note sent to Buggee said. “The colorful and lively iconic scenes of Long Island landmarks bring the program room to life, evoking warm memories for our veterans. The fireworks mural evokes patriotic pride, and of course all the American flags skillfully placed on each

‘The fireworks mural evokes patriotic pride, and of course all the American flags skillfully placed on each mural remind us of the precious freedom our veterans fought to protect.’ — jean brand

mural remind us of the precious freedom our veterans fought to protect.” Buggee said reactions like those from the patients at the Long Island State Veterans Home are what she most looks forward to. “My favorite part of the ‘splash’ journey, besides the creative process, is hearing the results of each splash and the purpose being served by each piece,” Buggee said. In November, Splashes of Hope received the Humanitarian Award from the Adults and Children with Learning and Developmental Disabilities Inc. for “continuing to bring smiles to the faces of patients, students, staff and visitors at medical and social service facilities by creating art that transforms spaces, enriches environments and facilitates healing,” according to a press release from the ACLD. Buggee graduated from the Connecticut Institute of Art in 1995 and then studied fresco paintings and interior design at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. She now lives in

Photos from Heather Buggee

Clockwise from top, Donna Spolar and Darlene Rastelli from the Carol Baldwin Breast Care Center of Stony Brook and Splashes of Hope artist Sarah Baecher stand in front of a mural; Heather Buggee and a young boy paint a mural; and the mural at the Long Island State Veterans Home brings color to its walls.

Huntington with her husband, Jimmy, her daughter, Sarah, and her three dogs named Roxy, Eve and Oliver. She refers to Huntington as “the greatest town in the whole wide world.”

But her efforts to bring smiles to her neighbors’ faces reach way beyond town lines. To donate to Splashes of Hope or to get involved, visit www.splashesofhope.org.

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secure a longer-term connection with Mather. He cited numerous such two-way benefits for a potential longer-term 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

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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 families can interact and it’s convenient. We are focused in a way to ensure that the quality of health care is at its maximum.” From the leaders through the rank and file, Stony Brook health care professionals appreciate LaValle’s support. “If anybody were to ask a person working in the dialysis unit, ‘Of all the politicians in the state of New York, who do you think is the strongest advocate for Stony Brook Medical School and Stony Brook University Hospital?’ most of them would say Ken LaValle,” said Kaushansky. Pasternak, who considers LaValle a friend, called him sincere in his beliefs. “It’s not the politics that drives him,” Pasternak said. “It’s his passion for the region and the people in the region.”

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quickly allayed her concerns. “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,’” she said. “I thought that was very brave.” Linardic, who is now an associate professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, recalled how they were working on a compound called ceramide. Whenever they gave it to cells, the cells died. At first, they thought maybe they were doing something wrong in their experiments. Eventually, Hannun helped her understand that ceramide was activating a form of programmed cell death. “It wasn’t a mistake or a technical disaster,” Linardic said. “We had to reframe the question.” The result was something she described as “profound.” Linardic said she felt fortunate to work with Obeid, who had a similar unbiased view of the work. “It was extraordinary to have a female mentor as well,” Linardic said. She and

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her colleagues felt fortunate to be welcomed into Hannun and Obeid’s family, where they were not only offering guidance on their careers, but also were caring for their young triplets at home. Linardic, Blobe and Jayadev started just around the time the triplets were born. They were “raising three biological children and three graduate students at the same time,” said Linardic. 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 there was “no question in my mind” that Hannun and Obeid deserve recognition in the Long Island community and the scientific community. “They are considered leaders,” Futerman said. “They contribute a lot to the academic community.”

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