The Times of Huntington-Northport - October 20, 2022

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Students and author connect

Students at Thomas J. Lahey Elementary School in the Harborfields Central School District recently participated in a read-aloud by award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

In a live virtual visit with TJL and other schools nationwide, Tonatiuh read excerpts from his books “Dear Primo” and “Separate

Never Equal,” explored his craft as a writer and illustrator, and discussed his life growing up as both a citizen of Mexico and the United States.

“The event provided a wonderful connection for Hispanic Heritage Month and was a great way for everyone to come together and have some fun,” Principal Mary Williams said.

Thomas J. Lahey Elementary School

Photo from Harborfields Central School District

Huntington renames Crab Meadow Beach after former supervisor Petrone

Town of Huntington Councilwoman Joan Cergol hosted a ceremony at Crab Meadow Beach Oct. 14. Huntington officials were on hand to unveil a new sign renaming Crab Meadow Beach in honor of former Town Supervisor Frank P. Petrone.

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Cergol introduced the resolution to rename Crab Meadow Beach in Petrone’s honor at the July 12 meeting of the Town Board, where it was co-sponsored by Councilmembers Eugene Cook, Dave Bennardo and Sal Ferro and unanimously approved.

Town Board members were joined by over 100 attendees, including numerous elected officials both past and present, to pay tribute to Petrone, whose tenure as supervisor is the longest in the town’s history.

Numerous speakers lauded the former supervisor for his thoughtfulness, love of community and keen ability to work across the aisle to build bipartisan consensus on a number of projects.

Petrone was first elected as Huntington town supervisor in 1993 and would go on to serve 24 years in office before retiring at the end of 2017.

Prior to this, he served in several public service roles, including as assistant Suffolk County executive, chief of staff to the Suffolk County Legislature, and regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where he helped develop a Hurricane Preparedness Program and various other disaster mitigation plans.

Under Petrone’s leadership, the Town of Huntington took significant steps to help preserve the Crab Meadow Beach coastal wetland system and the Crab Meadow

Watershed, both valuable environmental resources that provide flood protection, water quality improvement, and reduced shoreline erosion.

In 1996, the Town of Huntington and its Crab Meadow Citizens Advisory Committee developed a master plan to maintain the Crab Meadow Beach and the Jerome Ambro Memorial Wetlands Preserve and uphold their status as a public beach, park preserve and wildlife habitat.

In 2010, the Town of Huntington further

established a Crab Meadow Watershed Advisory Committee to bring local experts and community members together to guide watershed management strategies, secure funding for improvements to Crab Meadow Beach and its surrounding areas and develop a Crab Meadow Watershed Hydrology Study and Stewardship Plan, the final draft of which was adopted with unanimous Town Board approval earlier this year.

Petrone’s numerous other accomplishments include the establishment of the first affordable

housing developments in the Town of Huntington; the creation of the Environmental Open Space and Park Fund; the initiation of the still-ongoing revitalization of Huntington Station; and the improvement of the town’s near junk bond status to its highest Triple-A bond rating.

In his closing remarks, Petrone reminisced on his decades of service to the Town and the dedicated individuals with whom he had the honor of serving, and noted that the Town of Huntington will always be his home no matter where he lives.

Former Town of Huntington Supervisor Frank Petrone, third from right, was honored on Oct. 14 by Town of Huntington officials as Crab Meadow Beach was renamed for the former supervisor. Receiver of Taxes Jillian Guthman, Town Clerk Andrew Raia, Councilmen Dave Bennardo, Sal Ferro, Eugene Cook, current Supervisor Ed Smyth and Councilwoman Joan Cergol were on hand for the ceremony. Photo from the Town of Huntington

Response Crisis Center in Suffolk County announces expansion of services

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

When Suffolk County residents are experiencing a mental health crisis, a national hotline number can lead them to a counselor sitting in an East Setauket office.

The Response Crisis Center, once located in Stony Brook, moved its offices to East Setauket in July. A ribbon cutting was held on Wednesday, Oct. 12, to commemorate the new location and the expansion of its suicide prevention and crisis services that will benefit county residents and people beyond Long Island.

The center has offered 24/7 suicide prevention and crisis care services for more than 50 years to residents through its local hotline, 631-751-7500. The hotline service is also part of a national network that people can reach by calling the recently rolled out 9-8-8. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline was formally known as the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) and Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. (D) attended the ribbon cutting. Toulon, a crisis center board member, in a statement touched on the importance of the service, especially

for young people.

“Mental health services for young adults are vital as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said. “Our young residents have experienced stresses that we never had to face when we were young.”

Hahn, in an interview after the ribbon cutting, echoed Toulon’s sentiments that the pandemic has increased mental health issues. She added the center is recognized as one of the national leaders providing the service and employees and volunteers have trained other organizations in best practices.

“It’s really valuable to know our local crisis hotline has established itself as such an expert,” Hahn said.

Meryl Cassidy, executive director, said in a phone interview one of the reasons the organization was able to expand was due to the rollout of 988, which receives federal funding through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a division of U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

The East Setauket location is the primary 988 center for those calling from Suffolk, Rockland and Putnam counties. It also serves as a backup for six other New York counties and is one of nine centers that provides backup for national calls, chats and texts. Cassidy

said the center is the only one in the state that covers chats and text messages to 988.

In addition to calling 988 for emotional support, a person in need of help can text the number. There is an option to chat with a counselor through the website: 988lifeline.org.

“When somebody’s in a crisis, they need a really easy way to get the help they need

in the moment that they need it,” Cassidy said. “That’s the whole idea of having crisis counselors available 24/7, 365. Crises don’t happen typically Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. They happen in the middle of the night or on the weekend.”

The center’s executive director said the goal is to provide callers with the emotional help they need, and counselors can evaluate the situation.

“We can assess what’s going on and help get them the help they need in the moment when they need it, and that really can help to de-escalate a crisis,” Cassidy said.

In addition to 988’s funding through SAMHSA, Response Crisis Center has received funding through the state and county. Recent additional funding has enabled the center to hire more employees, including many who are licensed mental health counselors, social workers or in graduate school to enter either profession. Currently, there are 40 volunteers and about 120 paid staff with the crisis center. Cassidy said as of now it’s not a requirement for new hires to have a mental health background, and every employee receives 100 hours of intensive training.

For more information, visit www. responsecrisiscenter.org.

SBU president delivers State of the University 2022 address

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

During the latest annual State of the University address held on Oct. 12, Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis gave updates about the latest news and accomplishments at the educational institution in a prepared speech

McInnis told those in attendance that SBU was named flagship of the SUNY System and just earned its highest ranking from the U.S. News & World Report. The university rated No. 31 for public institutions and No. 1 public in New York state.

The university president said the four-year graduation and six-year graduation rate at SBU increased 18% points and 10 points, respectively, over eight years.

“In addition to these increases, we have nearly eliminated the equity gaps most universities face when it comes to graduation rates for Black, Latinx, underserved and Pell-eligible students,” she said.

The university is committed “to increasing our one-year retention rate to 92% and targeting a six-year graduation rate of 85% by 2030.”

McInnis said the university wants to ensure “that Stony Brook’s campus culture promotes connection” and has reimagined its undergraduate colleges “connecting students across disciplines and fields under global topics.”

One example, the university president said, is the Vertically Integrated Projects Program that was inaugurated three years ago at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The VIP program brings together undergraduates, graduate students and faculty “in multidisciplinary teams to work on real-world projects in research, design and entrepreneurship.” The program has grown from approximately 50 students to more than 500.

McInnis said the partnership between SBU and the Simons Foundation has resulted in the Stony Brook Simons STEM Scholars Program, which aims “to create pathways to successful STEM careers for underrepresented students and increase the diversity of students pursuing doctoral degrees in STEM.”

McInnis said in 2022, for the first time, four SBU junior faculty members earned “the prestigious” Sloan Fellowship. There are also six Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need awards, which helps to support graduate student research.

“We also just learned that the National Science Foundation will be funding three instrumentation proposals for Stony Brook University — marking the first time that all of our proposals submitted to the NSF MRI Program have been successful,” she added.

McInnis said during the address that the College of Business is now fully accredited. The university’s School of Communication and

Journalism received the Inaugural Solutions Journalism Hub Designation this year and was one of only four universities to receive it.

She said, in 2022, 14 students received a Fulbright Fellowship, which they will used to fund their international research and teaching.

SBU has made a bid to become the anchor institution for the Governors Island Center for Climate Solutions, McInnis announced. She said if the university is selected it would develop the island “as a hub for climate-change solutions and innovations in New York.”

“Our proposal includes an interactive living lab with green-designed research labs, classrooms and mitigation technologies,” she said. “A Research and Technology Accelerator will nurture new ventures dedicated to solving climate change in New York and beyond, and academic programs will prepare students of all ages for different careers in environmental justice and climate change.”

The president also devoted part of her address to Stony Brook Medicine, which she described as “a differentiator on Long Island and in New York state.” She name-checked many individual students and professors throughout.

Midway through the address, representatives from the Graduate Students Employees Union interrupted the speech to say that they are not paid well. One said, “We deserve a living wage.” After the last person spoke, a few repeatedly shouted,

“Living wage now.”

McInnis remained silent and allowed the representatives to speak. When they were done, she returned to her address.

Later that day, SBU officials released a statement that said they “recognize the high cost of living and stipend issues that our graduate students and other employees face here on Long Island.”

“Wages and stipends are negotiated between the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations and the respective bargaining units. The current Graduate Student Employees Union agreement for state graduate assistant and teaching assistant student employees raises salaries and has a total compensation package that includes insurance, pension, paid leave, and a location adjustment among other benefits. This is in addition to tuition scholarships.”

McInnis concluded her address by saying, “At Stony Brook University — where our scholarship crosses over the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM and medicine; where our research extends well past this campus and even beyond New York to countries all over the world; where our legacy has been defined by bravery, creativity and commitment to service — we are working to address the world’s pressing issues.”

To read more about the 2022 State of the University address, and the university’s response to GSEU representatives, visit tbrnewsmedia.com.

Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. addresses the attendees at the Oct. 12 ribbon cutting.

New leaders on campus: SBU trio shares their hopes and perspective

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Stony Brook University has welcomed a trio of new leaders to its campus over the last several months. Provost Carl Lejuez, Vice President for Marketing and Communications William Warren, and Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Jed Shivers recently shared their goals for Stony Brook and their excitement at joining a flagship university for the State University of New York educational system.

Provost Lejuez

As provost, Carl Lejuez is responsible for the faculty, staff and students at Stony Brook University.

Lejuez, who has asked that people call him by his first name instead of trying to pronounce his last name — which, by the way, is Lejh way— makes a concerted effort to forge connections on campus.

“Whenever I introduce myself, I don’t say, ‘Provost,’” he said. “I say, ‘Professor in the Department of Psychology.’ I don’t believe I can be a credible leader of the faculty if there’s not a sense of sitting in their shoes and understanding the implications of the strategic and practical decisions we make.”

Lejuez, who grew up in Secaucus, New Jersey, earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Emory University and his Master of Arts and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of West Virginia.

As a first-generation college student, Lejuez feels inspired by the opportunity for students to come through a place with world-class research in an environment that cares about student success.

For first-generation students, in particular, he recognizes the need to forge connections with professors.

These close bonds help “take what’s happening in the classroom, which may be esoteric knowledge, and turn it into a passion and understanding,” providing students with the opportunity to see how what they’re learning in a textbook applies to the world.

He wants to expand the scope and reach of these hands-on experiences for students, while recognizing “how much goes into it from faculty and staff,” he said.

Lejuez believes the ability of professors to conduct extraordinary and groundbreaking research should dovetail with their commitment to being accomplished educators.

“We are setting the expectation from the start,” he said. “When you are tenured here, when you are progressing and doing well, you are excellent in both research and teaching.”

Stony Brook has a Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that provides support for professors who may need polishing or improvement in inspiring and educating students.

Stony Brook looks closely at student evaluations, while also examining other data in assessing its teachers.

Lejuez, who recently served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Connecticut, supports strong and growing areas for the university, including clinical psychology, quantum information systems, and climate science, among others.

“These are areas that Stony Brook has a real opportunity to develop and part of my role has been thinking about how do we identify incredibly strong areas and areas that are able to emerge that way and fuse it with growing fields,” he said.

Lejuez believes in academic excellence and in diversity and equity.

He hopes to broaden the range of countries and regions from which the university is recruiting students and faculty.

Lejuez describes Stony Brook as “one of the best kept secrets of public universities,” ranking first in the state in public schools, according to the 2022-2023 US News and World Report ranking.

“Our goal is now to remove the best kept secret part,” Lejuez said.

Raising SB’s profile

This is where William Warren, vice president for Marketing and Communications, comes in. Warren has worked in numerous corporate and academic jobs, including most recently as the chief marketing and communications officer at the University of Utah.

Warren hopes to raise “the profile of Stony Brook and really claim the sort of credit and attention this institution deserves,” he said.

Previously at Coca Cola, among others, Warren welcomes the opportunity to support Stony Brook.

“You want a challenge that’s exciting and doable,” he said. “That means having a fabulous thing to market that is possibly undervalued.”

Warren divides marketing into earned and paid media. For the former, he hopes to do the hard work of building relationships with national reporters, who can spread the word about the achievements and experts available at Stony Brook.

Warner plans to continue to work with regional and local reporters, while engaging in an ongoing effort to share the Stony Brook story, including publicizing initiatives such as the Simons Stem Scholars Program that supports minority students entering the scientific fields.

As for the paid piece, Warren sees opportunities in several dimensions.

“The great thing about the paid marketing campaign is that it’s adaptable to all kinds of purposes,” he said. “Student recruitment can use the campaign to get the right students. We can use the campaign to help us recruit great faculty.” It can also be adapted to “attract more donor support.”

Any marketing effort, however, needs to remain grounded in truth.

“You want to go out there with a message that resonates and that faculty will see and say, ‘That’s what we offer,’” Warren said. “We are not blowing smoke.”

A marketing campaign includes a host of elements, such as the best execution and photography that supports the message.

An evolved campaign could include a new slogan for the school.

The “Coke is it” campaign reinforces the idea of authenticity, as consumers can be sure it is “exactly what you think it is,” Warren said. “It never disappoints. It’s always consistent and is part of the American culture.”

In developing a slogan for Stony Brook, which Warren said is less important than the message behind it, he wants to hone in on the handful of characteristics that capture the personality of the university.

In reflecting on the differences between commercial and academic marketing, Warren noticed that academics tend to be more skeptical.

“You have to work to make them allies,” he said.

Outside of his marketing role, Warren, who had initially pursued a PhD in history at Rice University, shared an interest in teaching. At the University of Utah, he taught an American economic history class and, at some point, would also consider teaching at Stony Brook.

Since arriving on Long Island, Warren has enjoyed kayaking. He is also a former violinist and enjoys the opportunity to relax with music. A return to the Northeast

After over four years as vice president for finance and operations/ chief operating officer at the University of North Dakota, Jed Shivers is returning to the Northeast, which is similar to the cultural and environmental feel of his childhood home in Storrs, Connecticut.

Shivers, who is senior vice president for finance and administration at Stony Brook, enjoys walking through the quad and in wooded areas around campus.

After living in the plains, which has “its own beauty,” Shivers appreciates the SB campus, which has “more trees,” and includes a view of the fall foliage outside his office window in the Administration Building.

Ready to embrace the opportunities and challenges of his job, Shivers said the university community is preparing a strategic plan for the next five years or so, which he will follow with a campus master plan.

In preparing for that plan, he is working with a firm that will survey all research space on campus and determine its current functional use, occupants and intensity of use.

He is also focusing on facilities that assist with the delivery of education and is hoping to conduct a similar survey of educational spaces.

To provide managers and executives with actionable financial information, the university is also engaged in a process to improve its business systems in human resources, budgeting, accounting and financial management.

With a “ high rate of system failures around campus” creating a “significant problem” for the university, the building and infrastructure at Stony Brook are all aging at the same time, Shivers said.

Campus Planning, Design and Construction and Campus Operations and Maintenance work constantly to deal with these issues and fix problems as quickly as they can, Shivers added.

The immediate need for deferred maintenance issues is over $1.5 billion, which dwarfs any campus close to comparable size in the SUNY system.

The SUNY Construction Fund and SUNY leadership has provided funds to alleviate a small but substantial part of those critical issues, he said. The university is also engaged in conversations with the Construction Fund and the Division of Budget on ways to use funds for optimal results.

Shivers was delighted for the chance to “get into a place where president [Maurie Mcinnis] was forming her team,” he said. He saw this opportunity as a chance to be a part of leadership “on a ground floor-ish kind of a way.”

He embraces the challenge of working through the SUNY system.

Consistent with mandates from McInnis since her arrival, Shivers would like to create a consolidated financial statement for Stony Brook and all its affiliated entities.

In addition to enjoying his strolls through the quad, Shivers has appreciated the opportunity to join other sports and school enthusiasts in supporting college teams and cultural life on campus. He and his wife Sandee have been married for almost 30 years.

Outside of work, Shivers said he does “everything badly,” but is enthusiastic about it. That includes golf, tennis, skiing and bike riding. To get in shape for the 100-mile North Fork ride, which he’s never done, he has started riding his indoor bike close to five days per week.

Carl Lejuez, William Warren and Jed Shivers recently joined the Stony Brook University team. Warren’s photo from Stony Brook University marketing; others from SBU

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Northport girls volleyball celebrate senior night with a win

BY STEVEN ZAITZ DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The Northport Lady Tiger volleyball team dunked Huntington on Senior Night last Friday.

It was a straight set affair — 25-22, 2523, 25-10.

Northport wore pink and blue face paint and streaked their hair pink, as the junior varsity Tigers wore different-colored shirts emblazoned with photos of their favorite seniors. Blue and gold balloons were festooned throughout the gymnasium.

Seniors Kaileigh Baudier, Delaney Karpf, Casey Koenig, Lauren Salmon, Tomi Sandin and Victoria Sheluk were honored, and underclassman Ava Olsen kicked off the festivities with a stirring rendition of the National Anthem.

Northport players from other teams who wrapped up their practices or games, trickled into the gym to see the Lady Tigers improve to 9-3 as they remain in second place behind

Smithtown West in League II. Huntington falls to 5-7.

Emma Watts had 10 kills for the Lady Tigers and Olsen 8. Salmon and Sheluck combined for 26 assists.

Northport has one more game left on its regular season schedule. It is home against Whitman on Thursday, Oct. 20. The playoffs will begin the week of Oct. 24 with the Lady Tigers likely beginning the tournament with a home match against an opponent that is yet to be determined.

Huntington is now finished with their regular season schedule and will start the playoffs on the road, possibly against crosstown rival Walt Whitman.

Pictured clockwise from above, Neurdia Osias of Huntington, left, vs. Tomi Sandin; Neurdia Osias (21) and Kate Barba on the block for Huntington; Renee McKeon, right, blocks against Ava Olsen of Northport; Emma Watts of Northport sets up the offense; and Kaileigh Baudier sets it up for Northport.

— Photos by Steven Zaitz

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Local LGBTQ community faces numerous challenges, SBM survey says

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In a first of its kind survey of 1,150 members of the LGBTQ+ community on Long Island, Stony Brook Medicine found that people in this group struggle with numerous health care challenges.

Stony Brook Medicine has taken steps to provide specific services to residents who are LGBTQ+. People who are transitioning and have a cervix continue to need a pap smear.

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Over two in five people responding to an online survey between June and September of 2021 said they were in fair to poor mental health. Additionally, about one in three people had thoughts of self harm, while 23.9% had seriously considered suicide within the past three years.

People in the LGBTQ+ community are struggling with mental health and access to care, while they also have had negative experiences with health care providers, who may have been making incorrect assumptions about their lives or who haven’t respected them, said Dr. Allison Eliscu, principal investigator of the study and medical director of the Adolescent LGBTQ+ Care Program at Stony Brook Medicine.

Partnering with 30 Long Island-based community leaders and community organizations, including Planned Parenthood, Stony Brook Medicine created the survey to gather the kinds of data that could inform better health care decisions, could provide a baseline for understanding the needs of the LGBTQ+ community in the area, and could shed light on the disparity in health care for this community.

“The idea [for the survey] came out when we were creating the Edie Windsor Healthcare Center” in Hampton Bays, Eliscu said, which opened its doors in 2021 and is the first such center for the LGBTQ+ population on Long Island. “We were trying to think about what we

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Patricia Panopoulos

Patricia Elizabeth Keating Panopoulos, a trailblazing registered nurse who contributed greatly to the culture of hospital quality improvement, died on Aug. 24 at Sunrise of East Setauket.

Her passing followed a fall earlier in the summer. She would have been 92 in December.

Patricia was born in 1930 and was raised in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with her seven brothers and sisters. She often reminisced about the halcyon days of her youth, especially on trips with friends on her prized Silver Columbia bike to Coney Island. After high school, Patricia followed her passion and attended St.Mary’s Nursing School in Brooklyn. She described graduation day from St. Mary’s as the proudest

want [the center] to provide and what does the community need.”

Without local data, it was difficult to understand what residents of Long Island, specifically, might need.

The data suggests a disparity between the mental health of the LGBTQ+ community in the area and the overall health of the population in the country.

Over half of the people who took the survey indicated that they had symptoms of chronic depression, compared with 30.3% for the nation, based on a 2020 PRC National Health Survey.

Additionally, 23.9% of the LGBTQ+ community described a typical day as “extremely or very

stressful” compared with 16.1% for the nation.

To be sure, the national data sampling occurred just prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in February of 2020, while the Stony Brook Medicine survey polled residents during the second year of COVID.

Nonetheless, Eliscu suggested that her anecdotal experience with her patients indicates that the LGBTQ+ community likely suffered even more during the pandemic, as some people lived at home with relatives who may not have been supportive or with whom they didn’t share their identity.

Additionally, the isolation removed some LGBTQ+ residents from an in-person support network.

Some members of the transgender community may not be comfortable going to a gynecologist’s office. Stony Brook Medicine has put in place extended hours to meet their needs.

Micah Schneider, a social worker who lives in Ronkonkoma, served as a survey participant and also as a guide for some of the wording in the survey.

Schneider, who identifies as nonbinary and transgender and prefers the pronoun “they,” said the survey can help people “recognize that we’re not alone.”

When Schneider was growing up, “I had a sense that I was the only person in the entire world dealing with this,” which included a struggle with identity and mental illness.

“We as a community have each other and we can lean on each other,” Schneider said.

As for medical providers, Schneider suggested that this kind of survey can alert these professionals to the need to honor names, pronouns and identities and not make blanket assumptions.

Despite some improvements, the local and national LGBTQ+ community remains at risk, Schneider said.

“There are any number of people who are actively considering suicide,” Schneider added. “It’s a very real crisis in our community.”

On a conference call announcing the results of the survey, Dr. Gregson Pigott, Suffolk County Commissioner of Health, described the survey, which Stony Brook plans to repeat in a couple of years, as “groundbreaking. What you have here is hard data based on the survey.”

moment in her professional career, which would span 45 years until her retirement in 1995 from St. John’s Hospital in Smithtown.

There were several stops during her career of service beginning at Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn, taking care of newborns in the nursery on the labor and delivery floor. Coincidentally, she was working in the nursery during the week that her future daughter-in-law was born and probably cared for her on that service. With a growing family, Patricia and her husband, John, moved the family to Deer Park after the birth of their third child. She began working at both Southside Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital as a bedside nurse before earning her master’s degree in Nursing at NYU during the apex of her career. Patricia took full advantage of what the south shore of Long Island could offer and was a committed Fire Island beachgoer; packing up the station wagon and spending

many long summer days sprawled across the sand with her growing family.

The family eventually moved to Fort Salonga and then Northport after she accepted a position at St. John’s Hospital in Smithtown. While at St. John’s, and after earning her graduate degree, Patricia held several clinical and administrative positions including associate director of Nursing Education and associate director of Clinical Services. She described those early days of formalized quality assurance and risk management as challenging, but eventually won over many on the medical staff with her informed and collaborative professional style.

In the latter part of her nursing career, Patricia was an invaluable resource and mentor to members of both the nursing and medical staff at St. John’s. After retiring in 1995 she resided in Northport before moving to Stony Brook. In the many years after retiring, Patricia took great pride and joy

following the lives of her eight grandchildren and three great granddaughters. Patricia is predeceased by her former husband, John, and six of her siblings; and is survived by her brother Brian and her sister Sheila; her two daughters Mary Ann and Catherine; her three sons Michael, Stephen and John (Jack).

During the last few years of her life while living at Sunrise of Setauket, Patricia befriended many and was an inspiration to both clients and staff, where she continued to offer herself as a resource, especially during the difficult COVID-19 days of 2020 and 2021. After a career epitomized by the question, “How can I help you?, she was grateful for the care she received and never lost an opportunity to express appreciation and offer thanks to everyone who cared for her.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. Services will be held at St. James Roman Catholic Church of Setauket on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 10:45 a.m.

Stony Brook Medicine’s Dr. Alison Eliscu, left, was the principal investigator of the study that 1,150 members of the LGBTQ+ community recently participated in including Micah Schneider, right. Eliscu’s photo from Stony Brook Members; Micah Schneider’s from Lisa Czulinski

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The Northport boys golf team’s wildly successful regular season campaign came to a close on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Indian Hills, as they trounced Smithtown West, 9-0, and in doing so, took a share of the League III title.

Sophomores Brodie Douglas and Jack Trizzino led the Tigers with 2-over 38s as the Tigers shot a season-low of 210 on this particular course, despite misty and windy conditions.

“We are playing well as a team,” said Head Coach Brian Sundberg. “I hope it carries over to the Counties.” Douglas, paired with his brother and team

captain Paddy, made a spectacular chip on the undulating and difficult third hole that landed a foot away from the cup. He tapped in for par, as most of his fellow golfers were taking fives, sixes and sevens on this hole.

“I think that hole helped me settle into the round,” Brodie said. “It was definitely a great par.”

“It feels amazing to be league champs,” Brodie added. “We have worked so hard for it as a team this year and the work has paid off.”

Pictured clockwise from above, Norhtport’s Brodie Douglas chips on to green at Indian Hills; Casey Triolo using his driver for Northport golf team; and Jack Trizzino sizes up a big putt at Indian Hills.

— Photos by Steven Zaitz

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EditorialDrive with care or pay the price

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Say ‘no’ but this is the solution

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

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

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

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

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

Alan Cohn Nesconset

Why so many ‘whys’

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

Here are questions we all need to ponder:

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

•Why is there a hiring of 87,000 IRS agents to go after the American citizen and not hiring of border agents to protect the American citizen?

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

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

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

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

•Why are we allowing President Joe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa Pius Old Field

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The decommissioned Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, pictured above. Photo by Paul Searing, sourced from Wikimedia Commons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF

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

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

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

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

Where to go?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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