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Before the Google Meet session began, the ASL 2 students each had drawn an animal. During the interaction with Massa’s class, each High School West student then displayed the picture they had drawn and taught the elementary students how to sign the animals. Students then signed back their favorite animals, including an elephant, shark and turtle. The ASL 2 class at High School West, taught by Brynjar Leifsson, is a total immersion in sign language, with no words spoken.

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Smithtown teenager saves mother thanks to school elective

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It can be difficult to stay calm, cool and collected in certain situations, never mind when one’s mother is choking. Somehow, Sarah Desthers managed to do just that on the night of Jan. 12. The 15-year-old remembered vital lessons she learned in her first aid/CPR elective health course at Smithtown High School West when she walked into the kitchen and realized her mother Kim was choking and saved her life. Kim Desthers said she was cleaning up the kitchen after a late dinner when she took a spoonful of food and choked on it. Sarah had just come out of her room, the mother said and noticed something was wrong with her. While she doesn’t remember much about the few minutes she was choking, Kim Desthers said her daughter realized she wasn’t making any noise and asked if she was OK. “I was really too stunned to even respond,” the mother said. “I was so scared.” She added that being a dental hygienist who knows first aid techniques such as the Heimlich maneuver and CPR, she was a bit embarrassed to find herself in the situation. “I just stopped short,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do.” The mother of three said her daughter asked, “Mom are you choking?” When she couldn’t respond, Sarah said to her, “You have to nod. If I need to give you the Heimlich, you need to nod. I need to know.” The mother said once she nodded her head,

her daughter sprang into action. She didn’t even call for her father, who is a New York City firefighter, she just began the lifesaving technique. Kim Desthers said there was a moment when she thought she was going to die. “I can’t die,” she said to herself. “I need to be a mom to all these kids.” The first aid elective course taught by Cherie Diamond is one Sarah decided to take because she is planning to be a camp counselor this summer, and she’s glad she did. The high school sophomore said a lot was going through her head as she realized her mother was choking. “When you’re in that kind of situation, there is no time to hesitate, because my mom’s life was at risk,” she said. “And that’s one of the scariest things that could ever happen.” She said in addition to learning how to do the maneuver, Diamond has taught the students to stay levelheaded. Sarah said after not only taking the class but going through the experience of using the Heimlich, she has some advice for those who may find themselves in similar situations. “Just stay ahead of what’s going on,” the student said. “Always be listening. Pay attention if you think something’s wrong. Just don’t panic. Panicking is probably the worst thing you could do. Just figure out what’s wrong and try to help them.” Sarah said even though COVID protocols may have made taking the first aid class more difficult Diamond made sure the students could be hands-on as much as possible. “I appreciate that,” Sarah said. “She’s a

Sarah Desthers, left, a Smithtown High School West student, saved her mother using techniques she learned in an elective course taught by Cherie Diamond, right. Left photo from Kim Desthers; right photo from Cherie Diamond

very good teacher, and she helped me save my mom’s life.” Diamond, who has been teaching the class in schools for more than 20 years, said it’s the first time that a student has had to use the technique while still in her class. “You can’t ask for anything more as a teacher than to have your students apply the information they learned, much less a lifesaving device,” the teacher said. She’s also proud of how calm Sarah stayed in the situation.

“When you come across a first aid situation, you not only have to control your own anxiety but also the anxiety of someone who may be seriously hurt,” she said. “You have to be able to control your own emotions enough to be clear in thought, and to be able to do what you have to do and not panic and freeze.” The teacher believes everyone should get first aid training and recommends Advanced Training Center of Long Island in Smithtown. For more information, go to the website advancedtrainingcenterli.com.

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The Town of Smithtown has been selected to receive a 2021 Technical Assistance Grant by the Preservation League of New York State and their program partners at the New York State Council on the Arts, Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, and Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. The grant is for the town’s application to conduct a buildings survey of the Caleb Smith House, located behind the Smithtown Library, and it is the first step toward making restorations to maintain this historic structure for future generations to enjoy. Smithtown was one of the 17 applications selected, by an independent panel of preservation professionals, out of 14 counties across New York state. “On behalf of the town I’d like to formally commend the Preservation League of New York for the important work they do in funding projects that protect and preserve historic treasures throughout the State,” said town Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R). “We are thrilled to be chosen as a 2021 Technical Assistance Grant recipient, for which we will be able to begin the first steps in restoring the iconic Caleb Smith House. Grant opportunities such as these, allow

our administration to pursue our promise to constituents to preserve the historic landmarks which still remain throughout the Township. We can ensure that Smithtown’s future generations will be able to experience, learn and embrace the history of our community, which the Caleb Smith House represents, thanks to this grant.” The Town of Smithtown received the Technical Assistance grant for $3,888 which will go to support a building conditions survey of the Caleb Smith House. The survey will be conducted by Jan Hird Pokorny Associates, an architecture firm focused on the preservation of historic buildings, who will serve as consultants to the town. Upon completion of the survey, the Town of Smithtown will take the next steps to make necessary repairs and restorations to the historic estate. An assessment of the present state of the home will permit the town to undertake appropriate fiscal planning to address building deterioration issues and plan appropriate interventions. It will be broken down by its various components such as masonry, roof, structure and mechanical systems, and include recommendations of how those systems could be improved and the relative costs and priorities of those improvements. The Caleb Smith House (circa 1819) was built by Caleb Smith II, a great-great-grandson

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After intense wave, omicron infections decline in Suffolk County

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Phew! The dramatic and steep rise in positive infections caused by the ubiquitous omicron mutant of the original COVID-19 strain is declining almost as rapidly as it climbed. As of Tuesday, Jan. 25, the seven-day average for the percentage of people who tested positive for COVID in Suffolk County stood at 12%, which is well below the 25.9% for the same seven-day average who tested positive just two weeks earlier, according to figures from the New York State Department of Health. Those numbers, which have been declining on a daily basis, are likely to fall even further, experts said. “The omicron wave appears to have crested in Suffolk County and New York State, but not in other parts of the country,” Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, wrote in an email. Public health officials attribute the welcome decline to several factors, including the increasing use of boosters, the adherence to mask guidelines and the reduction in travel and group gatherings. “The numbers will decline slowly and steadily from the teens to single digits,” said Dr. Sunil Dhuper, chief medical officer at Port Jefferson’s St. Charles Hospital. Sean Clouston, associate professor in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, added in an email that the “decline appears real and the timing suggest that the holiday period was, again, the main driving factor in the higher rates. We are likely on the other side of this wave.” The omicron variant, which has involved milder symptoms for many of those infected, has also resulted in fewer hospitalizations. The increase in hospitalizations is “not proportionate to the rise in cases” Pigott explained. “Our hospitals were overwhelmed when SARS-CoV-2 first hit our area [in 2020]. That has not been the case for the delta wave or the omicron wave.” Indeed, the increase in the percentage of people who are vaccinated and boosted has helped reduce the need for emergency medical services at hospitals. Among fully vaccinated people in the state of New York, 0.23% of the population 12 and over has been hospitalized, according to the New York State Department of Health. That trend also holds true in Suffolk County area hospitals, public health officials said.

Chart shows COVID-19 hospitalizations during the three waves. Image from the New York State Department of Health website

“We are seeing significantly reduced number of adults admitted with COVID who have had vaccines and especially those who had vaccines plus boosters,” Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, explained in an email. “We suspect that the booster augments your initial immune response, lasting at least six months.” While vaccines and boosters help prevent hospitalizations, they do not ward off all potential upper respiratory infections, Nachman added. Getting a primary series and a booster is “critical” to reducing the risk of more significant health effects from any potential infection. The age range of people who are hospitalized has decreased, particularly during the third wave. In the first exposure to the Wuhan strain, a majority of those who needed critical medical care were over 65, particularly before the vaccine was available. During the omicron wave, however, there is a “noticeable shift between the ages of 18 to 49,” Dhuper said. While the proportion of

people as a whole in this group may be lower, in part because people in this age range may not have as many underlying medical conditions, the total number hospitalized is still higher because of the broader spread of the virus. People in that younger age bracket are “the major shift,” Dhuper said. The infectiousness of omicron also created a strain on hospitals, as health care workers, even those who were asymptomatic or had minor symptoms, were testing positive. “We had never seen the number of staff members that were out during the first or second wave,” Dhuper said. Even though the number of people hospitalized wasn’t as high, the overall health care workers available to help care for the population “really stressed our system.” In the prior waves of the pandemic, the Catholic hospitals were able to do load balancing, in which they shifted patients to hospitals that had the bed space and health care workers. Toward the latter half of the omicron

wave, such maneuvers weren’t as easy to manage in part because of the staff shortages caused by positive tests. Discharging people earlier and using effective but limited supply monoclonal antibody treatments for eligible patients that reduce the severity of symptoms helped reduce the strain on the system, Dhuper added. In terms of protecting the population, Dhuper urged residents to consider the benefit of vaccines and boosters. “The majority of patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit are unvaccinated,” Dhuper said. The rate of people who were unvaccinated and hospitalized with COVID-19 in the week ending on Dec. 11, which was the highest figure for 2021, was 91.1 per 100,000 people in the population, compared with 4.1 per 100,000 among the vaccinated, according to the New York State Department of Health. “Those are amazing numbers in terms of the role of vaccines and how it’s protecting people from getting hospitalized and dying,” Dhuper said.

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■A petit larceny was reported at Walmart on Middle Country Road in Centereach on Jan. 21. A man allegedly stole a 55” Samsung flat screen television valued at just over $400. ■Walmart on Middle Country Road in Centereach reported that a man allegedly stole a 65”Samsung flat screen television valued at just under $600 and an Vankyo projector screen valued at $240 on Jan. 18.

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■Target on Pond Path in South Setauket called police on Jan 20 to report that a man allegedly stole 26 cans of baby formula valued at approximately $460.

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Sixth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly stole approximately $150 worth of laundry detergent from Stop and Shop, located at 260 Pond Path in South Setauket, on Dec.11, 2021, at approximately 4:30 p.m. The man fled in a gray Honda Civic.

■Target on Pond Path in South Setauket called police on Jan 22 to report a petit larceny. Someone allegedly stole Enfamil baby formula, paper towels and bath towels valued at approximately $700. ■Stop and Shop in South Setauket reported a woman allegedly stole 5 bags of EZ Peel Shrimp valued at approximately $120 on Jan. 18. ■Best Buy on Pond Path in South Setauket called police to report a petit larceny on Jan. 18. A man allegedly walked out of the store with an iRobot Roomba s9+ vacuum without paying. The item was valued at approximately $850.

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■A resident on Quaker Path in Stony Brook reported that her vehicle was broken into on Jan. 18. Cash, gift cards, checks and a change purse were stolen. — COMPILED BY HEIDI SUTTON

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Sixth Squad detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly used a stolen credit card to make multiple purchases at 7-Eleven stores in Smithtown and East Islip on Oct. 16, 2021. The card had been stolen out of an unlocked car parked at a Setauket home the day before.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS.

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County

Bellone, McCaffrey strike a deal regarding Suffolk’s controversial redistricting plan

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM On Jan. 24, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) and county Legislator Kevin McCaffrey (R-Lindenhurst), who serves as the Legislature’s new presiding officer, reached an agreement regarding a county redistricting debate that has been ongoing for months. The agreement, according to a press release from Bellone’s office, “paves the way for an open and fair process for adopting new legislative district maps and ensures an increase in the number of majority minority legislative districts in Suffolk County.” At press time, a special meeting of the Legislature was being held to vote on an amendment in the County Charter. If approved, it will extend the period of time needed for the reapportionment commission to file new redistricting maps until Aug. 1. The legislators will also vote on new legislation “establishing a requirement that any maps drawn and adopted ahead of the 2023 legislative elections shall include no less than four majority minority legislative districts,” according to the press release. The statement further explained that the bipartisan reapportionment commission will hold at least 10 public hearings to enable each town

in Suffolk County to take part before maps are developed. After maps, which would include 18 new legislative districts, are agreed upon, at least two more meetings will be held. “I am pleased to announce an agreement with the presiding officer that guarantees an unprecedented four majority-minority legislative districts in Suffolk County through a transparent redistricting process that is legally sustainable,” Bellone said. “Given the importance of ensuring fair representation for communities of color and looming legal challenges to the proposed map in IR 1964, we cannot leave to chance anything short of ensuring equitable representation, reflective of the county’s diversity, in our legislative district map.” Republicans had begun legislation to rescind the Democrats IR 1964 redistricting reapportionment map bill that was passed Dec. 31 by the Legislature, when Democrats still held the majority in the county legislature. The Republicans are currently in the majority, 117. A lawsuit was also filed against the plan by Republicans, while the bill awaited Bellone’s signature or veto. The county executive said he will work with the Legislature on the new agreement, which he feels will “commence a fair redistricting process that provides for significant public input in

Residents rally in front of the H. Lee Dennison Building in support of IR 1964 on Jan. 24. Photo by Rita J. Egan

preparation for the next county election cycle in November 2023.” The decision was made on the same day that local community advocacy groups joined forces at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge in search of fair representation for all Suffolk County residents. The representatives, with a letter in hand signed by the members of the advocacy groups as well as elected officials and representatives of local Democratic committees, were urging Bellone to sign IR 1964. After a brief press

conference, the representatives hand delivered the letter to the county executive’s office. Among the speakers at the rally was Beverly Dean of the Brookhaven Rosa Parks Democratic Association. “We must do this,” Dean said. “We must have this bill signed. The Suffolk County Legislature came together on Dec. 31, and put into action what we needed and they passed it. We need our county legislators that we elected to sign this into law today.” Shoshana Hershkowitz, founder of Suffolk Progressives, and others at the rally felt a Republican redistricting plan would be gerrymandering. After the agreement between Bellone and McCaffrey, Hershkowitz released a statement. “We are disappointed that despite the widespread support for IR 1964, including nonpartisan organizations like the League of Women Voters, County Executive Bellone has chosen to make a deal behind closed doors with Presiding Officer McCaffrey,” she wrote. “Quite frankly, given Mr. McCaffrey’s legislative record, trusting him to honor the promise of equitable redistricting is highly questionable.” Comments from the Jan. 26 Suffolk County Legislature meeting were not available at press time.

Clark Gillies, former New York Islander, dies at 67

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Clark Gillies, a former member of the New York Islanders, died Jan. 21 at the age of 67. The Greenlawn resident played left wing for the Islanders when they won four consecutive Stanley Cup championships from 1980-83. Members of Huntington’s Town Board, Supervisor Ed Smyth and councilmembers Eugene Cook, Joan Cergol, Dave Bennardo and Sal Ferro remembered the hockey player in a joint statement where they called him “a pillar of our community” and said he had a “larger-than-life personality.” “His ice hockey career is legendary, eclipsed only by the great work he did after he hung up his skates,” the board wrote. “Clark always ensured that the spotlight reflected off of him onto a variety of worthy causes, including a new pediatric wing at Huntington Hospital.” The hockey player founded the Hauppaugebased Clark Gillies Foundation. The nonprofit helps children who are physically, developmentally or financially challenged through medical services, family financial aid, events to enhance a child’s quality of life and more, according to the foundation’s website. In addition to Huntington Hospital’s pediatric

and pediatric emergency units named for Gillies, the foundation has also partnered with former Islander Pat LaFontaine’s organization to create the Brianna’s Cub Room at the hospital. Huntington Hospital executive director, Dr. Nick Fitterman, commented on Gillies passing. “On the ice, Clark Gillies was known as an enforcer, but to us at Huntington Hospital he was known for his friendship, generosity and work with children,” Fitterman said. “Mr. Gillies was an extremely kind and tender person, really a big teddy bear. He would deliver gifts to children during the holidays, and he treated everyone he met with respect. His legacy will live on through the Clark Gillies Pediatric Emergency Unit at Huntington Hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time.” Kathleen Lanese, of Kings Park, and Elyse Henn, of Ronkonkoma, both worked on fundraisers with Gillies when he participated in the annual golf outings organized by the nonprofit Michael W. McCarthy Foundation. They also volunteered for the Clark Gillies Foundation in the past. Lanese said it was a privilege meeting Gillies after watching him play for the Islanders when she would attend games with her father and described the hockey player as warm, generous and funny. “In addition to his incredible work with his

own foundation, he never hesitated to extend his generosity to other organizations,” Lanese said. “He supported all my charity events with sponsorships, signed jerseys and his presence — he never said no, and I usually didn’t even have to ask. He took a genuine interest in my boys, both on the autism spectrum, and how autism affected families like ours.” Henn echoed the sentiments. “He had enough smiles, love and stories for everyone,” Henn said. “He had a true love of life and his community. If you met him once, he treated you like a friend. He was truly one of a kind. Not just a hockey legend, but a true gentleman and friend. He will be truly missed. He had a zest for life that is inspiring.” Before playing hockey, Gillies played three seasons of minor-league baseball with the Houston Astros farm team, according to the foundation’s website. When the Canadian native switched sports, he played junior hockey with the Regina Pats for three seasons in the Western Hockey League. He was drafted to the Islanders in 1974. He went on to be a 1st team All-Star in 1978 and 1979. He was MVP in the 1979 Challenge Cup series versus the Soviets, where he played for the Canadian team. In 1986, Gillies was drafted to the Buffalo

Clark Gillies delivering the eulogy at a Mass celebrating the New York Islanders’ late head coach Al Arbour’s life April 8, 2061, at St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Huntington. File photo by Alex Petroski

Sabres and in 1988 he retired from hockey. He was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame in 1998, and in 2002 he was elected into the NHL Hall of Fame. According to Gillies’ obituary in The New York Times, he is survived by his wife, Pam; daughters Brianna Bourne, Jocelyn Schwarz and Brooke Kapetanakos; and eight grandchildren.

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48-35, in the League II matchup Jan. 24. Fiona Kernaghan led the way for the Cougars with 17 points, and Jordan DiPrima banked 13, while Deanna Pagliaro netted eight. The Patriots Julia Greek scored two triples, four from the ﬂoor and a free throw leading her team with 15 points. The win lifts the Cougars to 8-2 in league, 11-5 overall, and the loss drops the Patriots to 6-4, 9-5 overall. — Photos by Bill Landon

Pictured clockwise from above, Ward Melville junior Julia Greek drives the baseline for the Patriots; co-captain Jordan DiPrima scores for the Cougars; Commack junior Fiona Kernaghan drives to the basket; and Maya Kahn attempts to block Ward Melville’s Courtney Quinn’s shot.

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Stay vigilant

The power to prevent cancer

When reading a police blotter — such as the one on page A6 — some people may be surprised at some of the incidents that occur in our towns and villages. Take, for example, cars being broken into and the purses and laptops that were on one of the seats being stolen. Or people going around checking to see if a car door is open and, if it is, going inside the vehicle to see if there is anything valuable. Sometimes these incidents even involve teenagers seeing if they can find some loose change in the cupholder. Police officers can’t be everywhere so the odds of one being nearby while someone is breaking a car window are next to impossible. And if someone is checking to see if a door is open, how are officers supposed to know if the vehicle belongs to the person or not? When they are called to the scene, think of all the more serious incidents they are being taken away from to fill out a report for one that could have been prevented. People who have grown up in a city know the golden rule, which is to lock doors, whether to a house or a car. It doesn’t matter if people are outside or inside their homes or vehicles. It can be as simple as that to reduce minor incidents in our communities. Also, valuables should never be left in plain sight in the car. If there is no choice, they should be put in the trunk, out of view. Of course, we live in an imperfect world and crimes are going to happen even when people are careful. TBR News Media has always encouraged neighborhood watches. In the early days of our media organization, The Village Times started the Neighborhood Watch in Suffolk County. Our editor at the time, Ann Fossan, was familiar with the Neighborhood Watch program from her home state of California. The program is easy enough to institute. Neighbors looking out their windows or walking down their driveways might spy an unfamiliar car or unknown person engaged in some inexplicable activity. They would then be encouraged by the police to call the nonemergency number of the local precinct and report it. The police do not feel they would be unnecessarily bothered; they welcome the cooperation of the public in order to do their jobs. To work together as a neighborhood, the residents need to know how to alert each other. That means inviting neighbors over to a block leader’s home for coffee and exchanging phone numbers. In this way, people get to know their neighbors and, if there is a problem, everyone is alerted. Each block needs a block captain. The result of our project was the alliance of 70 neighborhood groups which included 700 local families. At the time, teenage boys were going around checking to see if sliding patio doors on homes were open and, when they were, they would enter and commit theft. After establishing the Neighborhood Watch, the incidents decreased significantly. Retirees can be especially effective with their oversight of local houses and streets from their homes. Just the simple act of people being aware and mindful can make a difference. Frequently, discussions surround the fact that we need to show more support for law enforcement. This is one way to do that. Don’t aid and abet would-be criminals with careless behavior. Lock your doors and watch over your neighbors.

Some cancers can be prevented by staying up to date on cancer screenings and getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. February is National Cancer Prevention Month but being aware is not enough. We need to take action against cancer! Here are tips from the Stony Brook Cancer Center on how you can take action to prevent cancer: Schedule your screening: Screenings for cervical and skin cancer can find the cells that lead to cancer so that they can be removed before cancer grows. HPV causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer as well as five other cancers. The HPV vaccine prevents most of these cancers, including cervical cancer. Practice prevention: You can lower your risk for certain cancers through making healthy choices. These include not smoking, protecting your skin from ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun or tanning beds, keeping a healthy weight, and limiting alcohol. The Cancer Prevention in Action Program (CPiA) at Stony Brook Cancer Center works to lower cancer incidence rates in our community. CPiA educates health care providers, community organizations, parents, and young adults about the importance of the HPV vaccine. CPiA also works with businesses, schools, and other community partners to adopt sun safety policies to reduce exposure to cancercausing UV rays. If you would like more information about how to prevent cancer for yourself or your organization, call the CPiA Program at Stony Brook Cancer Center. We can provide education, strategies, and resources to help you put cancer prevention into action. To learn more about how the CPiA Program can help you take action against cancer, visit takeactionagainstcancer.com or contact us at 631-444-4263 COE@ stonybrookmedicine.edu. Annalea Trask Program Coordinator, Cancer Prevention in Action Program Stony Brook Cancer Center

A giant step backward

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson [D] signed the Voting Rights Act, calling it “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.” Thirty Republican senators and 47 Democratic senators voted for it. I was a freshman at Suffolk County Community College and, like most Americans, we were proud that day that we were moving forward toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an America with liberty

and justice for all. Last week, 52 senators “filibustered” the latest proposed voting law and, in effect, spit in the face of King’s dream. Their actions may ensure that millions of low wage, poor and homeless Americans will not be able to vote this year. If that happens, it will be a disgrace to the reputation of America as a democracy, or worse. In the same week, Oxfam America announced that the 10 richest men in the world have doubled their combined wealth to $1.5 trillion (yes, trillion) during the course of the pandemic. They also paid virtually no taxes on the vast majority of that amount while tens of thousands died, and the $7.25 national minimum wage has remained the same since 2009. And today, both the Republican Party and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continue to oppose both voting rights laws and living wages for all. In my college days, long before video games, we sometimes played Monopoly for hours. Invariably, every game ended with only one person owning everything and everyone else bankrupt. It was funny then. But that was actually a demonstration of the unregulated, predatory capitalism that has metastasized in the U.S. and across the globe, and that some people want us to believe “made America great.” When the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that “corporations are persons,” and “money is speech,” they gave license, and even encouragement for a morally corrupt version of capitalism to flourish. A few years ago, Pope John Paul II said that in a normal family the strong take care of the weak, and in a dysfunctional family the weak (the essential workers?) are expected to take care of the strong — until they break. If the love of money is the root of all evil, then that love is becoming an addiction for far too many of the wealthy and powerful in America. Our American family, all of us, deserve better. Tom Lyon Mount Sinai

Democracy’s threat

In the Jan. 13 issue of The New York Times an opinion piece by David Brooks details a number of ugly manifestations of the increasing divisiveness in our country. He lists the various indicators of this rush to anger and intolerance, but this frequent writer in the Opinion pages of the Times holds no opinion as to the whys and

wherefores of what he had so aptly detailed. I and many others do hold and express an opinion. Fox News and former President Donald Trump [R] did not create this anger, hatred and intolerance, but they have effectively nourished and fortified it. Trump has effectively utilized the playbook of using fear of “replacement“ to build support for authoritarian measures. The scapegoats used to drive fear into the hearts of much of the citizenry and encourage them to accept a fascist state were for Hitler in Germany the Jews, for Pinochet in Chile the communists and for Milošević in Serbia the Muslims. For Trump, it is the immigrants and brown-andBlack population of the country. How else to explain the dangerous state of affairs? The terrorists who attacked the U.S. Capitol were not defined by economic class and household status, urban or rural place of residence, or affiliation with extremist groups — although there certainly were many of those. This was basically a white, middle-class uprising, the first since the rapid growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. That conclusion is inescapably suggested by research reported by University of Chicago’s Robert A. Pape who examined the makeup of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. He quotes The Atlantic’s Barton Gellman as follows: “Only one meaningful correlation emerged. All things being equal, insurgents were very much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline. For every one-point drop in a county’s percentage of non-Hispanic whites from 2015 to 2019, the likelihood of an insurgent hailing from that county increased by 25%. This was a strong link and has held up in every state.” It is critical to understand that the surge in the violent divisions in this country is not a spontaneous evolutionary event. Rather it is a movement calculatingly and systematically spurred and encouraged by Trump and his acolytes. We must help each other to be informed and to respond to the ongoing threat to our democracy. We must demand truthful information from the press and online. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite for democracy.” And we must speak out. Let’s give peace and love some breathing room. John C. Robinson, M.D. Setauket

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Opinion As useful as a sprinkler in a thunderstorm and other new phrases

ven when I’m squinting through a deluge that floods my front windshield, I can see sprinklers on timers, throwing water on lawns drenched with rain. That image captures the sometimes feckless nature of the routine and periodic token efforts we engage in and that reflect our modern reality. To that end, I thought I’d share similar similes and phrases to capture the moment. Like a pencil on an airplane. Sure, D. None pencils are helpful of the above when doing crossword BY DANIEL DUNAIEF puzzles. On a plane on the way to another country, though, pencils serve no purpose in filling out the necessary paperwork to enter

customs. When my family travels, I pack black and blue pens in my carry-on bag. Like a mask worn around the chin. Exhausted from wearing masks, people have dropped these potentially protective pieces of equipment to their chins, even after they are done eating or drinking. These masks, while visible, are only effective at hiding double chins. Like a concerned automated voice on a customer service line. I have been on far too many calls where it’s clear the company has no interest in allowing me to speak to an actual person. After pushing 18 buttons and waiting through music that makes Kenny G sound like a symphony, a sickly sweet voice tells me how important my call is to “us,” which sounds suspiciously like a corporate version of a dystopian leadership. If my call were truly important, I wouldn’t have to wait over an hour for someone to pick up the phone, tell me she can’t hear me, and suggest I call back later. Like an expired coupon. Sometimes, I

think the coupons I get in the mail have either expired before they arrive or, like a message to Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible movie franchise, will self destruct in five seconds. That way, I’ll get the offer for something that piques my interest, like half off a turkey sandwich, and then I’ll have to pay full price as sympathetic store clerks tell me they’d be happy to throw the expired discount in the garbage, which is really the most they can do. Like another set of incomprehensible instructions. Do you ever struggle with the directions to assemble something, staring at pictures of objects that often look nothing like the assortment of pieces assembled in front of you? These instructions use vocabulary that doesn’t make sense for objects that aren’t in the packaging. Like someone else’s garbage when I’m carrying dog poop. My big dog makes huge poops that rival the stink of a train or airport bathroom amid extensive weather delays. While holding my nose, I pass my neighbors’

garbage cans on the street. Tempted as I might be to drop the double-knotted bag into their can, I carry the prized stink bomb back to my own garbage can. Like a phone going off in a forest. Unlike the question of whether a proverbial tree makes a sound if no one in a forest hears it fall, I’m convinced I would hear a phone going off in a forest, especially if I were in the middle of a nap or about to write the best phrase of my life that the electroshock sound would delete from my rattled brain. Like another chat with “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings. Is it me or does Jennings seem anxious Amy Schneider may threaten to eclipse his record win streak on the show? His conversations with the contestants seem especially stilted and awkward. In an answer that borrows from the game’s format: the adjective Jennings most often uses when he doesn’t know what else to say and he’s run out of forced laughter. The answer: What is “fantastic?”

Tired of today’s news? Here is what was happening 100 years ago

eeling overwhelmed by all the news of the past few days? The latest numbers for COVID victims, the mask debates, the possibility of another COVID variant emerging, the Russians military massed around the Ukraine, NATO and its cohesion and response, the Islamic State re-emerging in Afghanistan, North Korean test missiles, escalating inflation, climate change’s latest effects, how the USA is severely divided, the inactions of Congress on voting regulations, death in the NYC subways, and even whether Brady will finally retire, those items and more could do that to you. “A newspaper is Between a mirror. Each day it you and me reflects some segment of BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF the world’s activities.” I am quoting Arthur

Ochs Sulzberger, former publisher of The New York Times, but the metaphor has been offered by many others. We in the news business capture the events of the moment and provide contemporaneous information, largely without interpretation, for historians to analyze and history voyeurs like me to look back and see who was making news then. So, in an effort to escape the daily barrage, I checked to see what was happening 100 years ago, at the beginning of 1922. I used as my source front pages from The NYT, compiled by them in a book called, “Page One.” Here is what I found. “Pope Benedict XV Passes Away Early This Morning; Lingers Hours After World Gets Report of Death; Tributes Paid to the Pontiff by Men of All Religions,” reads the threetiered, all capitalized headline of the Sunday, Jan. 22, 1922, issue. Other articles on the front page cover different aspects of the main story, including “Men of All Faiths Eulogize the Pope, Protestants Unite with Catholics in Praise of his Great Service to Humanity, and World is Misled by Premature Report of Death; Berlin Started Rumor, Cardinal’s Aide Spread It.”

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Immediately notable about the headlines from today’s perspective is, of course, the mention only of men. Women had gotten the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution less than two years earlier. I guess they had not registered on the country’s radar yet as part of the general population. Also on the page is a report that Lloyd George, Britain’s prime minister, looked to the coming Genoa Conference as setting the stage for the world’s path to peace and recuperation, but only if the United States attends and actively participates. He was clearly and correctly concerned about our move toward isolation after WWI. Also mentioned in another article was the storm of protest that ensued in France when General Pétain, a military hero of WWI, was appointed to the cabinet of Premier Poincare as inspector general of the Army. The fear was that his influence on the government’s future direction would be too militaristic. Petain, we know from our vantage point, went on to become the chief of state of infamous Vichy, France, during WWII. Ireland too made the front page in a story of mutual consent by Michael Collins,

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head of the Irish Provisional Government and Sir James Craig, premier of Ulster, abut boundaries between North and South that predicted ultimate agreement. In the issue of Feb. 22, 1922, the three-tiered headline featured the fate of the Army dirigible. “Giant Army Dirigible Wrecked; 34 Dead. 11 are Saved; Victims Perish When Roma Bursts into Flames After Fall; Collapse of Rudder Causes Tragedy On Short Trial Flight.” Roma, 410 feet long, was built by Italy for the United States. The subheads go on to explain, “Hits High Tension Wires, Hydrogen Ignites in Norfolk Flight and Flames Sweep Huge Structure. Few Saved by Leaping, One Lieutenant Breaks Neck in Jump— Other Victims Buried in Wreckage, Rescuers Baffled by Intense Heat — Commander Mabry Stuck to Wheel Till Death Came.” This was the greatest disaster that ever befell American military aeronautics, according to the newspaper. In going back and reading these news articles, we can see how the stage was set for so many future events. Especially interesting to me is to learn of the roles of individual players in what would become world history.

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