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Members of Father Thomas A. Judge Knights of Columbus shaved their heads to raise funds for childhood cancer research March 14. Photo from Bob Slingo

Local Knights of Columbus raises money for childhood cancer foundation

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annual event virtual. This year the Fr. Judge of K of C team honored member Danny Flinn’s brother-in-law Keith Chettino, who is being treated for cancer. Knights of Columbus member Bob Slingo said nine of the members had their heads shaved, and despite the lack of a big event, were still able to raise nearly $7,000 toward their $8,000 goal. The Miller’s Ale House event raised almost $50,000 from various teams. The Fr. Judge K of C team is still accepting donations to reach their goal. To donate, visit www.stbaldricks.org/teams/FrJudgeKofC2021.

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St. James car parade adds a bit of normalcy

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It was a great day for those with Irish spirit March 13 as the St. James Chamber of Commerce hosted a car parade where dozens of business owners traveled in their vehicles through the streets of the hamlet to wish everyone an early happy St. Patrick’s Day. Kerry Maher-Weisse, parade director, chamber member and president of the Community Association of Greater St. James, said parade organizers were caught off guard last year as they received news a few days before the 2020 parade that it could not be held due to COVID-19 shutdowns. While New York State guidelines still don’t allow for a traditional parade, Maher-Weisse said the parade organizers felt something needed to be done to bring back some kind of normalcy to the

hamlet. She said they decided on a car parade with a route that would go through various streets to keep spectators spread out. “We don’t want to keep on losing the aspect of community, and this meant saying it’s okay to come out with a mask and to reinstate that we can go back to normal or somewhat of a new norm,” she said. This year the grand marshal was not an individual but all St. James residents, Maher-Weisse said. The decision was to honor how neighbors and business owners came together to help each other during the pandemic. The parade director said an example was Norman Keil Nurseries delivering free pansies to everyone in St. James last spring. She said it may be something that seems small but the act of kindness raised spirits. “We pulled together as neighbors, businesses, residents and families,” she said. — Above photo and bottom right photos by Joseph L. Cali; all others by Rita J. Egan

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Historical society director works on meditation room business in her free time BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Visitors to Smithtown Historical Society events are used to seeing the smiling face of Executive Director Priya Kapoor-Lasky, so the fact that she practices meditation regularly comes as no surprise. Now Kapoor-Lasky is starting up a new business where she is setting up meditation rooms or corners for customers, when she’s not working at the historical society. She’s always had a separate room of her own, she said, until recently when she got married and her son moved back in with her. She added that her daughter also lives with her. The solution, she said, was setting up a meditation corner in her bedroom because she felt like something was missing without a space dedicated to the practice. “It looked so pretty in the room that everybody kept saying that ‘you have a natural talent for this, you should do this,’” she said. “And that’s when I said, ‘OK, you know what, that does sound like a good idea.’” It’s something that she’s done all her life for family and friends and even helping in her temple.

Kapoor-Lasky said having the space is a reminder that the practice is an important one. She said the goal of meditation is to enjoy it so much that when you’re doing it nothing else comes to mind. She added that it’s a difficult goal to achieve, even though there are benefits while trying to do so. “What happens is the process itself is so soothing that most of your issues, most of your problems, get solved during the process, or you just feel peaceful when you’re sitting there,” she said. “It’s like your very warm and cozy area where you’re just sitting, and you feel safe.” Kapoor-Lasky, who grew up in India and is Hindu, said her parents were religious when she was growing up and still are. They would teach her if she needed to deal with something to take a few minutes to meditate. “That became my go-to thing,” she said. “I teach the same thing to my kids now.’ Meditation spaces are also important for offices, she said, especially after many have been working from home for a year. KapoorLasky added that a designated space provides employees a way to step away from their desk to recharge or rest their eyes after looking at a computer screen for hours.

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A student reflects on how the pandemic changed his school year and thinking could have a direct effect on my life. Weeks into the spring term, I mourned the cancellation of in-person school and Over the last year, as the pandemic especially, my precious baseball season. has taken lives and disrupted routines, Although my classmates were with me every plans, careers and social day in Zoom rooms, this did connections, it has taught not make me feel any less me how to deal with isolated. The coronavirus disappointment, change and also had a huge impact on my a lack of control. social life, which was largely reduced to texts and phone Like most Americans, calls. The summer jobs I had I was shocked when the applied for at camps were shutdown hit. In mid-March, canceled. A two-week Latin I was on spring break, gearing program I applied to in Rome up for the coming baseball got switched to online. season when I was supposed However, I have found to be a starting pitcher on my that the pandemic and the high school team. Suddenly, lockdowns have changed my everything was taken away life in some positive ways from me. I woke up on March too. Although I have been 11 to a text from my friend George Windels unable to see my friends telling me that our principal much, I have spent a lot more had announced that our school would be switching to online classes time with my family than I would have if it for the rest of the school year. News of the were not for the pandemic. My brothers and I spread of the new coronavirus had been have explored new activities, such as playing flooding my phone for weeks, but it never golf and refurbishing an old boat. For me, one big takeaway from forced had occurred to me that this new disease BY GEORGE WINDELS DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

solitude has been that I have had to keep friends and going to school in person seemed myself on task. Throughout elementary and like a fact of life rather than a gift. And now high school, my life was heavily scheduled. that these seemingly normal activities have I went to school and afternoon sports and been taken away, I plan to try to actively then my parents made me do my homework. appreciate them in the future. So, when the pandemic The pandemic has also hit, I felt a bit lost. Since taught me to think more virtual school takes up about other people. When only a few hours a day, I I experience moments spent hours watching TV of frustration at being or aimlessly wandering forced to social distance, around the house, playing I think of people who with my cats and looking need protection from the for things to do. When virus most, including —George Windels my grandfather. The my homework started piling up, I realized that pandemic has also I needed to do a better highlighted to me that job of being organized, even though we think so I began making a schedule for myself at we have control over our lives, we really the beginning of each day, blocking out time don’t — and that it’s important to be open for homework and working out for baseball. to change, rather than stuck in one way of This approach has made coping with being doing things. isolated more bearable, as it keeps me actively George Windels, 18, is a junior at St. engaged with my schoolwork and my goal of Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware. being recruited to play college baseball. He has lived in Smithtown for the past year, The pandemic has also taught me lessons studying remotely from home. He has been in humility. As with many other people, I visiting the area since he was born to visit took pre-pandemic life for granted. Seeing his grandfather, who is a long-term resident.

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County

Local groups rally to support ‘The People’s Plan’

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Dozens of community activists from across Long Island rallied outside Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s (D) office in Hauppauge this week, asking lawmakers to adopt “The People’s Plan.” Earlier this month, police reform advocates created their own plan to hold law enforcement accountable and calling on them to be transparent within the community. “We’re gathering here today nearly a year after the George Floyd uprisings because our communities took to the street and said enough is enough,” said Elmer Flores with Long Island United to Transform Policing and Community Safety. “We are yearning for change. And for far too long our elected officials have not met our demands with the gravitas that it demands.” Some of the plan includes civilian oversight of police misconduct, creating unarmed traffic enforcement and ending pretextual stops when someone is pulled over. “Mistrust is pervasive between the police and the communities they are supposed to represent,” he added. “And part of that is that we need to get to the root causes of why crime happens and how we can address it and prevent it from happening. But to do that, it requires leadership. It requires bold and effective action that’s going to change the way policing happens on Long Island.” This plan is separate from the reform Bellone submitted to lawmakers last week, and these local activists demand the reforms be included in the plan due to the state April 1. Jackie Burbridge, co-founder of the Long Island Black Alliance, said to the crowd that for years the Suffolk County Police Department has been actively turning a blind

Above: Activists rallied outside Suffolk County Steve Bellone’s office, calling on lawmakers to address a collaborative police reform called, ‘The People’s Plan.” Below: Shoshana Hershkowitz, left, founder of the Suffolk Progressives group, showed her support at Monday’s event. Photos by Julianne Mosher

eye to crime being committed in this county in order to continue harassing people who are not white. She said the recommendations that the county task force came up with don’t go far enough in preventing or mitigating discriminatory policing. “The plan that was released by Suffolk County in response to Governor Cuomo’s [D] executive order falls short of the transformative changes to the way we conceive of public safety that this moment in our community members are demanding,” she said. “Black and brown communities across Long Island are overpoliced, resulting

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in outsized opportunities for interactions between vulnerable community members and police officers. … It’s not that people are being brutalized because cops see threats. They don’t see threats in our community, they see prey. And what we need is police reform that’s actually going to address that.” The collective groups have spent months crafting the 12, research-backed proposals for structural reform that make up the 310-page “The People’s Plan” to address numerous structural components of transforming and reimagining policing and public safety on Long Island. Suffolk’s police reform proposal directs the county’s Human Rights Commission to review complaints of police misconduct. However, the police department would still have the power to investigate and discipline police misconduct. Activists say they are asking for lawmakers to consider other measures, like mental health counselors for certain situations, and create a community council to review and hold police accountable for misconduct. Members from local groups headed to Hauppauge, too, including Myrna Gordon of the North Country Peace Group, to show their support and signs. “How can we not be here?” she asked. “It’s what we need to do to keep fighting for peace and justice. We need to see that Steve Bellone is on board with ‘The People’s Plan,’ and every peace and justice group in Suffolk County and the Three Village area needs to be on board.”

Peggy Fort, a member of the United For Justice in Policing Long Island and Building Bridges in Brookhaven groups, said ‘The People’s Plan’ addresses not just the community, but could benefit police officers, acknowledging the stresses police officers face. “We’re not trying in ‘The People’s Plan’ to micromanage the police department,” she said. “What we’re trying to do is really address the problems and the racial bias that exists.” Visit tbrnewsmedia.com for more photos.

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Town

Gyrodyne slightly revises plan before environmental review vote BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Despite opposition from some residents, the proposed plan to subdivide the Gyrodyne LLC property in St. James for development continues. At the March 10 Smithtown Planning Board meeting, Gyrodyne’s Final Environmental Impact Statement was accepted, 3-0, with board member Desmond Ryan abstaining. The acceptance allows for the public consideration period to begin. Recently, the company revised its site plan. The revisions come after public outreach meetings held for Smithtown’s draft comprehensive master plan were held in January and February. The St. James meeting for the plan was held Jan. 28. The Gyrodyne changes include the preservation of slightly more than 15 acres to be a separate lot, and the proposed sewage treatment plant will be on a separate lot of more than 7 acres. Originally, the plan was for the plant to be on the open space lot. The proposed medical building will be 175,000 square feet instead of 130,000, and there will be an increase of 30 units in the proposed assisted living building, from 220 units to 250. Despite the increase in size of the medical

and assisted living structures, the revised plan calls for the reduction of the proposed hotel from 150 rooms to 125. Gyrodyne has also eliminated from the plan a proposed 150seat restaurant, a foot day spa and a 500-seat conference center for the hotel. Instead the hotel will include a 133-seat, 4,000-squarefoot multipurpose room. Gyrodyne’s proposed plans have received criticism from local residents, including community advocacy groups We Are Smithtown and the newly formed Saint James-Head of the Harbor Neighborhood Preservation Coalition. The coalition sent out a press release March 9 stating that there have been ‘“grossly misleading” statements attributed to Town of Smithtown officials in media accounts of recent public meetings.” The group believes comments made have led residents to believe that there is a definite plan for the Lake Avenue Business District to hook up to the proposed sewage treatment plan on the Gyrodyne property. They are asking town officials to state that there is no established plan to do so. They also are requesting the town organizes a group that would include business owners “to clarify the cost to property owners of completing those connections.”

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“The people, who have put their sweat and equity into making St. James the special place it is deserve honesty and transparency from government officials, not vague but fantastically misleading statements that have no connection to reality,” spokeswoman Judith Ogden said. “We need straight talk and a real plan to get businesses in St. James connected to sewers.” The coalition took exception with a quote in the Feb. 18 The Times of Smithtown from the town’s public information officer Nicole Garguilo where she said if the town built even one sewer treatment facility with taxpayer money, the total amount of required finances would be roughly estimated at $157 million. Garguilo said that it is a matter of a 20-to-30-year option versus a threeyear option. The latter being a route that costs the taxpayers of Smithtown nothing since the said sewer treatment facility would be developed in a private sector of land. “This paragraph is completely untethered to reality and can only have misled and misinformed anyone who happened to read it,” Ogden said. “Not only is there not any plan or proposal to connect Lake Avenue businesses to sewers at Gyrodyne at no cost, but there has not been an analysis of alternatives to connect those businesses to sewers that suggests that an alternative plan would cost

$157 million. These misleading statements are an affront to people who rely on government officials to tell them the truth about issues that will affect their financial future.” In an email to TBR News Media, Garguilo said “the $157 million figure came from [Department of Environment & Waterways,] while attempting to apply for a federal grant about two years back.” In the FEIS, the possible hooking up of businesses along Lake Avenue to the Gyrodyne STP is addressed in Volume 1, page 44. “Should the St. James Business District incorporate its own sewer district, Gyrodyne LLC has previously stated that it is amenable to discussing connection, pursuant to Suffolk County and Town of Smithtown requirements.” The statement is based on a response by John Cameron of Cameron Engineering, which has been hired to design the site, during the Jan. 8, 2020, Draft Environmental Impact Statement public hearing The FEIS is available on the town’s website, www.smithtownny.gov. The town’s Department of Environment & Waterways will take public comments on the plan from residents until 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 31.

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Editorial

Perspective

Lake Avenue business owners deserve straight talk on sewers for St. James

BY JUDITH OGDEN

Activists attend a rally for police reform in Hauppauge March 15. Photo by Julianne Mosher

‘The People’s Plan’

This week, dozens of groups across Long Island stood together, calling on lawmakers to adopt “The People’s Plan” for police reform, including one outside county offices in Hauppauge on March 15. Created by community task force and advocacy groups, the plan is in response to a separate version Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) submitted to lawmakers last week. And it’s needed, especially since the plan has taken into consideration feedback from retired law enforcement, civil rights attorneys, advocates and activists. Earlier this month, Bellone held an urgent press conference, alleging the assault from police on a man who stole a car and ran from the cops, in Port Jefferson Station — our backyard. Of course, there are two sides to every story. The county’s current police reform proposal directs the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission to review complaints of police misconduct. That being said, the police department would still have the power to investigate and discipline their own. The plan created by advocacy groups would create a community council to review and hold the police accountable for misconduct. What’s wrong with that? By allowing the community to deliberate on what was wrong, it would alleviate some of the stresses that police officers constantly deal with. It might even prevent the “bad apples” from doing bad things. A year after Breonna Taylor’s death and nearing 365 days since the George Floyd killing, 2020 was a mess filled with protests, anger, fear and arguments. We’re three months into 2021. Let’s start anew, afresh and let open conversations prevent the beatings of innocent people, prevent unlawful deaths and make the communities we live in a better place for everyone — no matter their gender, race, income level or role in society. Transparency is a good thing in all walks of public life.

At a time when many businesses are struggling to survive the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing that hardworking business owners deserve is to be misled about important issues that could significantly impact the future of their businesses. Regrettably, at a time when the hard working owners of small businesses on Lake Avenue need honesty and transparency from government officials, they are instead being victimized with vague but decidedly inaccurate information by people who they should be able to trust, but can’t. What they deserve is straight talk and a real plan to connect Lake Avenue to sewers. There are important facts which seem to be deliberately obscured in public discussions: 1. Gyrodyne has not agreed to allow businesses on Lake Avenue to connect to its’ sewage plant within the proposed mega development. What the company has said in official documents is that it cannot be required to do so, but would be willing to discuss the possibility “under certain condition ... at a future time” (Draft Environmental Impact Statement Page 19-10). No one has ever suggested that Gyrodyne would pay the cost of sewering Lake Avenue. 2. Gyrodyne has made clear that it plans to build a sewer plant sized only

to meet the needs of businesses on its own property, not a larger plant sized to accept sewer flows from Lake Avenue businesses currently, or an even larger plant for the anticipated growth that a Lake Avenue renaissance would create. 3. No one has ever suggested that Gyrodyne would agree to pay to for the larger plant to accept sewage from elsewhere, or for the expensive network of pipes that would be needed to connect individual businesses and pump sewage from Lake Avenue businesses to the Gyrodyne site. 4. Because financial analysis of costs to business owners or affordability of connecting Lake Avenue businesses required pursuant to Section 209-C of New York State Town Law has not been completed, business owners have no idea how much their taxes would increase if they were connected to a sewer plant at Gyrodyne. They deserve to know, and they deserve to know now. 5) Two separate media accounts in recent weeks have quoted a Town official as saying that the alternative to connecting Lake Avenue businesses to Gyrodyne by building a separate plant would cost $157 million. The problem is that there is no financial analysis, feasibility study or engineering report to support this statement. Instead, it appears to have been made out of convenience and without any facts to support it. If the Town has information

to support this assertion, business owners on Lake Avenue and the general public deserve to see it immediately. If not, the town should acknowledge that there is no basis for the $157 million figure and apologize. The hard-working small business owners who make our community special deserve honesty and transparency from government officials, and straight talk from the media when it comes to issues that can significantly impact their financial future – like what they would have to pay for sewers. Regardless of what option is ultimately selected, connecting Lake Avenue to sewers will cost tens of millions of dollars. There is no “sewers for free” scenario, and business owners deserve to be told the truth about the costs they will be expected to pay to be connected to sewers. The Lake Avenue renaissance is much needed. The potential that a wellplanned renovation could provide is exciting to look forward to. The idea that Lake Avenue is dependent upon the Gyrodyne mega-development is a myth. One exists independently from the other. Let’s not put the cart before the horse, a clear well thought out plan is what is needed. Judith Ogden is an elected trustee of Village of Head of the Harbor, a member of the St. James-Head of the Harbor Neighborhood Preservation Coalition and a resident of St. James.

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Opinion The pandemic in the words of community members over the last year

his month, we completed our first pandemic year. As we prepare for a hopeful future, please find below the words that reflected the realities of our past year. — “We were behind the eight ball on testing for a while now,” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) on a conference call with members of the National Association of Counties and the press, March 18, 2020. – “These are not helpful hints. These D. None are legal provisions. of the above They will be enforced.” BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) on a conference call with reporters, describing his decision to shut down businesses not considered essential, March 20, 2020. – “A lot of us are thinking about staff on the hospital side who are really being tested in an unprecedented way.” Cathrine Duffy, director of HealthierU, an employee wellness program at Stony Brook University, March 25, 2020. — “I’ve never seen anything like it.” Joan Dickinson, community relations director at Stony Brook University, in response to the over 100 emails she received each night from people eager to donate to the university, March 27, 2020 — “For the N95 masks to come in without a charge helps all those local entities laying out a lot of cash at the moment.” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) in response to the announcement that President Donald Trump (R) would ship

200,000 masks to Suffolk County, April 6, 2020. — “I never imagined being in the position of reporting the numbers on a daily basis of people who have died in our county from anything like this.” Bellone on his daily conference call with reporters, April 12, 2020. — “We feel that science will solve this problem, and hopefully soon.” John Hill, director of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, who was part of a team coordinating Brookhaven National Laboratory’s COVID-19 research across all the Department of Energy labs, April 19, 2020. — “We have a hard winter ahead of us.” Bettina Fries, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine, regarding projected increases in viral cases, April 23, 2020. — “I always felt an urgency about cancer, but this has an urgency on steroids.” Mikala Egeblad, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in describing her efforts to apply her scientific expertise to COVID, April 26, 2020. — “Coming to the hospital is still safer than going to the supermarket.” Todd Griffin, the president of Medical Staff and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine, April 30, 2020. — “We love you, but you can’t come anywhere near us.” Malcolm Bowman, distinguished service professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, recalls his extended family in New Zealand telling him and his wife Waveney as they left an old car with food at the airport so the couple could live in a camper in New Zealand , May 1, 2020.

— “At a certain point, it’s not just about the patient. It’s about the whole support system. You’re pulling not just for them, but for their whole family.” Amanda Groveman, Stony Brook quality management practitioner, describing the My Story effort to personalize patient stays at the hospital, May 7, 2020. — “I always knew you were smart, but now I know you are brilliant.” Marna said to her daughter Tamara Rosen, who defended her graduate thesis at Stony Brook University through a Zoom call, May 24, 2020. — The death of Minnesota resident George Floyd at the hands of police officers was “an outrage” and was “unacceptable.” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart in a statement on a media call, May 30, 2020. — Army veteran Gary Degrijze has “truly made a remarkable recovery.” Jerry Rubano, a doctor in Trauma/ Acute Care/ Surgical Critical Care in the Department of Surgery at Stony Brook Medicine, said after he spent seven weeks on a ventilator and twice lost his pulse , June 9, 2020. — “You couldn’t have found a happier group of people.” Dr. Frank Darras, clinical professor of Urology and Clinical / Medical Director of the Renal Transplantation Program at Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine, about a transplant at 3:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning, June 12, 2020. — “My whole career has brought me to be who I am in this moment.” Risco MentionLewis, deputy police commissioner, in the wake of protests over policing, July 3, 2020. — “When you have untreated mental health and substance abuse disorders, the county will pay for that one way or the other.” Children’s

Association Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Reynolds amid an increase in demand for mental health during the pandemic, July 31, 2020. — “People sent really moving and emotional notes. We saw a lot of good in people” [during a difficult time.] Colby Rowe, Trauma Center Education & Prehospital outreach coordinator who helped coordinate donations to Stony Brook, Aug. 7, 2020. — “Long Islanders deserve better.” Thomas Falcone, CEO of LIPA, in response to a letter from Senator James Gaughran (D-Northport) questioning LIPA’s oversight of PSEG after extensive power outages and communication failures following Tropical Storm Isaias, Aug. 28, 2020. — “I tell my patients, I take their hands, I say, ‘Listen, I was in there, too. I know what you’re feeling. I know you’re scared. I know you’re feeling you can die.” Feliciano Lucuix, a patient care assistant at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, describing her hospitalization with COVID and then her return to her work in the same hospital, Dec. 14, 2020. — “As hard and as difficult and sad and heart wrenching [as it was], so many other parts, you just saw such humanity. It was amazing.” Patricia Coffey, nurse manager at the Critical Care Unit at Huntington Hospital reflecting on the challenges and responses of the health care field amid the pandemic, Dec. 31, 2020. — “When we reach our number, we make an announcement inside.” Michael Connell, who runs the M.A. Connell Funeral Home in Huntington Station, said about alerting people about crowds awaiting a chance to visit with family during a funeral service, Feb. 26, 2021.

Funny stories about being a woman early in business

here are some funny stories I could share with you about being a woman in business this Women’s History Month. Like any storyteller, I may be repeating myself with a couple, so please indulge me with your patience. I hope they will give you a chuckle even if you’ve already heard them. First though, I would call your attention elsewhere in the newspaper and on our website to a section in which local businesswomen are Between you and me participating in this BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF month’s spotlight. They have sent in headshots of themselves and have answered one of three questions that we posed: how do you balance work-life duties; who inspired you; what words would you offer younger women interested in

following in your footsteps? Please look for them and enjoy their responses. We hope you will also shop in their stores and use their services, thus supporting both the local economy and minorityowned enterprise. We started the first newspaper, The Village Times, on April 8, 1976. After some wildly chaotic and exciting first months, just before Christmas, I was waiting in line at the deli across from the office when I was greeted by the ad director of a local competitor newspaper. We had met several times before, and he was filled with the good cheer of the season. “Congratulations on your new venture,” he said. “The paper looks very good every week.” “Thank you,” I replied, thinking it was a generous thing for him to say to another publisher. “You tell the fellow up there that he’s doing a great job,” he added, pointing upward to my office building on the hill. “What fellow?” I asked, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ crossing my mind. “Aw, c’mon,” he said with a laugh. “We all know

you have some guy up there running the show.” “Merry Christmas,” I replied and took the encounter back to the staff of half a dozen wives and mothers, who howled. Then there was the time I was seated on the dais next to the New York Press Association’s keynote speaker, Mike Wallace. It was the Spring Convention, 1984. On his other side was the association’s president finishing his meal, and I was the president-elect. Wallace, good journalist that he was, chatted with us throughout the dinner, sincerely asking about the names and locations of our newspapers. After it was my turn, and I answered his queries, he looked at me and asked, “And where is your husband?” I could hear the president choking on his food as he feared my response. “He’s at home watching the children,” I answered with a smile. At this point, the president was able to get out, “No, she is the owner and publisher of her paper.” Wallace turned back to me, patted my arm, and after a long pause, offered, “Forgive me, my dear. I’m an old dinosaur.”

Here’s another. It was 1978 and I had arrived the night before the NYPA convention was to start. I was already checked into the hotel and was eating dinner in the dining room with a book for company. “May I join you?” I looked up and saw a pleasant-looking man smiling down at me. “Yes,” I answered, returning the smile and assuming he was another early arrival for the convention. We exchanged names and hometowns, chatted briefly about the weather in Albany, and then he slid his room key across the tablecloth. “Come up about 9:00,” he instructed. I stared at him puzzled, then realized what he was saying. “Why would you think I would be coming to your room?” I asked astonished. “Well,” he said, “you are down here in the hotel eating by yourself.” He withdrew the key and quickly left. I looked around, realized I was the only woman eating alone, skipped dessert, paid the check, rode the elevator up to my room, and once inside, double-locked the door. That was life in the fast lane for a woman in business in the 1970s.

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