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Harry Chapin remembered in Hauppauge The Harry Chapin Food Bank recently commissioned artist Susan Bahary to create a bronze bust of the advocate for a hungerfree Long Island and Grammy Awardwinning singer/songwriter, Harry Chapin.

The bust was unveiled July 15 at a ceremony at Long Island Cares’

Hauppauge headquarters.

Bahary, a former neighbor of Chapin’s, named the piece “Story of a Life” after one of his songs.

Long Island Cares also created a commemorative brick-lined Chapin Legacy Walkway to celebrate Chapin’s

80th birth year and 50th anniversary of his million-selling single, “Taxi.”

Chapin founded Long Island Cares with the vision of creating a hunger-free Long Island. He was killed in a car crash on July 16, 1981, on the Long Island Expressway.

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Dr. Albert Adler

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Dr. Albert Adler died July 14 in Sarasota, Florida.

He was born Jan, 19, 1928, in Brooklyn.

Dr. Adler served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a well-respected and influential pediatrician in Smithtown. For him, hard work was fun because he enjoyed every day that he worked. When he finally retired at 83, people lined up around the block just to thank him for his care.

He was the beloved husband of the late Joan; loving father of Jonathan (Andrea), Mitchell and Roger; adored grandfather of Andrew, Ellis, Michael and Eli; and great-grandfather of Emma.

“Our family has so much to be thankful for that Al was part of our lives,” the family wrote in his obituary. “He taught us to enjoy the now and embrace the good things in life. He taught us the importance of family and loyal friends.

We will miss you Al but when we think of you, we will smile.”

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Suffolk County hospital opens new wound healing center

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Port Jefferson’s St. Charles Hospital opened its new Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Wound Healing on July 18, as the hospital seeks to help people with chronic, nonhealing wounds.

The center, which is located on the second floor of the hospital, includes two hyperbaric chambers that provide 100% pure oxygen under pressurized conditions and has four examining rooms.

The chamber “provides patients with the opportunity to properly oxygenate their blood, which will increase wound healing and woundhealing time,” said Jason Foeppel, a registered nurse and program director for this new service.

Potential patients will be eligible for this treatment when they have wounds that fail to heal after other treatments for 30 days or more.

Residents with circulatory challenges or who have diabetes can struggle with a wound that not only doesn’t heal, but can cause other health problems as well.

More oxygen in people’s red blood cells promotes wound healing and prevents infection.

The treatment “goes hand in hand to deliver aid to the body’s immune system and to promote a healing environment,” Foeppel said.

St. Charles is partnering with RestorixHealth in this wound healing effort. A national chain, RestorixHealth has created similar wound healing partnerships with other health care facilities in all 50 states.

The new wound healing center at St. Charles is one of several others on Long Island, amid

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an increased demand for these kinds of services.

Partnering with Healogics, Huntington Hospital opened a hyperbaric chamber and wound healing center in May 2021. Stony Brook Southampton Hospital also has a wound care center.

“There’s a great need for this in our community,” said John Kutzma, program director at the Huntington Hospital center. “We know that there are 7 million Americans living with chronic wounds” many of whom did not receive necessary medical attention during the worst of the pandemic, as people avoided doctors and hospitals.

Concerns about contracting COVID-19 not only kept people from receiving necessary treatment, but also may have caused nonhealing wounds to deteriorate for people who contracted the virus.

Although Kutzma hasn’t read any scientific studies, he said that, anecdotally, “We’ve had patients that had COVID whose wounds haven’t healed as quickly as non-COVID patients.”

Patients for the Huntington Hospital center range in age from 15 to 100, Kutzma said.

People with diabetes constitute about one-third of the patients.

Treatment plan

For the hyperbaric chamber to have the greatest chance of success, patients typically need daily treatments that last between one and a half to two hours, five days a week for four to six weeks. While the time commitment is significant, Foeppel said it has proven effective in wound healing studies.

“We pitch it as an antibiotic treatment,” he said. “You want to complete that full cycle to ensure the body has enough time to complete the

healing process.”

Kutzma said Huntington Hospital reviews the treatment plan with new patients.

In following the extensive treatment protocol to its conclusion, he said, “The alternative is to live with this very painful, chronic wound that may lead to amputation.”

Given the potential dire alternative, Huntington Hospital Sechrist model chamber for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, above.. Photos from Renee Novelle doesn’t “have a problem getting that can treat eight to 10 patients in a day. kind of commitment.”

Aside from the cost and eligibility, patients While the treatment has proven effective who have this treatment frequently ask what for many patients, not everyone is medically they can do during their treatments. The center eligible for the hyperbaric chamber. has a TV that can play movies or people can Some chemotherapy drugs are listen to music. contraindicators for hyperbaric oxygen “We don’t expect you to sit there like in an treatments. Those patients may have other MRI,” Foeppel said. options, such as skin grafts, extra antibiotics As for complaints, patients sometimes say or additional visits with physicians for they have pressure in their ears, the way they debridement, which involves removing dead, would if they ascend or descend in an airplane. damaged or infected tissue.

The center urges people to hold their nose and “We invite patients to come in, go through blow or to do other things to relieve that pressure. the checklist and see what their plan of attack” Foeppel encourages patients to use the includes, Foeppel said. restroom before the treatment, which is more The cost of the hyperbaric treatment for effective when people don’t interrupt their time eligible conditions is generally covered by most in the chamber. health insurance plans, including Medicaid and Prospective patients don’t need a referral and Medicare, he said. can call the St. Charles center at 631-465-2950 The two hyperbaric chambers at St. Charles to schedule an appointment.

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Homelessness: A national disgrace and a thorny local issue

BY RAYMOND JANIS EDITOR1@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

After serving out a 17-year state prison sentence, Devon Toney returned to society unprepared for the challenges ahead.

Toney described parole as just another pressurized situation in a string of highpressure environments that he has experienced since childhood. Parole, he said, only aggravated his post-traumatic stress disorder, stymying any opportunities for upward growth.

He soon entered the shelter system in Suffolk County, traveling between homeless shelters and health care facilities, his most recent stay at The Linkage Center in Huntington. Eventually, feeling suffocated in the shelters and unable to sleep among strangers, he left that system for a life on the streets. By night, he slept in train stations, bus stations, dugouts and public parks. By day, he stole, often reselling juices and water just to get by.

Without adequate resources and a lack of attention, Toney said those experiencing homelessness “have to steal,” that life on the streets “causes clean people — healthy people — to become addicts because that’s all they’re around.”

Toney remains homeless to the present day, currently residing near Ross Memorial Park in Brentwood. His story is one of countless examples of how easily one can become homeless after giving up on shelter, falling through the cracks with few opportunities to rise above these dire circumstances.

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A startling trend

Mike Giuffrida, associate director of the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit that works throughout Long Island to determine better strategies and policies to address homelessness, said he has noticed a recent trend of others fleeing from shelters.

“Although emergency shelter is available to the majority of people who present as having nowhere else to go, we are seeing an increased rate of individuals who are presenting as unsheltered and are living on the street,” he said.

Motivating this shelter shock, Giuffrida sees two principal factors: “The greatest commonality of people that experience homelessness is … significant trauma, likely throughout the majority — if not all — of their lives,” he said. The second factor is the structure of the shelter system, which is constrained by strict guidelines from New York State and “can be retraumatizing for people or the shelter settings do not meet their needs.”

An aversion to communal living is commonplace among those requesting

Latoya Bazmore and Devon Toney, co-founders of All Included ’N’ Treated (A.I.N.T.), near Ross Memorial Park in Brentwood.

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emergency shelter. In addition, occupants of these shelters are often asked to give up considerable portions of their income for shelter payments. “They pay, in some cases, almost all of their income in order to stay in that undesirable location,” Giuffrida said.

Clusters of homeless encampments can be found in areas throughout Suffolk County. Brookhaven Town Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) says there are likely dozens of individuals experiencing homelessness in his council district alone, concentrated primarily in Port Jefferson Station.

Kornreich complained about how he is limited in his capacity to help, saying he wishes that he could do more. “It’s probably one of the most difficult and complex moral and legal issues that I deal with,” he said.

“The Town of Brookhaven doesn’t have any functions with respect to social services or enforcement, but because this is an area of concern to me, I try to identify people who might be in need of services and try to either talk to people myself or put them in touch with services.”

Those services are provided through the Suffolk County Department of Social Services. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson affiliated with DSS outlined the array of options that are available through the department.

“The Suffolk County Department of Social Services offers temporary housing assistance, in shelter settings, to eligible

individuals and families experiencing homelessness,” the spokesperson said.

“We contract with nonprofit agencies that provide case management services to each client based on their individual needs, with a focus on housing support. Services may include referrals to community agencies, mental health programs, as well as medical services. These services, with the support and encouragement of shelter staff, work in concert to transition those experiencing homelessness to appropriate permanent housing resources.”

In an interview, County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide economic challenges have only exacerbated the conditions of homelessness throughout the county. Despite external barriers, he holds that there is room for improvement.

“More could always be done, of course,” he said. “We are — as I’ve said many times before — coming out of COVID and grappling with impacts and effects that we’re going to be dealing with for years to come and that we don’t fully understand yet.” He added, “The Department of Social Services has, throughout COVID, and as we’ve started to move out of that now, worked very hard to fulfill its mission and will continue to do that.”

Accepting services: A two-way street Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker

(D-Mount Sinai) detailed the decades-long history of homelessness in Coram. She argues that it is closely tied to other pressing matters facing county government: public safety, access to health care, the opioid epidemic and inadequate compensation for social workers.

The county legislator also blamed stringent state guidelines that handicap DSS’s outreach efforts. “The frustrating part is that we are limited,” Anker said.

“We are limited in forcing a person to get medical treatment.”

Legislator Nick Caracappa (C-Selden), the majority leader of the county Legislature, voiced similar frustrations. He said he is concerned by the growing number of people that reject services from DSS. “Even though you offer them help, you offer them shelter, and you offer them medical [assistance], they often turn it down,” he said. “They’d rather be out in the cold, alone, in the dark — whatever it is — than seek help. And that’s concerning.”

Emily Murphy, a licensed social worker who wrote a thesis paper investigating homelessness in Port Jefferson Station, said another significant problem is the lack of assistance for undocumented immigrants, whose immigration status bars them from applying for services.

“It’s not a DSS decision, but it comes from higher up, that if you don’t have documentation you can’t receive SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits or shelter,” Murphy said.

This changes during the colder months, according to Murphy, as shelters open their doors to all. Murphy also observed how a lack of political mobilization hampers the homeless community from receiving adequate government representation.

“That was the main thing,” Murphy said, referring to the homeless population. “It was a voice that was so often unheard and unlistened to.”

The gradual downward slope

Joel Blau, professor emeritus of the School of Social Welfare at Stony Brook University, has followed trends in homelessness for decades. He attributes rising homelessness in the United States since the 1970s to the stagnation of wages across that time frame coupled with the rising cost of housing.

“The notion of somebody with a high school education maintaining a decent standard of living is becoming ever more elusive,” he said. “Housing prices, particularly in cities, have escalated a lot, so unless you have two professionals in the family or one person who makes a lot of money, it’s increasingly difficult to get HOMELESSNESS CONTINUED ON A9

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Office location Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: 230 Brooksite Drive, Smithtown, NY 11787. Purpose: Any lawful purpose 9143 6/16 6x ts

NOTICE OF FORMATION of HANDYMAN EURO JOE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/13/22. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copies of any process served against the LLC to 742 FREEDOM ST, BABYLON, NY 11702. Purpose: any lawful act.

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building must be within a ten (10) mile radius of NYS Route 495 and Sunken Meadow Parkway/Sagtikos Parkway interchange which encompasses the Towns of Babylon, Huntington, Islip and Smithtown in Suffolk County. Proposals should be for a term of five (5) years with the option for two (2) five-year renewals or ten (10) year with cancellation clause.

Proposed base rental rates shall reflect the cost of a turn-key lease and shall include base taxes, repair, and maintenance to the demised premises (including normal wear and tear) through the term, and on-site parking for thirty (30) visitor and fleet vehicles. The New York State Police will review all prospective sites for suitability, and reserves the right to reject any proposal, and request from respondents evidence of experience, ability and financial standing. Submissions will be accepted, in writing, only from property owners with site control, or their exclusive agents. Respondents should contact Staff Sergeant Colleen Johnson, Administration or Mr. Donald Courselle, Administration by e-mail at NYSP.RFI@ troopers.ny.gov, or by phone at 518-457-6621, for additional information.

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AMENDED RESOLUTION SUBJECT TO PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Smithtown Fire District, in the Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York, at a meeting thereof, held on the 5th day of July, 2022, duly adopted, subject to permissive referendum, a Resolution, an abstract of which is as follows: The Resolution authorizes the addition of 25,000.00 to the original Permissive Referendum dated January 10, 2022 for the purchase of a Chief’s Vehicle, with necessary and related equipment, the expenditure for such purpose shall now not exceed $115,000.00 from monies now in the equipment capital reserve fund of the Smithtown Fire District heretofore previously established for apparatus and equipment.

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Setauket resident has his eyes on top county seat

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A former congressional primary candidate is aiming for Suffolk County’s executive seat.

Last week, Setauket’s David Calone announced his intention to run for county executive on the Democratic ticket in 2023. Due to term limits, Steve Bellone (D) will not be running.

“I would bring a lot of different perspectives and a lot of backgrounds to the regional leadership of the county executive position,” Calone said in a phone interview.

Running for the office is something he has been thinking about for a few months. The candidate said he became more committed to his goal after conversations with many who provided strong moral support, such as John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket), county Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) and Town of Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook).

Without any formal fundraisers, Calone has already raised nearly a million dollars for his campaign, he said.

Currently, Calone, a former federal and state prosecutor, is the only one who has thrown his hat

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in the ring, but candidates have until early next year to submit their petitions. If other candidates decide to run for county executive on the Democratic ticket, a primary would be held.

The candidate said he wanted to start campaigning early because Suffolk County is a vast area to cover.

“I’m looking forward to meeting with people across Suffolk County over this next year and hearing their ideas and issues, and then we can work to solve those challenges,” he said.

When he ran in the Democratic primary for Congress in 2016 in the 1st Congressional District, he lost to former Town of Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst by a slim margin of slightly more than 300 votes. He said from the experience he learned how to run an extensive campaign.

“I was able to learn about all the issues affecting people across Suffolk County,” he said.

“Many issues are common across the whole area, but there were also some very specific local issues,” adding while some may worry about environmental issues, in contrast others are trying to make ends meet.

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As a state prosecutor, he fought health care fraud, and won a case that, at the time, was one of the biggest returns of taxpayer money — more than $70 million, according to him.

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Calone listed protecting the environment, improving transportation and economic development among his biggest concerns.

Working in the private sector and being involved in various businesses for more than 15 years, he said experience has provided him with a good deal of knowledge regarding economic development.

The candidate said he believes in supporting small businesses and providing workforce development to make sure “people get the skills they need for the next generation of jobs.”

“I think it is going to be critically important, too, because we live in a very high cost area,” he said. “We need to have people getting good paying jobs to be able to afford to live here.”

His company also created the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund to help launch businesses coming out of local research labs, which in turn creates local jobs.

As board chair of Patriot Boot Camp, which was recently acquired by Disabled American Veterans, Calone has played a part in helping veterans, active military members and their spouses start their own businesses.

He said while the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs holds job fairs, they don’t focus on entrepreneurship, which many military members may be well suited for due to being

disciplined and hardworking He also feels there are different ways to bring town governments together to address similar problems.

When he was chair for eight years of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, the group worked on streamlining solar panel permits throughout the county as each town had a different set of rules, which caused headaches for solar panel companies. The towns came together and agreed on one form, which made the process more streamlined, and the committee received the National Association of Counties 2012 National Achievement Award for the effort.

Calone said he would also like to improve transportation in the county, pointing out that many of the buses are empty or nearly empty and therefore a waste of fuel. He said he would like to see the pilot program that county Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Noyac) started in Southampton expanded to the whole county. When someone needs transportation, they use a cellphone app and smaller buses are used. He said requesting a bus would be similar to using Uber or Lyft and the service overall would be more efficient.

Regarding development in the county, he said developing near major roadways and travel hubs such as Ronkonkoma train station, as other elected officials have suggested in the past, makes sense. He also said it’s important to create more affordable housing.

“We need to have more housing that works for people at different times of their lives,” he said. “One of the key things is if young people move away, because they can’t find housing here, they’re more likely to stay away and not come back. But if we can keep them here because we have the kind of housing that they need, and the good-paying jobs that they need, they’re more likely to stay here and be the buyers of those single-family homes in the future.”

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Learning about investing through Zoom

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMDIA.COM For many in the area, Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. is a time they put aside to talk about stocks and investing.

Through the pandemic, Steven Kelman, of Port Jefferson Station, and Bill Greenbaum, of Fort Salonga, have been offering the Bates House Investment Group through Zoom. The workshop provides those interested in learning about investing with a weekly discussion and learning experience. Members discuss different investments such as stocks, bonds and more.

They also talk about how current events affect portfolios, and the workshop leaders share insights into investing, investment resources and analyzing the stock market.

“We had some people that started with absolutely no knowledge at all, and they’re presenting reports like they’ve been doing it for 20 years now,” Kelman said.

The workshops initially were offered through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, better known as OLLI. Before the pandemic, the class was moved from SBU to the Bates House in Setauket. When COVID-19 hit, and the pandemic lockdowns began, Zoom enabled Kelman and Greenbaum to reach more people, even those who don’t live in the Three Village area or on Long Island.

Kelman said with non-OLLI members interested in participating, the workshop leaders decided to make it available to anyone interested and no longer offered the class through OLLI. Greenbaum said Zoom has worked out well for them.

“During the pandemic, it’s really been wonderful that it was a connection point for everyone,” he said.

Greenbaum, who was a global controller in the finance department of Disney before

he retired, said when he was younger, he would look over his grandfather’s shoulder when he read stock reports.

Kelman, who for 42 years worked for the Federal Aviation Administration after serving in the U.S. Air Force, said he’s been interested in investing on and off for 30 years.

The approximately two dozen workshop members are nonprofessionals, Kelman said, and they range in experience from advanced to beginners. He added that a few have lost a spouse and weren’t sure what to do regarding investments, and the workshop has provided a good starting point.

Greenbaum said it’s impressive to see newcomers who sometimes might sit back at first, but as they begin to learn become more experienced. The two have also learned from the members, Kelman said.

“The diversity of the group is quite amazing, people from all walks of life,” Greenbaum said.

Members attend for free, and no money is actually invested in the market. Each individual picks a stock and researches it.

They each then present their choice to the class and the group will discuss and then virtually buy it if they all agree on it. The members keep track of how the stock does and have a mock portfolio. After investing in a particular stock, they will also discuss if they made the right decision.

Kelman said they track about 35 to 40 stocks. He said it constantly changes as

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decent housing.”

Today, a growing number of people are just one step away from losing their homes.

“Whether it be an accident or an illness or the loss of a job, all of a sudden they’re plummeting downward and onto the street,” he said.

Evaluating long-term projections of homelessness, Blau said there have been “periods where it plateaus and periods where it gets worse.” On the whole, he said, “the general trend is downward.”

Blau believes the way to remedy the issue is to change the ways in which society is organized. “It would require social housing, decommodifying it so that housing is a right, not something sold for profit,” he said. “And that’s probably, under the present political circumstances, a bridge too far.”

In other words, problems associated with homelessness in this country have grown for many years and are likely to continue.

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they set up a fictitious figure of $250,000.

Once they get to that amount, they have to sell something to buy additional stocks, which also teaches when to sell.

Even though the group doesn’t actually invest, many take what they learn and invest on their own.

Greenbaum added that with the market going down recently, the group also provides a form of moral support.

“It’s nice to have a group of people that you could share that with,” he said.

“Normally you can’t. This topic is not for everybody.”

For more information, contact Steven Kelman at 631-473-0012.

Toney has partnered with Latoya Bazmore, also of Brentwood, to create A.I.N.T. (All Included ’N’ Treated), a grassroots organization to combat homelessness in the community.

Toney said his primary goal is to access adequate housing. After that, he intends to galvanize his peers in the community, serving as a beacon for those who are also going through the struggle of homelessness. As someone who has experienced homelessness firsthand and who can relate to the plight, Toney believes he is uniquely situated to be an agent of change and a force of good.

“I need to be the one that interacts with these gang members, these addicts … they need somebody to articulate things to them,” he said.

“We need to comfort them. We need to let them know that we love and we care about them.”

To learn more about the A.I.N.T. project, please visit the AIN’T (all included N Treated) Facebook page or visit the group on Instagram: @all.included.and.treated.

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Editorial

Incivility

Tearing at our community fabric

Communities are held together by norms of civility and an overriding spirit of goodwill.

Right now those norms are withering away, supplanted by foul behavior and disrespect. In communities throughout this area, there has been an observable decline in civility, a dangerous trend that jeopardizes the community’s long-term prospects.

At Stony Brook University, members of the campus community have expressed growing concerns about the frequency of hostile encounters taking place in nearby communities. Students and staff members have become targets of scorn and prejudice, a phenomenon that should disturb our residents deeply.

In addition, elected officials and business owners are dismayed by the recent spike in vandalism and destruction of public and private property. Perhaps most alarmingly, police have investigated the July 5 burning of a sign at a Ronkonkoma mosque as a possible hate crime.

While destroying property and desecrating houses of worship surely violates several of our laws, these actions also tear at the fabric of our community. After two years of lockdowns and separation, community members now seem more estranged from one another than ever before.

The immediate consequence of all of this is that our community is less safe and less congenial than it once was.

People will be less likely to spend their time and money in our local downtown areas, creating more vacant storefronts. But in the long run, people may soon flee this area in search of that community feeling that they couldn’t find here.

Since ancient antiquity, scholars have understood that people of a community cannot be held together by laws alone. Laws create a system of rules and keep communities orderly and regulated, but they cannot inspire neighborliness or tolerance.

Aristotle contended that “friendship” was the necessary ingredient for a community to thrive.

We must cultivate the bonds of friendship that once existed among our community members. As citizens of this area, we must recognize that each person is entitled to our respect, regardless of religion, race, ethnic background or politics.

The people of Long Island are fortunate to have a superb public research institution right in their backyard, a place that offers jobs to our residents and a talented pool of students and staff who are eager to change the world for the better. We must welcome them as our own, deserving of our friendship and respect. We want them to stay right here on Long Island, where they can help us build upon and strengthen this community.

In a similar vein, we cannot tolerate the destruction of public or private property. Budgets are tight enough in our county, towns and villages, and taxpayers should not be forced to absorb these preventable costs. Moreover, small businesses are struggling enough amid nationwide economic challenges and the ongoing public health emergency. We should not compound their hardships and expenses either.

Progress requires a reassessment and realignment of our system of values. Let’s rediscover what it means to be civil and respectful to one another. Let’s foster that sense of civic friendliness and community cohesion that existed before. We must learn to respect our neighbors again, for without respect this community will not endure. As Aretha Franklin sang, “Just a little bit, a little respect.”

Letters to the Editor Qualifications before diversity

I was going to write about some of the content in a letter from Lisa Pius on May 19 [“What a wonderful world this would be”]. Minds which possess common sense think alike.

Instead, I will expand upon what she touched on regarding any “bright parent” (parents) involvement with their children’s curriculum — a curriculum of learning through life’s experiences.

To be sure, parents should be involved with their children’s school education, and expect straight answers from their school board, especially when the board is questioned about the implementation of leftist/socialist/ Marxist teachings such as critical race theory. There are plenty of other issues forming our children’s minds outside of the hours spent in school as well and it starts at home, and the young minds are being influenced by what’s trickling down from the top. For example, if they grow into adulthood believing that it’s O.K. for someone who was installed to the highest office in the land to be rescued by the Easter Bunny for spouting nonsense and witness his wife saying, “Wave … wave,” without denunciation from their parents or the media, then that becomes their norm. How will they, both parents and children, learn the truth without transparency? They are “maturing” with censorship and they’ll never realize it.

When puppeteers who control President Joe Biden [D] pick Kamala Harris for vice president only because of gender and race instead of qualifications, how are our children perceiving that?

When that same puppet appoints a transgender person as assistant secretary for health because he/she claims to be an expert on mental health and food disorders, what does that tell our children?

When our children become aware that our Department of Homeland Security chief, under the direction of the White House, is responsible for allowing more fentanyl than ever before to flow over an unsecured border, how will that affect them?

As more churches are becoming more “woke” in their one-sided leftist agenda, our children are being affected in a negative way. I have yet to be convinced that God has personally told anyone that murdering a human being in the womb is O.K., but murder in any other form is not.

I could go on and on but, unless

you’re part of the woke “fake news” cult, you can obviously see the truth for yourselves.

I can envision a dystopian not-so”Wonderful World” where today’s children (future parents) had been systematically indoctrinated and, trying to explain away the actions of the aforementioned fools, say to their kids, “Well, we needed ‘equity.’”

The song “Wonderful World” by Sam Cooke that Ms. Pius mentioned, and her wonderful analogy 62 years later to the present, is a great recording for another reason. What really makes the record is the fact that it’s R&B vocal group harmony — commonly referred to as doo-wop today. Three guys, with different singing backgrounds who happened to be in the studio that day [including a young Lou Rawls], formed the ad hoc vocal group that backed Mr. Cooke. Now that’s a positive thing coming out of “diversity.”

Art Billadello East Setauket

Response to ‘Evaluating the Biden presidency’

George Altemose, in his letter to the editor [“Evaluating the Biden presidency,” June 30] evaluates the progress of the Biden administration and comes to an unclear conclusion.

Its accomplishments may be attributed, in his words, “to simple incompetence, or to an intentional effort to bring about fundamental changes to this great country.” (Great country, indeed, sir. No need for MAGA, mission accomplished. Thank you.)

The issues of concern to Altemose in the order he presents them are the rate of inflation, the price of gasoline, where President Joe Biden [D] places the blame for them and the president’s attacks on the gas industry, especially ExxonMobil. The latter, Altemose suggests, “emphatically ended our short but welcome period of energy independence that was bequeathed to us by his much-maligned predecessor.” (“Bequeathed,” handed down by a president?)

I believe most economists think presidents and their administrations have little influence on the price of gasoline.

In the eight years of the George W. Bush [R] presidency the cost for a barrel of imported oil fluctuated between $15.95 (2001) and $127.77 (2008). The Obama [D] presidency fared similarly with the cost fluctuating between $26.66 (2016) and $113.02 (2011).

Every president must deal with events beyond his control. For Bush they included, among others, the attack on 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and both a banking and financial crisis. The Obama presidency faced a great recession, Iranian threats to oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the rise and fall of the dollar’s value and a dramatic increase in U.S. shale oil production.

The Biden years have already included a pandemic, a war in Ukraine and attacks on democracy at home.

Have the Biden efforts to combat the economic and social costs of the pandemic contributed to inflation?

Likely so. The primary cause of inflation, likely not.

It never occurred to me, as it has to Altemose, that “a nasty group of sneaky Bidenists may view the imposition of general inflation and stifling gas prices as an underhand means” to compel us to “forsake our gasoline-powered automobiles in favor of electric cars, thereby socking it to the evil big oil companies” while “mollifying the green zealots of climate change.” Colorful language. Strong is the conspiracy brew. Don’t drink it.

Altemose closes his letter with “no doubt” we will “in good time … see a proliferation of clean, safe, zeroemission nuclear power plants, which will easily provide for all the electric cars Elon Musk can build, plus more.”

Add solar, wind, thermal and tidal energy; subtract the burning of fossil fuels. And hope that “in good time” is in time.

Forest McMullen South Setauket

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Opinion

The grass is always greener, even on a birthday

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was born in March, so, of course, I wished I were born in the summer.

My brothers were both born in the heat of the summer, which means they could go to a warm beach on their birthdays, sail across some waterway around Long Island, and celebrate the passage of another year without a midterm on their big day or, even worse, the day after their birthday.

But, the real reason I wished my birthday came during the summer was so that I could attend a Yankees D. None game.

When my birthday of the above rolled around, pitchers

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF and catchers were often reporting to spring training, getting ready for the

marathon of each baseball season.

When my son was born in July, sandwiched between a host of other family birthdays on both sides of the family, I figured he would have the chance to pursue the kind of unfulfilled baseball fantasy that I could only imagine as I was memorizing facts, figures and formulas for another set of tests before, during and immediately after my annual rite of passage.

Recently, we celebrated his birthday by going to one of the last few Yankees games before the All-Star break.

We had the privilege of attending a weekend game, when neither of us felt the need to work or meet a deadline.

My son is taking a summer course for which he was supposed to have a virtual test the day before we went to a game. The computer system crashed that day, and the professor suggested everyone take it the next day.

The system, however, continued not to work, perhaps obeying a secret wish my son made

over his customized birthday cake, giving him the opportunity to enjoy the entire day with little to no responsibility other than to reply to all the well wishers and to compliment them on their melodic singing.

The game itself became a blowout early, as the Yankees scored run after run, and the Red Sox seemed to retreat to the safety of the dugout soon after coming up to bat.

Both of us ate more than we normally do in a day, celebrating the outing and reveling in the moment, high-fiving each other and the reveling strangers in Yankees jerseys in front of us.

While the packed stadium started to clear out when the game seemed out of reach for the visitors, we remained in our seats until the last pitch, soaking up the sun, predicting the outcomes of each pitcher-hitter match up and observing the small games-within-a-game that comes from watching the defense change its positioning for each hitter.

It still confounds me that a team could leave

the third base line completely open, shift all the infielders towards right field, and still, the hitter won’t push the ball in a place where he could get a single or double. After all, if they heeded the advice of Hall of Famer Willie Keeler who suggested they “hit it where they ain’t,” these batters could get a hit, raise their batting average and contribute to a rally just by pushing the ball to a huge expanse of open and unprotected grass in fair territory.

Amid the many relaxing and enjoyable moments of connection with my son, he shared that he kind of wished he had born in the winter.

After all, he said, he loves hockey and always imagined going to an NHL game on his birthday.

I suppose the grass is always greener, even on your birthday.

To be fair, though, he did add that wasn’t a genuine wish, as he was thrilled to attend baseball games on his actual birthday, and he was pleased that, in every other year, he didn’t have to worry about exams.

Could Putin’s plans be like the Russian doll, each aspect fitting within another?

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ncredibly, one man has altered the world.

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his troops into neighboring Ukraine, and the killing began.

Ukrainians, Russian soldiers, mercenaries, sympathetic foreign fighters, civilians — all shot each other. Eastern Ukrainians were deported into Russia by the thousands, cities throughout Ukraine were destroyed, families were ripped apart, millions of Ukrainians fled to other countries, schools stopped, medical services halted, commerce and cultural activities were squelched, random bombings put lives in Between a lottery. Those are just you and me some of the horrific

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF consequences of Putin’s order against one country.

But the repercussions of that one act are being felt around the globe. Countries that depended

on wheat and other agricultural supplies grown and shipped from Ukraine and Russia, are now frantically seeking alternate sources, if they can afford them. Oil and gas, primarily piped from Russia and Ukraine, have been cut off. Exports of hundreds of other products from these two countries have stopped. Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed, leading the way to global inflation.

Nations have realigned geopolitically and militarily or strengthened their defense pacts by sending troops and weapons to allies. And other campaigns, to control climate change and suppress the coronavirus, have diminished as national budgets are modified.

What does Putin want?

There has been much speculation about his goals and his fears. They may have crystalized during these ensuing months, or Kremlin watchers may have caught on. One such scholar, who writes about Russia’s politics, foreign policy and, for a score of years, has studied Putin’s behavior, has put forth a cogent scenario in this past Tuesday’s The New York Times.

Tatiana Stanovaya believes that Putin has a grand scheme whose goals are threefold.

The first is the most pragmatic: the securing

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of a land bridge through the Donbas region of the southeast to Crimea. Russian troops seem to have already captured Luhansk, which is part of the Donbas. Apparently, Putin believes the West will accept that Russian troops cannot be dislodged from there and will not cross any red lines to directly engage in such a military effort, eventually abandoning the idea and the territory to Russia.

The second goal is to force Kyiv and the Zelensky government to capitulate from exhaustion and demoralization after one or two years. Russia would then launch a “Russification” of the country, erasing Ukrainian culture and nationhood and imposing Russian language, culture and education. Thus Russia would have expanded its territory and stopped NATO from reaching Russia’s current borders.

The third goal is the most ambitious: Putin wants to build a new world order. “We are used to thinking that Mr. Putin views the West as a hostile force that aims to destroy Russia,” according to writer Stanovaya. “But I believe that for Mr. Putin there are two Wests: a bad one and a good one.”

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and led by elites who are “narrow-minded slaves of their electoral cycles who overlook genuine national interests and are incapable of strategic thinking.” And the “good West”? He believes that “these are ordinary Europeans and Americans who want to have normal relations with Russia and businesses who are eager to profit from close cooperation with their Russian counterparts.”

Today, Putin is convinced, the bad West is declining while the good West is challenging the status quo with nationally oriented leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary, Marine Le Pen in France, and Donald Trump, “ready to break with the old order and fashion a new one.”

The war against Ukraine, with its undesirable consequences like high inflation and soaring energy prices, “will encourage the people to rise up and overthrow the traditional political establishment.” This fundamental shift will then bring about a more-friendly West that will meet the security demands of Russia.

If that has a familiar echo, it is not so different from the Communist expectation that the proletariat will rise up and embrace Marx and Lenin. We know how that turned out.

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