The Village Beacon Record - February 18, 2016

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above, Mount Sinai high School will receive apple computers to replace old ones if the district’s Smart Schools Program proposal passes. Below, the school district currently uses a check-in system at Mount Sinai elementary to monitor who is coming in and out of the building during school hours.

Mount Sinai gets smart with new program By giSelle Barkley

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Two years after New York State passed the Smart Schools Bond Act of 2014, the Mount Sinai School District is getting up to speed with the act’s requirements. The school district, which will receive $1.6 million, presented its first Smart Schools Program proposal last Wednesday, Feb. 10. The bond, which originally passed on Nov. 4, 2014, allocated $2 billion for New York State school districts to help students succeed by improving educational technology and infrastructure. While the district needs to update various technologies around the campus, upgrading the school’s broadband speed is a top priority. The act also required schools to have 100 megabytes of broadband speed per 1,000 students. The school needs to increase its speed by 200 megabytes to accommodate the approximately 2,500 students living in the district. While the increased speed will cut down computer startup time, Mount Sinai School District Superintendent Gordon Brosdal said there’s more to the act than meets the eye. “Whenever New York State does something to give you money,

you’ve got to look in your rearview mirror like ‘why are they doing this?’” Brosdal said. “We all figured out that testing’s coming online.” The high-speed broadband is one of many network infrastructure improvements the district will make if the state accepts its proposal. A large portion of the money will go toward replacing old classroom equipment — the district will replace computers older than three years, Notebooks or Netbooks older than two years and laptops that are more than seven years old with new Apple computers. The district will also replace Smartboards, projectors, printers and other equipment used on a daily basis as failures occur if its proposal is passed. Investing in backup systems will also help the district prepare for any technical glitches that can occur during future online tests. In addition to Apple computers, additional classroom equipment includes tablets and tablet stands for students and teachers. Phillipa Calamas, Mount Sinai resident and mother of four, said with the limited tax cap funding technological improvements is difficult. “I’m well aware of the restric-

tions on the school ... with how much actual money they have for things like technology,” Calamas said. “So it’s really good to hear they’re getting the money.” Calamas was one of two parents on the Smart School Committee, led by Ken Jockers. Jockers, the director of information technology in the school district, said the improvements may take several years to establish if the proposal is passed. The plan would be to make changes when school isn’t in session. These changes may include updates to campus security, including an upgraded or new surveillance system, and color-coded picture IDs and lanyards for teachers and faculty throughout

the district’s three schools. Mount Sinai, like other school districts, will receive its money for these projects when it starts making the improvements — the school must borrow money from banks to fund the upgrades and new projects and will receive money from the government after completion. While state aid and money lost to the Gap Elimination Adjustment may have covered Mount Sinai’s Smart School’s upgrades and projects, Jockers said the district is just happy knowing that there is a way to improve the schools, especially with new equipment. “I probably wouldn’t have been able to afford the changes,” Jockers said. “So this makes it a lot easier.”


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Sex offenders to start dropping off registry By Elana Glowatz

Suffolk County is entering obscure territory this year as some sex offenders drop off the state registry and others have lost restrictions on where they can live. It was one year ago that the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that local laws restricting where sex offenders could live were invalid, following a lawsuit from a registered offender from Nassau County who challenged his own government’s rule that prohibited him from living within 1,000 feet from a school. Judge Eugene Pigott Jr. wrote in his decision that “a local government’s police power is not absolute” and is pre-empted by state law. State regulations already prohibit certain sex offenders who are on parole or probation from living within 1,000 feet of a school or other child care facility, according to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, but the local laws went further. In Suffolk County, Chapter 745 made it illegal for all registered sex offenders — not just those on parole or probation — to live within a quarter mile of schools, day care centers, playgrounds or their victims. But follow-

ing Pigott’s decision, that law, while still technically on the books, is no longer enforceable. To make matters more complicated, Jan. 1 marked the beginning of the end for some of the lowest level sex offenders on the state registry. Offenders are grouped into one of three levels based on their perceived risk of committing another sex crime. On the lowest rung, Level 1 offenders who have not received special designations for being violent, being repeat offenders or having a “mental abnormality or personality disorder” that makes the person “likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses,” according to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, are only included on the registry for 20 years from their conviction. The New York State correction law enacting that system has just turned 20 years old, meaning the earliest offenders added to the registry are beginning to drop off. The Sex Offender Registration Act obligates Level 2 and Level 3 offenders, as well as those with the additional designations, to remain on the registry for life, although there is a provision under which certain Level 2 offenders can appeal to be

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removed after a period of 30 years. At a recent civic association meeting in Port Jefferson Station, Laura Ahearn from the advocacy group Parents for Megan’s Law — which raises awareness about sex crime issues and monitors offenders — gave examples of offenders set to come off the registry this year, including a man who raped a 4-year-old girl, and another who raped and sodomized a woman.

But it doesn’t stop there. “It is thousands over time that are going to drop off,” Ahearn said. A database search of Level 1 offenders along the North Shore of Suffolk County turned up many offenders who had been convicted of statutory rape or possession of child pornography, and who had served little to no time in jail. However, there were more serious offenses as well. SEX OFFENDERS continued on page A12

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

North Shore hero: Veteran keeps giving back To say that Long Island native Butch Langhorn has lived a full life would be an understatement. As a veteran and a community man, he has both seen a lot and given a lot back to the county that raised him. From his youth, Langhorn was a gifted three-sport athlete, excelling in football, basketball and track for Riverhead High School. His impact was so great that he held the record for the triple jump for 10 years after his graduation. In 1964, the young man enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Fort Totten in Bayside, Queens. While he worked in the personnel office, his sporting abilities allowed him the chance to play basketball within the Special Services of the Army. Langhorn competed as a 5-foot-8-inch guard against many who had experience playing semiprofessional and Division I hoops. The servicemen competing had the rare opportunity of representing their military bases in games that ranged from Maine to New Jersey. The next year, Langhorn was deployed

to South Vietnam, where he saw the earliest action of the war in Southeast Asia. In an interview, he noted the beauty of the nation and the influence of French culture on the former capital of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. For a couple of months, Langhorn was a gunner on a helicopter that flew into the major combat areas of South Vietnam, engaged against the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong. He was tasked with helping medical evacuation crews with the vital mission of returning wounded and dead U.S. soldiers to American bases. As a young African-American soldier during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, Langhorn observed the treatment of blacks in South Vietnam. According to Langhorn, he had a relationship with a local woman of French descent who took him home to meet her family. When he met her mother, the woman told him to shower and take a nap before dinner. Again he came into her presence and she wrongly believed that he was a white soldier who had too much dirt on his skin. It was one example of a different racial experience for Langhorn — he quickly learned that most of the black soldiers who were fighting against the communists in South Vietnam were not understood by the very people they were trying to protect. After more than a year overseas, Langhorn went home to finish his Army tour. By 1971, he quickly re-enlisted as an active guardsmen reservist, serving full-time for the New York 106th Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach. For many years, he was the head of the recruiting station that brought in many fine airmen, noncommissioned officers and officers. Langhorn had a prideful hand in signing military members from different backgrounds to enhance the Air Force wing. Many of the men and women he recruited have been deployed to the Middle East to fight the war on terror, conducted massive air-sea rescues in the Atlantic Ocean, endured the rigors of the elite pararescue jumper training and deployments, and tackled the older mission of aiding space shuttle landings. Langhorn later oversaw the personnel department that was responsible for sorting out the paperwork needs of the military unit. Langhorn may be retired after serving four decades in uniform, but he is still a dominant member of his community and has spent a lot of that time trying to help young people. He served on the Riverhead Central School District Board of Education for five years, working to keep athletics and other programs in the schools, and as a current assistant for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office,

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Butch langhorn has served his nation for decades. Above, he is pictured with his family. Below left, in uniform during his Army days.

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8th day of March, 2016 at 7:30 PM to consider enacting a proposed local law as follows: LOCAL LAW NO. ____ OF 2016 A PROPOSED LOCAL LAW ENTITLED A BEACH ACCESS AND USE LAW SUMMARY This local law would regulate the use of beach areas by any type of vehicle and would permit or prohibit the use of beach areas for various specific uses and activities. This is a summary. The full text of the proposed local law is available at the Village Clerk’s office during Village office hours and is available for inspection. At said public hearing all persons with an interest will be heard. Dated: February 9, 2016 Cathy Donahue-Spier Village Clerk 80 Woodville Road Shoreham, NY 11786 631-821-0680 654 2/18 1x vbr PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 20(5) of the Municipal Home Rule Law, a public hearing will be held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Shoreham at the Village Hall, 80 Woodville Road, Shoreham, New York on the 8th day of March, 2016 at 7:30 PM to consider enacting a proposed local law as follows: LOCAL LAW NO. ____ OF 2016 A PROPOSED LOCAL LAW ENTITLED A FIREWORKS LAW SUMMARY This local law implements N.Y. Penal Law § 405.00 by authorizing permits in accordance with the aforesaid statute. This is a summary. The full text of the proposed local law is available at the Village Clerk’s office during Village office hours and is available for inspection. At said public hearing all persons with an interest will be heard. Dated: February 9, 2016 Cathy Donahue-Spier Village Clerk 80 Woodville Road Shoreham, NY 11786 631-821-0680 655 2/18 1x vbr PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THE BELOW CAPTIONED MATTER HAS BEEN FILED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, LOCATED AT 400 CARLTON AVENUE, CENTRAL ISLIP N.Y. 11722 ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2015. DEFENDANT IS ADVISED THAT PLAINTIFF SHALL PROCEED BY INQUEST IF DEFENDANT FAILS TO RESPOND TO THIS NO-

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POLICE BLOTTER Incidents and arrests from Feb. 8-Feb. 14 Unfair fight On Feb. 9 police arrested a woman from Port Jefferson for assault after they said the 40-year-old attempted to enter her victim’s bedroom at the Fairfield Falls apartment complex on President’s Drive. The victim tried to prevent the suspect from entering the room and was holding a steak knife to protect herself. During the struggle to open the bedroom door, the suspect allegedly took the knife and cut the victim. Police arrested the woman at the scene at 9:37 a.m.

Caught at knifepoint On Feb. 10, a Rocky Point resident was arrested for assault. Police said the 43-year-old man cut someone with a knife at a residence on Teepee Road. The victim was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson. Suspect was uber upset An unknown person punched and broke a window of the Islandwide taxi on Main Street in Port Jefferson. Police said the incident happened on Feb. 11 around 9:56 p.m.

Not so bright A 40-year-old woman from Miller Place was arrested for driving while ability impaired in a 2012 Hyundai Tuscon on Feb. 8 after crashing into a light pole near the corner of Route 25A and Miller Place Road. Police arrested her at the scene.

I spy an iPhone Between 3 and 11:15 a.m. on Feb. 13, someone stole an iPhone from another person at Junior’s Spycoast bar on Main Street in Port Jefferson.

Underage and over the limit Police arrested a 16-year-old boy for driving while ability impaired on Feb. 8. The Selden teen was driving a gray 2005 Acura west on Jericho Turnpike when he failed to maintain his lane. Police arrested him at the corner of Dawn Drive in Centereach around 2 p.m. On the road again On Feb. 14, a 21-year-old man from Coram was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident, after police said he crashed his 2004 Mercedes-Benz into a parked 2015 Jeep Wrangler on Barone Drive on Feb. 5 and fled the scene. Cruisin’ over the rules Police arrested a man from Smithtown on Feb. 10 for driving with a suspended license and false impersonation. According to police, the 29-year-old had been driving a Nissan Altima on Norwood Avenue in Port Jefferson Station and when pulled over had allegedly given police a different person’s name. Morning mischief Between midnight and 9:40 a.m. on Feb. 14, an unknown person stole money and a key from an unlocked Jeep parked on Cedarhurst Avenue in Selden.

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Government considers to boost Brookhaven lab By Giselle Barkley

Budget season brought good news for the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which may receive $291.5 million from the government to help sustain and improve two of its facilities as part of U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget request for the 2017 fiscal year. The president requested $179.7 million of that money to go toward BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facility and the remainder to the National Synchrotron Light Source II facility. The proposed amount is $9.5 million more than what the lab received last year for the two facilities combined. According to Brookhaven Lab spokesperson Peter Genzer, the money won’t only help the Lab’s RHIC and NSLS-II facilities run, but also help fund new experimental stations at NSLS-II. The president’s financial inquiry includes $1.8 million for the Core Facility Revitalization project, which will provide the infrastructure and facilities to store data to support the lab’s growing needs, the press release said. U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have worked to maintain America’s science presence — and securing more federal funds for the lab helps maintain it.

Schumer said he was pleased with the president’s request to increase funding for the lab, saying that an increase in funding will help keep BNL and our nation at the forefront of innovation and boost Long Island’s economy. “We appreciate the president’s continued support for science and, in particular, Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and National Synchrotron Light Source II,” BNL Director Doon Gibbs said. “We are also extremely grateful for the ongoing efforts of Sen. Schumer and Sen. Gillibrand — and the entire N.Y. Congressional delegation — on behalf of the Lab and its research mission.” According to RHIC’s website, scientists study earth in its infancy and other areas that will help people better understand how the world works. The approximate 16-year-old ion collider is also the first machine in the world that can support colliding heavy ions. The NSLS-II allows scientists to examine high-energy light waves in a variety of spectrums, including x-ray, ultraviolet and infrared. The RHIC and NSLS-II are BNL’s two largest facilities Genzer said. He added that the “president’s budget request is the first step in the budget process for the fiscal year 2017.” The budget year begins on Oct. 1. In the best-case scenario, the government

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will agree on and vote to approve the final budget before the end of September. The senators will continue their fight to get increased funding for BNL as the lab “is a major economic engine for Long Island,” Gillibrand said. Gillibrand said she was also pleased

with the administration’s request for increased funds. Construction of NSLS-II began in 2009 and cost around $912 million. BNL expected construction to end last year. Other members of BNL were unavailable for comment prior to publication.

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OPINION

PFC Dwyer program: helping our veterans Your turn

BY LEE ZELDIN

The images that flash across our TVs of war-torn countries and populations in strife are rampant and inescapable in today’s society. Whether it is ISIS, al-Qaida, or any other foreign enemy that seeks to kill innocent people, it takes a wellequipped and strong-willed force to fight back. Our nation has always been blessed with brave men and women who have answered the call to service; willingly and selflessly putting their lives on the line while defending our great country. However, while overseas, our service members are exposed to unimaginable horror and suffering, sometimes leaving them both physically and mentally scarred. While we can determine many of the appropriate remedies, utilizing modern medicine and science to treat their physical wounds, it is the mental damage that leaves us often ill-prepared and without a proper plan of action to effectively deal with their suffering. For many of our service members returning from overseas, their hardships and trauma corrupt their psyches and follow them from the battlegrounds to the safety and comfort of their homes. The months and years of training they received to fight the enemy on the front lines is not sufficient to help them deal with their problems on the home front. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury are ravaging our veterans and their loved ones at a truly staggering rate. It is estimated that 11-20 out of every 100 veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, have PTSD. In addition, the research and studies available now to help understand these problems were non-existent in previous decades; leaving generations of veterans from conflicts like Vietnam and the Gulf War continually discovering that they may be experiencing symptoms of PTSD or TBI. Perhaps the single most alarming statistic is the suicide rate amongst our veterans. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, it is estimated that 22 veterans a day commit suicide. Without the proper resources or care of mental health professionals, they simply cannot cope with the horrific flashbacks or relentless anxiety that plagues and quashes any sort of normalcy they would hope to experience upon

Photo from Jennifer DiSiena

Above, local politicians come together in support of the PFC Joseph P. Dwyer peer program. Dwyer, from Mount Sinai, served in Iraq and received nationwide recognition for a photograph that went viral of him cradling a wounded Iraqi boy.

return. Seemingly routine, everyday oc- the PFC Joseph P. Dwyer veterans peer currences can serve as triggers that cripple project is a peer-to-peer support prothese veterans’ lives and leave them with- gram that I created in the New York State out any sort of relief in sight. Senate as part of the 2012-13 New York One of the most difficult obstacles in State budget. The program provides a trying to help treat our veterans is the safe, confidential, and educational plattrouble they have opening up to strang- form where all veterans are welcome to ers or people who have not endured the meet with other veterans in support of same tribulations as them. While there each other’s successful transition to postis no uniform prescription or exact service life. The Dwyer program seeks methodology of how to solve the various to build vet-to-vet relationships that crises our veterans live through, peer- enhance positive change through comto-peer support programs are vital to mon experiences, learning and personal ensuring our veterans have not only an growth. According to the Suffolk Counoutlet to express their sentiments, but ty Veterans Service Agency, there are the encouragement of those who have 83,254 veterans in Suffolk County. With experienced simithe highest populalar struggles stand- ‘The [PFC Joseph P. Dwyer tion of veterans by ing with them, ev- Veterans Peer Project] provides county in New York ery step of the way. State, and one of the These support pro- a safe, confidential, and highest in the entire grams create a safe educational platform where all country, the need place for veterans to for a program like share what they’re veterans are welcome to meet the Dwyer project going through and with other veterans in support was long overdue. learn about ways Suffolk County of each other’s successful they can help cope served as one of with their debilitat- transition to post-service life.’ four test counties in ing symptoms. New York in 2013, Army Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer, from the first year of the program. RemarkMount Sinai, was one of the countless ably, we were able to conduct 148 group brave and courageous veterans who sessions, serving 450 veterans within served overseas to protect our great na- Suffolk that first year. Since 2013, the tion. Dwyer served as an Army medic program has successfully expanded to during the Iraq War and received na- over a dozen counties across New York, tionwide recognition for a photograph assisting over 1,500 veterans battling that went viral—showing him cradling PTSD and TBI. The staff and volunteers a wounded Iraqi boy, while his unit was who work here in Suffolk County to keep fighting its way up to the capital city of the services of this program running are Baghdad. Sadly, PFC Dwyer passed away growing every year. We are continually from complications due to his struggles expanding our counselors and mental with PTSD, leaving behind a young wid- health professionals to combat the hardow, Matina, and two-year-old daughter, ships of veterans all over New York. Meagan. Not even the unconditional As a proud United States veteran who love and support of his family and mem- served in Iraq, I know firsthand the bers of his community were enough to horror and chaos that one experiences save PFC Dwyer. while protecting their country. While I Created and dedicated in his honor, am pleased with what we’ve managed to

achieve in New York with regard to the Dwyer project, we can and should still be doing more to help the brave men and women who put everything on the line for us. That is why I am introducing legislation in Congress that will expand the PFC Joseph Dwyer veteran peer program on a national level. I want to ensure all veterans across this great nation receive the proper treatment and care they deserve. We must take what we’ve accomplished here in New York and build from it so that someday we can have a peer-topeer support group help veterans in every county across America. I know the Dwyer program will help bring much-needed support and assistance to thousands, and someday millions, of veterans and their families across the United States. No longer should a veteran feel shame or guilt in seeking help for him or herself. He or she should be able to utilize the services of their local vet-to-vet support group to help them effectively deal with whatever stress is bothering them. That is the goal and it is time we come together as citizens of the United States to fulfill our obligations and do more to help our veterans lead happy and meaningful lives. It is a long and arduous road to recovery for some, but I am convinced that the willpower and solidarity of this nation behind a common cause can help ameliorate the transition to post-service life for our veterans. It is vital we keep ever-present that our veterans have been willing to make the greatest sacrifice any one individual can give to another — their life. The Dwyer program is an important way for Americans to give back and say thank you. Congressman Lee Zeldin, an Army veteran who continues to serve today as a major in the Army Reserves, represents the 1st Congressional District of New York. In Congress, two of Lee Zeldin’s committee assignments are Veterans’ Affairs and Foreign Affairs.


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Kiddie Academy of Wading River sponsored a HOP-A-THON to raise money for leukemia research.

Kiddie Academy fights for a cure The preschoolers and school-age children who attend Kiddie Academy of Wading River sponsored a HOP-ATHON for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Long Island Chapter. Christina St. Nicholas, director of Kiddie Academy of Wading River, explained that the child care team decided to participate in the LLS’s Student Series program because it is “exactly in line with our curriculum which has a strong emphasis on character education.” “We’re thrilled we doubled our goal of

$500 to over $1,200,” she said. According to the LLS, the five-year survival rate for children under the age of 20 with the most common form of leukemia went from 3 percent in the 1960s to almost 92 percent today. “Joining in this program to fight leukemia is one of the many ways we strive to model the values of community, compassion and cooperation each and every day,” St. Nicholas said. “LLS’s Student Series programs provide a meaningful way for kids to help kids.”

Coach Chris Pinkenburg and Rocky Point GearHeadz members Jade Pinkenburg, Clayton MacKay, Jennifer Bradley, Rex Alex and Julius Condemi qualified for the FIRST LEGO League Long Island championship.

Robotics team takes first place The Rocky Point GearHeadz robotics team was crowned champion at The Long Island FIRST LEGO League qualifying tournament on Jan. 30 in Mineola. The five-member team competed against 34 other teams from across Long Island. Led by coach Chris Pinkenburg of Rocky Point, the team now advances to the FLL Long Island Championship, which will be held on Feb. 28 at the Longwood High School. GearHeadz, which has been engineering its winning robot for the past 10 weeks, also had to present a scien-

tific project that they developed as a solution to an environmental hazard. The team created a unique and durable biodegradable shopping bag, which degrades in water over a period of one month. The bag was designed to prevent the mass death of sea turtles and other marine life from the accidental ingestion of non-biodegradable plastics. GearHeadz, which won first place in the FLL Long Island championship in 2015, is a private club of students from the Rocky Point area.

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Feridoun Abedi, 67, of Coram, passed on Jan. 16. Abedi was the cherished husband of Parvaneh and adored father of Leyla and the late Rezza. Funeral service was celebrated at Branch Funeral Home of Miller Place to whom arrangements were entrusted. Interment followed at Washington Memorial Park.

Funeral Mass was celebrated at Infant Jesus R.C. Church in Port Jefferson. Interment followed at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Branch Funeral Home of Miller Place.

Arthur Semente

Arthur C. Semente, of Mount Sinai, died on Jan. 29, at the age of 89. He was a proud World War II veteran of the U.S. Army. Semente was the beloved husband of Rosalie; cherished father of Karen,

Lauren, Deboraha and Mark; loving grandfather of Heather, Christopher, Samantha, Gina and Lisa; and adored great-grandfather of Marlowe, Jasper, Jack, Hope, Cooper and Reed. He is survived by many other family members and friends. Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Louis de Montfort R.C. Church in Sound Beach. Interment followed at Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton. Arrangements entrusted to Branch Funeral Home of Miller Place.

Grace Ann Sauer

Grace Ann Sauer, 86, of Miller Place, passed on Jan. 27. Beloved mother of Colette Kampouroglou, Suzette Lamson, Janine Danowski, Marie Gallatin, Todd, Kirk and the late Gilbert, she was also the adored grandmother of 14 and cherished greatgrandmother of two.

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Movers & Shakers

RP vet is a leader on and off the battlefield BY DESIRÉE KEEGAN

“He’s a gentle giant.” That’s what Rocky Point High School social studies teacher Rich Acritelli had to say about Rocky Point’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Fischer-Hewins Post 6249 Commander Joe Cognitore. “He’s always got the community at his heart,” said Acritelli, who first met Cognitore in 2005 when he asked the post to come down and do a color guard for one of his programs. “He’s such a gentleman, a good guy and he has a good combination of common sense, leadership and also humor.” Cognitore, who has lived in Rocky Point since 1983, served in Vietnam from April 1969 through March 1971, where he held the ranks of acting platoon sergeant and acting platoon leader. He earned the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantry Badge, as well as the National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign, and Air medals. He first became active in the VFW in 1991, where he sent packages to troops overseas. Brookhaven Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) first met Cognitore right after Sept. 11, 2001, when she was working with the North Shore Beach Property Owners’ Association on a planned blood drive. She said he donated cases of water and soda to the event. “He’s one of the nicest men that I’ve ever met in my whole entire life,” she said. “He’s a

very active participant in all things that make Rocky Point great, but he’s also a really big asset to us in Brookhaven. Joe’s always my first phone call for anything veteran-related.” Since his start at the post, his role in the VFW and in the community has only continued to grow. The commander also raises money for the Joseph P. Dwyer peer-to-peer group and helped fund the building of two houses for returning veterans in Sound Beach. Bea Ruberto, president of the Sound Beach Civic Association, met Cognitore five years ago, when she reached out to him for help with the hamlet’s Veteran’s Memorial Park. Ruberto said the plans stalled because of a loss of funding. “He sat down with us and spoke for hours,” she said. “He’s great. He’s very, very generous with his time. Had it not been for his input I’m not sure we would’ve gone in the direction we did and got the funding for the park.” Cognitore also worked with Acritelli on the 9/11 memorial at the Diamond in the Pines Park in Coram, helping raise more than $40,000. The two are also working on helping to plan the ninth annual Wounded Warriors golf outing. “We raised a lot of money for local guys,” Acritelli said. “Joe personifies everything that a citizen should be. He is always working for the betterment of his community. He’s going to be a tough guy to replace at the VFW post and in the state because he

does so much.” Cognitore said he was passionate about not only doing what he can for veterans but the community at large. He has used Post 6249 to host several other events including senior, Cub Scout and Girl Scout meetings, local soup kitchens, and to raise money for local families in need of assistance and for scholarships at Rocky Point and ShorehamWading River high schools. “It’s contagious,” he said. “It’s a lot of work, a lot of time and a lot of effort, and we’re all volunteers here at the post.” This dedication earned him induction into the New York State Senate Veteran’s Hall of Fame in 2005. He received this honor from New York State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson). “I was floored,” he said of the nomination. “It was nice, and a great feeling. It recognized a veteran for their service and being a veteran, but also, for what you’ve done outside the veteran realm, and we help the community. The post is opened to mostly everybody.” Frank Tepedino, of Saint James, who is a former MLB player for the New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves, has worked with Cognitore on several fundraisers and spoke with him at different events. “It’s unbelievable the work that he does,” he said. “A man that takes that much time to ensure that nobody is left behind — he’s always out there to help any cause. He knows

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Joe Cognitore, commander of VFW Post 6249, dedicates much of his time to helping veterans and his local community.

a lot of people and he’s surrounded himself with good people and he can get a lot done because of it.” Ruberto said Cognitore opened her eyes to the countless returning veterans that struggle, realizing that helping returning vets should be more of a concern that honoring fallen soldiers. “He made me aware of the number of homeless vets that are out there, or the home in Yaphank that feeds and houses vets, so it’s because of those conversations with him that made a light go off,” she said. “He’s very passionate about doing whatever he can for veterans.” Cognitore said he gets so much enjoyment out of what he does that it doesn’t matter how much time he puts into it, as long as the final outcome is helping someone in need. “It’s like a full time job,” he said. “Getting everything set up and running around takes a lot of time, but it’s well worth it.”

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ENTITLED A PARKING AND STORAGE OF VEHICLES AND BOATS ON PLOTS LAW This local law would regulate the parking and storage of vehicles and boats on private property. This is a summary. The full text of the proposed local law is available at the Village Clerk’s office during Village office hours and is available for inspection. sAt said public hearing all persons with an interest will be heard. Dated: February 9, 2016 Cathy Donahue-Spier Village Clerk 80 Woodville Road Shoreham, NY 11786 631-821-0680 658 2/18 1x vbr PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 20(5) of the Municipal Home Rule Law, a public hearing will be held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Shoreham at the Village Hall, 80 Woodville Road, Shoreham, New York on the 8th day of March, 2016 at 7:30 PM to consider enacting a proposed local law as follows: LOCAL LAW NO. ____ OF 2016

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Johnson tallies 1,000th point in Mustangs’ loss Girls’ basketball

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Harborfields enjoyed a 22-point lead midway through the third quarter, and despite Mount Sinai rallying to close within seven points with just over two minutes left in the game, the Tornadoes’ girls’ basketball team closed with a late surge of its own, to claim a 59-47 victory in the opening round of the Class A playoffs Saturday morning. Mount Sinai led 13-12 after eight minutes but managed just four points to Harborfields’ 19 in the second. Harborfields point guard Christiana de Borja had the hot hand through the first half, as she drove the lane and muscled her way to the rim, drawing fouls along the way. The five-foot, two-inch junior tallied 13 points over the two quarters. As Mount Sinai double-teamed de Borja, the Mustangs left the lane opened for Harborfields sophomore guard Erin Tucker, who netted four field goals and a free throw to add nine more points to the Tornadoes’ 31-17 halftime advantage. “We always play Mount Sinai in other sports, so we know not to underestimate them, and they came out very strong in the first quarter,” Tucker said. “It’s what we expected. They had a tough second

quarter, but we knew they’d come back.” Three-pointers were flying to open the third quarter, as de Borja banked a pair and Mount Sinai junior guard Victoria Johnson swished her second and third of the game, but still, the Tornadoes edged ahead 43-28 to begin the final quarter. The Mustangs opened the last eight minutes with two fast breaks that paid dividends for Johnson, who was fouled while shooting and calmly swished both. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL continued on page A15

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Eagles grapplers are county champs Wrestling Rocky Point High School’s varsity wrestling team recently earned another high honor when the team captured the League V Tournament Championship. On back-to-back weekends, the team shone on the mats to earn two consecutive regional titles. During the League V tournament, 12 Rocky Point All-League wrestlers competed and four of them captured the championship. In addition, the entire coaching staff received

coach of the year honors. The team then captured a firstplace win at the Suffolk County dual-meet championship. Facing off against the top teams in the county, the top seeded Eagles captured a win during the quarter-final match against No. 8-seeded Half Hollow Hills East, competed against No. 5-seeded Lindenhurst and clinched their championship title by defeating No. 3-seeded Hauppauge, 38-33.

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Rocky Point varsity wrestling team placed first in the Suffolk County Dual Meet Championship.

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The back end marked the 1,000th point of her varsity career. She’s the first girls’ basketball player in school history to reach that feat. “They’re really tough on defense,” Johnson said of Harborfields. “We ran on them because they’re a very fast team and they were going to try to stop us in the middle. We had one rough quarter, but we gave it our best. We’re a young team so we’ll make a run next year.” Tucker netted two more points at the free-throw line for the Tornadoes, to again make it an 11-point game. Mount Sinai inbounded the ball, throwing it the length of the court, where freshman guard Margaret Kopcienski gained possession and, with a spin move, found the rim to trim the deficit back to nine points. Mount Sinai junior center Veronica Venezia made her presence known down low as she muscled her way to the rim on a put-back to help her team trail by seven with 1:41 left in the game, but the Mustangs would not come any closer. “The second quarter is where we got hurt, but we’re graduating two seniors and we’re returning 12 — including all five starters — so we’re looking forward to the off-season,” Mount Sinai head coach Michael Pappalardo said. “[Harborfields has] great players, and to be with them in the final minutes makes me proud of our team.” In a foul-riddled final minute, both teams traded points at the charity stripe. Mount Sinai’s Gabby Sartori went to the line shooting three, and the ninth-grade

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having her on the floor is like a security blanket. As much as they were cutting into our lead, I knew we had Chris de Borja on the court.” Atop the leaderboard for Mount Sinai was Johnson with 16 points, followed by Sartori, who sank 13. “They were very good, and we knew they were going to come up strong on defense,” Sartori said. “I was getting face-guarded the whole time, but my team knew what to do. We gave it all we had; we rose to the challenge — last year we came here and lost by 30.”

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OPINION

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New York State should establish uniform rules for where registered sex offenders can live, with an eye on distances from their victims as well as schools and playgrounds like the one above.

New York State should carry the torch

Laws governing sex offenders have turned a corner over the last year. County and town governments recently lost the authority to regulate where registered sex offenders are allowed to live. That power now rests solely with New York State, which only limits offenders on parole or probation. While we appreciate the good intention behind one state senator’s bill to let local governments enact their own residency restrictions, it is not ideal. Part of the reason the local municipalities’ authority was overturned in the New York State Court of Appeals last year is that there were too many layers of restrictions. in just our area alone, both Suffolk County and the Town of Brookhaven had their own separate restrictions on where registered sex offenders could reside in their jurisdictions. There should be laws that prevent sex offenders from living within certain distances from schools or their victims, but allowing each county, town or village to decide on their own creates a mishmash of rules that are nearly impossible to follow. When this is the process, there are counties and towns next door to one another, or even overlapping, with different rules. That makes it more difficult for sex offenders to comply, and it would benefit us all if offenders are more able to actually comply with the laws we have enacted. in addition, clean-cut laws that are easy to identify, and thus follow, would also likely bring peace of mind to their victims, who deserve to feel safe. The onus should be on the state to design more comprehensive restrictions on where registered sex offenders can live. That system should include required distances from victims’ homes and places of employment, as well as schools, playgrounds and other places where children gather. And the regulations should vary slightly based upon a community’s density, so as not to treat urban, suburban and rural areas as if they are the same. Although more state regulation is not always an appealing idea, this is one of those cases when we need the state to intervene, in order to make enforcement more uniform. And it is an important issue, because it has an immediate impact on our children and on the sex crime victims we have a moral responsibility to protect.

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Parenting debate To The ediTor: “The Collapse of Parenting: how We hurt our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups” by dr. Leonard Sax has been published recently by Basic Books. The catchy main title caught my attention and seems to hit the nail on the head about parenting today. My parenting days are over, but i have found Sax’s book enlightening. Many of my peers — 70 years or older — gripe about the parenting practices of today, especially of the parenting of our kids who are now parents. Sax helps explain what we gripe and shrug our shoulders about. “What can you do?” we say. The book helps me understand my kids’ parenting styles. There

his incredible qualities, but it was so heartwarming to read all the letters and to hear all the comments about the hundreds of lives that dick touched. We have lived here since 1962 and our lives have been enriched by being involved in many areas of both the university and the community. We consider ourselves fortunate to have met so is no doubt that parenting has changed during my lifetime. “The Collapse of Parenting” discusses the culture of respect versus the culture of disrespect as well as the shift from parent-orientated culture to peer-orientated culture. There are also discussions on topics like conscientiousness, humility, integrity, service, self-esteem, selfconcept, self-control, work, chores, gratitude, contentment, discontent, appreciation, and other values and traits. The balance of activities, limits to social media, cellphones and screen time are all explained in their relationship to parenting. in his conclusion, Sax reviews the shift of our culture, medication of our children and the over-scheduling of our children’s lives and,

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many wonderful folks and to have heard from them about their admiration and love of dick. We are sure his good works will live on and he will live in many of our hearts and memories. Again, a very warm thank you. The Solo family: Julie, david, Michael, Susan and Nomi Port Jefferson in turn, our own lives. does some of this strike a chord with your style of parenting? of course, each parent should ask what kind of role model he or she is as a person and as a parent. in his last chapter, Sax lists a number of things you have to or must do for the sake of your child and help create an alternative culture in your home. if you are a parent of young children, read this book and discuss and debate its contents with friends who are parents. Consider discussing some of the topics at the dinner table. hopefully you will find this book as interesting and enlightening as i have. There might even be a chance that it will help you “reboot” on how you parent. Fred drewes Mount Sinai

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Einstein’s theory continues to make waves with new discovery

D. None of the above by DaNiel DuNaief

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bout 61 years after he died, Albert Einstein is still right. The legendary theoretical physicist predicted a century ago that a space time continuum would contain gravitational waves. This past September, a team of more than 1,000 scientists heard a sound from a billion light-years away that was generated by two black holes colliding. The scientists were working at the Laser

Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory, known as LIGO. The announcement of the results, made on Feb. 11, was greeted with considerable excitement by physicists, mathematicians and scientists, with one of them saying that astronomers have long had eyes but this breakthrough gives them ears, too. I asked Marilena LoVerde and Patrick Meade, Stony Brook University assistant professors at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, for their take on the big announcement. DD: How does the significance of any potential finding of gravitational waves compare to that for the Higgs boson particle? Some people have suggested that it’s on the scale, if not larger, than the Higgs boson particle. PM: I would certainly say it’s a very big discovery. However, unlike the Higgs, gravitational waves were on a much stronger footing that they should exist. The Higgs told us something

new about how the universe worked, and it didn’t have to be true — there were many other options. However, gravitational waves are exciting because it’s a validation of the theory we already use, general relativity, and it may provide a new way to search for physics we haven’t discovered yet. ML: This is absolutely on the scale of the Higgs boson. Similar to the Higgs boson, gravitational waves were predicted and expected to exist — and in fact indirectly measured through the spin down of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar — but the direct detection of gravitational waves is an absolute triumph of experimental physics and opens an exciting new era of gravitational wave astronomy. DD: What has the email traffic about this announcement been during the last week? Have you received emails from scientists, colleagues, collaborators and friends who all want to know what this would mean and what you make of it?

ML: Rumors have been going around for months, but the frequency of people emailing/ discussing such rumors and adding pieces of evidence suggesting they were true, and the details of the rumors have all increased significantly in the past few weeks. PM: Since this isn’t directly my field I wasn’t as involved as with some other rumors, but rumors through Twitter, blogs and conversations with colleagues at other places who heard things were all happening over about the last month. DD: Is there a chance that whatever was detected was an artifact? ML: The signal looks very compelling. Of course I haven’t had much time to study the details of the statistical methods used to extract the signal and I’m looking forward to doing that. PM: I’d say it’s extremely unlikely to be an artifact or statistical anomaly, because the same signal was seen in two separate detectors — one in Washington [state] and one in Louisiana.

Astronomers have long had eyes but this breakthrough gives them ears, too. DD: Will the existence and detection of gravitational waves open up the sky to enable us to “see” much more than we can now in terms of matter and the universe? Will they help us see and understand dark matter and dark energy? PM: Gravitational waves definitely open up a whole new way to see the universe. However they won’t directly give us any information on dark matter or dark energy in the foreseeable future. To make gravitational waves that are observable with our technology you need very violent gravitational events, like these two black holes merging that LIGO saw. However, by developing new detectors with better sensitivity we may be able to look back and see other violent events in the history of the universe.

George Washington, an unlikely whiskey baron

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his past Monday was Presidents Day, and we might have been thinking of our great presidents, if we were thinking of them at all in the midst of a vacation day, as being larger than life. However, in a recent biogra-

phy of George Washington, Ron Chernow tells us that for all the 8,000 acres of splendid estate and many slaves to work the property, Washington when he retired from the presidency in 1797, was hard up for cash. Financial pressure was “unrelenting.” I don’t know about you, but to me that makes him a more human founding father, one almost every business person and resident can identify with. So what did the father of our country do? He looked around his farmland for a new profit source, one that would supply cash rather quickly, and came up with the idea of making whiskey. It was not, The New York Times tells us in a recent article, his idea alone. His new plantation manager, James Anderson, was a Scotsman

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and distiller. Mount Vernon had plenty of rye and together with what Washington called “Indian corn” and a still, they were able to make ample supplies of whiskey. Now this is not how we usually think of our first president, the guy who chopped down the cherry tree and the president who sent militiamen to quash the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania when local distillers revolted against a federally imposed whiskey tax. Washington was aware of his image problem but, entrepreneur that he needed to be, he became something of a whiskey baron. In the first full year of operation, almost 11,000 gallons were produced and the whiskey earned a profit equivalent to some $142,000

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in today’s dollars. A distillery was built that was one of the largest of the time. Washington blamed his new success on Anderson, unwilling to take personal credit. The distillery was rebuilt after tours of Mount Vernon began and can be viewed by the many visitors to the estate each year. The old recipe is still used when samples are handed out. Washington did enjoy alcohol, favoring “sweet wines, rum punch and whiskey,” but his reputation for alcohol in moderation was established by his stern action toward his troops when they became drunk and his reluctance to pass out drinks when he ran the first time for election to the Virginia House of Burgesses. His opponent did and duly won. A quick study,

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Now this is not how we think of our first president. Washington did so the next time he ran, and this time he was successful. Unfortunately for Washington, he was not able to realize a growing success from his whiskey efforts. In 1799, the second full year of production, he died at the age of 67. He willed the distillery to a granddaughter of his wife Martha, but a fire destroyed the operation in 1814. Only relatively recently has this chapter in Washington’s life become widely known, and it adds a colorful dimension to the man and his myth.

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