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The Town of Brookhaven Planning Board closed a public hearing regarding a subdivision proposed for East Setauket at its June 6 meeting and placed it on its decision calendar. The eight-lot preliminary subdivision which will feature a cul-de-sac and include a drainage basin is located at the southeastITY S corner of Pond Path and Upper Sheep Pasture ER IV R N D U was Road in East Setauket. The application submitted by Anthony Martino, president of Winmar Homes based in Ronkonkoma. Three residents and representatives from the Three Village Civic Association, George Hoffman and Herb Mones, attended the June 6 meeting to express their concerns regarding the board approving the preliminary subdivision with the consideration of cluster treatment by the developer. The approximately 6 1/2 acre property, zoned as residential, is known locally as the Selleck property. On the property is a 1920s farmhouse that the developer plans to demolish. The civic association has asked for it to be protected. The civic association and residents also listed concerns regarding the recharge basin, traffic and elevation of the planned houses. Mones said time is needed to reflect on the development that has been used for farming in the past. “It deserves a little more careful scrutiny and concern from the Planning Board in our opinion,” he said. The civic association members also believe there is a better alternative to dealing with water runoff than a recharge basin,which will have a chain link fence aroud it. Hoffman compared the recharge basin to a 1950s sump and said the development does not represent good planning. He said the corner of Pond Path and Upper Sheep Pasture Road is “the most prominent part of this community — it’s a very busy section.” Michael Kelly, who lives close to the planned development, said the thought of a recharge basin near his home keeps him up at night. He said there are others in the community that have not been maintained, are overgrown and “havens for rodents.” Kelly added with an elementary school across the street that there is already enough traffic and accidents in the neighborhood, where he has lived for five years. Kelly said he has already witnessed a couple of accidents where speeding drivers have hit telephone poles. Colleen Gitto, who also lives nearby, wanted to be assured that each lot would be a half an acre and was concerned that the two-story houses proposed may be elevated more and

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those homes would overlook nearby properties. Patchogue-based attorney Larry Davis, representing the developer, said all lots would adhere to the 22,500 square feet required by the town, which is slightly more than half an acre. Anthony Zalak, of J.R. Holzmacher Engineering in Ronkonkoma, said regarding the recharge basin they are bound by the town requirements, and it is designed to comply to the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, which requires 9 inches of rainfall to be held. “If a recharge basin was eliminated, or diminished in size, that stormwater would have to go to some other systems which of course would be precast,” Zalak said. He added that an estimate would be more than 70 leaching pools, which he said would have to be spread out through the subdivision roadway or in a combination of Upper Sheep Pasture and Pond Path. The plan is for red cedar trees along the roadways to screen the recharge basin. Zalak said there will be no added elevation of the homes from the current plan. He added that no traffic study has been conducted because eight parcels do not dictate the need for a study. The engineer said some interim plans have been submitted to the town to try to include 0

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Part II: Focusing on the mental health of medical workers

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

to restaurants and returning to patterns and activities that are reminiscent of life in 2019, health care workers have increasingly needed mental health support.

The second in a two-part series, this article highlights the strain COVID-19 has placed Employee Assistance on a mental health care Over the last several months, Stony system that was already Brook University, which has an Employee resource-constrained. Mental Assistance Program, has seen a rise in the health care workers, from social workers to number of staff reaching out for help. psychologists, psychiatrists and emergency During the pandemic, Stony Brook launched medical teams, have responded to the increasing an employee helpline for those who need mental need for their services, cutting back on vacation health support, including psychotherapy and/or times and dealing with patients who threaten medication management. Compared to last year, violence against themselves and others. During Stony Brook is seeing a two-folded increase, or the pandemic, health care workers who focused triple, the number of employees reaching out on the emotional well-being of patients also for services, according to Dr. Adam Gonzalez, sought balance in their own director of Behavioral Health lives. To borrow from the TV and associate professor of show “Law & Order,” these Psychiatry & Behavioral are their stories. Health at Stony University For some, running half Renaissance School of marathons, spending time Medicine. with family, meditating and “There are high concerns communing with nature about employee burnout, helps. For others, staying resignations and departures connected and reaching out from health care,” Gonzalez to the kinds of services they wrote in an email. “Most themselves provide also concerning is the risk for offsets the growing strains suicide — the ultimate in their work. consequence of burnout.” Health care workers have Stony Brook has an shouldered the burden of employee support team the COVID-19 pandemic that implements wellness for more than two years, initiatives, including daily reaching out well beyond mindfulness meditation their job description to sessions, yoga and stretching, help patients amid a period and confidential one-on-one of intense uncertainty that support by a faculty and threatened their physical staff care team and employee and emotional health. assistance program. —Dr. Adam Gonzalez The cost to health care Dr. Poonamdeep Gill, diworkers, including those who rector of the Comprehensive work in behavioral or mental Psychiatric Emergency Prohealth, has been considerable, gram at Stony Brook Hospias time at the hospital and speaking with tal, said the mental health team is “seeing more patients remotely cut into their personal lives patients who are sicker from a mental health and threatened their own sense of balance. standpoint. People are really struggling. It does “It was very difficult to be a doctor take a toll on you.” through the storms of COVID,” said Dr. Gill said Stony Brook is proactive with Stacy Eagle, director of Psychiatry at Port staff, making sure they can access services. The Jefferson-based St. Charles Hospital. Health university also encourages staff to check in with care workers had to “deal with a lot of mental their leadership team if they are feeling burned health issues” during the last few years. out or struggling. Indeed, hospitals throughout the Dr. Michel Khlat, director of St. Catherine area offered varying levels of support of Siena in Smithtown, said he has seen some while their staff were on-site, including of the same health care fatigue that has beset meditation rooms and aroma therapy. They hospitals and other health care facilities also suggested personal health checks and throughout the country. provided on-call services for employees who “Staff members have gotten overwhelmed might be struggling amid concerns about with the volumes,” Khlat said. “Some their health and the well-being of family are altering their occupations to see more outpatients. Some are reverting to partmembers and their patients. While the general public has tried to time and per diem work.” He has had a few push COVID into the back of their minds, friends in Florida who are seeing the same attending sporting events and movies, going phenomenon, with health care workers

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Bounce forward

The Northwell Health System has been working on the support of all health care workers, including in mental health, said Dr. Vera Feuer, associate vice president in School Mental Health. Northwell has adopted a stress first aid response, peer support, and a resilience model to recover from stress and trauma. The military developed stress first aid to deal with situations like the pandemic, in which there is ongoing stress with an uncertain ending. That, Feuer said, differs from a single event, like 9/11, where something traumatic occurs and survivors build back from it. The pandemic has involved over two years of continuous stress and this feeling of uncertainty, she added. Stress first aid teaches people to support each other in resilience and to “bounce forward,” Feuer said. “It is difficult to maintain in a busy, stressful environment.”

Finding balance

Doctors suggested they engaged in a wide range of activities to help with their own mental health. A believer in the value of nutraceuticals and supplements, Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler, the director of the Emergency Room at St. Charles Hospital said he also works on

focused breathing. Eagle, his colleague at St. Charles, urges people to pursue some of their hobbies, such as reading or painting. She also recommends staying off of or limiting social media, particularly for younger children who might find the information and the reaction to postings unnerving. Stony Brook’s Gill believes in physical activity and exercise. She ran a half marathon a few weeks ago on Long Island. “I make sure I stay active,” she said. “We need to take care of ourselves before we can take care of other people.” Stony Brook’s Gonzalez stays closely connected to family, friends and work colleagues. “I also try to stay active and explore nature,” Gonzalez said. “I regularly practice mindfulness [which is] tuning into the present moment in a nonjudgmental way.” Gonzalez enjoys a good TV show or movie to disconnect and unwind as well. Northwell’s Feuer said she’s worked harder than she ever had, but, at the same time, she feels fulfilled by the hope and meaning in her work. For Feuer, the silver lining is the attention to mental health, which “we know has been a problem for a long time. I’m hoping the right resources and interventions” will help those who need it. To read the first of this two-part series, “Mental health strain for Long Islanders,” visit tbrnewsmedia.com.

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One-on-one with Three Village’s incoming superintendent A new superintendent will be overseeing the Three Village Central School district come July 6. TVCSD’s assistant superintendent for educational services, Kevin Scanlon, is ready to take over the reins with nearly 30 years of education experience behind him. Last year, current superintendent Cheryl Pedisich’s announcement that she would stay on for one more school year coincided with Scanlon receiving offers from other districts. After the board of ed reviewed his résumé and interviewed him, they asked if he wanted the job. He said in a phone interview that after enjoying his work immensely in Three Village over the years, “I’m going to be happy to continue on in my new role.”

Background

The 52-year-old lives a short distance away in Smithtown, and he and his wife Kerri have two children, Meghan, 25, and Sean, 14. A native of Bay Shore, he grew up as the youngest of 11 children and began his college career at first majoring in accounting at Iona College. He soon switched to history, with a concentration on middle eastern history. Scanlon went on to get his master’s in criminal justice at the school and was employed by the college as an admissions counselor and then managed the dorms. He recently received his doctorate from St. John’s University and has an administration certification from Stony Brook University. His interest in teaching grew when he was in college tutoring underprivileged students. He said that’s when “chalk got in my blood.” “I felt I would do more for our world in general if I was working with kids like that,” Scanlon said. Throughout his career, he’s taught social studies at every level from seventh grade to 12th, including Advanced Placement, honors and Regents classes. “I’ve enjoyed that immensely,” he said. “I see so much of the good that our teachers do and teachers in general do, just affecting the future.” His first teaching job was in a school in Upper Manhattan that saw an increase in crime right in its own hallways in the late 1980s and ’90s. The former amateur boxer, who spent eight years in the U.S. Navy Reserve, was conducting a student observation when he had to tackle a student with a knife in the hallway. “The next morning, I was brought in to replace the teacher that was stabbed,” Scanlon said. “A little frightening, but well

needed in that place. It was a very large high school in Upper Manhattan, 4,000 students. They set the state record for robberies and rapes in a school.” After working in the New York City school system, he went on to teach Catholic school for a short period in Connecticut. He also has taught night school in Brentwood High School for 10 years. His first experience teaching in Three Village was in 1996 when he became a social studies teacher in Ward Melville High School, five years later he became chair of humanities at Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School and remained in the position until 2003. He had a two-year stint in the Oyster Bay school district as district supervisor of social studies and became principal of Roslyn High School in 2005 after a scandal in the district which is the subject of the movie “Bad Education.” After spending seven years heading up Roslyn, he returned to Three Village in 2012 as assistant superintendent for educational services.

The future

Scanlon said he is ready to work on some significant challenges when he begins his new position July 6. He said before the pandemic parents had been discussing school start times with the board and administrators. Many have said that some students, particularly high school students, have first classes that start too early and interfere with healthy sleeping patterns for teenagers. A start-time committee was formed before the pandemic, but discussions had to be put on hold as administrators dealt with COVID-19. “We’ve had discussions on time and things of that nature, but we’re going to need to address some of that moving forward and involve all the constituencies in the district in that discussion,” he said. “Whether we do reconfigure or we stay in our current configuration, I think we need to at least discuss what that would look like going forward,” adding that things may not change drastically, but a closer look needs to be taken at the issue. Scanlon also feels that divisiveness in the nation has carried over locally. “We want to try to heal the community as much as possible, and I think what will go a long way is continuing to be as transparent as possible,” he said. One way Scanlon said that can be done is using social media more often to supplement the district’s website. He said it also ensures that the community is getting their information from the district itself, especially when it comes to matters such as the budget. The future superintendent said social media is also a way to “be open

to listening to some of the differing opinions that exist in the district and try to make the best decisions possible for the students that we have.” “I want to make sure that as we do move forward that we have people understand about what we’re trying to do, and improvements we are trying to make and planning for our future, but also involving all our parents, our community members, our students, our faculty, our administration, in those decisions as we go forward,” he said. Scanlon added that Pedisich has always been open to parents, returning emails and phone calls, and he will miss how deeply she cares about the community. He said he’s happy he was able to work with her for the last 10 years. Scanlon said she approached every issue with a calm attitude and is “a real model to emulate.” While he will miss working with Pedisich, he’s proud to take on his new role in the district. “I’m truly honored to be in this role,” Scanlon said. “I’m going to work my hardest for the benefit of the students Kevin Scanlon will become the school district’s new superintendent and the families and the staff.” on July 6. Photo from Three Village Central School District

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Road in Centereach reported the theft of merchandise on May 31. Two women allegedly stole miscellaneous women’s clothing worth $286.

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from a residence on Deepwells Lane in Head of the Harbor on May 30. The vehicle, which was valued at $50,000, had been left unlocked with the key fob inside.

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Elected officials, community leaders rally for electrification of LIRR’s Port Jeff line BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM During the late morning hours of June 7, people gathered at the Stony Brook train station but not to board a train. They were there to call out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Rail Road for not getting on board with modernizing the Port Jefferson Branch line. Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) asked state and local officials to join him at a press conference at the station to urge the MTA and the LIRR to extend electrification on the Port Jefferson Branch. In addition to the elected officials in attendance, civic, chamber, business and environmental leaders were also on hand to show their support. Many in attendance have vocalized the need for years, including during a December 2019 press conference at the train station. However, plans were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. East of Huntington the 24 miles or so of railroad tracks are not electrified, and the LIRR uses dual-mode trains that can switch State Assemblyman Steve Englebright, at podium above, and state Sen. Mario Mattera, below, joined Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine, above right, and Councilmember from electric to diesel. Jonathan Kornreich, above left, on June 7 at a press conference to call for the MTA/LIRR to electrify trains beyond Huntington. Photos by Rita J. Egan Those in attendance addressed concerns such as air pollution from the diesel trains and also called for infrastructure money to be toward technology that doesn’t pollute the traffic congestion from residents driving south spent in the area. Regarding North Shore air,” Englebright said. to take trains on the Ronkonkoma Branch. They residents traveling to stations along the Town of Brookhaven Councilmember also said electrification would benefit the area, Ronkonkoma Branch, he said everyone Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook) said including efficient experiences for passengers, needed to come together to ensure that those that the diesel engines not only are harmful more business drawn in the area could drive to air quality, but also when they arrive at to the area, increased to a nearby station a station the vibration can be felt in nearby enrollment at Stony without changing neighborhoods. Kornreich said there are people Brook University and real trains to get to New in Port Jefferson Station who “have to listen to estate values increasing. York City. He added the sound of diesel throbbing all night.” Romaine said the with a feasibility study Mitch Pally, CEO of the Long Island Port Jeff Branch was that was started in the Builders Institute and a former MTA board the busiest line of the 1980s, the time had member, called on the state Climate Action LIRR. He called diesel come for change. Council to mandate the MTA to have fuel “some of the most “We need to make responsibility in electrifying train lines polluting fuel that we sure that we’re here across Long Island. have.” He added that for the commuters,” “Only in that way will the mass transit Suffolk County and Mattera said. “Mass system that we have not only transport our Brookhaven “have been transit is so important people, but do it in an environmentally shortchanged by the for our future, and sensitive manner,” Pally said. MTA.” MTA shortchanges us Anthony Figliola, who is running in He said that with the all the time.” the Republican primary for Congressional passage of President Joe State Assemblyman District 1, said after the press conference he Biden’s (D) $1.2 trillion Englebright was encouraged by the bipartisan support. —Steve Englebright Steve federal infrastructure (D-Setauket) said when He added that Smithtown Supervisor bill and more than $10 the Climate Leadership Ed Wehrheim (R) is also supportive of billion estimated to go and Community electrification. to the MTA, it was time for Suffolk County Protection legislation was passed on the Figliola and Charlie Lefkowitz, president residents to see improvements on the railroad state level in 2019, it included the call of the Three Village Chamber of Commerce, Figliola said if elected to Congress he will be “That is supposed to help rebuild our for electrification across all sectors — were part of the North Shore Business infrastructure,” the supervisor said. “We’re transportation, residential, commercial and Alliance formed in 2017 that worked on a committed “to helping fund this critical economic asking for a 20th-century technology — more. He said the same year the legislation feasibility study for electrification of the development and environmental project.” “The next step is for the MTA to complete electrification. Diesel is a 19th-century passed, the MTA purchased 55 diesel engines. branch. The MTA included $4 million in technology. We haven’t even asked for 21st“Maybe they haven’t figured it out yet their five-year 2015-19 capital plan to pay the study,” he said. “My hope is the MTA will century technology.” but diesels are, as the supervisor indicated, for a feasibility study on electrification of the think twice before spending any additional dollars on more diesel trains.” State Sen. Mario Mattera (R-St. James) antique technology, and we need to move Port Jefferson Branch

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County COVID-19 hospitalizations and infections decreasing

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Even as the newer omicron subvariant of COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Long Island, hospitalizations and infections have been lower. Hospitalizations, which had risen to 490 in mid-May from about 130 in early April, have been “slowly declining for the past week or two,” according to Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Service. Area health care professionals suggested that the severity of symptoms also had eased up. “COVID hospitalization rates are lower than in prior COVID waves,” Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of infection control at Huntington Hospital, explained in an email. Most of the patients have mild to moderate illnesses, although Huntington Hospital still does have some severe cases and/ or a COVID-related death. The average number of positive tests per 100,000 people in Suffolk County has declined from recent peaks. As of June 3, the 7-day average number of positive PCR and rapid tests per 100,000 people was 33, which is down from 52 on May 27 and 67.7 on May 20, according to New York State Department of Health data. “If anything, Suffolk County rates are dropping,” said Dr. Michel Khlat, chief medical officer at St. Catherine of Siena in Smithtown. “We’re seeing a drop in inpatient cases.” Many of the cases St. Catherine is finding are incidental, as the hospital tests for the virus in connection with other procedures. At this point, the newer subvariant of omicron, called BA 2.12.1, accounted for 78.1% of the positive samples collected between May 22 and May 28 in New York, which is up from 593% in the prior two weeks, according to figures from the New York State Department of Health. “Preliminary data suggest that Omicron may cause more mild disease, although some people may still have severe disease, need hospitalization, and could die from the infection with this variant,” Pigott added in an email. Khlat suggested that hospitals aren’t tracking the type of variant. Even if they did, it wouldn’t alter the way they treated patients.

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“It doesn’t make a difference” whether someone has one or another subtype of omicron, Khlat said. The treatment is identical. Area doctors and medical care professionals continue to recommend that residents over 50 receive a second booster, particularly if they are immunocompromised or have other health complications. “People over 50 should get the booster — it decreases the severity of COVID,” explained Popp. Like much of the rest of the country, some Long Islanders have also contracted COVID more than once. The reinfection rate per 100,000 is currently 7.3%, according to New York State Department of Health figures. “We are certainly seeing symptomatic COVID infections in persons who report having COVID at the beginning of this year or last year,” Dr. Susan Donelan, medical director of the Healthcare Epidemiology Department at Stony Brook Medicine, explained in an email. Popp explained that natural immunity from a COVID infection generally lasts about two to three months. Vaccine-related immunity generally lasts twice that duration, for about four to six months. Doctors continue to urge caution during larger, poorly-ventilated indoor gatherings. “Close crowds without masks, in an indoor setting with poor air flow, would be one version of a scenario with potential superspreader potential,” Donelan explained. Donelan said Stony Brook encouraged staff and patients to consider receiving boosters when they are eligible. Popp believes wearing masks indoors while in a large gathering is a “reasonable” measure. That includes theaters, airplanes, buses and trains. At Huntington Hospital, meetings continue to take place online. “We decided as an organization that the risk of transmission is high enough to continue these measures,” Popp wrote. “We cannot afford to lose team members to COVID since it can negatively impact our operation.” Even though the current infection rate is dropping, Khlat said he also continues to remain cautious, wearing a mask when he goes indoors.

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Continued from A3 the existing farmhouse which involved clustering of the new homes. “The layout of the entire parcel itself, its elevation to the east is much higher than down to the roadway at the west on Pond Path,” he said. “The configuration of this parcel layout involves cutting the roadway in and shaving it down — we’ll say from access on Upper Sheep Pasture. So, trying to retain that existing house really doesn’t work out well at all for conforming lots and configuration of the

roadway to come in through the middle of the whole parcel and have a cul-de-sac of the property conforming to the cul-de-sac to the south side.” The next day Mones said that the consideration for clustering that has been proposed by the developer does not allow enough land for the preservation that the civic association had hoped for. Planning Board members said before placing the subdivision on its decision calendar, that the first decision would be for the preliminary subdivision. Since it would not be a final approval, there will be revisions and another public hearing will be held once final plans are completed.

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Ward Melville track races to state championships The Ward Melville boys 3200-meter relay took first place at the Section XI state qualifying championship meet this past weekend, earning them a spot at the New York State Championships. A week earlier the four young men — Julian Smith, Christian Powell, Jon Bussa and Brian Liebowitz — were seeded as the fourth fastest team in the county and only given an outside chance at achieving this goal. The boys however didn’t see it that way. They believed that it was their race to lose, and showed us why on Saturday evening, running stride for stride with the first ranked Northport team until the fourth leg of the race for Ward Melville, Julian Smith, opened up a lead that would only grow larger before finishing the race. The relay led off by sophmore Liebowitz, followed by seniors Bussa and Powell all set personal bests that day running 2:03, 1:57, and 2:01, respectively, with senior Smith sealing the win in a time of 1:59. The boys will be going up to the state championships with a time of 8:02 and a goal of becoming a state champion. Smith’s victory in the 3200 relay was his second of the meet, as he won the open 800 in a personal best, 1:55.65. While senior Justin Ronzoni competed in his third ever

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Three Village Trust continues community support despite pandemic BY CHRIS MELLIDES DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Founded in 2003, the Three Village Community Trust has been a staple in the community and despite the rough times wrought on by the pandemic, the land trust’s members and community volunteers remain optimistic for the future. Since 2020 onward, COVID-19 has been a thorn in the sides of many businesses and nonprofits on Long Island and elsewhere. Despite state-sanctioned shutdowns, through a dedicated volunteer membership, this notfor-profit organization has continued its community-centric efforts to preserve and beautify historical sites Three Villagers can admire in the area. During the pandemic when things were at their worst, TVCT voted in one of its founders, Herb Mones, to take over from longtime president Cynthia Barnes. Financial manager, Greg de Bruin, has been a contributor to the trust for years. “I became truly aware of how much responsibility the trust has assumed and how much it could affect our community for the good,” he said. “Herb Mones, who was installed as the new president at [the March

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2021] meeting, happens to be very good at getting those points across,” de Bruin added. The TVCT properties include the Setauket to Port Jefferson Station Greenway, Patriots Rock Historic Site, the Factory Worker Houses (also known as the Rubber Factory Houses), the Hawkins Homestead, the Smith/de Zafra House, the Bruce House headquarters, the Stephen D. Matthews Preserve and the Tyler House, according to Mones. When asked how the trust was able to stick it out during the unforeseen global pandemic, Mones said, “The trust had to be creative.” “We developed a number of unique online events to connect with our membership, and at the same time raise revenues ‘to keep the lights on,’” the president said. “Many of our properties are under renovation, with large price tags to do the correct historical renovations. And utilities, insurance and maintenance services are a big lift.” Treasurer Hope Kinney said that she helps de Bruin in making sure the bills are paid the for the properties that mean a lot to the Three Village area community. “The trust is amazing, they do so much for our community,” Kinney said. “We preserve many properties and help beautify the Three Village community. We have many events to help raise money for all these things we do.”

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culminated thus far in the trust’s almost-20 years history has been impressive. Kinney said that her favorite restoration project was the Rubber Factory Houses: “We have been using the properties for many events recently and it is so beautiful.” Sporting new gutters this spring, with newly painted windows, doors and trims, the Rubber Factory Houses are a rustic collection of three wooden buildings that were restored by community volunteers. According to Mones, an electric —Greg de Bruin feed was added to bring electric to the structures. An electrical panel, outside receptacles, outside lighting and some indoor light switches and receptacles were also added. The houses were relocated in 2011 to the Bruce House grounds from the Setauket Fire District property on nearby Old Town Road. “The trust hopes to expand its community outreach and continue its momentum in ‘protecting the place you love,’” Mones said. “We see the trust as a friend, partner and leader in helping to make the Three Villages a very special place.”

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The stories of Chicken Hill, a community lost to time BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The exhibit “Chicken Hill, a Community Lost to Time” at the Three Village Historical Society is an exploration of the life of the native and immigrant population in the half mile surrounding the Setauket Methodist Church. In 1861, the Nunns and Clark brick piano factory was erected southwest of the church. Nunns hired mostly German and Irish immigrants. The piano factory went out of business in 1857. According to research done by Marc Sterns in The Long Island Historical Journal, the building was repurposed as the Long Island Rubber Company in 1876 and soon hired a workforce of mostly Irish immigrants and African Americans. By 1878, it was producing 1,200 pairs of shoes and 1,800 boots per day. Within a decade the Setauket factory was the largest on Long Island, employing 125 workers. By 1888, the factory employed 500 workers, the majority being Eastern European Jews with a flavoring of Eastern European Catholics. One of the dozen or more oral histories in the exhibit is by Helen Strelecki Bubka, who grew up on Chicken Hill. “One of my fondest memories was how the boys Hubbell and his brother Beeb came to help me. There was a boy living in town and he was pestering me ... I was just a young teenager and I was frightened of him. I found out later that Beeb and Hubbell went and told him to leave me alone ... That’s how close the relationships were with our friends on Chicken Hill ... We all got along so well together, Black, white, Jewish, Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, it didn’t make a difference what nationality or color we were. If you needed help you could depend on all your neighbors, one way or another somebody would come through and pitch in and help. If somebody was ill, they would take food to them, they would try to help in so many different ways, it was such a close knit community, and I think that’s my fondest memory.” Helen Strelecki was the eighth of nine children of Samuel and Sophie Strelecki. She was born and raised in Setauket on the family farm on South Jersey Avenue. Her Polish mother and Russian father emigrated from Europe. Helen attended the Setauket School on the hill, just east of the Setauket firehouse and the VFW log cabin. Helen said, “Lunch times we all ran home to get our lunch and run back to school quick so that we could, you know, play ball or something during the time.” As detailed by Helene Gerard in her book, “And We’re Still Here: 100 Years of Small Town Jewish Life,” “In the 1870s and 1880s, Long Island reflected the rest of the country as railroads threw sparks across formerly peaceful farmlands and flat landscapes were suddenly broken by the three and four-story factory buildings of small industry. These companies advertised for help in New

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The Lower Rubber Factory on Main Street in East Setauket, circa 1930. Photo from the Three Village Historical Society exhibit Chicken Hill, A Community Lost to Time.

York’s foreign language newspapers, emphasizing clean air and healthy living conditions. Recruiters also went to Ellis Island, bringing families directly to factory towns by train or steamship. Thus, more than two hundred Jewish families arrived ... creating proportionately sizable Jewish communities in the small villages.” Sometime before 1886, the Golden family, as related by Helene Gerard, moved to Setauket to work in the rubber factory. Sam’s grandfather Elias became head of the local Jewish population. In 1886, the Agudas Achem Synagogue in Setauket was dedicated and in 1890 property was purchased for the Jewish cemetery. By 1892, over 100 Jewish families lived in the area, and with many of them working in the rubber factory, it closed for the Jewish high holy days. Samuel Golden, born in Setauket in 1898, told Helene Gerard, “My father got a job in the rubber factory here in Setauket in 1886. He was a cutter. He would lay the last of a shoe and with a very sharp knife that he had, he would cut this last out, a whole pile of them at one time. These were for overshoes, rubbers. It was piecework. He courted my mother by leaving some at her spot every morning. The factory had their own scrip (money) and the men who ran the two general stores around here, they used to take this scrip for all their goods. And the company owned housing. This was a real company town.” Joseph Eikov was born in Setauket on March 14, 1903. He was the fourth of eight children born to Samuel and Dora (Pinnes) Eikov. Samuel Eikov was born in Poland on March 15, 1873. He came to America by way of Hamburg, Germany,

arriving at the port of New York on August 12, 1895. He came to Setauket to work in the L.B. Smith Company Rubber Factory. “They all migrated here. My mother from Russia ... All the Jews migrated here. They were called ‘greenhorns.’ They came here with badges on. They came here to work in the rubber factory and after the factory burned down then they started to leave. That’s when (Herman) Pinnes went from kosher. They moved away gradually until there was very few left.” (Joseph Eikov in an oral history interview on October 4, 1984) Dora Pinnes, who had immigrated to America from Kopyl, Russia, came to Setauket, “to visit her brothers Herman and Nathan, and met Samuel Eikov, whom she married.” Samuel and Dora both worked in the rubber factory until it closed. (The Sermons of Jerome Martin Pines by Wayne L. Pines). In 1894, a second factory was built in East Setauket just west of Shore Road. This eventually became known as the Liberty Rubber Company. A fire in 1895 damaged the main factory on Chicken Hill. The company closed both factories on September 12, 1898, and the majority of workers, including most of the Jewish population, left for other companies. Joseph Elberson, one of the original owners, reopened the factories in the beginning of the 20th century and continued to produce very small quantities of rubber goods until the main factory burned to the ground in 1904. With many fits and starts, the East Setauket factory produced a few rubber goods until around 1920. The company “slowly sold its property during the 1920s and 1930s.

Thus ended Setauket’s eighty-year experiment in manufacturing.” (Marc J. Stern “The Social Utility of Failure: Long Island’s Rubber industry and the Setauket Shetele, 1876-1911”). After the rubber company closed, Samuel Eikov worked as a peddler and junk dealer. He had also declared to become a citizen on June 15, 1897, and took his oath of citizenship on July 29, 1910. Joseph Eikov recalled those early years. “It worked out years ago. If you lived on one side of the main road [25A], the south side, you’d go to the village [East Setauket schoolhouse at 25A and Coach Road] ... the north side to Setauket Green … we went there … I went there only one year [1910]. I remember my teacher’s name and everything — Miss Campbell. She was married to Lon Lyons, lived on Caroline Ave. I went in the first grade.” In 1911, the school on the Setauket Village Green, the East Setauket School at Coach Road and 25A and the South Setauket School at Pond Path and Lower Sheep Pasture road were closed. They were replaced by a new central school on the hill above East Setauket, just east of the Harbor Post VFW Post 3054 on Jones Street. It was also that year that Joseph Eikov and his seven brothers and sisters were uprooted. “My mother died in 1911 when we were all young ... I worked with my uncle (Herman) Pinnes. We lived with them. After school I had to go to work delivering orders. First I started with a sled. Put the orders on and drag it around. Then I graduated to a bicycle and after the bicycle I graduated to a horse and wagon and after the horse and wagon to a Model T Ford. I did it for quite a while. “Pinnes used to go out one day a week selling meat on the truck, a regular wagon suited for it — it had a block in there ... [He] chopped up meat. Chopped a lot of flies with ‘um [in the] summertime. They’d go out in the morning, three or four in the afternoon they’d come home.” Joseph Eikov remembered the East Setauket factory operating. “I was standing out there the day that George Blydenburgh had his arm taken off. He got it caught in the mangle ... It was where you fed the rubber into it. [The machine] flattened it out, you know.” Eikov also recalled James Elberson, a store clerk who had at one time been in a more lofty position. “The best one was old-man Elberson. You ever hear the name mentioned? He was a big shot. He had charge of all the rubber factories . . . He sold everything from pins to automobile tires to anything you want. And I went in there one day and I wanted to buy a pair of rubbers. He says, yea, I got ‘em. So I bought a pair of rubbers from him for 20 cents. And I says to him, how long will they last Mr. Elberson. He said, ‘well!’, he said, ‘they ought to last until you get home if you catch a ride’ [Eikov laughed]. He was a witty ole cuss.” Joseph (Jess) Eikov enjoyed talking about Setauket, about people and about the old days. He was always enthusiastic about the students he knew over the years because of his career as a HISTORY CONTINUED ON A12

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Rubber factory on Chicken Hill after the 1904 fire. Photo from the Three Village Historical Society exhibit Chicken Hill, A Community Lost to Time.

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Continued from A11 school bus driver and contractor for 39 years. His was the first school bus service in Setauket. “Oh, sure [I enjoyed bus driving]! We had different kids than we have today. ... All I had to do if a kid was a little bad was to say I’d call his father. I knew everybody in town. All I’d do is call up the mother and father. They’d say, don’t you worry about anything, we’ll take care of him tonight — and I never had any more trouble.

They were good kids.” There are many stories that came from students who attended the school on the hill until it closed in 1951. Many of these stories are detailed in the Three Village Historical Society exhibit Chicken Hill, A Community Lost to Time. For more information, visit www.tvhs.org/chickenhill. Beverly C. Tyler is a Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-7513730. or visit www.tvhs.org.

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Setting a course Reaction to recent gun violence Working with LIRR for a better ride

A growing divide has emerged between the people of the North Shore and the Long Island Rail Road, and it is time for the local community to bridge this gap. In board rooms and public meetings throughout this area, local officials today express similar frustrations about their various dealings with this public railroad company. On Monday night, Port Jefferson Village trustee Bruce Miller described the complications that arose during a recent meeting with LIRR reps as neither party could agree on a common path forward. A day later, Brookhaven and state officials traveled to Stony Brook train station, echoing the decades-old call for the electrification of the Port Jefferson Branch line. Local elected officials are most familiar and best equipped to handle the plights of their constituents. Yet in communities throughout this area, our leaders are meeting resistance with LIRR, whose leadership changes too often. While LIRR rightly devotes much of its energies to the more heavily traveled Ronkonkoma Branch, the residents of the North Shore pay taxes and have an interest in this company, too. LIRR officials should be aware of the frequency of riders who travel inland to the main line in the center of the Island. This suggests residents here are rejecting the railways in their own backyard for a longer drive to the train station — albeit a faster and more direct commute into Manhattan. The unintended consequences of this are greater congestion on our roadways and more pollution generated by cars. This burdensome commute impairs our quality of life, costing us more energy and placing unnecessary strain on our physical and mental health. For decades, the people of this area have asked LIRR to electrify the Port Jefferson Branch. Today, as the cost of diesel fuel surges exponentially due to inflation, this transition is more necessary than ever before. Despite the preponderance of evidence that electrification will reduce air and noise pollution, that it will cut costs for the railroad and the taxpayer, and that it will deliver a better ride for the people of this community, electrification has been nothing more than a pipedream. There is no better time than right now to electrify the line. With a flood of infrastructure stimulus cash from the federal government, the opportunity is ripe for the taking. We must thank our representatives who are fighting to secure a better ride and remind them to keep applying the pressure. At some point, LIRR must soon give in and when it does, it will be for the better.

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Ten dead in a mass shooting in Buffalo, 21 dead in a school shooting in Texas. The shooting in Texas was actually the 27th school shooting this year in the U.S. It’s all too predictable. It’s the logical outcome of our worship of “Second Amendment rights.” We abhor the practice of human sacriﬁce. But how many more humans will we sacriﬁce on the altar of the great god of gun rights? There’s no such thing as an individual right to gun ownership in the Constitution. The epidemic of mayhem and death we’re now experiencing and will continue to experience is the inevitable result of the creation of such a right by the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court stacked with activist judges appointed expressly to legislate from the bench in order to achieve the political objectives of the Republican Party. A Supreme Court twisting the plain meaning of the Second Amendment. “A well-regulated militia” — is that phrase so hard to understand? Not really — for more than two centuries it was understood to mean exactly what it said. We’re living in a cloud of delusions. What do we expect if buying a semiautomatic weapon is easier than being

licensed to drive? What do we expect if there are more guns than people in our country? You don’t have to be a gambling genius to figure out the odds. How many lives is it worth to make buying a gun so easy? 10,000? 100? 1? Spare me talk of mental illness. The truth is there will always be people with psychological problems. Devoting more resources to treating psychological problems is a great idea, although our politicians seem in no hurry to actually spend the money to do this. But if we think that will eliminate or even significantly reduce gun violence, we’re living in a dream world. The Buffalo killer openly stated his intention to kill. He then disclaimed that as a “joke.” You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out that he should not have been allowed to have a gun, much less a semi-automatic weapon. Spare me the talk of “a good guy with a gun.” The fact is that the police, who were well-armed and specifically trained in how to respond to school shooters, failed miserably in the Texas shooting. The armed security guard who tried to stop the Buffalo killer was shot dead when he confronted him. The truth is that a determined and suicidal killer armed with the “best” of today’s easily obtained weapons and the “best” tactical gear can wreak havoc and death no matter

how many teachers are forced to double as armed security guards. Or maybe we should be arming 10-year-olds to defend themselves. Spare me talk of making schools “the single hardest target,” heard at the recent NRA convention. What kind of insanity is this? Are we all to go to school, shop, go to the movies as if we’re at war, liable to be attacked at any time, just because some among us can’t put up with the inconvenience of delays, background checks, and licensing and training requirements when they decide to get a gun? Above all, spare me the talk of “evil.” It’s so easy to denounce and condemn the killer after yet another all-too-predictable incident of someone with a gun run amok. The simple fact is that there will always be disturbed or angry individuals among us. But there’s no law of nature that says they need to be armed with easily obtained weapons of mass death. That’s our own decision, as citizens of the only country in the world that has this problem. We have to live, or in some cases die, with the consequences. The fault, as has been said, is not in our stars but in ourselves. David Friedman is a retired software developer who has worked for a variety of Long Island companies, including a local subsidiary of Ebay. He lives in St. James.

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Letters to the Editor Honoring 100 years of life

Thank you so much for the lovely June 2 article about the amazing “professional volunteer” Claire Baer, who will turn 100 on June 18. She has been a contributing member of Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook for half a century, serving on the Temple Board as treasurer and trustee and as a congregational representative on the original Three Village Interfaith Committee. Claire was especially excited to provide the seed money to launch the restoration of a Holocaust Torah scroll under the guidance of Sofer [scribe] Neil Yerman, which provided a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience for congregants. Her dedication and generosity to Judaism, Israel and tikkun olam [repairing the world] — and to supporting Jews and Jewish life — has beneﬁted so many people and organizations and established Claire’s unique legacy. On Friday evening, June 17, Temple Isaiah will honor Claire with a special service to celebrate her centennial. Our congregation is grateful for the privilege of

MTA and LIRR give and take away service

Gov. Kathy Hochul [D] and MTA Chair/CEO Janno Lieber’s recent announcement concerning signiﬁcant service improvements upon the initiation of the LIRR East Side Access service to Grand Central Terminal, promised to start in December 2022, was less than candid. Only MTA vice president Jolyan Handler was completely honest when he said, “Upon completion of East Side Access, a signiﬁcant number of trains will be removed from Penn Station.” The LIRR has promised to increase the number of Manhattan-bound peak morning trains from 113 to 159 and Long Island-bound peak afternoon trains from 98 to 158. What it omitted to say is that there will continue to be no room to run additional trains into or out of Penn Station during rush hours via the East River Tunnels with connections to Long Island. This has been the case for decades.

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Opinion

The dos and don’ts of 2022 weddings

e’re finally here. These poor couples have had to wait for days, months and years to tie the knot in front of family and friends. It’s such a relief that we can all gather again, celebrating the love that binds two people forever and that may, if it hasn’t already, lead to children. It seems that the list of dos and don’ts for weddings has changed, just as so many other D. None parts of modern reality of the above have altered the way we BY DANIEL DUNAIEF go about our lives. Here are a few of the dos and don’ts, starting with the don’ts. — Cough. Ever. If you have to cough, swallow it or make it sound like a strange laugh.

No one wants to hear a cough, least of all at a wedding. Go outside to cough. Cough in the car. Cough into your hand like you’re saying something private and being discrete. Go to the edge of the parking lot and cough. — Chew with your mouth open. No one wants to see the food you’re eating, especially not in the third year of COVID-19. — Point to the food and say how much better you could make it. Look, we know that you’ve lost a step on your social graces from being home so often. We know that you’ve spent a great deal of time cooking meals to your satisfaction. We know that you are a great admirer of your own food, your own voice, and your own way of doing things. Appreciate that someone else has made the food and will clean it up and that they do things differently than you do. You can have food you know you love as soon as you walk back into your fortress of solitude. — Talk about politics. You’re not going to convince anyone who doesn’t agree with you already of your views. So, why bring it up?

This isn’t the time to try to make a reasoned argument with relatives who only share genes and nothing else. Smile if they bring something up you find disagreeable. — Complain about the weather. The bride, groom and the extended family have no control over the weather. If it’s too hot, get a drink. If it’s too cold, shift back and forth from one foot to the other or bring a sweater. The weather is either perfect, dramatic, lovely or dynamic. — Talk about your own wedding. If people were there, they remember. If not, they don’t need you to compare what’s going on to what you did. Your wedding may have been lovely, but you’re not there right now. — Point to someone else’s mask and ask them why they’re wearing it. Do whatever is comfortable for you. Don’t tell anyone else what to do because, well, that doesn’t work and it gets people angry. They do their thing, you do yours. — Binge watch shows while you’re waiting for the ceremony to start. Yes, the invitation said the party would start at 7 p.m. and it’s now

7:18 p.m. So what? You’re there to celebrate other people and to witness this lovely moment. Netflix and other shows can wait. Live your life. — Show pictures of your pet. Many of us added dogs, cats and fish, particularly during the pandemic. Okay, so, here is a short list of dos: — Give other people a chance to talk. Silence, periodically, is okay. You don’t need to fill every quiet moment, if there are any, with your opinions, thoughts and experiences. — Ask someone to dance who seems eager for a partner. Grab your mother-in-law, your brother-in-law, or your something-in-law by the hand, lead him or her to the floor, smile, and appreciate the chance to dance. — Remember that you won’t have to see many of these people until the next blessed event, whenever that is. — Thank the bride, groom and their families for a lovely event. Even if you hated it, you’ve got some good stories to share and you gave your wonderful pets a short break from you.

Rectal cancer cured but too late for my father Medical scientists released fantastic news Sunday that made me think of my father and weep. In a small trial of 18 patients with rectal cancer, who took a particular drug, the cancer totally vanished. My dad died of rectal cancer in 1975. Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr of Memorial Sloan Cancer Center was an author of the paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine explaining Between the results, according to The New York you and me Times. He said he BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF knew of no other study in which a treatment completely obliterated a cancer in every patient. “I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” the NYT quotes Diaz as saying. The trial was sponsored

by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline. My dad and all these other patients faced chemotherapy, radiation and surgery with possible colostomy bags as treatment for their cancer. Unlike my dad, with the benefit of the new drug, dostarlimab, 47 years later, they all seem to be cured, although only time will tell. So far, it has been three years. And none of the patients had “clinically significant complications.” The medicine was taken every three weeks for six months and cost $11,000 per dose. “It unmasks cancer cells, allowing the immune system to identify and destroy them,” according to the NYT. I guess we are thinking of our dads this month in particular since Father’s Day is coming quickly, and we need a gift for the occasion. This incredible breakthrough seems like the ultimate present for any fathers suffering from this disease, and of course for anyone else, too. But it has come too late for my adored dad. My father, born in 1904, came to the City from the family’s Catskill dairy farm when he

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was 13. One of 9 children, “the middle child,” he would like to distinguish himself by saying he was sent off by his father to build his life since he was now considered an adult. He liked to tell us stories about his total ignorance of urban life. A favorite concerned the boarding house in which he first rented a room. It was in a brownstone a block away from where his next older brother lived in Brooklyn. He had only shortly before arrived, had dutifully sat down to write a letter home explaining his new circumstances and had gone out as instructed by his landlady to mail the letter in the mailbox on the corner. Deed done, he turned around to return, only to discover that each building looked the same. He had no idea which held his room. Ultimately someone came out to find him. He quickly found a job delivering packages to various parts of the city. But that proved a puzzle. He had a map and was able to figure out his destination for each delivery. He rode the buses so as not to lose his sense of navigation. But he could not understand why one time the

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The Sandy Hook Promise calls for reform

the value of looking out for one another in their community. The club, called Students Against Violence Everywhere, is supported by a contract with U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe & Supportive Schools and can be accessed from the government’s website: safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/resources. The initiative reinforces the key messages of the Start with Hello and Say Something programs.

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People are calling for reform after the recent onslaught of mass shootings that included an elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 young children and two teachers were gunned down in their classroom with an automatic assault rifle. “We’re seeing an absolute epidemic and the loss and slaughter of innocence and it has to stop,” said New York State Assemblyman Steven Englebright (D-Setauket). Corporate greed, he said, has mixed into a movement that has become very confused. “People are identifying with weapons.” Englebright pointed out Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) June 6 response to the latest school tragedy. According to a press release, she “signed a landmark legislative package to immediately strengthen the state’s gun laws, close critical loopholes exposed by shooters in Buffalo and Uvalde and protect New Yorkers from the scourge of gun violence.”

What exactly can a person do to reverse the gun violence epidemic that is plaguing the nation?

The nonprofit group Sandy Hook Promise has outlined a comprehensive response to that very question. Founded by some of the parents whose first graders were murdered in their Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, the group has taken a holistic approach to the situation and they say they are leading out of love. Their programs combine community awareness and mental health research with effective prevention strategies, while separately advocating for sensible, bipartisan gun safety policies. “Take your heartache, your fear, your anger and sadness, and channel them into action,” said Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden, co-founders and CEOs of Sandy Hook Promise, who each lost a son in the Newtown tragedy. “We must take action today and every day until this epidemic of violence ends.” So far, more than 14 million people and 23,000 school nationwide have participated in Sandy Hook Promise programs, according to their website, which has led to 115,000 anonymous tips and reportedly resulted in 321 confirmed lives saved with crisis interventions. Here in Suffolk County, Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. (D) launched Sandy Hook Promise’s Know the Signs initiative in 2018, his first year in office. “After the shooting in Parkland, Florida, I made school safety a priority for the Sheriff’s Office,” Toulon said. Over the last few years, county officers have trained more than 30,000 student, teachers

Gun safety policies

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and staff with Sandy Hook’s methods. Miller Place, East Islip, Central Islip, Lindenhurst and Bridgehampton are a few school districts that have participated in program. Toulon said he’s proud to have partnered with the Sandy Hook foundation and encourages more people to participate in its lifesaving movement. “Now, more than ever, programs like Sandy Hook Promise are needed as school threats are on the rise,” he said. TBR News Media reached out to few school districts in our circulation area for comments on their programs. Through their public relations firm, Smithtown Central School District preferred not participate in the story but it posts position papers on mental health and social and emotional learning on the district’s website. Three Village said is not affiliated with Sandy Hook Promise. We did not receive a response to follow-up questions about their programs before press deadlines. Sandy Hook Promise encourages anyone interested in pursuing community support for its programs to become a “promise leader” by registering on its website.

Here’s a brief overview of Sandy Hook Promise programs:

There are four distinct programs developed by educators with expertise in curriculum development. All of it is accessible in person or online via Sandy Hook Promise’s Learning Center at no cost. Their award-winning programs include lesson plans, activities, games and discussion guides. Anyone who registers on the group’s website, www.sandyhookpromise. org, can access the charity’s free digital library that includes training sessions. The Start with Hello and Say Something programs both fall under the umbrella of the organization’s Know the Signs program.

Start with Hello

Start with Hello teaches children and youth how to minimize social isolation and empathize with others to create a more

socially inclusive and connected culture. That lesson is explained in three steps: 1. See someone alone; 2. Reach out and help; 3. Start with Hello.

Say Something

Experts say that people who are at risk of hurting themselves or others often show warning signs before they carry out an act of violence. Sandy Hook Promises trains middle school and high school students to spot these signs and do something about it. This program also follows a three-step approach: 1. Recognize the signs of someone at risk, especially on social media; 2. Act immediately and take it seriously; 3. Learn how to intervene by telling a trusted adult or by using the program’s anonymous reporting system.

Say Something Anonymous Reporting System

The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System can be used when students see classmates who are at risk of harming themselves or others. It requires additional training for school district personnel and local law enforcement. It is reportedly the only anonymous reporting system in the U.S. that offers training along with a mobile app, a website and a hotline — exclusively for schools. The charity also runs its National Crisis Center that operates 24/7, 365 days a year. Experienced crisis counselors trained in suicide prevention, crisis management and mental health support respond to the tips. So far more than 120 school districts participate in this program, along with the states of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. A webform is available for schools and agencies interested in registering for access to this system.

SAVE Promise Club

Students interested in starting a club or leading a committee within an existing club receive, at no cost, tools from Sandy Hook Promise, so they can plan activities that promote kindness and inclusiveness to instill

The mission of Sandy Hook Promise is to end school shootings and create a culture change that prevents violence and other harmful acts that hurt children. It advocates what it calls sensible, bipartisan gun safety policies to support that goal. They’ve created a sister organization, called an action fund, that works to pass legislation that advances school safety, mental health and gun violence prevention issues. “We believe in protecting the second amendment,” said Aimee Thunberg, Sandy Hook Promise’s media contact. “But we support policies that promote safe gun ownership to keep our children and communities safe.” The group supports the bipartisan background check legislation that recently passed in the House of Representatives, but still needs Senate attention. The organization also supports extreme risk protection orders, or red-flag laws, that allows family and law enforcement to seek the court’s help to temporarily separate people in crisis from firearms. New York State’s red-flag law was implemented in August 2019 with roughly 160 weapons seized in Suffolk County, more than any other county in the state. The organization also advocates bans on assaultstyle weapons and limits on high-capacity magazines to prevent more mass shootings. Anyone who wants to, can get involved to help the Sandy Hook mission. In addition to programs for parents, students, teachers and other youth organizations, Sandy Hook Promise welcomes volunteers to help showcase their programs at community events to build better awareness. Otherwise, in response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Sandy Hook Promise has compiled a list of very specific things people can do to help end gun violence. It’s available at www.sandyhookpromise.org/ blog/gun-violence/what-you-can-do-right-nowto-help-end-gun-violence. “Our key message is that gun violence is preventable, and we have actions that every individual can take in their family, community, schools and with politicians,” said Nicole Hockley in a recent blog post. “Don’t back away. Be part of the solution. TBR News Media asks readers who have participated in Sandy Hook Promise programs to email us at desk@tbrnewsmedia. com and let us know about your experience.