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� ere was a strong desire for change blowing into town hall during a Huntington Town Board meeting on Jan. 12.

More than a dozen resi-dents spoke out asking the board to reconsider a limit on gas-powered leaf blowers, cit-ing the health problems the blowers can cause. But board

members are divided about taking action.

“Lots of people have asthma in Huntington and gas leaf blowers make it worse,” Don-ald Payne, a Centerport resi-dent said at the meeting. “� e particles they release stay in the air for hours.”

Payne also brought up the fact that the town could be losing money by continuing

to invest in gas-powered leaf blowers.

“When you pay someone to rake or sweep, most of that money stays on Long Island,” he said. “If you buy gasoline, most of that money leaves Long Island.”

Peter Calcandy, a Halesite resident, said he was concerned with the noise disturbance

Community members want less use of gas-powered leaf blowers

LEAF BLOWERS continued on page A5Stock photo

Show us the moneySenator supports schools’ call for

end to state aid cutsPAGE A3

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CMPAC; winter farmer’s marketPAGE B1

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By Alex Petroski

Northport-East Northport school dis-trict’s security greeters are on the verge of receiving health benefits — thanks in large part to the efforts of one of their own.

Diane Smith is in her seventh year as a greeter at Fifth Avenue Elementary School, and said she has never received health benefits, despite numerous pleas.

“Before this position was created, any-one could go to the office and often stroll right down to classrooms, creating a lot of interruptions,” Smith said in an inter-view after the meeting Thursday night. “We finally have some boundaries.”

The greeters’ duties include monitor-ing who is coming and going from school buildings, assisting in late arrivals and early releases and helping parents get for-gotten items to the students, among other day-to-day tasks that may arise.

According to the district supervisor of security, the position of greeters was cre-ated about 10 years ago.

Over that time, the responsibilities of

the job have changed, with greater em-phasis placed on security in the aftermath of violent school-related incidents like the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

“We [greeters] know the parents, grand-parents and babysitters, as well as most of the personnel that visit our buildings,” Smith said in an email on Friday.

Smith said she has been working a second job to afford health care, while continuously searching for another job that would give her benefits, though she is hesitant to leave the Northport school district because she loves the job.

Security guards in the district do re-ceive health benefits, despite the fact that the district’s nine full-time greeters do not.

Smith said she has been expressing her desire for health care [for the nine full-time greeters] via letters and in person for years to the school board and to district officials. She showed up on Thursday to take her campaign to the next level.

So far her efforts have been fruitless, but that could soon change.

“[The greeters are] going to get an opportunity for health insurance,” Su-perintendent Robert Banzer said during the meeting. “It just happened to be so ironic that she showed up today, because we just talked about it and kind of said, ‘Yes let’s go ahead and make it right and make sure they have an opportunity for health insurance.’”

Banzer attributed the delay in providing health insurance to the greeters to a switch from part-time to full-time designation.

Smith was skeptical when she left the

meeting Thursday. She said it was more of the same rhetoric she’s been hearing since she began her battle.

However, as of Friday, she is approach-ing the situation with more optimism after receiving an email from Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Irene McLaughlin that established Jan. 19 as a meeting date for the greeters and members of the district to sit down and discuss health care options.

“I am very guardedly optimistic,” Smith said.

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been reduced by roughly 85 percent.State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jeffer-

son) co-sponsored the legislation along-side Flanagan. In a statement, he said the move was long overdue.

“The elimination of the GEA has been a top priority of mine since it was im-posed,” LaValle said. “It has hurt our stu-dents and increased costs for taxpayers.

The legislation has already gained support on the other side of the state Legislature, with Assemblyman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-St. James) saying he was in favor of the GEA elimination and calling

on the governor to return all the funds taken from schools since it was imposed.

“It’s simple: The state has an obliga-tion to fully fund our school districts. Some members of the legislature made the shortsighted decision to allow the governor to borrow against the future of our children to close a budget gap creat-ed by rampant, uncontrolled spending,” Fitzpatrick said. “It was wrong then and must be resolved once and for all.”

Victoria Espinoza and Alex Petroski contributed reporting.

By Phil Corso

For New York schools, cutting the Gap Elimination Adjustment could be an addition by subtraction.

The adjustment, a deduction taken out of each New York school district’s state aid, was enacted several years ago to help the state government close a bud-get deficit. While the amount deducted has decreased in recent years and there have been efforts to completely restore the funding, state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) has recently spon-sored legislation that would completely eliminate the system this year, giving more financial help to public schools struggling to make ends meet.

The bill passed in the Sen-ate and must make its way through the Assembly before heading to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D). And as schools across the state wait for the final vote, administrators applauded Fla-nagan’s efforts in helping them restore their funding.

“The Senate is on the right track in terms of the complete eradication of the GEA in 2016-17,” Jim Polansky, superin-tendent for the Huntington School Dis-trict, said in an email.

According to Polansky, Huntington’s five-year loss at the hands of the GEA is more than $9.5 million dollars.

Robert Banzer, superintendent in the Northport-East Northport school dis-trict, agreed that the Senate has made the right choice.

“The Senate’s action to move forward

with the abolishment of the Gap Elimina-tion Adjustment is a step toward restoring funding to support critical instructional programming and operational budgets that districts rely on to provide a sound environment for our educational com-munity,” he said in an email. “Marginal tax caps, decreases in revenues and in-creases in state mandates leave districts with little room to navigate yearly bud-gets, and the elimination of the GEA would help alleviate the impact of some of these restraints.”

Flanagan said that eliminating the school funding cuts was the Senate’s top priority in education this session. There

are currently about $434 mil-lion in GEA cuts still in place for schools in 2016-17 but if the bill becomes law, Flanagan said, his legislation would perma-nently abolish such education budget reductions.

“The Senate’s top education funding priority this year will

be the complete elimination of the GEA,” Flanagan said. “Since 2011, the Senate Re-publicans have worked to restore $3 bil-lion in funding that was lost to schools because of the GEA and we will not pass any budget that does not fully eliminate it this year.

Former Gov. David Paterson (D) im-posed the GEA in 2010 despite wide-spread opposition from Republicans. Since it was approved, Flanagan said he and his Republican colleagues have been leading the charge to abolish the GEA and deliver funding increases to help mit-igate its impacts on education. Over the past five years, he said, the GEA cuts have

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these blowers continue to have on the community.

“The daily noise from gas-powered leaf blowers that occur nine months out of the year seven days a week and up to 12 hours a day has eroded this wonderful lifestyle,” he said at the meeting.

Bonnie Sager, a Huntington resident, said that residents are not asking for a ban, but merely a restriction during June, July and August.

“There are no leaves in the summer and all gas leaf blowers do is create more emissions and unreasonable levels of noise,” she said at the meeting.

Sager said the town should make the switch to lithium battery blowers, which do not use gasoline, have batteries that can last several years, are recyclable and are much quieter.

She is part of Citizens Appeal for Leafblower Moderation, an organiza-tion that wants Heckscher State Park to be used as a model for a green zone, which is an area maintained with zero emission lawn-care equipment. CALM’s goal is to limit the use of commercial

gas leaf blowers during the summertime and educate the public about the health hazards gas blowers have.

More than 700 residents have signed a petition asking the town’s board to limit the use of these blowers during the sum-mer months, but this is not the first time this issue has come to the board.

In May 2014, Councilwoman Susan Berland (D) drafted legislation to limit the use of leaf blowers. However, there was not enough support from the board

to pass the bill.Supervisor Frank

Petrone (D) said at the meeting last Tuesday that this idea was left open-ended in 2014 because he felt the board needed more in-formation and added that the issue needed

to be tackled gradually.“One of the issues at the time was the

fact that it must be, one, phased in or, two, there has to be an educational pro-motional program that will bring people to an understanding and, number three, there has to be an explanation of the various forms of technology,” he said. “Until then, it’s a project that’s very diffi-cult to examine and implement without doing a full-fledged program.”

He said the town had success when they used an educational program for

limiting grass clippings a few years back. The program included teaching residents about mowing fewer times a week and using a specific type of blade to reduce the impact of clippings. Petrone said it was highly successful.

“This is the direction we have to go with,” Petrone said. “We said we would be willing to examine a program and that of-fer still sits there from my point of view.”

He also said the program would have to focus on educating landscapers and

giving them proper direction.Berland said at the meeting that she

is still “absolutely in favor of this,” and that her challenge is convincing the rest of the board to agree.

In a phone interview, she said she would be open to starting with just banning the blowers on Saturdays and Sundays and then working their way up to the entire summer.

Berland said she thinks enforcing this would not be too difficult, because if any resident sees a gas-powered leaf blower in use when it shouldn’t be, they need only take down the name of the land-scaping truck or residence and report it to code enforcement.

Some of her fellow councilmembers disagree.

“I think it would be very difficult to enforce,” Councilman Mark Cuthbert-son (D) said in a phone interview. “It could be a significant hardship on busi-ness. We would need to see if it’s even feasible for our workforce.”

Councilman Gene Cook (I) said he thinks banning the leaf blowers for the summer months would be too much of an abrupt change, but he is open to learning more about the alternatives and seeing if there is a possible way to enforce change.

“I think we would need a slower method to get people used to the idea,” he said in a phone interview.

File photo Councilwoman Susan Berland first tried to limit leaf blowers two years ago.

LEAF bLowErsContinued from page A1

By Elana Glowatz

A trial began Tuesday for a man ac-cused of shooting an officer after fleeing a police stop last winter in Huntington Station.

Officer Mark Collins was seriously in-jured when he was shot in the neck and the hip on the night of March 11 during an alleged struggle with the suspect, 23-year-old Huntington Station resident Sheldon Leftenant, who has pleaded not guilty to attempted aggravated murder of a police officer, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest.

Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota said earlier this year that Leftenant faces up to life in prison if he is convicted.

Collins was in plainclothes while working for the 2nd Precinct’s gang unit on the night of the shooting, and helped pull over a car in which Leften-ant was a passenger, Spota said. When asked to get out of the car, the suspect fled and Collins gave chase until he cor-nered Leftenant, an alleged member of the Tip Top Boyz street gang, on Mercer Court.

“He had his police-issued Taser in hand,” Spota said. “He never drew his weapon.”

The DA said at the time that Collins, who was unaware the suspect had a gun, used his Taser on Leftenant twice, hitting him in his back.

“While it brought the defendant to the ground, unfortunately it did not completely immobilize him,” Spota said.

When Collins went to handcuff Leften-ant in that Mercer Court driveway, there was a struggle, he said. A gun fired four times in quick succession and Collins was shot in the hip and in the neck, close to his carotid artery.

“Collins knew right away he had been shot because he couldn’t feel anything on his right side and he couldn’t move at all

his right arm or his right leg,” Spota said.To protect himself, the injured officer

dragged himself over to a stoop and took cover under his bulletproof vest, facing it toward the suspect.

Spota said Leftenant fled after the shooting and dropped the weapon in the backyard of a neighboring property before hiding about a quarter of a mile

from the scene.Canine unit officers arrived and

found both the gun allegedly used to shoot Collins as well as Leftenant.

At the time of Leftenant’s arraignment, defense attorney Ian Fitzgerald said his client was sorry to be in this situation, but wouldn’t comment any further.

A handful of the suspect’s family mem-bers were in the audience at that court ap-pearance. They would not comment on Leftenant’s case either, but they left the courtroom chanting, “Free Shel.”

This case was not the first time Leften-ant’s name had been involved in a shoot-ing. About seven months earlier, he was shot in the groin while standing with a group of people in front of his Tippin Drive home, when two vehicles drove by and someone fired a gun.

At that time, police said Leftenant was originally treated for nonlife-threaten-ing injuries at Huntington Hospital and later underwent surgery at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.

Although Collins was seriously wounded in the shooting last March, he has since recovered and returned to work, the DA’s office said recently, calling the officer “a decorated 13-year veteran.”

The two other shots from the .38-cali-ber revolver were found inside the home on whose property the struggle took place, the DA said, but no one inside at the time was injured.

Opening statements in Leftenant’s trial began on Tuesday in Riverhead.

Trial begins for police shooting suspect

File photo from Barbara Donlon Sheldon leftenant, the man who allegedly shot police officer Mark Collins, is escorted on his way to arraignment in March.

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Into the WoodsA 55-year-old man from Manorville

was arrested on Jan. 16 at midnight after police said he entered a home on Woods End Road in Dix Hills without permis-sion. He was charged with third degree criminal trespassing in an enclosed property.

Two puppies to goPolice arrested a 17-year-old woman

from Syosset on Jan. 14 at 11 a.m. after they said she stole two puppies from Selmer’s Pet Land on Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station. She was charged with third degree grand larceny.

High timesAn 18-year-old man from Huntington

was arrested on Jan. 15 at 8:25 p.m. on the corner of Lawn Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Greenlawn after police said he had Xanax in his possession with-out a prescription. He was charged with seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Pricked by the lawOn Jan. 16, a 27-year-old man from

Deer Park was arrested on Old Brook Road in Dix Hills after police said he had heroin and a hypodermic needle on

him. He was charged with seventh de-gree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Coat crookMultiple coats were stolen from

Bloomingdales on Walt Whitman Road in Huntington on Jan. 15 at 10:20 a.m., according to police.

Losing the valuePolice said an unknown person left

her cell phone on the counter at Value Drugs in Huntington on Jan. 16 at 3:15 p.m. and when she went back to retrieve it, the cell phone was gone.

Bad deal for DVDsOn Jan. 16, a 22-year-old man from

Rosedale was arrested after police said he assaulted a woman while entering her property on Lenox Road in Hun-tington Station. Once he was arrested, police found marijuana in his possession as well as 22 counterfeit DVDs. He was arrested at 4:45 p.m. and charged with third degree trademark counterfeiting, third degree assault with intent to cause physical injury and unlawful possession of marijuana.

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POLICE BLOTTERIncidents and arrests from Jan. 14- Jan. 16

by elana Glowatz

A man and a woman approached two different tellers at the same time dur-ing a bank robbery on Tuesday, Jan. 19, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.

At the Roslyn Savings Bank on Jeri-cho Turnpike in Huntington Station, the pair entered at 1:40 p.m. and each ap-proached a different employee, handing them notes demanding cash, police said. Those tellers complied and the suspects fled on foot with their loot, going north on Longfellow Drive.

Police described both suspects as black, the man between 20 and 25 years old and the woman 30 to 35 years old. The man was 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10 inch-es tall, with a medium build, and was wearing a ski hat, a scarf, a gray hoodie and white pants. The woman, who was heavyset, was between 5 feet and 5 feet 3 inches tall, and was wearing a ski hat, a gray hoodie and earmuffs covering the bottom half of her face.

Pattern Crime Unit detectives are investigating the robbery. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stop-pers anonymously at 1-800-220-TIPS.

A couple of thieves

by elana Glowatz

An Elwood bank was robbed on Jan. 17 by a man in a black mask.

The Suffolk County Police De-partment said the robber entered the Chase Bank in Huntington Square Mall shortly after 2:30 p.m. and ver-bally announced a robbery. He alleg-edly went behind the teller counter and took cash from the drawer before fleeing on foot.

Police said the direction he went in

was unknown.The mall is located at Route 25 and

Larkfield Road, near Elwood’s border with Commack.

Police described the robber as a 30- to 40-year-old man with a medium build who was about 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall. In addition to the black mask, he was also wearing a gray hooded jacket and jeans at the time of the crime.

Detectives from the SCPD’s Pattern Crime Unit are investigating the robbery.

Chase in Elwood robbed


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Photo from Harborfields school districtHarborfields alumni, back row, left to right, Sal Caravella, Andrew Taylor and Greg Kal-mar; front row, left to right, Samantha Gray, Ken Schiliro and Samantha Reitz.

Members of the Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Club and the Art Club at Oldfield Middle School, with advisor Drew Lockwood, hosted a STEAM and Art Exposition for students and their families.

Attendees rotated through 10 stations. Students and family members worked collaboratively to solve different chal-

lenges that tested their critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Some of the activities included con-structing a roller coaster, from cut pole foam sleeves, to successfully roll a ball; building the Leonardo da Vinci bridge using only pieces of wood; building a spa-ghetti tower and block tower; and creating newspaper sculptures.

Photo from Harborfields school district Sixth-grade student Ava Kaupp and her brother Max created a newspaper sculpture using rolled-up newspaper and tape.

Harborfields students see the silver lining

STEAM creativity rising in Harborfields

During the annual Silver Linings presentation put on by the Harborfields Special Education PTA, several gradu-ates of the program returned to their alma mater and shared their reflections on life after graduation with the current students of the department.

The panelists, who represented a range of graduating classes from 1994 to 2015, described the challenges their disabilities posed for them as students of the district. They discussed their experi-ences at Harborfields and how they were able to overcome their obstacles to suc-cessfully pursue various postgraduate degrees as well as careers in education, business and law.

Photo from the Northport-East Northport school district Margaret Minardi poses in front of her acrylic and mixed media painting, ’Craig.’

Northport teacher’s work featured in art publication

Congratulations to Northport High School’s Margaret Minardi. The Northport art teacher and tal-ented visual artist was highlighted in the January edition of Southwest Art Magazine. Her work was included in

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REED & BARTONSilver Plated Tea Service. Larg- est server has 2576, 7, Design PAT’D April 18, 1871 on bottom. Seven pieces in excellent shape. $750 (EBay price $975). Photos available. Port Jefferson area. 631-871-1640.

WantedTo Buy

WE BUY MID CENTURY FURNITURE. 1950’s thru 1970’s Danish, Italian, French, American modern. Herman Miller, Knoll, France and Sons, Fritz Hansen. Eames, Wegner, Nakashima, Gio Ponti, Finn Juhl. 718.383.6465 [email protected]

CASH FOR COINS! Buying Gold & Silver. Also Stamps, Paper Money and Comics. Entire Collections/Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY 1-800-959-3419WANTED!Guns - Stamps - CoinsLicensed dealer will buy modern and antique rifles, pistols, swords. Also buying stamps, coins, beer steins, military souve- nirs, trains and antiques. B&C SPORTING 631-751-5662

Pets/Pet Services

ADOPT A CAT or kitten at Golden Paw Society!! Tons of friendly lap cats of all ages, sizes and colors. Adoption centers throughout Huntington & Commack. www.goldenpawsociety.org [email protected]

Pets/Pet Services

TENDER LOVING PET CARE, LLC.

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Schools/Instruction/

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PIANO - GUITAR - BASSAll levels and styles.

Many local references. Recommended by area schools.

Tony Mann 631-473-3443

Brand New! Ladies Nike sport sneakers, size 7.5 white with gray/pink. Picture available. $50.631-284-3380.DIAMOND POINTTool box for small pick up, 60 inches wide” $30. 631-689-7895DOG CRATE (Best Pet) Black. 4 foot, 2 door. Used once. $40. 631-751-4563

PICTURE MATEEpson personal photo lab. Like new. For all camera brands. $15. 631-473-3282

SCANNER Cano Scan 5000. Never used. $45. 15 sheets mat board 32” by 40”, various colors. Free to the taker. Port Jefferson area. 631-871-1640

SONY WALKMAN with charger and battery. $45. Call 631-744-3722. Leave message

VINTAGE WOODEN ROCK- ING CHAIR, blue. Marimekko cushions. $45. 631-357-3065

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ARE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN SALES AND

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advertising for successful media group. Our position offers satisfying roots in the community in

a job that pays well. All inquiries and resumes confidential. Email: kjm@

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“CAN YOU DIG IT?”Heavy Equipment Operator Career! We offer training and certifications running Bulldozers, Backhoes and Excavators. Life- time Job Placement. VA Bene- fits Eligible. 866-362-6497 MEDICAL ASSISTANT WITH RECEPTION DUTIES. FT position. Three years of sur- gical experience a must. Email resume to: [email protected]

Help WantedCHIROPRACTIC &

ACUPUNCTURE OFFICEE. Setauket Office Assistant. PT

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Call Dr. Karl George 1pm-3pm 631-751-0900.

Fax Resume: 631-751-0901 or email

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EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN’S

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FT/PT VETERINARY ASSISTANT. Experience preferred, but will train. Fax resume to: 631-757-3973 or come in to fill out an application. Fort Salonga Animal Hospital, 10-1B Fort Salonga Rd. Fort Salonga, NY 11768 631-261-0610

LITTLE FLOWER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NY SEEKS:

DIRECT CARE WORKERS P/T and Per Diem.HOUSE MANAGER - F/TCOTTAGE SUPERVISOR F/T for our Youth Residential Program CHILD CARE WORKER F/T, P/T and Per Diem.RN’s Per diem for our Infirmary HCI for Bridges to HealthProgram.QUALITY ASSURANCESPECIALIST MEDICAID SERVICE COORDINATOR CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICERthat supports the Executive Director Valid NYS Driver’s License required for most positions.† Send resume to: [email protected] or fax to 631-929-6203 EOEPLEASE SEE COMPLETE LISTING AND ALL DE- TAILS IN EMPLOYMENT DISPLAY ADS.

LUBE OIL MECHANICF/T. Basic mechanical experience needed. Weekends a must. Salary plus commission based upon experience. Apply in person. Miller Place Star Wash, 450 Route 25A, Miller Place, 631-473-8122

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PART TIME COOK Fridays 3PM-7PM

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Must have strong cooking skills, prepare meals and desserts according to recipes. Must be a team player, friendly and confident in cooking for 15-20 residents at Daughters of Wisdom Convent in Sound Beach. Email resume to [email protected] or fax to 631-744-2515.

RECEPTIONIST, F/Tfor Physical Therapy Office. Must be motivated, willing to learn and have excellent interper- sonal skills. Medical background preferred. Start immediately. email: [email protected]

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Busy Islandia doctor’s office. Afternoon/evening/Saturday hrs. Excellent phone/computer skills. Knowledge of MS Office and must be able to multi-task. Fax resume 631-656-0634 or call 631-656-0472.

RN PLASTIC SURGERYPractice. Monday, Tuesday & Thursday. 25-30 hours per week, 2 evenings. Please call Dawn at 631-473-7070

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Leadership OpportunitiesChief Program O� cer that supports the Executive Director by ensuring quality programs and services.

Quality Assurance Specialist – for Bridges to Health Program – Master’s required

Medicaid Service Coordinator – New Life Program-BA and exp req.

HCI – for Bridges to Health Program – Masters level

Direct Care Workers for our Wading River Location – P/T and Per Diem to work with our OPWDD Adult population in a residential setting. High School Diploma and NYS Driver’s License

Cottage Supervisor –F/T for our Youth Residential Program in Wading River. BA and Supervisory Exp.

Child Care Worker -F/T, P/T and Per Diem; High School Diploma and NYS Driver’s License

RN’S –Per diem for our In� rmary working with our youth 9–21 years.

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DecksDECKS ONLY

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ElectriciansSOUNDVIEW ELECTRICAL

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Residential/CommercialFree Estimates

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Furniture/RestorationRepairs

REFINISHING & RESTORATION

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Dunwell Furniture Repair & Upholstering Workshop.

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HandymanServices

JOHN’S A-1 HANDYMAN SERVICE Crown moldings, Wainscoting,raised panels. Kitchen/Bathroom Specialist. Painting windows, finished basements, ceramic tile. All types repairs. Dependable craftsmanship. Reasonable/rates. Lic/Ins.#19136-H. 631-744-0976 cell 631 697-3518

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HomeImprovementNPC CARPENTRY, INC.

Kitchen/Bathroom AlterationsAdditions/ExtensionsFine Interior Millwork

Nick [email protected]

516-658-8523Lic#39386 /Ins. BBB

PRS CARPENTRYNo job too small. Hanging a door, building a house, every- thing in-between. Formica kitchens/baths, roofing/siding/decks. POWER WASHING. Serving North Shore 40 years. Lic/Ins. 631-744-9741

THREE VILLAGE HOME IMPROVEMENTServing the community for over 30 years. See ad in Home Service Directory. Rich Beresford, 631-689-3169

Home Repairs/Construction

AMAZING BATHROOM REMODELING 30 year’s experience. Expert Workmanship. Free estimates. No subcontracting. Partial repairs or full upgrades. Lic.# 52720-H/Ins. 631-579-2740

InsuranceLIABILITY INSURANCE for contractors and professionals. Best rates available. Call NCA Insurance at 631-737-0700 ask for Martin

Lawn &LandscapingCLOVIS AXIOM, INC.

Expert Tree Removal,Pruning, Planting & Transplanting.

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Lawn &Landscaping

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SNOW REMOVALCommercial/Residential

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Brickwork/Repairs &Land Clearing/Drainage,

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Serving Three Villages

SWAN COVE LANDSCAPING

Lawn Maintenance, Clean-ups, Shrub/Tree Pruning, Removals. Landscape Design/Installation, Ponds/Waterfalls, Stone Walls.

Firewood. Free estimates. Lic/Ins.

631-689-8089

MasonryCarl Bongiorno

Landscape/Mason ContractorAll phases masonry work: stone

walls, patios, poolscapes. All phases of Landscaping Design.

Theme Gardens. Residential & Commercial.

Lic/Ins. 631-928-2110

Painting/Spackling/Wallpaper

ALL PRO PAINTINGInterior/exterior. Free estimates. Powerwashing, staining, wallpaper removal. Lic/Ins#19604HI. NICK 631-696-8150

BOB’S PAINTING SERVICE25 Years Experience

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*Powerwashing. Free estimatesLic/Ins. #17981 631-744-8859COUNTY-WIDE PAINTING

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Quality workmanship. Living/Serving 3 Village Area Over 25 Years. Lic#37153-H.

631-751-8280LaROTONDA PAINTING & DESIGNInterior/exterior, sheetrock repairs, taping/spackling, wallpaper removal, Faux, decorative finishings. Free estimates. Lic.#53278-H/Ins. Ross LaRotonda 631-689-5998

WORTH PAINTING“PAINTING WITH PRIDE” Interiors/exteriors. Faux finishes, power-washing, wallpaper removal, sheetrock tape/spackling, carpentry/trimwork. Lead paint certified. References. Free estimates. Lic./Ins. SINCE 1989Ryan Southworth, 631-331-5556

Plumbing/Heating

DOUGLAS FERRIPLUMBING & HEATINGLic/Ins. All types of work, small repairs receive special attention. Free estimates, reasonable rates.631-265-8517

Snow RemovalCommercial/ResidentialSNOW PLOW & DE-ICE Woman owned business. 36 Years in 3V. Serving Hunting- ton to Rocky Point. CS Maeder Commercial/Resi- dential 631-751-6976 Text 631-988-9211 for fast reply Lic. 56231H /Ins.

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Located Exit 62 LIE 631-928-4544

ARBOR-VISTA TREE CAREComplete Tree care service de- voted to the care of trees. Main- tenance pruning, waterview work, sun-trimming, elevating, pool areas, storm thinning, large tree removal, stump grinding. Wood chips. Lic#18902HI. Free estimates. 631-246-5377

EASTWOOD TREE & LANDSCAPE, INC.

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NORTHEASTTREE EXPERTS, INC.Expert pruning, careful removals, stump grinding, tree/shrub fertilization. Disease/insect management. Certified arborists. Insured/Lic#24,512-HI. All work guaranteed. 631-751-7800www.northeasttree.com

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EDITORIALPublic education should come first

The New York State Senate voted last week to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment, and we hope the Assembly follows suit.

The adjustment is a deduction taken out of each school district’s state aid and was intro-duced in 2011 to help state officials close a multibillion dollar budget deficit. Five years later, although the adjustment has seen reductions in recent budget cycles, Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) says the state is still withholding $434 million from districts.

There have been unsuccessful efforts to elimi-nate the Gap Elimination Adjustment in the past but with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-East Northport), the former chairman of the Senate’s education committee, sponsoring the bill to end it this time around, we are optimistic.

The adjustment was an unfair move that has hit students and educators everywhere hard — the billions of dollars taken from our schools over the last five years could have gone toward enhancing or adding academic courses, buying updated textbooks or making improvements to buildings and athletic fields. The money could have helped educators better implement the new Common Core curriculum and the mandates that went along with it.

Helping to fund education is one of the most important services the state government pro-vides. Aside from the crucial task of shaping the future contributors to our society, the state’s school aid helps even the playing field by equip-ping poorer districts with the means to provide a level of education comparable to what wealthier districts can give their students, even without aid. To yank some of that money out from un-derneath them is wrong.

Not doubt securing a financial plan is impor-tant to the well-being of a state, but education should not suffer in the search for a balanced budget.

We call upon the Assembly to pass Senate bill S6377 and upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to support that effort, for the betterment of our children.

File photoThe Senate voted to stop cutting short the amount of state aid school districts have been getting for the past five years.

Students come in all shapes and sizesTO THE EDITOR:

As an assistant professor and mentor at SUNY Empire State College, I was very interested to read your recent article entitled, “Tips for adult students returning to school” (Jan. 14) and applaud your encouragement for this im-portant and often neglected group of students.

At Empire, it has been our mis-sion to work with this population since 1971, and we are committed to enabling motivated adults to begin, or continue pursuing their

educational goals. Our students are able to earn an associate, bachelor or graduate degree in a uniquely supportive and flexible atmosphere at our locations in Old Westbury, Hauppauge and Riverhead.

In addition, we offer the ability for our students to translate their life and work experience into col-lege credit through our system of prior learning assessment.

Students work one-on-one with a dedicated, experienced aca-demic adviser, and meet with their course instructors individually, at their convenience. Empire is transfer friendly, and offers afford-able tuition and a well-respected SUNY degree.

Whether they work full time or part time, taking care of their fam-ily or working in the workplace, we have a program that fits their needs, and offers personalized, convenient and affordable study options at the Long Island Center.

As a respected leader in adult learning, SUNY Empire State College helps adults achieve their educational goals through in-dependent learning, rather than the sometimes restrictive college classroom setting.

I am a longtime resident of Mount Sinai, and have taught at Empire for the past 10 years.

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A young team savors winning moments

The team moves as a unit, wearing the same clothes, often with the same hair-

styles and even, on occasion, with the same walk or swagger.

They laugh together, lean on each other, share embraces and confess their inadequacies.

“I was terrible,” one of them said, while she took a restor-ative homemade brownie from a friend.

“You’ll get ’em next game,” her friend suggested. “We’re back on in 15 minutes.”

We took our daughter to a regional volleyball competition in Pennsylvania recently, where teenagers from all over the area trekked in packed cars to bump, set and spike together.

The weekend presented an opportunity for our children to play a sport they love, while it was also a chance for parents to squirm, squeal and celebrate alongside them.

The younger generation exuded joy and confidence. After every point in teenage volleyball, the girls cheer, offer a quick huddle and then return to their positions on the floor.

Our team developed its own ritual after long points in which it emerged victorious. The players all jumped straight up in the air, then met in the middle of the floor to celebrate the hard-won point.

When they’re not on a volley-ball court, these children mostly move around individually, even if

they can stay in touch with friends and family on their phones and through social media. They don’t take tests together, they don’t study together — most of the time — and they don’t have a common goal. Sure, they might all wish each other the best but, ultimately, they learn on their own and suc-ceed individually.

Modern team sports which, admittedly, take an extreme commitment of time and money, have also created opportuni-ties to make memories, to grow together and, for the moment at least, to share a goal that is bigger than any one person.

That, of course, isn’t limited to sports. That can be true of a mu-sic group where everyone creates the kind of live performance that reverberates in audiences’ minds long after the instruments are put back in their cases and the musi-cians return to their homes and their homework.

The unbridled and shared joy in the moment is akin to witnessing the flames of a

dancing campfire high in the mountains on a starlit night. During these matches there are no tests, no boyfriends, no wor-ries about college, no concerns about acne, no wardrobe mis-fires and no helicopter parents. There is only the euphoria of the moment, the ecstasy that comes from pulling together and going toe-to-toe with another team and, at least in that second and for that point, emerging victorious. It’s not even about winning the gold medal or even a match.

My daughter’s team defeated one of its opponents easily, winning two games by a wide margin. The other team, how-ever, won several exciting points and, despite the lopsided score and the unbalanced skill sets, celebrated every point with the same energy as if it had achieved something remarkable. And who’s to say it didn’t? The games presented ample opportunities for victories that were indepen-dent of the final scores.

Parents were as emotionally spent after exciting matches as their children, as they cheered, clapped, pranced nervously along the sidelines, and hooped and hollered. They basked in their children’s successes and encouraged them to find a way to triumph, where the margin of victory often seemed to reflect perseverance and determination as much as it did genuine skills.

In our lives, we have become so focused on our goals for to-morrow and plans for our future journey that we don’t always get to stand up and celebrate the moment. All weekend, moth-ers, fathers, sisters, brothers and a community of new friends celebrated a common goal of finding and sharing the best in each other.

The games presented ample opportunities for

victories.

Breaking the sound of silence

This story may be of help to others in a similar situation. That is why my

lifetime friend gave me permis-sion to share what was a family secret. He is one of four siblings — three brothers and a sister — and three of them had long ago stopped talking with the

fourth. Why this happened isn’t important to the account. There are certainly plenty of disagree-ments and aggravations within families. But the one brother felt so pained that he refused to speak to the others and they all fell into a thick silence.

It’s like a game of dominos, this kind of walling off. As the adults refused to talk to one another, their children, in-laws, different aunts, uncles and cousins all drifted apart, pulled by what they felt was a sense of loyalty to whichever of the an-gry ones was the closest relative. And it was easy to separate. The four lived in different parts of the country: the estranged one in Oregon, one in California, one in Texas and my friend and his wonderful wife here in Long Island. I call her “wonderful” because she is the heroine of the story, the one who finally broke

the logjam. Out of the blue, one day

some months ago, she asked her husband, “If James died, would you go to his funeral?”

Her husband looked up in astonishment and replied, “Of course! He is my brother.”

“Well, he hasn’t died, so what do you say we go visit him?”

Her husband hesitated. “I don’t know. I’d have to think about that. What if he didn’t want to see us?”

“I’ll email him right now and tell him we are coming. Let’s see what he says.” With that she quickly left the room to find her cellphone and to cut short any objection. She sent the message and they waited. And waited. Several days passed. They made up reasons why he hadn’t answered — out of town, email down, hadn’t checked his computer. Other reasons weren’t

pretty to contemplate.Then they got a flurry of

messages, each with something planned for their visit. He had made reservations here, gotten tickets there, suggested a drive together to a nearby destina-tion. They read the emails joyfully. Clearly he wanted them to come. After registering the explicit and also the underly-ing messages, they went to the phone and called the other two siblings, asking if they would join the visit. Immediately the others agreed to go.

During a week last summer they all met for the first time in over a decade and immediately fell to again being brothers and sister. They didn’t bother to speak about what had originally angered them. It didn’t matter. What was important was to be in the moment, enjoying each other, catching up on so much news.

When the week was over, they made sure to plan for their next get-together. The rock that had weighed them down was lifted. They had found each other again, reconnected the family and were moving into the future, stronger for being together.

It just took one brave outreach, a willingness to be rejected for a greater good, to bring them all home again, at least in their hearts. I love my friend for being that brave one, the first to say, “That’s enough, there isn’t that much time left, the time has come to take down the wall.”

Blessed is the peacemaker. And so she is.

It just took one brave outreach.

D. None of the aboveby DaNiel DuNaief

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By Bill landon

Harborfields’ boys’ basketball team re-mains undefeated as the Tornadoes took down Comsewogue in a blowout victory, 69-35, in League V basketball action Tues-day night. The Warriors struggled to keep pace, and despite a third quarter rally, Har-borfields was too much to handle.

“We caught them a little flat when we came out, but Comsewogue opened the sec-ond half and played like we’re used to see-ing,” Harborfields head coach John Tamp-ori said. “My guys, they come to play every day and tonight we shot the ball really well.”

Harborfields led by 10 after three min-utes of play, with the Tornadoes finding its three-point rhythm. Harborfields senior guard Robert Pecorelli led the way with four three-pointers, followed by senior guard Malcolm Wynter, who drained three, all in the first quarter, to help the Tornadoes gain momentum and break out to a 34-9 advan-tage after eight minutes of play.

“We didn’t expect to win by this much,” Wynter said. “We’re in a tough league, but when we play our best we can score and we can stop a lot of teams.”

The Tornadoes’ defensive pressure was relentless from the opening tipoff, and the

Warriors struggled to clear the ball. Har-borfields junior forward Alex Merhige owned the boards as he led his team with 14 rebounds, highlighted by a two-hand jam on a putback.

From there, the Warriors dug their hole deeper, managing just five more points to the Tornadoes’ 15, for a 49-14 halftime score.

The Warriors opened the second half unlike the first, as their defense came to life, grabbing rebounds while mixing in sev-eral fast breaks. Comsewogue senior for-ward Dylan Cervini led the way, nailing a pair of three-pointers and a free throw for seven points, as teammate David Heller, a sophomore forward and center, banked four. Comsewogue outscored its opponent 16-7 in the third, to begin the final quarter down 56-30.

“We had to keep our intensity up in the second half,” Wynter said. “We obviously slacked off there in the third quarter, but we stayed together, we pushed hard.”

Merhige said his team had to adjust to Comsewogue’s defensive pressure in the third quarter, which proved to be difficult at first.

“They opened the second half guarding us down low, and they boxed out really well and they started grabbing rebounds,” he said. “They came out in the second half and started knocking down threes.”

Comsewogue’s rally would be short lived, as the Tornadoes turned up the heat, denying the Warriors a field goal the rest of the way. Comsewogue earned its final five points at the free-throw line.

“We needed better communication on defense and we cleaned that up in the third quarter,” Comsewogue senior guard Travis Williams said. “But we always know what we’re getting from Harborfields. They’re very well coached, so respect to them.”

Joey Carillo, a Comsewogue junior guard, agreed with Williams that Harbor-fields is a tough competitor and more than his team could handle.

“Coach told us at the half that we needed to work harder, move the ball and trust each other,” Carillo said. “They’re a tough team

— if we played like we did in the third quar-ter, we would’ve had a better game.”

Cervini lead the Warriors with 13 points, followed by Heller with six.

Pecorelli topped the leaderboard with 18 points, Merhige netted 15 and Wynter added 14.

With the win, Harborfields improves to 8-0 in league play, while Comsewogue dropped to 3-5 with four games remaining on its schedule.

Harborfields hosts Westhampton on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Tornadoes still undefeated after blowout

Photos by Bill Landon Clockwise from top left, danny Morgan leaps up to the rim; Robert Pecorelli battles Comsewogue’s david Heller on the glass; and alex Merhige scores two points.

Boys’ BasketBall

The Huntington boys’ basketball team hosted North Babylon

Tuesday and edged ahead of the opposition.

Huntington . . . . . . . . 87North Babylon . . . . . 85

The Huntington/ Harborfields boys’ swimming team

traveled to Connetquot Tuesday and topped its competition.

Huntington/Harb . . . 95Connetquot . . . . . . . 88

Harborfields . . . . . . . 69Comsewogue . . . . . . 35

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