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Festival of TreesThe 20th annual Port Jefferson Dickens Festival may be over, but the 2nd an-

nual Festival of Trees will remain on display through the holidays for your viewing pleasure. Eighteen trees lavishly decorated in various themes will be on view on the second level of the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101A E. Broadway, Port Jefferson, through the month of December. The Center is open 7 days a week, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 631-802-2160.

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On Saturday, Dec. 5, Smithtown Historical Society decked its halls and walls for its annual Heritage Coun-try Christmas. At the center of the festivities was the popular Community Wreath Contest.

Guests had the opportunity to view and vote on a selection of 22 unique entries. Designers were able to choose from any type of material with a minimum size restriction of 12 inches and maximum size of 24 inches in diameter. Wreaths ranged from traditional holiday red and greens, both silk and natural, to the more con-temporary bright neon-colored glass Christmas balls and even a quilt entry. At the end of the evening each wreath was auctioned off in a drawing to raise funds for the Smithtown Historical Society.

The Best in Show Community Choice was award to Joan Harris’ woodland-inspired wreath and second place went to Jeanine Amato’s contemporary and whim-sical candy cane wreath. Harriet Litvack’s winter won-derland wreath placed third. The Smithtown Historical Society wishes to thank all the participants and contrib-uting community members and to extend a happy holi-day to the Smithtown community and thank them for their continued support.

The Smithtown Historical Society is located at 239 E. Main Street in Smithtown. Up next is a children’s pro-gram for ages 6 to 12 titled Holiday Sweets on Dec. 19 from 9:30 a.m. to noon where children can bake delicious bread and cookies from old and new recipes to share

this holiday season. $25 per child, $22.50 members. For more information on the society’s programs and events, call 631-265-6768 or visit www.smithtownhistorical.org.

Community Wreath Contest brings out the creative side for the holidays

Photos from Smithtown Historical SocietyJoan Harris’ woodland-inspired wreath, top photo, earned her Best in Show; above, this contemporary candy cane wreath by Jeanine Amato took second place; below, a winter scene wreath designed by Harriet Litvack took third place in the Smithtown Historical Society’s Community Wreath Contest at the annual Heritage Country Christmas.


Interior designers and garden clubs deck the halls of the Vanderbilt Mansion in Centerport each year, and hundreds of visitors see the delightful results begin-ning the day after Thanksgiving.

The 24-room Spanish Revival house — listed on the National Register of Historic Places — is enhanced with garland, holly, 10 elegantly ornament-ed trees, poinsettias, brightly wrapped packages, greens and pine cones from the Vanderbilt estate and an enchanting atmosphere of early- and mid-twentieth century holiday cheer.

Lance Reinheimer, executive director of the museum, said, “We’re grateful to these imaginative decorators, who generously donate their time and talent to create an atmosphere of charming holiday grandeur and sophisticated living. They bring magic to this historic house.”

Participating this year were the Dix Hills, Centerport, Honey Hills, Nathan Hale and Three Village garden clubs; Har-bor Homestead & Co. Design; and the master gardeners of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension. All have partici-pated in the project for many years.

Artists and garden specialists from the Three Village Garden Club (representing Old Field, Setauket and Stony Brook) dec-orated the spacious, paneled Vanderbilt li-brary and its tree. Beneath the tree are faux gifts wrapped with bright papers, foils and ribbons. Ornate, two-foot, stylized silver trees adorn the fireplace.

“We trimmed the tree with gold and copper ornament balls and with strands of clear, multi-faceted stones to reflect the light from the small white bulbs,” said Joann Canino of the Three Village Garden Club. “The white poinsettias used as orna-ments suggest doves, a symbol of peace. We also placed white poinsettias with silver bows on the mantel of the library’s large fireplace.

“The Vanderbilt Mansion is an archi-tectural celebration. It’s one of those grand houses that has a warm, family feeling. Our club is pleased to be part of dressing it up for the holidays. It’s great fun.”

Mary Schlotter and daughter Krishtia McCord, both of Centerport, decorated the bedroom of William K. Vanderbilt II, and the Moroccan Court next to the Vanderbilt library. They operate the Har-bor Homestead & Co. design firm.

For the past several years, Schlotter also has been among the designers invited to decorate The White House for the holi-days, the Fourth of July and Halloween.

“Mr. Vanderbilt loved peacocks and had them on the estate,” Schlotter said. “The bedroom color scheme is inspired by the colors in peacock feathers — deep teal, cobalt blue, apple green, plum and gold.

We wanted it to look like a sophisticated man’s room,” Schlotter said.

Schlotter and McCord added wreaths of teal-blue feathers to the top of the French doors that open onto the bed-room porch with a view of Northport Bay. “Acorns are a feature of the Vander-bilt family crest, and we used acorn or-naments with the greenery that decorates the fireplace mantel. Ivy vines sprayed with gold paint and woven through the garland trim the doorways.”

In the Moroccan Court, with its rare Spanish and Portuguese tiles, they deco-rated the built-in tiled bench with throw pillows. The colors of the pillows match those in the antique tiles, each of which is a miniature folk painting. Decora-tions include a café setting with a small

round table and two chairs; a basket of fruits and nuts;

silver candles in or-nate, antique bronze candlesticks; up-lighted palm trees; a candle-lit silver lantern next to

the small fountain set into the floor; and

gauzy, transparent fabric hung in front of the tall,

arched windows. Christine Lagana and her friends from

the Dix Hills Garden Club decorated the Portuguese Sitting Room. “The tone was set by the deep blue in the rug and the sculpture of a knight on horseback, which has the same colors as the rug,” Lagana said, “and by the medieval theme of the 1494 fireplace surround, which features carved faces of crusaders.

“We added gold ribbon and pine cones to the garland, and small turquoise and cobalt ornament balls on the tree. One group of large ornaments displays a rep-lica of the Vanderbilt family crest inside clear-glass globes.” Acorn-shaped orna-ments echo the acorns in the family crest, which is painted on the fireplace hood in the dining room.”

Guided tours of the decorated man-sion will be held through Dec. 30. During the day, tours are given Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday (including Dec. 28 and 30) at 12:30, 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. Visitors pay the general admission fee plus $5 per person for a tour.

The popular Twilight Tours of the man-sion will be given Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 26 and 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. Admis-sion is $10 for adults, $9 for students and seniors (62 and older) and $5 for children 12 and under. Hot chocolate and cook-ies are included. This event is a treat for visitors, and the only time of the year the Vanderbilt family’s private living quarters can be seen at night.

The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Mansion is located at 180 Little Neck Road, Center-port. For more information, call 631-854-5579 or visit www.vanderbiltmuseum.org.

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tours of decorated mansion held through Dec. 30

Photo from vanderbilt MuseumAbove, Joann Canino of the Three Village Garden Club puts the finishing touch on the tree in the Vanderbilt Mansion library.

Photos from vanderbilt MuseumAbove, from left, Karen Mills-Lynch, Phyllis Kelly and Mary DiFronzo of the Three Village Garden Club trim the tree in the Vanderbilt Mansion library; below, Krishtia McCord decorates the French doors in Mr. Vanderbilt’s bedroom


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It is hard to believe that another holiday season is upon us. Our neighborhoods are decorated with lights, bows and wreaths. There’s a different spirit in the air despite the national and international landscape of fear, hate, terror and violence.

People really seem to make an effort to reach out especially to those in need during this time of year. Count-less high schools, middle schools and elementary schools are sponsoring cake sales, toy drives and other creative initiatives to raise money for the poor and needy.

I am continually amazed at people’s com-passion and generosity. Our local young people are dynamic and amaz-ing. Recently a student from the Knox School reached out and said they wanted to do something special for the homeless.

A woman from Sound Beach shared a compelling story about a new pizzeria — a local woman wanted to buy two pizzas for a needy family and asked if the owner would match that. He did that and something more. He posted a coupon on his bulletin board for a free drink and slice of pizza for anyone who might need it; thanks to social media dozens of people were buying a soda and a slice for a needy person.

Allegedly a person who was down on his luck and very hungry took a free slice of piz-za and a drink. His luck changed and he is now fully employed and came back to that pizzeria and posted a coupon for free slice and drink and a big note saying thank you for feeding me when I was down and out!

In Miller Place the Teachers Association did something very courageous with the support of their superintendent and school board. They sponsored a walk around their football field, with the slogan “Don’t Start, Be Smart.” They raised a few thou-sand dollars on that sunny fall afternoon and gave the proceeds to a local residential

rehab. They sponsored this walk after one of their bright young alumni overdosed on heroin. He was an honors senior at the State University of Stony Brook.

During this holiday season there are hopeful signs that people do care and want to make a positive difference in the world.

However, we still have to do so much more.

Too many vibrant bright young people are falling between the cracks. The heroin epi-demic is out of control. The level of denial is still infectious. It is easy to blame the homeless who have no fixed address and/or no voice; they are the victims too!

What is deeply fright-ening is that a growing number of our young well-educated young people are having their heroin dropped off at

their homes. Local drug dealers are now showing up at 12-step meetings all over and selling potentially lethal drugs to peo-ple in early recovery who are struggling to take it one day at a time. It is becoming a vicious nightmare.

We need to create a coalition of caring citizens that represents families, schools, churches, synagogues and mosques across the county. We need to stand together and challenge our government bureau-cracy that has become deaf and blind to this epidemic and demand more beds for detoxification and long-term residential treatment.

During this season of hope let us light a candle for all those who have lost their fight to live and remember those who are struggling to live one day at a time, those who are battling addiction and those with serious mental health issues. Let us not shun them but welcome them with open arms and compassionate hearts.

Fr. Pizzarelli is the director of Hope House Ministries in Port Jefferson.

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’Season of Light’ screeningAvalon Park and Preserve, 200 Harbor Road, Stony Brook, will hold a free screening

of “Season of Light” on Friday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. at its barn on Shep Jones Lane. Narrated by Noah Adams,“Season of Light” explores the reasons humans are so fascinated with lighting up our lives during the December holiday season. Sky Lab viewing will begin around 8 p.m. (weather permitting) and will include seasonal constellations and deep sky objects. Call 631-689-0619 for further information.

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Photo from Town of BrookhavenFrom left, Councilwoman Jane Bonner; Councilwoman Valerie M. Cartright; Councilman Kevin LaValle; Lee Rosner, Coldwell Banker Commercial Island Corporate Services Leasing Agent; Mark Talamini, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Services, Stony Brook Medicine; Councilman Neil Foley, John Hutter, MBA, Administrator, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine; Councilwoman Connie Kepert, Amy Enrico, Councilman Dan Panico, Antonios Gasparis, MD, Professor of Surgery and Director, Center for Vein Care, Stony Brook Medicine and Supervisor Ed Romaine.

At the November 19 Town Board meeting, Coun-cilman Kevin LaValle presented a Certificate of Con-gratulations to the management, doctors and staff of the Stony Brook Medicine Vascular Center, for being named Business of the Month for November in Coun-cil District 3. The award is given to a business that de-serves special recognition for the positive impact that they have on the community.

The center is located at Nicolls Professional Park, 23 South Howell Avenue in Centereach. Recently, Council-man LaValle toured the new facility which includes eight examination rooms, equipped with latest electronic medical record (EMR) technology allowing physicians to review images and other results directly with patients, three consultative offices and an onsite non-invasive vas-cular laboratory capable of providing diagnostic imag-

ing services for up to four patients simultaneously. Councilman LaValle said, “I thank Stony Brook

Medicine and Lee Rosner for creating this private and public partnership. Stony Brook Medicine Vas-cular Center is a premier healthcare facility that is dedicated to saving lives in the community. It serves the needs of our residents and I am happy to welcome them to Centereach.”

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Diabetes just won’t go away. It seems that every time I write about the disease, the news is doom and gloom about how it has become a pandemic. The preva-lence, or the number with the disease, and the incidence, or the growth rate of the disease, always seem to be on the rise, with little end in sight.

Depression and stressWe don’t want to make you depressed

or stressed, especially since these condi-tions combined with diabetes can have dangerous outcomes. In fact, in a recent observational study, results showed that diabetes patients with stress and/or de-pression had greater risk of cardiovascu-lar events and death, compared to those with diabetes alone. When diabetes patients had stress or depression, there was a 53 percent increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (1). And in those diabetes patients who had both stress and depression, there was a two-times greater risk of death from heart disease than in those without these men-tal health issues. These results need to be confirmed with more rigorous study.

Something to brighten your day!However, there is good news. Accord-

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There was a postprandial, or post-meal, reduction in the rise of glucose of 34 percent in those who stood and 28 percent reduction in those who walked, both compared to those who sat for long periods continuously in the first day. The effects remained significant on the sec-ond day. A controlled diet was given to the patients. In this study, the difference in results for the standers and walkers was not statistically significant.

The participants were overweight, postmenopausal women who had predi-abetes, HbA1C between 5.7 and 6.4 per-cent. The HbA1C gives an average glu-cose or sugar reading over three months. The researchers hypothesize that this ef-fect of standing or walking may have to do with favorably changing the muscle physiology. So, in other words, a large ef-fect can come from a very small but con-scientious effort. This is a preliminary study, but the results are impressive.

Can prediabetes and diabetes have similar complications?

Diabetes is much more significant than prediabetes, or is it? It turns out that both stages of the disease can have sub-stantial complications. In a recent study of those presenting in the emergency room with acute coronary syndrome, those who have either prediabetes or dia-betes have a much poorer outcome. ACS is defined as a sudden reduction in blood flow to the heart, resulting in potentially severe events, such as heart attack or un-stable angina (chest pain).

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In the patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes, there was an increased risk of death with ACS as compared to those with normal sugars. The diabetes pa-tients experienced an increased risk of greater than 100 percent, while those who had prediabetes had an almost 50 percent increased risk of mortality over and above the general population with ACS. Thus, both diabetes and predia-betes need to be taken seriously. Sadly, most diabetes drugs do not reduce the risk of cardiac events. And bariatric sur-gery, which may reduce or put diabetes in remission for five years, did not have an impact on increasing survival (4).

What do the prevention guidelines tell us?

The United States Preventive Services Task Force renders recommendations on screening for diseases. On one hand, I commend them for changing their rec-ommendation for diabetes screening. In 2008, the USPSTF did not believe the research provided enough results to screen asymptomatic patients for ab-normal sugar levels and diabetes. How-ever, in October 2015, the committee drafted guidelines suggesting that ev-eryone more than 45 years old should be screened, but the final guidelines settled on screening a target population of those between the ages of 40 and 70 who are overweight or obese (5). They recom-mend that those with abnormal glucose levels have intensive lifestyle modifica-tion as a first step.

This is a great step forward, as most diabetes patients are overweight or obese; however, 15-to-20 percent of diabetes patients are within the nor-mal range for body mass index (6). So this screening still misses a significant number of people. I don’t know why they didn’t stick with the original rec-ommended population, although, this too might still miss the younger popu-lation, which is also at risk.

Potassium: it’s not just for breakfast anymore

When we think of potassium, the first things that comes to mind are bananas, which do contain a significant amount of potassium, as do other plant-based foods. Those with rich amounts of potassium in-clude dark green, leafy vegetables; almonds; avocado; beans and raisins. We know po-tassium is critical for blood pressure con-trol, but why is this important to diabetes?

In a recent observational study, results showed that the greater the exertion of potassium through the kidneys, the lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and kid-ney dysfunction in those with diabetes (7). There were 623 Japanese participants with normal kidney function at the start of the trial. The duration was substantial, with a mean of 11 years of follow-up. Those who had the highest quartile of urinary potas-sium excretion were 67 percent less likely to experience a cardiovascular event or kidney event than those in the lowest quartile. The researchers suggested that higher urinary excretion of potassium is associated with higher intake of foods rich in potassium.

Where does this leave us for the pre-vention of diabetes and its complications? You guessed it: lifestyle modifications, the tried and true! Lifestyle should be the cor-nerstone, including diet, stress reduction and exercise, or at least mild to moderate physical activity.

References:(1) Diabetes Care, online Nov. 17, 2015.

(2) cdc.gov. (3) Diabetes Care. online Dec. 1, 2015. (4) JAMA Surg. online Sept. 16, 2015. (5) Ann Intern Med. 2015;163(11):861-868. (6) JAMA. 2012;308(6):581-590. (7) Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. online Nov 12, 2015.

Dr. Dunaief is a speaker, author and local lifestyle medicine physician focusing on the integration of medicine, nutrition, fitness and stress management. For fur-ther information, go to the website www.medicalcompassmd.com or consult your personal physician.

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The University Cafe at Stony Brook University will be closing early in 2016 due to renovations of the Student Union, but that doesn’t mean that the wonderful series of Sunday Street Concerts, which have been held there for more than a de-cade, will be ending.

First, going out with a really special performance, the Sunday Street Concert series will present its final show at the University Cafe on Saturday, Dec. 12, which will include Butchers Blind, Chris Connolly and Bryan Gallo, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.

“For our last hurrah at the cafe, we’re presenting some of Long Island’s finest young musicians in a very special eve-ning to benefit WUSB-FM and the Sun-day Street Series as it moves to its new venue,” said Sunday Street Concert se-ries producer Charlie Backfish.

Then, changes will take place. One is that the venue itself will change, effec-tive 2016. Future concerts will be held in the Gillespie Room of the Carriage Museum at the Long Island Museum, in Stony Brook. Wine, beer and cider will be available there.

A second change is that the concerts will be open to all ages. “That’s partic-ularly good news because we have had

parents wanting to bring their children to shows but had to say ‘no’ due to the university policy for the cafe,” said Backfish.

A third change is sponsorship. “This new direction for us is an interesting partnership between the Sunday Street Series, WUSB Radio (90.1 FM, the uni-versity’s own radio station), the Greater

Port Jefferson Arts Council and the Long Island Museum,” said Backfish. “LIM has been expanding their programming to include music (the North Shore Pro Musi-ca is already holding their concerts there), the GPJAC supports live performances in our area, and the Sunday Street Series of WUSB was seeking a new venue in order to continue. This all was a perfect match.”

Backfish, who is the director of field experience and student teaching in the Department of History at SBU, also hosts the radio station’s Sunday Street morning program, from 9 a.m. to noon. featuring acoustic, folk and singer-song-writer music.

“I’ve had a lot of performers joining me on air during my radio program, Sunday Street, on Sunday mornings on WUSB. Norm Prusslin, the former general manager of WUSB, suggested thinking about having some of these art-ists follow up a radio appearance with a show at the University Cafe, at that time a new venue,” he said. “It seemed like a very good idea and the result has been this series, which has now had 175 shows during its existence.”

What will not change is the great lineup of musicians who will be per-forming. The first concert of the new year is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 17, at 3 p.m. when Sloan Wainwright, known for a variety of American music styles including pop, folk, jazz and blues, will be performing. Tickets are $22 in ad-vance, $27 at the door (cash only), if available. “Sloan Wainwright is a great singer whose amazing alto voice pow-ers songs of others as well as her own songs. No surprise since she is part of

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Everyone likes to curl up with a warm blanket as temperatures drop. So do the dogs and cats that live at the various animal shelters around Long Island. One Rocky Point woman is helping shelter animals keep warm one blanket at a time.

A few years ago Valerie Sanks and her son Matt de-cided to collect blankets that would be donated to the shelters for the animals. During the holiday season in 2013 they collected 150 blankets.

In 2014 Sanks placed a post on her Facebook page requesting donations of blankets. By Dec. 17 of that year, her house was overtaken by 610 blankets, 600 cat-nip toys, and many boxes of dog biscuits and cat treats.

This year her goal is to collect 1,080 blankets and 2,000 cat toys as well as treats for all the animals that will be spending this holiday in one of the many shel-ters across Long Island. Throughout the year Sanks volunteers at the Brookhaven, Riverhead and South-hold shelters. The blankets and toys that she collects will be distributed to these shelters.

Linda Scalcione, a friend of Sanks and a Rocky Point resident, said that Valerie and her son “visit, help train and walk the dogs at the different shelters. Valerie goes above and beyond your average volunteer. She wants the dogs and cats that spend time at the shelters to be comfortable and for them to feel loved.”

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Of course, if instead of donating a blanket, you want to provide a home for one of the animals, that would be great with Sanks. After all, all she wants is “for all the animals to one day have their fur-ever homes!”

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Bo Li, an associate professor at CSHL, suggested that Van Aelst, who provides guidance and di-rection as his mentor, is a leader at the 125-year old research facility.

Van Aelst is “well known for her innovative work on signal-ing molecules in the cell, in-cluding Ras and Rho,” Li said. Her work is “really innovative.”

Van Aelst studies these en-zymes by taking what she described as a “bottom up” approach, exploring their devel-opment and their role in cellular and developmental processes in the context of the brain. She ex-plores how any perturbation can a� ect behavior and, once she sees a change, looks for di� erences in the circuitry development.

Van Aelst looks at the process from the beginning, with the genes, through the protein net-work. She has sought to under-stand how some changes lead to metastatic cancer that spreads to a single organ, while others spread generally throughout the body.

Because she is exploring mu-tations at a basic level, Van Aelst can get involved in a range of diseases and abnormalities, from epilepsy to schizophrenia to mental retardation to cancer.

“Clinicians send me infor-mation and want to see if maybe I can use the tools in di� erent mutations in my research” to understand what might be hap-pening with some of their pa-tients, Van Aelst said.

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to be “cautious” because she doesn’t want to give false hope at a time when the research may not have pointed the way to-wards a speci� c therapy.

With any clinical trials, she has to “make it clear that the � ndings are not yet mature enough for further develop-ment,” she said.

While she’s conducting basic research to understand the pro-cess and mechanisms involved, Van Aelst is aware and eager to help an audience desperate for more information and, down the road, a novel treatment.

She does “see the urgency. It’s important that the patients and the family of the patients and the scientists communicate and it is clear what we understand, what can be done, and how far we can do it.”

Van Aelst hasn’t become in-volved in a therapeutic study yet, but she has reached the point where she knows aber-rations in some processes. She hopes to get engaged in the near future in the next step.

“We don’t have something now in hand, but we have sever-al hints” from cellular processes and proteins, she said.

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Recently renovated, this Tavern/Bar is home to great burgers, wings, salads, craft beers and fun times. Live music available on weekends, call for their schedule.

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INN & SPA AT EAST WIND5720 Route 25A • Wading River • 631.929.3500

Located within the Inn is the Zagat rated Desmond’s restaurant, serving lunch and dinner daily. Available is a special holiday menu on Christmas Eve & New Year’s Eve.

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For the best in Mediterranean & Italian cuisine. Open all day for breafast, lunch and din-ner, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day; Regular menu and specials. New Year’s Day breakfast available til 4 pm. Catering on & off premises;

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LAND & SEA FISH MARKET & TAKE-OUT RESTAURANT524 Rte. 25A • Mt. Sinai • 631.473.0011 • www.landandseafi sh.com

Your headquarters for seafood this holiday season. Known for our shrimp platters and catering trays fi lled with your favorite seafood, appetizers & entrees. Full line of fi sh and shellfi sh and we will fry by the pound! Call in your holiday orders now 9 am - 8 pm daily.

Open from 8 am 12/23 through 3 pm 12/24 for pick up.

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Timeless holiday cookiesRainbow Cookies

Rainbow Cookies

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dIrectIons:

Mix the first five ingredients together in a bowl. Add red food coloring to 1 cup of batter and pour into an 8- by 8-inch greased pan. Add green food coloring to 1 cup of batter and pour into another 8- by 8-inch greased pan. Add yellow food coloring to 1 cup of batter and pour into a third 8- by 8-inch greased pan. Bake all three pans for 12 to 15 minutes at 350 F.

While cakes are cooling, melt choco-late morsels in a double boiler. Lay out the red cake on a cookie sheet. spread a thin layer of preserves on top. Place the yellow cake on top of red cake. spread a thin layer of preserves on top. Place the green cake on top of yellow cake.

cut the three-layered cake into four bars. separate each bar slightly on a cookie sheet. Frost all four bars with the melted chocolate. Put the cookie sheet with the bars in the freezer until the chocolate hardens — about 1 hour. When hardened, wrap each bar in foil and keep in the freezer until needed. When needed, slice each frozen bar into 1/4-inch pieces and thaw before serving.

Special thanks to Marie Campisi of Miller Place for sharing this recipe.

Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

YIeLd: 48 cookiesIngredIents:

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Preheat oven to 375 F. shape dough into 1-inch balls. roll balls in the 1/4 cup sugar to coat. Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 to 12 minutes or until light brown.

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Ward Melville senior a rising Three Village star

Volume 39, No. 43 December 25, 2014

$1.00Stony Brook • old Field • Strong’S neck • Setauket • eaSt Setauket • South Setauket • PoquottTIMES HERALDThe Village

People Of The Year • BROOKHAVEN EditiON

Photos from WMHS

above, kyra durko participates in her high school’s antibullying

campaign event in May. right, durko promotes the revitalized annual

Walk for Beauty event with help from her classmates.

By Phil corSo

She has Three Village roots,

but her reach has spanned

across the entire North Shore.

And she hasn’t even graduated

high school yet.Kyra Durko, a Ward Mel-

ville senior and member of

the dominant girls fencing

team, has become an up-

and-coming community star,

spearheading one of the area’s

largest annual events while

still excelling in her studies

and extracurricular activities.

Her impact on our society at

such a young age is among the

reasons she is selected as one

of the Village Times Herald’s

People of the Year.Durko, 17, used her role as

president of the high school’s

Key Club to completely revi-

talize the community’s an-

nual Walk for Beauty event.

She led what other organizers

called an unprecedented level

of involvement from students

at her school as well as those

from neighboring districts.

Durko helped recruit sev-

eral high school music groups

to perform alongside other

Long Island bands at the

event and teamed up with

groups like the Ward Melville

National Art Honor Society

to paint signs and beautify

the path of the walk, which is

sponsored by The Ward Mel-

ville Heritage Organization.

“We wanted to get the high

school more involved than ever

before,” Durko said in an in-

terview earlier this year. “A lot

of people are getting excited

about it now.”Durko helped add new fea-

tures to the event, including

a special Color Splash walk,

on which participants are

dusted with a rainbow of col-

ored powders as they make

their way to the finish line.

She also launched a subgroup,

the Walk for Beauty Ambas-

sadors, to push the event’s

ambitions even further, creat-

ing a network of students from

local high schools, including

Port Jefferson, Smithtown,

Shoreham-Wading River, Half

Hollow Hills, Walt Whitman,

Harborfields, Centereach,

Comsewogue and more.“Kyra was a true breath of

fresh air for all of us,” said

Gloria Rocchio, president of

WMHO. “She came onto our

committee and worked so hard

to pull together so many dif-

ferent parts of the community.

She’s an extraordinary young

lady and she will go very far.”

Rocchio met Durko after

Suffolk County Legislator

Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), a

member of the WMHO com-

mittee, sought out the girl

while paying a visit to Ward

Melville High School, looking

to bring her in on planning the

Walk for Beauty.Hahn first met Durko

through her role with the Key

Club and said she saw an im-

mediate opportunity. The two

worked together on new ideas

for the annual walk, and Hahn

said she saw Durko’s ambition

and creativity right away.“We put the Key Club in

charge of some things, and she

was just extraordinary,” Hahn

Young student makes strong impression on North Shore community

DURKO continued on page A22

‘She went above

and beyond to

spearhead so many

things related to this.

Her organizational

skills are phenomenal.

The list goes on and on.

The things she

has taken on to help

with this event are

really amazing.’

— LegisLator Kara HaHn

By EllEn BarcEl

Butterfly bush vs. butterfly weed — what’s the difference? Is one better than the other? Is one invasive? How exactly do these plants support butterflies? These are all interesting questions.

As you plan your garden for next year, you may want to consider plants that at-tract butterflies. When you see names like butterfly bush and butterfly weed, they seem like the logical choices. But, that’s not necessarily the case. Besides, there are many other plants that also attract but-terflies. By the way, butterflies do not eat; they only drink fluids. That means they drink water and the nectar of flowers. It’s the larvae that eat the leaves.

Let’s start with the butterfly bush —Buddleja davidii (also spelled Buddleia). This is a woody deciduous shrub with lilac-colored flowers, but there are some cultivars with dark purple, white and pink flowers. And, yes, there’s even a yel-low cultivar — B. davidii ‘Honeycomb.’ The butterfly bush blooms in late July and August with flowers that resemble li-lac flowers, which is why it is sometimes called the summer lilac.

Interestingly, there are now rebloom-ing true lilacs that produce flowers not only in spring but in August as well, so you will see both blooming in mid to late summer. A native of Asia, the butterfly bush is viewed by some as invasive in this area, but it is not on Suffolk County’s Do Not Sell List. It can grow to five feet tall and spread easily as wide, but there are dwarf varieties. It does best, producing the most flowers, in full sun.

The nectar of the flowers is a source of nutrition for butterflies, hence its name. Removing the dead flowers helps to encourage the development of more flowers and more butterflies. The plant is hardy in U.S. Dept. of Agriculture hardiness zones 5 to 9.

Now on to the butterfly weed (Ascle-pias tuberosa). This is a herbaceous peren-nial with bright orange flowers, although cultivars include ‘Ice Ballet,’ which has white flowers, and ‘Cinderella,’ which is a rose color.

A species of milkweed, the butterfly weed is a native of eastern North Amer-ica. It blooms from summer to early fall. Yes, it attracts butterflies who drink its nectar, but more than that, butterfly weed also serves as food for the larvae of the monarch butterfly. Because it supports both stages of the butterfly’s life, it re-ally helps the environment, especially at a time when the monarch butterfly num-bers have been dwindling, due in part to a smaller natural environment. It requires full sun and prefers a dry, sandy soil. So it will easily grow in Long Island’s soil.

If you see butterfly weed growing wild, don’t cut the flowers. Let them go to seed so that they can reseed and propagate this native plant.

There are many other plants that will attract butterflies to the garden including asters, coneflowers, lilac, mint, pansies, sage, phlox, lupine, lavender, day lily and hollyhock. The ones, like the butterfly weed, that support more than one stage in the butterfly’s life cycle, really help.

There are two butterfly exhibits in Suf-folk County. The Sweetbriar Nature Pre-serve in Smithtown has a butterfly exhibit in the warm weather. Call 631-979-6344 for further information. Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead has a year-round in-door exhibit. Call 631-208-9200. Heritage Park in Mount Sinai has a butterfly garden. Call 631-509-0882 for more information.

Ellen Barcel is a freelance writer and mas-ter gardener. Send your gardening questions and/or comments to [email protected]. To reach Cornell Cooperative Exten-sion and its Master Gardener program, call 631-727-7850.

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Butterfly bush vs. butterfly weed

Photos by ellen Barcelleft, a butterfly bush; right, butterfly weed

Holiday workshops at the LIMOn Sunday, Dec. 13, the Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony

Brook, will present a day of workshops for the creative gift giver. Nancy Golder will lead the first program at 11 a.m. when visitors will learn how to create one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces. Each participant will go home with two pieces of handmade jewelry. At 2 p.m., members of the North Suffolk Garden Club will lead a hands-on workshop on how to use seasonal plants and decor to create a stunning holiday arrangement.

Fees are $25 per person for either workshop or $20 for museum members. Visitors may sign up for both workshops for $45 or $35 for museum members. Fees include all materials and tools. Class size is limited and pre-registration is required by calling 631-751-0066, x212. Tea and cookies will be served be-tween workshops.

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Dec. 10 to Dec. 17, 2015Times…and datesThursday 10

HadassaH meeTingThe Seaport Chapter of Hadassah will meet at the Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station at 12:30 p.m. Installation of officers will be followed by an entertaining Hanukkah celebration. Refreshments will be served. Guests wel-come. Call 751-8117 for further information.direcTor's dinnerTheatre Three, 412 Main St., Port Jefferson will present a Director's Dinner event starting at 5 p.m. Take an exciting behind the scenes look at the making of "A Christmas Carol" with director Jeffrey Sanzel and enjoy dinner and a show. $53 adults, $48 senior or stu-dent, $45 children ages 6 to 12. Call 928-9100 to order.Book signingBook Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington will welcome author David Fuchs who will speak about and sign copies of his new book, "Random Shuffle," at 7 p.m. Call 271-1442.

Friday 11Lim aLive@FiveAs part of its Alive@Five series, The Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook invites you to don your ugliest holiday sweater paired with your favorite shoes for a guided tour of Beth Levine: The First Lady of Shoes at 5 p.m. Experience the museum after hours and enjoy drinks and light refreshments. $15, $10 members. To register, call 751-0066.Live naTiviTyStony Brook Christian Assembly, 400 Nicolls Road, E. Setauket will host a live Nativity today and Dec. 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. Free. For more information, call 689-1127 or visit www.stonybrookchristian.com.THe Jazz expressions in concerTNorth Shore Public Library, 250 Route 25A, Shoreham will pres-ent Jimmy Scott’s Trio, The Jazz Expressions, in concert at 7 p.m. Free and open to all. No registration necessary. Call 929-4488.Fireside FridaysThe East Northport Public Library, 185 Larkfield Road, E. Northport will welcome the Northport Middle School Chamber Ensemble in concert at 7 p.m. as part of its Fireside Friday series. Free and open to all. No registration required. Call 261-2313.THe sTeeL siLk Band in concerTThe Huntington Public Library, 338 Main St., Huntington will present The Steel Silk Band in concert at 7 p.m. Free and open to all. To register, call 427-5165.HoLiday concerTThe Northport Chorale will present its Holiday Flourish Concert at the Northport High School, 154 Laurel Hill Road, Northport at 8 p.m. Tickets, available at the door, are $15 adults and $10 students. Contact Debi at 223-3789 or Pearl at 239-6736 or visit www.northportchorale.org for more information.a ToasT To THe WiLdSweetbriar Nature Center will host a wine tasting fundraising event at The Wine Guy, 220 West Main St., Smithtown at 8 p.m. for adults 21 and over with live animal presentations and appetizers. $20 per person at the door. For further information, call 979-6344.

saturday 12Live naTiviTySee Dec. 11 listing.BreakFasT WiTH sanTaThe Selden Fire Department, will present Breakfast with Santa from 8 a.m. to noon at the Main Firehouse, 44 Woodmere Place, Selden. $7 per person. For details, call 732-1234.aduLT WreaTH WorksHopCaleb Smith State Park Preserve, 581 W. Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown will hold two adult wreath workshops, from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Using an assortment of fresh greenery and other nature materials, create a lovely wreath for your door for the holidays. $4 per person. Advance registration required by calling 265-1054.garden cLuB HoLiday greens saLeThe Sound View Garden Club will hold its fourth annual Greens Sale featuring centerpieces, swags, wreaths, hostess gifts and much more, all made from natural materials, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second floor of the Sound Beach Fire Department, 152 Sound Beach Blvd., Sound Beach. Free admission and light refreshments served. Any questions, call Ann at 821-9650.

HoLiday craFT FairSmithtown High School East, 10 School St., St. James will hold a Holiday Craft Fair today and Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. fea-turing over 100 exhibitors. Questions? Call 846-1459.deepWeLLs HoLiday BouTiqueDeepwells Mansion, 2 Taylor Lane, St. James will hold its 19th annual Holiday Boutique today and Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 30 artisans will offer handcrafted gifts, stained glass, jewelry, handmade soaps, candles, marionettes, holiday cares and more. $5 admission, free under 12. Proceeds will support the Deepwells Farm Historical Society. Questions? Call 563-8551.second saTurdays poeTry readingAll Souls’ Church, 61 Main St., Stony Brook will hold a Poetry Reading from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hosted by Robert Savino, poet laureate of Suffolk County, the featured poets will include Father Farrell Graves, priest associate at All Souls' Church, and Rabbi Adam Fisher, rabbi emeritus at Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook. Followed by an open reading. Free. Questions? Call 655-7798.craFT Fair and FLea markeTThe Middle Island Fire Department, 31 Arnold Drive, Middle Island will hold a Craft Fair and Flea Market from noon to 7 p.m. with a tree lighting at 6 p.m. For more information, call 484-1814.yapHank cHrisTmas ToursThe Yaphank Historical Society will hold its annual Christmas Tour of the Historic District from 1 to 5 p.m. Visit several historic homes decorated for the holidays. Meet at the Swezey-Avey House at the corner of Main Street and Middle Island-Yaphank Road to register and pick up a guide. Donation is $10 adults, children under 12 free. Holiday refreshments will be served. For more information, call 924-4803.a sinaTra cenTenniaLThe Rotary Club of Northport will present A Sinatra Centennial fea-turing "American Idol" contestant Sal Valentinetti at the Northport Yacht Club from 2 to 5 p.m. $75 per person includes wine/beer open bar, hors d’oeuvres, dessert. To RSVP, call 930-9310.LanTern LigHT House TourThe Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce will present the 2015 Homes of Harbor Hills Lantern Light House Tour from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring four homes in the Harbor Hills area of Port Jefferson. Tickets range from $25 to $45. For more informa-tion, call 473-1414 or visit www.portjeffchamber.com.HoLiday LigHT sHoWThe Village of Port Jefferson and the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council will present a Holiday Light Show titled Let There Be Light on the exterior of Village Hall, 121 West Broadway, Port Jefferson today, Dec. 13, 19 and 20 at 6, 6:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m. Free. Call 473-4724 for more information.ceLeBraTing oL’ BLue eyesIn tribute to Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, the Ward Melville Heritage Organization will present a concert titled Celebrating

Ol’ Blue Eyes at its Educational and Cultural Center, 97P Main St., Stony Brook from 7 to 9:30 p.m. with singer Mark Buttice, pianist Wayne Sabella and the Swing Easy Band. $75 per person includes tapas, wine, dessert and coffee catered by Crazy Beans Restaurant and the Rolling Pin Bakery. Call 689-5888 or visit www.wmho.org for additional information.Book signingBook Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington will welcome New York Times best-selling author Colum McCann who will speak about and sign copies of his new book, “Thirteen Ways of Looking,” at 7 p.m. Call 271-1442.WinTer concerTThe Huntington Choral Society will hold its annual Winter Concert titled Spirit of the Season at the Huntington High School, 188 Oakwood Rd., Huntington at 8 p.m. featuring Antonin Dvorak's "Te Deum," Arvo Part's "Magnificat" and seasonal selec-tions with a brass quartet. Tickets are $20, students free, and will be sold at the door, at www.huntingtonchoralsociety.org or by calling 421-7464.Lisca HoLiday concerTThe Long Island Symphonic Choral Association will present its annual holiday concert at St. James R.C. Church, 429 Route 25A, Setauket at 8 p.m. featuring Dave Brubeck’s "La Fiesta de la Posada" and songs and carols from around the world. Tickets are $25 adults, $20 seniors, students free, and will be sold at the door or online at www.lisca.org. For additional information, call 751-2743 or 941-9431.

sunday 13HoLiday LigHT sHoWSee Dec. 12 listing.HoLiday craFT FairSee Dec. 12 listing.deepWeLLs HoLiday BouTiqueSee Dec. 12 listing.BreakFasT WiTH sanTaThe Heritage Center, 633 Mount Sinai-Coram Road, Mount Sinai will present its annual Breakfast with Santa in three seatings — 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon. Tickets are $17 adults, $13 children ages 3 to 12, under 3 free and includes a buffet breakfast, a family photo with Santa and a favor for each child. Reservations are required — no walk-ins. To register, call 509-0882.pancakes WiTH sanTaRocky Point VFW, 109 King Road, Rocky Point will host a Breakfast with Santa from 9 a.m. to noon with pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice. $10 adults, $5 children under 10. For more information, call 744-9106.HoLiday zumBaTHon FundraiserL.G. Cares will hold a Zumbathon fundraiser at Lake Grove Village Hall, 980 Hawkins Ave., Lake Grove from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Tickets are $10. To sign up, call 275-1735.cHrisTmas BouTiqueSt. Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church, 11 Ogden Ct., Huntington Station will hold a Christmas Boutique from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring home-baked goods, crafts, jewelry, raffle baskets and vendors. Free admission. For further details, call 327-6089.HoLiday WorksHopThe Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook will present a day of workshops for the creative gift giver making two pieces of handmade jewelry at 11 a.m. and a holiday arrangement at 2 p.m. $25 for either workshop, $20 members or both work-shops for $45, $35 members. Refreshments will be served. To register, call 751-0066, ext. 212.Homes For THe HoLidays TourThe Northport Historical Society, 215 Main St., Northport will hold its annual Homes for the Holidays, a self-guided tour of houses decorated for the holidays, from noon to 4 p.m. Tickets in advance are $30, $25 members. Tickets purchased the day of the tour are $35, $30 members. Call 757-9859 or visit www.northporthistorical.org.THe HoLiday Trio in concerT Le Petit Salon de Musique, 380 Nicolls Road, E. Setauket will welcome the season with a special performance by The Holiday Trio at 2 p.m. The trio, comprised of violinist Beatrice Flipse, f lutist Sally Shorrock and cellist Tiffany Jordan, will come together to play some of the world’s most beautiful and well-known classical music of the holidays. Tickets are $20 adults at the door, $15 online, $15 seniors at the door, $10 online and $5 for students. Visit www.lepetitsalon.org or call 543-0337 for more information.

* All numbers are in (631) area code unless otherwise noted.

Photo from Ed MikellThe Holiday Trio will appear in concert at Le Petit de Musique in E. Setauket on Dec. 13.


Tracks and Traces hikeCaumsett State Historic Park Preserve, 25 Lloyd Harbor Road, Huntington will host an adult one-mile hike through the park to improve your powers of observation to solve the mystery of the subtle signs animals leave behind from 12:30 to 2 p.m. $4. Advance registration required by calling 423-1770.Morena FruzzeTTi in concerTNorth Shore Public Library, 250 Route 25A, Shoreham will pres-ent A Day in Tuscany, a concert by Morena Fruzzetti at 2:30 p.m. Free and open to all. No registration necessary. Call 929-4488.a chrisTMas concerTThe Parish of Saints Philip and James, 1 Carow Place, St. James will present a Christmas Concert in the church at 6:30 p.m. featur-ing an evening of spiritual, seasonal favorites and a sing-a-long. Free and all are welcome. For more information, call 584-5454.handel’s 'Messiah'Christ the King R.C. Church, 2 Indian Head Road, Commack will present the Christmas portion of G.F. Handel’s "Messiah" at 7:30 p.m. Free with offering. For more information, call 864-1623, ext. 221.inTernaTional Folk danceThe Frank Brush Barn, 211 E. Main St., Smithtown will hold an evening of International Folk Dancing from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. No partner necessary. Dances will be reviewed and/or taught. $8 donation requested. For more information, call 516-781-3552.

Monday 14Book signingBook Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington will welcome author Joe Beck who will speak about and sign copies of his new book, “Suburban Sins,” at 7 p.m. Call 271-1442.

Tuesday 15Travel PresenTaTion cluB MeeTingThe Travel Presentation Club will meet at the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, 120 Main St., Setauket at 7:30 p.m. Ron Ondrovic will make a presentation: Travel Quiz: Test Your Knowledge. Please contact [email protected] for further information.swing dance in greenlawnThe Huntington Moose Lodge, Pulaski Road, Greenlawn will host a Swing Dance from 7:30 to 11 p.m. with music by the New Vintage Swing band. No partner needed. Come alone or bring a friend. Admission is $15. Call 476-3707 or visit www.sdli.org.

wednesday 16liBrary Board oF TrusTees MeeTingThe regular meeting of the board of trustees of the Middle Country Public Library will be held at 10 a.m. in the Centereach building at 101 Eastwood Blvd. Call 585-9393, ext. 208.Book signingBook Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington will welcome Pop-culture consultant Robert V. Conte who will speak about and sign copies of his new book, "Star Wars: The Official Topps Trading Card Series Vol. I," at 7 p.m. Call 271-1442.

Thursday 17auThor TalkCold Spring Harbor Library, 95 Harbor Road, Cold Spring Harbor will present an Author Talk at 7 p.m. Editor and contributing author Robert B. MacKay will discuss "Gardens of Eden: Long Island’s Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities," a new book on the creation of “residential park” communities that drew New York City residents out to the suburbs. Q-&-A, book sale and signing follows the lecture. Advance registration is recommended by calling 692-6820.singles caFeThe Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach will host the Singles Cafe at 7 p.m. Guest speaker will be Larry Wolff who will discuss the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy with movie memorabilia, original autographs, rare short films and lots of enthusiasm. For more information, call 585-9393, ext. 288.MoonlighT MediTaTionThe Setauket Neighborhood House, 95 Main St., Setauket will host a Moonlight Meditation with Brianna Rose from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. with a series of guided meditations, spiritual education and an Angel Card reading. Tickets may be purchased at https://moon-lightdecember.splashthat.com. For more information, email [email protected] luck caFé concerTThe Folk Music Society of Huntington will welcome singer-songwrit-ers Michael Braunfeld and Meghan Cary to the Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington at 8:30 p.m. as part of its Hard Luck Café series. Preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, $10 mem-bers. For more information, visit www.fmsh.org or call 425-2925.

For seniorsseniors’ cluBThe Seniors’ Club of North Shore Jewish Center, 385 Old Town Road, Port Jefferson Station meets every Tuesday, except holidays, in the ballroom of the synagogue, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Varied pro-grams each week, including films, entertainers, games, trips, lectures, book club and Yiddish club. On Dec. 15, guest speaker will be Eileen Beetar from AAA who will speak on pedestrian safety. Open to all. Call 732-5823 or 928-3737 for more information.

Film‘a nighT aT The oPera’ The Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington will screen the 1935 film "A Night at the Opera" with the Marx Brothers on Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, $10 members. Call 423-7611.‘Mr. holMes’East Northport Public Library, 185 Larkfield Road, E. Northport will screen "Mr. Holmes" on Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. Rated PG. Free and open to all. Call 261-2313.‘MisTress aMerica’The Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University will screen "Mistress America" on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. Rated R. Tickets are $9 adults, $7 students and seniors. Call 632-2787.

‘sTraighT ouTTa coMPTon’The Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University will screen "Straight Outta Compton" on Dec. 11 at 9 p.m. Rated R. Tickets are $9 adults, $7 students and seniors. Call 632-2787.'The lunchBox'The Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington will screen "The Lunchbox" on Dec. 13 at 11 a.m. as part of its Sunday Schmooze series. Hosted by Fred Craden. Bagels at 10 a.m. $15, $10 members. Call 423-7611.'reMeMBer The nighT'The Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington will screen "Remember the Night" on Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. as part of its Classics series with special guest host Victoria Wilson, acclaimed Barbara Stanwyck biographer. $15, $10 members includes book signing reception. Call 423-7611 for further information.'so's your old Man'The Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington will screen the 1926 silent film "So's Your Old Man" with W.C. Fields on Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. $15, $10 members. Call 423-7611.

Theater'The wonder oF chrisTMas'The Living Water Church, 24 Shade Tree Lane, Riverhead will present "The Wonder of Christmas" on Dec. 10, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 13 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $24 adults, $19 seniors 62 and over and children 17 and under in advance. All tickets are $27 at the door. To order, call 722-4969, ext. 204. ‘iT’s a wonderFul liFe’The Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. Main St., Smithtown will present "It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" from Dec. 17 to 20. Tickets are $35 adults, $28 seniors, $20 students. To order, call 724-3700 or visit www.smithtownpac.org.charles dickens’ ‘a chrisTMas carol’The North Shore Theatre Group will present Greg Oliver Bodine in "A Christmas Carol," a one-man, stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale at the North Shore Public Library, 250 Route 25A, Shoreham on Dec. 20 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Free and open to all. Call 929-4488 for any additional information.‘sTrangers in The nighT’The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational & Cultural Center, 97P Main St., Stony Brook will host a holiday musical theater performance of "Strangers in the Night," the story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, through Jan. 10. Tickets are $50 adults, $48 seniors. For reservations, call 689-5888.'a chrisTMas carol'Theatre Three, 412 Main St., Port Jefferson will present its 32nd annual production of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" through Dec. 27. Tickets range from $15 to $30. Call 928-9100 or visit www.theatrethree.com.Madison square garden's 'a chrisTMas carol'CM Performing Arts Center, 931 Montauk Highway, Oakdale will present Madison Square Garden's "A Christmas Carol — The Musical" through Dec. 29. Tickets range from $20 to $29. For more information, call 218-2810 or visit www.cmpac.com.disney's 'The liTTle MerMaid'The Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. Main St., Smithtown will present Disney's "The Little Mermaid," a treat for the whole family, through Jan. 24. Tickets are $35 adults, $28 seniors, $20 children under 12. To order, call 724-3700.‘Miracle on 34Th sTreeT, The Musical’The John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main St., Northport will present the holiday classic, "Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical," through Jan. 3. Tickets range from $69 to $74. Call 261-2900 or visit www.engemantheater.com. 'a chrisTMas carol'The Minstrel Players will present "A Christmas Carol" at Trinity Episcopal Church's Houghton Hall, 130 Main St., Northport on Dec. 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 13 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20 adults, $15 seniors and children. For more information, call 516-557-1207 or visit www.minstrelplayers.org.'The nuTcracker'Seiskaya Ballet's "The Nutcracker" will return to the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University from Dec. 18 to 21. Tickets are $40 adults, $34 children and seniors. For tickets and addi-tional information, visit www.nutcrackerballet.com.

Photo from CACThe Cinema Arts Centre will screen 'A Night at the Opera' on Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m.

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ASSEMBLIES OF GODSTONY BROOK CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY

Connecting to God, Each Other and the World400 Nicolls Road, E. Setauket

(631) 689–1127 • Fax (631) 689–1215www.stonybrookchristian.com

Pastor Troy Reid Weekly Schedule

Sunday Worship w/nursery 10 amKidmo Children’s Church • Ignited Youth

Fellowship and Food Always to FollowTuesday Evening Prayer: 7 pm

� ursday Morning Bible Study w/Co� ee & Bagels: 10 amFriday Night Experience “FNX” for Pre K-Middle School: 6:30 pm

Ignite Youth Ministry: 7:30 pmCheck out our website for other events and times

BYZANTINE CATHOLICRESURRECTION BYZANTINE

CATHOLIC CHURCH38 Mayfl ower Avenue, Smithtown NY 11787

631–759–[email protected]

Fr. Jack Custer, SSL., STD., Pastor Cantor Joseph S. DurkoDivine Liturgy: Sunday, 11:15am followed by fellowship in the parish hall.

Holy Days: 7:00pm. See website for days and times.Faith Formation for All Ages:

Sunday School (Ages 4-13), alternate Sundays at 10:00amByzanTeens (14-18), alternate Tuesdays at 7:00pm

Adult Faith Formation: Mondays at 7:00pm. PrayerAnon Prayergroup for substance addictions:

Wednesdays at 7 pmSee the website for current topics and schedule.

� e Sacraments: Baptism, Chrismation and Eucharist for infants, children and adults arranged by appointment. Sacrament of Matrimony arranged by appointment. Sacrament of Repentance: Sundays 10:50 to 11:05am and

before or aft er all other services.All services in English. A parish of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic.

CATHOLICCHURCH OF ST. GERARD MAJELLA300 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station

(631) 473–2900 • Fax (631) 473–0015www.stgmajella.org

Rev. Gennaro DiSpigno, PastorOffi ce of Christian Formation • 928–2550

We celebrate Eucharist Saturday evening 5 pm, Sunday 7:30, 9 and 11 am

Weekday Mass Monday–Friday 9 amWe celebrate Baptism

Th ird weekend of each month during any of our weekend MassesWe celebrate Marriage

Arrangements can be made at the church with our Pastor or DeaconWe celebrate Penance

Confession is celebrated on Saturdays from 4–5 pmWe celebrate You!

Visit Our � ri� Shop Mon. – Fri. 10 am–4 pm + Sat. 10 am–2 pm

INFANT JESUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH110 Myrtle Ave., Port Jefferson, NY 11777

(631) 473-0165 • Fax (631) 331-8094www.www.infantjesus.org

Reverend Patrick M. Riegger, PastorAssociates: Rev. Francis Lasrado & Rev. Rolando Ticllasuca

To schedule Baptisms and Weddings, Please call the RectoryConfessions: Saturdays 12:30-1:15 pm in the Lower Church

Religious Ed.: (631) 928-0447 • Parish Outreach: (631) 331-6145Weekly Masses:

6:50 and 9 am in the Church, 12 pm in the Chapel*Weekend Masses:

Saturday at 5 pm in the Church, 5:15 pm in the Chapel*Sunday at 7:30 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm, and 5 pm in the Church

and at 8:30 am, 10 am, and 11:30 am (Family Mass) in the Chapel*Spanish Masses:

Sunday at 8:45 am and Wednesday at 6 pm in the Church*Held at the Infant Jesus Chapel at St. Charles Hospital

Religious Education: (631) 928-0447Parish Outreach: (631) 331-6145

CATHOLICST. JAMES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

429 Rt. 25A, Setauket, NY 11733Phone/Fax: (631) 941–4141

Mission Statement: In faith we come together to celebrate the Eucharist as a Parish Family; and as a Catholic community of faith,

we are sent to be Christ to the world around us.Rev. James-Patrick Mannion, Pastor

Rev. Daniel Opoku-Mensah, AssociateRev. Jon Fitzgerald, In Residence

Weekday Masses: Monday – Saturday 8:00 amWeekend Masses:

Saturday Vigil 5:00 pmSunday 8:00am, 9:30 am (family), 11:30 am (choir), 6:00 pm (Youth)

O� ce Hours: Monday–Th ursday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm,

Baptisms: Sundays at 1:30 pm (except during Lent)Reconciliation: Saturdays 4:00 – 4:45 pm or by appointment

Anointing Of Th e Sick: by requestHoly Matrimony: contact the o� ce at least

9 months before desired date

CONGREGATIONALMT. SINAI CONGREGATIONALUNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

233 North Country Road, Mt. Sinai • (631) 473–1582www.mtsinaichurchli.org

“No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here”

Sunday Services at 10 amSunday School and childcare off ered at the 10 am service and

open to all infants to 8th grade.Last Sundays of the month: 10 am Welcome Sunday Service

A service welcoming those with di� ering abilities We are an Open and A� rming Congregation.

EPISCOPALALL SOULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

“Our little historic church on the hill” across from the Stony Brook Duck Pond

Main Street, Stony Brook • (631) 751–0034www.allsouls–stonybrook.org • [email protected]

Please come and welcome our new Priests:The Rev. Dr. Richard Visconti, Priest–In–Charge

The Rev. Farrell D. Graves, Priest AssociateSunday Holy Eucharist: 8 and 9:30 am

Religious instruction for children follows the 9:30 am Service� is is a small eclectic Episcopal congregation

that has a personal touch. We welcome all regardless of where you are on your spiritual journey. Walk with us.

CAROLINE CHURCH OF BROOKHAVEN

The Rev. Cn. Dr. Richard D. Visconti, RectorThe Rev. Farrell Graves, Priest Associate

1 Dyke Road on the Village Green, SetauketWeb site: www.carolinechurch.net

Parish Office email: [email protected](631) 941–4245

Sunday Services: 8:00 am, 9:30 am and 11:15 amChurch School/Child Care at 9:30 am

Church School classes now forming. Call 941-4245 for registrationWeekday Holy Eucharist’s: Th ursday 12:30 pm and

First Fri. of the month 7:30 pm (rotating: call Parish Offi ce for location)Youth, Music and Service Programs off ered

Let God walk with you as part of our family–friendly community.

EPISCOPAL CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

127 Barnum Ave., Port Jefferson(631) 473–0273

email: [email protected] www.christchurchportjeff.org

Father Anthony DiLorenzo: Priest–In–ChargeSunday Eucharist: 8 am and 10 am/Wednesday 10 in our chapel

Sunday School and Nursery at 9:30 amOur ministries: Welcome Inn on Mondays at 5:45 pm

AA meetings on Tuesdays and Th ursdays at 7 pm/Prayer Group on Wednesdays at 10:30 am/Bible Study on Th ursdays at 10 am.It is the mission of the people of Christ Church to grow in our

relationship with Jesus Christ and to make his love known to all through our lives and ministry.

We at Christ Church are a joyful, welcoming community. Wherever you are in your journey of life we want to

be part of it.

EVANGELICALTHREE VILLAGE CHURCH

Knowing Christ...Making Him Known322 Route 25A, East Setauket • (631) 941–3670

www.3vc.orgLead Pastor Josh Moody

Sunday Worship Schedule9:15 am:Worship Service Sunday School (Pre–K – Adult),

Nursery 10:30 am: Bagel/Coff ee Fellowship11:00 am: Worship, Nursery, Pre–K, Cornerstone Kids (Gr. K–4)

We off er weekly Teen Programs, Small Groups,Women’s Bible Studies (day & evening) & Men’s Bible Study

Faith Nursery School for ages 3 & 4Join us as we celebrate 55 years of proclaiming

the good news of Jesus Christ!

GREEK ORTHODOXCHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION

430 Sheep Pasture Rd., Port Jefferson 11777Tel: 631-473-0894 • Fax: 631-928-5131

www.kimisis.org • [email protected]. Demetrios N. Calogredes, Protopresbyter

Sunday ServicesOrthros 8:30 am - Devine Liturgy 10 am

Services conducted in both Greek & English*Books available to follow in English*

Sunday Catechism School, 10:15 am - 11:15 am*Greek Language School, Tuesdays 5 pm - 8 pm*

Bible Study & Adult Catechism Classes Available*Golden Age & Youth Groups* Th rift Store*

Banquet Hall available for Rental*For information please call Church offi ce*

JEWISH CHABAD AT STONY BROOK

“Judaism with a smile”Future site: East side of Nicolls Rd, North of Rte 347 –Next to Fire Dept.

Current location: 821 Hawkins Ave., Lake Grove(631) 585–0521 • (800) My–Torah • www.ChabadSB.com

Rabbi Chaim & Rivkie GrossbaumRabbi Motti & Chaya GrossbaumRabbi Sholom B. & Chanie Cohen

Membership Free •Weekday, Shabbat & Holiday Services Highly acclaimed Torah Tots Preschool • Afternoon Hebrew School

Camp Gan Israel • Judaica Publishing Department • Lectures and Seminars • Living Legacy Holiday Programs

Jewish Learning InstituteFriendship Circle for Special Needs Children • The CTeen Network

N’shei Chabad Women’s Club • Cyberspace Library www.ChabadSB.com

Chabad at Stony Brook University – Rabbi Adam & Esther Stein

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JEWISH CORAM JEWISH CENTER

Young Israel of Coram981 Old Town Rd., Coram • (631) 698–3939 YIC.org – [email protected]

RABBI DR. MORDECAI & MARILYN GOLSHEVSKYRABBI SAM & REBECCA GOLSHEVSKY

“THE ETERNAL FLAME–THE ETERNAL LIGHT” Weekly Channel #20 at 11 am

Shabbat Morning Services 9 am Free Membership. No building fund. Free Hebrew School. Bar/Bat Mitzvah Shabbat and Holiday Services followed by hot buffet. Adult Education Institute. Women’s Education Group–International Lectures and Torah Study. Adult Bar/Bat Mitz-

vah. Kaballah Classes. Jewish Holiday Institute. Tutorials for all ages.FREE HEBREW SCHOOL 2015–2016

Details (631)698–3939Member National Council of Young Israel

a world–wide organization.All welcome regardless of knowledge or observance level.

NORTH SHORE JEWISH CENTER385 Old Town Rd., Port Jefferson Station

(631) 928–3737www.NorthShoreJewishCenter.org

Rabbi Aaron BensonCantor Daniel Kramer, Rabbi Emeritus Howard Hoffman

Executive Director Marcie PlatkinServices: Daily morning and evening minyan Friday at 8 pm;Saturday 8:45 am and one hour before sundown • Tot Shabbat

Family Kehillah • Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Seniors Club • Youth Group Award–winning Religious School • Teen Community Service Program

Nursery School • Mommy and Me • Preschool Summer Program Continuing Ed • Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah • Judaica Shop

Th rift Shop • Kosher Catering PanelWe warmly welcome you to our Jewish home. Come worship,

study and enjoy being Jewish with our caring NSJC family. Member United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

TEMPLE ISAIAH (REFORM)1404 Stony Brook Road, Stony Brook • (631) 751–8518

A warm and caring intergenerational communitydedicated to learning, prayer, social action, and friendship.

Rabbi Sharon L. Sobel Cantor Michael F. Trachtenberg Emeritus

Cantor Scott HarrisRabbi Emeritus Stephen A. Karol

Rabbi Emeritus Adam D. FisherMember Union for Reform Judaism

Sabbath Services Friday 7:30 pm and Saturday 10 am Monthly Family Service • Monthly Tot Shabbat • Religious School Youth Groups • Senior Club • Adult Education • Chavurah Groups

• Early AM Studies • Sisterhood • Brotherhood • PT

LUTHERAN–ELCAST. PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH

309 Patchogue Road, Port Jefferson Station (631)473–7157

Rev. Paul A. Downing, Pastoremail: [email protected] • pastors cell: 347–423–3623

church website: wwwStPaulsLCPJS.orgServices

Sundays – 8:30 am and 10:30 am Holy CommunionBibles and Bagels 9:30 am

Sunday School during 10:30 am serviceWednesday Evening 7:30 pm – Holy Communion

Friday MorningPower of Prayer Hour 10:30 am

~ All are Welcome ~

LUTHERAN–LCMSMESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH

PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE465 Pond Path, East Setauket

(631)751-1775www.messiahny.com

Rev. Charles Bell - PastorWe welcome all to join us for worship & fellowship

Sunday Worship Services8:15am, 9:30am & 11:00amSunday School at 9:30 am

Midweek Tuesday Advent Service 6:15 pm, December 8 & 15Midweek Wednesday Advent Service 11 am, December 9 & 16

Christmas Eve-5:30pm-Candlelight Family • 8pm-Candlelight Traditional

Christmas Day 10am • New Year’s Eve 7:30pmNYS Certifi ed Preschool & Day Care Program

Please call for details

METHODISTBETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST

EPISCOPAL CHURCH33 Christian Ave/ PO2117

E. Setauket NY 11733 (631)941 3581Rev. Gregory L. Leonard–Pastor

Sunday Worship 10:30 amAdult Sunday School 9:30 am

Lectionary Reading and Prayer Wed. 12 noonGospel Choir Tues. 8 pm

Praise Choir and Youth Choir 3rd and 4th Fri. 6:30 pm

COMMACK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH486 Townline Road, CommackChurch Office: (631)499–7310

Fax: (631) 858–0596www.commack–umc.org • mail@commack–umc.org

Rev. Linda Bates–Stepe, Pastor

SETAUKET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH160 Main Street, Corner of 25A and Main Street

East Setauket • (631) 941–4167Rev. Sandra B. Mantz, Pastor

www.setauketumc.org • [email protected] Worship Service & Church School 10 am

10 am Worship with Holy CommunionMary & Martha Circle (Women’s Ministry)

monthly on 2nd Tuesday at noonAdult Bible Study Sunday 8 am

Prayer Group and Bible Study at the Church Wednesdays 10 am

PRESBYTERIANSETAUKET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH5 Caroline Avenue ~ On the Village Green

(631) 941-4271www.setauketpresbyterian.org

Email: [email protected]. MARY BARRETT SPEERS, PASTOR

Sunday Morning Worship at 9:30 amWith Childcare & Children’s Church School

Advent Schedule:Dec. 13: Selections from Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit

SPC Choir, Soloists and Orchestra, 9:30 amDec. 20th: Children’s Christmas Pageant, 9:30 am

Joy Off eringChristmas Eve Schedule:

Family “Manger” Service at 4:30pm, with Blessing of AnimalsWelcome INN dinner at 5:45 pm

Worship Service at 7:30 pm • Singing of the Hallelujah ChorusYouth Group Alumni Party at 9:00 pm in the ParlorCandlelight Service with Communion at 11:00 pm

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

FELLOWSHIP AT STONY BROOK380 Nicolls Road • between Rte 347 & Rte 25A

(631) 751–0297 • www.uufsb.org • offi [email protected]. Margaret H. Allen

([email protected])Sunday Service: 10:30 am

Religious Education at UUFSB: Unitarian Universalism accepts wisdom from many sources and off ers non-dogmatic religious education for

children from 3-18 to foster ethical and spiritual development and knowl-edge of world religions. Classes Sunday mornings at 10:30 am. Childcare

for little ones under three. Senior High Youth Group meetings Sunday evenings. Registration is ongoing.

For more information: [email protected].

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF HUNTINGTON

109 Brown’s Road, Huntington, NY 11743631–427–9547

www.uu� .orgRev. G. Jude Geiger, Minister

(minister@uufh .org)Starr Austin, religious educator (dreuufh @gmail.com)

Whoever you are, whomever you love, wherever you are on your life’s journey, you are welcome here.

Our services off er a progressive, non-creedal message with room for spiritual seekers.

Services and Religious Education each Sunday at 10:30 amYouth Group, Lifespan Religious Education for Adults,

Adult and Children’s ChoirsParticipants in the Huntington Interfaith Housing Initiative

Find us on Facebook and Twitter

UNITYUNITY CHURCH OF HEALING LIGHT

203 East Pulaski Rd., Huntington Sta. (631) 385–7180

www.unityhuntingtonny.orgRev. Saba Mchunguzi

Unity Church of Healing Light is committed to helping people unfold their Christ potential to transform their lives and build

spiritual community through worship, education, prayer and service.Sunday Worship & Church School 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Night Prayer Service 7:30 p.m.Sign Language Interpreter at Sunday Service

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THE QUOTE

‘We shot the ball well and got a lot of contributions from di� erent guys. We’re capable of putting together a real solid game on both ends of the � oor.’

— STEVE PIKIELL

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Warney, field goal percentage key in men’s hoops’ 91-77 win

Senior forward Jameel Warney led all players with 26 points, 15 rebounds and nine blocks as the Stony Brook men’s bas-ketball team topped undefeated Prince-ton University, 91-77, Saturday aft ernoon at Island Federal Credit Union Arena.

Warney, who shot 11-for-14 from the fi eld and was 4-for-4 from the line, also fi nished with fi ve assists.

It was the third straight victory for Stony Brook (4-2), which accounted for at least 30 fi eld goals for the fi ft h time in six games this season.

“Th is was a great team win,” Stony Brook head coach Steve Pikiell said. “We’re still a work in progress, but we shot the ball well and got a lot of contri-butions from diff erent guys. We’re capa-ble of putting together a real solid game on both ends of the fl oor. I think you saw that tonight.”

Senior forward Rayshaun McGrew scored 18 points and grabbed seven re-bounds.

“I’m really proud of the way Ray played today,” Warney said. “He made a bunch of shots in a row, which really got us going. We’re going to support him any way we can.”

McGrew found triumph in tragedy, fi nding out his mother passed away aft er a battle with breast cancer just an hour before the game.

“I had a lot of motivation to play well, but I thought I had a really good week

of practice,” McGrew said. “Coach is al-ways telling us how well you play is how well you practice.”

Sophomore guard and forward Roland Nyama was 2-for-2 from the fi eld, includ-ing a three-pointer, and shot a career-best 10-for-11 from the line for 15 points.

Sophomore guard and forward Bryan Sekunda hit four threes for 12 points.

Devin Cannady and Henry Caruso had 16 points for Princeton (4-1).

“Since our games against Vanderbilt and Western Kentucky, we’ve been really good de-fensively. I’m really proud of Ray and to his credit, he played great.

Stony Brook used an 11-3 lead late in the fi rst half to take a 31-20 lead. Princeton cut it to 35-30, but the Seawolves scored six straight to end the half with a 41-30 advantage.

Th e Tigers scored the fi rst nine points of the second half before Warney an-swered with two straight baskets. Pete Miller’s layup with 15:47 left got Prince-ton within three, 47-44, but the Seawolves answered again, scoring 11 straight for their biggest lead of the game.

Nyama hit all 10 of his foul shots in the second half, with six coming with less than two minutes left .

Stony Brook shot 18-for-19 from the free-throw line in the second half.

Princeton entered the game shooting .485 from the fi eld and .396 from behind the arc. Th e Tigers shot 27-74 (.365) from the fi eld and 10-34 (.294) from three.

Stony Brook outrebounded Princ-eton, 41-28. Th e Seawolves had 16 as-sists on 19 baskets in the fi rst half. Stony Brook also made its fi rst six shots and 10 of 14 in the fi rst half.

Warney accounted for his sixth straight double-double, 12th straight dating back to last year and 45th over-all. Th e nine blocks from Warney are a career-high, breaking last year’s record of eight against Loyola University Maryland.

Warney earned his second straight America

East Player of the Week honor as a result of his performance.

He is three rebounds shy of becoming the sixth player in America East confer-ence history with 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds. Nyama’s 10 free throws are a career-high. He made nine against the University of Hartford last season.

Stony Brook traveled to face the Univer-sity of Notre Dame on Tuesday in a game that was televised live on ESPNU, but re-sults were not available by press time.

File photo from SBU Above, Rayshaun McGrew maintains possession as he looks for an open lane in a game last season. Left, Jameel Warney shoots from the free-throw line.

‘I’m really proud of the way Ray played today. He made a bunch of shots in a row, which really got us going.’

— JAMEEL WARNEY


Seawolves women bested by Syracuse, 64-49

The Stony Brook women’s basketball team (4-4) held a 25-23 halftime lead over No. 20/25 Syracuse University, but were outscored 41-24 in the second half, falling 64-49.

The Seawolves opened the game on a 13-5 run, then hung tough the rest of the first half, heading into halftime with a two-point lead. Syracuse only led 36-34 with 3:24 remaining in the third quar-ter, before rattling off a 9-1 run. The Sea-wolves got it back to 45-39 with 8:13 left in the fourth quarter before a 10-0 Syra-cuse run put the game away.

The Seawolves took away Syracuse’s bread and butter, the three-point line, holding the Orange to a season-low 16.7 percent (3-18) from behind the arc.

Stony Brook won the rebounding battle 43-38 behind nine rebounds each from freshman forward Ogechi Anya-galigbo and junior guard Kori Bayne-Walker. The nine rebounds tied Bayne-Walker’s career-high.

Stony Brook shot a season-worst 35.3 percent from the field (18-51), making

just one out of 14 three-point tries.Anyagaligbo led Stony Brook with 17

points, a new career-high, and nabbed her third straight Under Armour Amer-ica East Rookie of the Week honor as a result of averaging 12.7 points per game and 11.3 rebounds per game in Stony Brook’s three games this week.

Senior forward Brittany Snow scored 12 points. She has scored in double fig-ures in all eight contests this season.

The Seawolves have outrebounded their opponents in six of eight games this season, including the last four.

Stony Brook is 3-1 when making at least three three-point field goals and 1-3 when held under that mark.

Stony Brook will use finals week to re-juvenate before a game at Yale University on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m.

Ogechi Anyagaligbo scored a career-high 17 points

Photo from SBU Ogechi Anyagaligbo maintains possession while Syracuse University opponents swarm her to try to block her shot.

Seawolves open indoor season with pair of meets

The Stony Brook men’s and women’s track and field teams opened the indoor season with a pair of meets over the week-end, competing in a quad meet at Ford-ham University before taking part in the Metro Holiday Meet at the new Ocean Breeze Track and Field Athletic Complex on Staten Island.

“It was an opportunity for the track ath-letes to get out and compete after spending the fall training hard,” Stony Brook head coach Andy Ronan said of the Fordham meet. “For the coaches, it was a chance to see how the new members of program would compete the first time wearing the Stony Brook uniform.”

The Seawolves defeated all three oppo-nents in the quad meet Friday at Fordham in both the men’s and women’s competi-tion. The men downed Fordham 84-12, Providence University 74-19 and Iona Col-lege 91-1. The women defeated Fordham 67-37, Providence 80-21 and Iona 93-1.

Sophomore Kaylyn Gordon won a pair of events, taking the long jump with a mark of 18 feet, three inches and the 60-meter dash in 7.95 seconds.

“We saw a little bit of everything, but overall it was a solid meet for both squads,” Ronan said. “Kaylyn Gordon picked up where she finished last spring by winning two events, setting herself up for a success-ful sophomore year.”

Freshman Lauren Wangenstein won the 400-meter dash in 1 minute, 0.43 sec-onds. Freshman Holly Manning took the 1-mile run in 5:10.79.

The Seawolves took the top three spots in the 3,000-meter, led by a time of 10:21.30 from senior Tara Peck.

Senior Megan Liu won the triple jump with a mark of 35-6.5.

The top four spots in the men’s 3,000 were taken by Seawolves, led by freshman Kevin Vinolas, who crossed the line in 8:53.31.

Freshman Jason Marshall won the high

jump in 5-10/1.78m.The top two spots in the men’s long

jump also went to Stony Brook athletes, led by freshman Yanik Martin, who recorded a mark of 20-11.75. Freshman Izuchukwu Matthew won the men’s triple jump with a mark of 43-9.

Sophomore Courtney Warden won the 60-meter hurdles Saturday in 8.61.

“We sent a small group to the first meet at the new indoor facility on Staten Island,” Ronan said. “That group was led by a winning performance in the 60-me-ter hurdles by Courtney Warden, which was good to see as she builds on a very successful freshman year. Strong perfor-mances also came from Shanee Grant in the 500-meter and Devon White in the men’s 200-meter.”

The Seawolves will return to action Saturday, Jan. 16, at New Balance Track & Field Center at The Armory for the NYC Gotham Cup.

SBU defeats all three opponents in men’s and women’s action at Fordham

Photos from SBU Above, Kaylyn Gordon competes in the long jump. Right, Courtney Warden races down the track.

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a well-known musical family, with her brother Loudon Wainwright, and her nephew Rufus and nieces Martha and Lucy,” added Backfish.

The second scheduled 2016 perfor-mance will be on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 3 p.m. when Willie Nile will be performing. Advance sales are $25, $30 at the door (cash only), if available. “Willie Nile is a legendary figure on the rock music scene who came to prominence with a debut album hailed by critics. He writes pow-erfully and always delivers high-energy performances ... Since his most recent al-bum is a collection of his songs played on a grand piano, we’re looking forward to Willie making use of the grand piano in the Gillespie room at LIM,” said Backfish.

Another thing that won’t change in-cludes the annual Dylan show. “Our an-nual celebration of Bob Dylan’s birthday in May has always been special since we assemble a group of musicians who are devotees of Dylan’s work ... We’ll contin-ue this tradition at the LIM on Saturday, May 21, at 7 p.m.,” said Backfish. “Coin-cidentally, the museum at the time will be presenting a traveling exhibition from the Rock and Roll Museum and Hall of Fame,” he added.

The future schedule includes the Scot-tish band, The Paul McKenna Band in March, Ian Matthews and Plainsong in a tribute to Richard Farina in April and John Gorka, also in April. For details and tickets for the 2016 performances go to www.sundaystreet.org or www.gpjac.org.

The museum, which curates a large number of Setauket artist William Sid-ney Mount’s paintings, is a very appro-priate venue for concerts. Mount not only had many musical themes in his paintings but also played the violin him-self as well as designing a violin. “You can almost hear echoes of” him at the museum, noted Backfish.

The Sunday Street Concerts received a warm “reception from the folks at the Long Island Museum,” he added. “I’m really happy we were able to do this. The

people at the LIM ... want to expand their music — it’s very timely.” Backfish noted that the movement to the Long Island Museum really “expands what the muse-um does since they already are the venue for North Shore Pro Musica’s concerts.”

The move to the LIM “parallels some of the things they will be doing. For ex-ample, an exhibit on traveling music festivals ... It couldn’t be better timing,” noted Backfish, adding, “We’re delighted that the LIM has been so supportive in enabling us to continue this series in a great new venue.”

“We are very fortunate to be involved in this,” said Neil Watson, executive di-rector of the LIM. “This is our second season of North Shore Pro Musica. The museum is a cultural hub. We are try-ing to engage as many people as we can, create as many experiences as possible. I was interested in creating a singer/songwriter series after Pro Musica. When Charlie came to us about losing their space, the collaboration with him grew — a great marriage. We have a wonderful space and sound system and Charlie has the experience booking the talent. I’d like to do a jazz series in the future. We are beyond thrilled, so hap-py about it. People can experience the museum not only through their eyes but their ears.”

Regarding the future LIM music ex-hibit beginning in May, Watson noted, “It’s an opportunity to look at culture ... All festivals were a lightning rod for more than just music.” He added that during the exhibit there will be talks, panel discussions and additional music.

Backfish will welcome Watson and Joshua Ruff, director of collections and interpretation of the museum, as his guests on Sunday morning, Dec. 13, on his show on WUSB (90.1 FM and wusb.fm) to discuss the partnership of the Sunday Street Series with the Long Island Museum.

The Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages is located at 1200 Route 25A in Stony Brook. It is a Smithson-ian affiliate. For further information on the museum, visit www.longislandmuseum.org or call 631-751-0066.

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Photo from Charlie BackfishThe Sunday Street Concert series will welcome Sloan Wainwright on Jan. 17 to its new venue at the Long Island Museum.


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A R T E X H I B I T SArt League of Long Island

Art League of Long Island is located at 107 E. Deer Park Road, Dix Hills. Through Jan. 10, the gallery will present its 60th annual Members’ Exhibition. An artist reception and awards pre-sentation will be held on Jan. 10, from 1 to 3 p.m. Questions? Call 631-462-5400.Comsewogue Public Library

The Comsewogue Public Library is located at 170 Terryville Road, Port Jefferson Station. During the month of December, the library will present the photography of Jeffrey Bevis, a member of the Disabled Artists Guild. The exhibit may be seen during regular library hours. For more information, call 928-1212 or visit www.cplib.org.Emma S. Clark Library

Emma S. Clark Memorial Library is located at 120 Main St., Setauket. Through the month of December, the library will present display Fashion Illustrations by Elizabeth Adams. The exhibit may be seen during regular li-brary hours. Call 631-941-4080.Gallery North

Gallery North is located at 90 North Country Road, Setauket. Through Dec. 23, the gallery will present Deck the Halls, an exhibition showcas-ing a large selection of art, set at affordable prices and perfect for gift giving. Free admission. For further information, call 631-751-2676.Harborfields Public Library

Harborfields Public Library is located at 31 Broadway, Greenlawn. Through the month of December the library will present a photogra-phy exhibit by Frank Margiotta titled Beacons of the Light. An artist reception will be held on Dec. 12 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The exhibit may be seen during regular library hours. For more information, call 631-757-4200.Haven Gallery

Haven Gallery is located at 155 Main St., Northport. Through Dec. 23 the gallery will present an exhibit titled Little Big featuring a collection of small works measuring 8 by 8 inches and smaller. For more information, call 631-757-0500 or visit www.havenartgallery.com.Heckscher Museum of Art

The Heckscher Museum of Art is located at 2 Prime Ave., Huntington. Through April 3, the museum will present an exhibit titled You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists, and through March 27 the museum will present an exhibit titled Men at Work. A members open-ing reception will be held on Dec. 12 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 631-351-3250 or visit www.heckscher.org.Huntington Public Library

Huntington Public Library is located at 338 Main St., Huntington. Through Dec. 27 the li-brary will present Work on Canvas by Susan Bird and a Lionel Train Hobby Display from the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers. The exhib-its may be seen during regular library hours. For more information, call 631-427-5165.Huntington Arts Council

The Huntington Arts Council’s Main Street Gallery, 213 Main St., Huntington, will pres-ent an exhibit titled Members at Their Best through Jan. 8. For more information, go to www.huntingtonarts.org or call 631-271-8423.Long Island Museum

The Long Island Museum is located at 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook. Currently on exhibit is Hooked@LIM: The Crocheted Tree Proj-ect. Through Jan. 3, the museum will present Young Island: William Sidney Mount’s Scenes of Childhood. Through Jan. 3, the museum will present an exhibit titled Beth Levine: The First Lady of Shoes. Through Jan. 31, the mu-seum will present One Square Foot, the second annual exhibition by members of the LIMarts including 84 works in a variety of media. For more information, call 631-751-0066.

Northport Historical SocietyNorthport Historical Society is located at

215 Main St., Northport. Currently, the society is presenting an exhibit titled Northport and the Civil War: A Few Good Men. For more in-formation, call 631-757-9859.Northport/East Northport Public Library

The Northport Public Library is located at 151 Laurel Ave., Northport. Through Dec. 30, the li-brary will present an exhibit by Mary Ahearn titled Portraits: People, Pets, Places and Things.

The East Northport Public Library is lo-cated at 185 Larkfield Road, East Northport. Through the month of December the library will present an exhibit titled Fun Circa 1968 featuring graphic designer Jennifer Lau’s pho-tography of Fisher Price’s classic wooden peo-ple. In the display case will be The Greens of Winter featuring fine jewelry by Kate Sydney.

These exhibits may be seen during regular library hours. For more information, call 631-261-6930 or 631-261-2313.

North Shore Public LibraryNorth Shore Public Library is located at 250

Route 25A, Shoreham. The library will present Paintings by Eileen Ruggiero-Weilbacher. An artist reception, hosted by the Friends of the Library, will be held on Dec. 13 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The exhibit may be seen during regular library hours. Call 631-929-4488.Port Jefferson Free Library

The Port Jefferson Free Library is located at 100 Thompson St., Port Jefferson. Through the month of December the library will present Photos and Paintings by the Brookhaven Arts Council in the Tall Case and Meeting Room and Seascapes by Jamie Gonzalez in the Flat Case. The exhibits may be seen during regular library hours. For more information, call 631-473-0022.Port Jefferson Village Center

The Port Jefferson Village Center is lo-cated at 101A E. Broadway, Port Jefferson. Through Dec. 30, the gallery will present Painted Tales of Dickens & Winter by the Night Heron Watercolor Artists on the sec-ond f loor and a third f loor exhibit titled Celebrating the Village Center’s 10th Anni-versary. Viewing hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. For more information, call 631-802-2160.Ripe Art Gallery

Ripe Art Gallery is located at 1028 Park Ave., Huntington. Through Jan. 30, the gallery will present an exhibit by Carly Haffner with an opening reception on Dec. 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information, call 631-239-1805.Sachem Public Library

Sachem Public Library is located at 150 Holbrook Road, Holbrook. Through the month of December the library will present an exhibit titled Sachem Quilters & Quilts for Kids. The exhibit may be seen during regular library hours. Call 631-588-5024.STAC

Smithtown Township Arts Council is lo-cated at the Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, St. James. Through Jan. 8, the gal-lery will present its annual Member Artist Showcase.

The works of artist Granville C. Fairchild will be on view at Apple Bank, 91 Route 111, Smithtown, through Jan. 5, 2016, as part of STAC’s Outreach Gallery program. For more information, call 631-862-6575.Three Village Historical Society

Three Village Historical Society, 93 North Country Road, Setauket, is currently present-ing an exhibit titled Chicken Hill: A Commu-nity Lost to Time, along with the SPIES exhib-it about the Culper Spy Ring. Viewing hours are Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m., and by appointment. $8 adults, $5 children under 12, members free. For more information, call 631-751-3730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

Photo from Eileen Weilbacher‘Star Dancer’ will be on view at the North Shore Public Library through Jan. 16, 2016.

Call for artistsThe East End Arts Gallery, 133

East Main St., Riverhead, is seek-ing artists for its upcoming non-juried, all media Annual Members Show scheduled to open with a reception on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, from 5 to 7 p.m. The theme of the show is Out of Your Mind, and the show is open to all artists. Work must be original and may be in all types of media. Submission dead-line is Jan. 23. For more informa-tion, call 631-727-0900 or email [email protected] from Ripe Art Gallery

The works of artist Carly Haffner will be on display at the Ripe Art Gallery through Jan. 30.


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SeaSon’S ReadingSThe Northport Historical Society, 215 Main St., Northport will host a family event titled Season’s Readings on Dec. 10 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Join them for dramatic readings of some favorite holiday stories. The evening will also feature an ornament-making activity around the Historical Society’s Christmas Tree. $10 per family, $5 per family for members. Advance registration required by visiting www.northporthistorical.org. For more information, call 757-9859.Santa at the geneRal StoReSanta Claus will visit the historic St. James General Store, 516 Moriches Road, St. James on Dec. 12, 13, 19 and 20 from 1 to 4 p.m. to meet with children and hear their wishes. Bring a cam-era. Free. Call 854-3740 for further information.holiday SPectaculaR!The Brookhaven Ecology Center, 249 Buckley Road, Holtsville will present its annual Holiday Spectacular from Dec. 11 to 13 and 18 to 20 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tour the indoor walk-through light show, take a photo with Santa and more. Admission is $5 per person, children 3 and under free. Call 758-9664 for more information.elf on the Shelf cRaft eventJoin Craftree at the Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington on Dec. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. for a reading of “Elf on a Shelf” and then make a Countdown to Christmas goody jar to take home. For ages 4 to 12. $20 per child. Register online only at www.bookrevue.com.Santa’S WoRkShoPSanta’s Workshop, located at the corner of Barnum Avenue and W. Broadway in Port Jefferson, will be open on Dec. 12 and 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. Take a tour of this magical place and then meet Santa. Don’t forget your cameras. Free. Call 473-1414. let’S celebRate light!Maritime Explorium, 101 E. Broadway, Port Jefferson will present a walk-in program titled Let’s Celebrate Light! on Dec. 12 and 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. Explore patterns while creating a luminary to light your path. $5. Call 331-3277.c.S.i. WildlifeWertheim National Wildlife Refuge, 340 Smith Road, Shirley will present a program for families titled C.S.I. Wildlife on Dec. 12 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Learn how to identify mammals based on

observations of the teeth and shape of the skull. Free. To register, call 286-0485, ext. 2131.holiday fun on the faRm Friends of the Farm (formerly Lewis Oliver dairy farm), Burt Ave., Northport will hold a free fam-ily-friendly holiday event on Dec. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. Children can meet barnyard animals and Santa with live music and fun holiday activities. Call 261-6320 for more information.toddleR time With Jeff SoRgBook Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington will present Toddler Time with singer/songwrit-er/guitarist Jeff Sorg on Dec. 15 at 11 a.m. Free. No registration required. For further informa-tion, call 271-1442.gingeRbRead houSe cRaftLongwood Estate in Ridge invites children ages 2 to 6 years old to create a gingerbread house with real candy and frosting on Dec. 16 from 10 to 10:30 a.m. $10 per child. Preregistration required by calling 924-1820.handS-on aRtThe Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook will present a program for children in grades 1 to 4 titled Hands-On Art on Dec. 17 and Jan. 21, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Try different art techniques, including collage, painting with acrylics, marbleizing and print-making to create your own masterpiece in each monthly session. $10 per class, $8 members. To register, call 751-0066, ext. 212.make a holiday caRdCaleb Smith State Park Preserve, 581 W. Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown will hold a Tiny Tots pro-gram for ages 3 to 5 titled Holiday Cards on Dec. 17 from 10 to 11 a.m. $3. Advance registration required by calling 265-1054.

theater‘the little meRmaid’Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts, 2 East Main St., Smithtown will present Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” through Jan. 24. Ariel, King Triton, Flounder, Scuttle and, of course, Sebastian all come to life on the stage. Tickets are $35 adults, $20 children under 12. Call 724-3700.

‘baRnaby SaveS chRiStmaS’Theatre Three, 412 Main St., Port Jefferson will present a holiday favorite, “Barnaby Saves Christmas,” through Dec. 26. Join Barnaby, the elf and Franklynne the reindeer on a musical adventure to save Christmas. All tickets are $10. To order, call 928-9100 or visit www.the-atrethree.com.‘fRoSty’ Just in time for the holidays, the John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main St., Northport will present the musical “Frosty,” through Jan. 3. Join Jenny and Frosty on their chilly adventures as they try to save the town of Chillsville. Tickets are $15. Call 261-2900 or visit www.engeman-theater.com.‘beauty and the beaSt’S magical chRiStmaS’The Arena Player’s Children’s Theater will pres-ent its holiday show, “Beauty and the Beast’s Magical Christmas” at the Vanderbilt Museum’s Carriage House Theater, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport through Dec. 20, on Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 chil-dren. To order, call 516-293-0674.

‘my chRiStmaS elf’CM Performing Arts Center, 931 Montauk Highway, Oakdale will present the musical “My Christmas Elf,” on Saturdays, through Dec. 26. Join Mittens the toy maker as he helps Santa keep his naughty list straight while learning the true magic of Christmas. Tickets are $12. Call 218-2810.

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Photo from Friends of the FarmJoin Friends of the Farm in Northport for a free holiday event on Dec. 13.

Photos courtesy of the Smithtown Central School DistrictA scene from Smithtown High School East’s ‘A Christmas Carol’

A holiday classic comes to SmithtownMembers of the Smithtown High School East Drama Club presented the

classic Charles Dickens story, “A Christmas Carol,” on Dec. 3, 4 and 5 in the High School East auditorium. A special senior citizen show was performed on the evening of Dec. 2, and Smithtown High School East Principal Edwin Thompson even made a special appearance in the play.


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The holidays are upon us and that means it’s time for “Frosty” to come to life at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport. Under the direction of Rich-ard T. Dolce, the annual production, with a spirited cast of five adult actors, presents a lively show with song and dance that is perfect for its target audience.

Uber-talented Kate Keating reprises her role as Jenny, a young girl living in the town of Chillsville who loves the snow and loves winter. With the help of her mother, lovingly played by Court-ney Fekete, Jenny builds a snowman who magically comes alive, and the duo are quickly best pals. Making his Enge-man debut, Austin Morgan is a terrific Frosty and quickly connects with the audience, especially after he dances to “It’s Your Birthday.”

Jen Casey is the villain Ethel Pierpot, who wants to make Chillsville warm and snow-free so she can build a new factory. Her weather machine starts to make everything melt, including Frosty. With the help of the audience, Ethel Pierpot’s plan is foiled and, after a thrilling chase scene through the the-ater and an intense snowball fight, the machine is turned off.

From the very beginning the theater-goers become part of the show, thanks to the efforts of the narrator, Michael Verre, who guides the audience through the story with comedic genius. Verre draws the most laughs as he goes from being bundled up for winter to wearing

less and less each time he makes an ap-pearance on stage to demonstrate how warm Chillsville is getting.

Asking a full house last Sunday how to stop Ethel Pierpot from turn-ing Frosty into a puddle of water, Verre received some creative suggestions, in-

cluding have Frosty “go to a new town where there’s plenty of snow,” “put Frosty in an ice cream truck” and “re-verse the machine to cold.” At the end of the show, all the children are asked to wish for snow to keep Frosty from melt-ing and are rewarded for their efforts.

There was magic in the air at the Engeman Theater that morning — yes, a snowman came to life and, yes, it snowed inside the theater. But even more magical than that were the priceless expressions of joy, excite-ment and wonderment on the faces of the children in the audience.

Meet the cast after the show for pic-tures and autographs. An autograph page is conveniently located at the back of the program.

Take your child or grandchild to see “Frosty” and let them experience the magic of live theater. They will love you for it.

The John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main St., Northport, will present “Frosty” through Jan. 3. Tickets are $15 each. For more information, call 631-261-2900 or visit www.engemantheater.com.

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A magical ‘Frosty’ revists the Engeman

Photo by Michael DecristofaroKate Keating and Austin Morgan in a scene from ‘Frosty’

On the cover:Photo by Michael Decristofaro

Kate Keating and Austin Morgan in a scene from ‘Frosty’


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Wanted: Kids’ poetry and artworkKids, send your poetry, artwork, jokes or photographs to Kids Times, P.O. Box

707, Setauket, NY 11733 or email it to [email protected], and we’ll publish it as soon as we can. Please include your name, age and hometown.

‘A snowy winter’s night’ by Kailey D’Accordo Grade 7, Port Jefferson Middle School

� e moon was bright, as bright as a light bulb ready to shine� e white snow under the feet of the children � attened and crunched with every movement� e cool breeze sends people shivering, but happy for the beauty around themChristmas trees could be seen in the windows of people who love the snow and were as merry as a Christmas elf.Winter is glorious ... cold yes ... but absolutely glorioustake a look around youwhat do you see?Why? It’s beauty!

‘Winter is here’By Molly Treder

Grade 5, Nassakeag Elementary School, E. Setauket

Snow� akes fall all di� erent and beautifulOne by one they dance to the ground

� e � u� y white snow piles up like a mountainHearing laughing children riding colorful sleds

Winter is hereMaking your old snow friend

A carrot, some pebbles, two frosty sticksA black top hat, a scarf and a pair of mittens

� en your snow friend is readyWinter is here

Making huge snow fortsPacking the cool snow in round balls� rowing them at your fun friends

Winter is hereSitting by the warm � reSmelling wood burning

Waiting for mom to make steaming hot cocoaWhen it’s ready plop some little marshmallows in

Feel the hot cocoa run down your throatWinter’s here!

Photo by Heidi Sutton

Gabby, age 3, of Farmingville shows o� the pretty butter� y she painted at Plastercraze in Selden last Friday afternoon.

BY GISELLE BARKLEY

� e Seiskaya Ballet School is always on point, especially around the holi-days. For the past 21 years the compa-ny has performed its rendition of “� e Nutcracker” at Stony Brook Univer-sity’s Staller Center and this year is no di� erent.

“Christmas is [� e] Nutcracker,” said Valia Seiskaya. Russian-born Seiskaya has choreographed the school’s “Nut-cracker” since 1995 when they started performing the production at the Staller Center. While “� e Nutcracker” is pop-ular around the holiday season, the bal-let school took a theatrical approach to the performance. Dimitri Pa-padakos, the ballet school’s ad-ministrator and Seiskaya’s hus-band, said the performance will include a � ying sleigh, a dragon that blows smoke and other elements that will bring the perfor-mance to life.

“If you’re going to do something you might as well try to do it better than anybody else,” Papadakos said. “So we got creative in our sets.”

� e backdrops for the school’s annual production are tailored speci� cally to the Staller Center stage. Viewers can get a hint of scenes to come by looking at the back-drops during the performance. While the production is designed for a full the-atrical experience that will keep even the youngest audience members glued to their seats, the dramatic setting isn’t the only captivating aspect of Seiskaya’s “Nutcracker” — it’s also about the acting and dancing of the production’s 90- to 100-member cast.

Soloist Diana Atoian is returning for another shot at “� e Nutcracker.” Like many “Nutcracker” performers, 14-year-old Diana has several roles in-cluding Clara. She said what makes

Seiskaya’s rendition of “� e Nutcracker” so unique is the dancers dedication to their cra� .

“It’s just the passion that gets us go-ing,” Diana said. “Valia is a very good teacher. She helps us feel it and she makes us want to keep pushing and keep moving forward.”

Her fellow soloists, 13-year-old Madison Mursch, 12-year-old Brianna Jimenez and 14-year-old Jenna Lee agreed that Papadakos and Seiskaya push their dancers to execute the cho-reography and acting correctly. Being strict is part of Seiskaya’s method and

it has been since the school was

established in 1974.

“My wife does not be-

lieve in d u m b i n g down based on who’s available,” Pa-

padakos said. “You’ve got to

rise to the occasion.”Last year the school lost

a handful of its older danc-ers who went on to college. � e change le� young-sters like Diana, Madison, Jenna and Brianna to take

the lead on bigger roles like Clara, the Snow Queen, Sugar Plum and the Chocolate Soldier, respective-ly. Twyla � arp Troupe dancer Nick Coppula will be returning to reclaim his role as the Cavalier this year.

Viewers can see these young dancers and get the full theatrical experience on Friday, Dec. 18, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 20, at 1 and 6 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University. Tickets are $40 for adults, $34 for children and seniors and $30 for groups of 20 or more. For more information call 631-632-ARTS or visit www.nutcrackerballet.com.

Photos from Dimitri PapadakosAbove, a scene featuring principal dancer Alexandra Palma as Sugar Plum with a host of Angels opening Act II from last year’s production of ‘The Nutcracker’; below, guest artist Nick Coppula with partner Seiskaya Ballet principal dancer Alexandra Palma in the elegant Sugar Plum Pas de Deux

Seiskaya’s ‘Nutcracker’ returns to the Staller stage

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