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Annie O’Shea grabs goldPort Jefferson Station athlete earns first place in skeleton World Cup race in Lake Placid

Photos by Pat Hendrick at top, annie o’Shea practices in lake Placid prior to the World cup race. above, o’Shea flaunts her new gold medal.

By daniel dunaief

Everything started turning around for Port Jefferson Station’s Annie O’Shea this past summer.

A veteran of the high-speed world of skeleton racing, O’Shea had a reputation for her extraordinary sprinting speed. She just hadn’t been able to put it all together.

In skeleton, where racers use the same tracks as bobsled, com-petitors, clad in aerodynamic suits and helmets, sprint at top speed with their hands on their sleds for five seconds, until they dive on top of the sled, steering through treacherous turns at speeds of over 80 miles per hour by shifting their body weight.

“For years, she’s been known for having one of the fastest starts in the world, and then losing that on the way down,” said Tuffy La-

tour, head coach of the United States skeleton team.

But not anymore.At an International Bobsleigh

& Skeleton Federation World Cup race last week, O’Shea was poised to do something she’d never done on her home track in Lake Placid: collect a medal.

Behind the leaders by a tenth of a second after the first of two heats, she visited with her skeleton coach-es and her conditioning coach, Brett Willmott, who is also the as-sociate head track and field coach at the University of Vermont.

“Her first run, she was a little sloppy” with her sprint, Willmott said. “I told her to be aggressive in the last four steps. That’s all she needed to know.”

With a physical game plan, O’Shea, 28, stood at the starting gate, waiting her turn to dig her

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Barns’ last hurrahexhibit makes final stop in Port Jeff

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Brookhaven is back in business.Elected officials, their family members

and other residents packed into the Town of Brookhaven auditorium in Farm-ingville on Jan. 7 to witness Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) being sworn into his second full term in office alongside fellow recent-ly elected and re-elected board members, including board newcomer Councilman Michael Loguercio (R-Middle Island) and other town officials.

Back in November, Loguercio won the

race for the 4th District — a position pre-viously held by former Councilwoman Connie Kepert, a Democrat.

Valerie Cartright, the councilwoman from Port Jefferson Station, is now the only Democrat on the seven-member board.

Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) said last week’s ceremony was a day of celebration that helped validate how residents voted during the 2015 elections.

In light of the board’s past work, Suf-folk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) highlighted Romaine’s performance as the supervisor, saying that he has always

been one of the fiercest and most passion-ate advocates for what he believes in.

Although residents saw the supervi-sor and Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R) officially sworn into their terms on Jan. 7, other elected officials re-cently elected to the board were officially sworn in at a previous event two days earlier.

While several councilmembers were no strangers to the ceremony, the swear-ing in process still never gets boring, one North Shore lawmaker said.

“I’m really excited to get started again,”

Councilman Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) said before the ceremony. “It was a great first two years — we accomplished a great deal. I’m really looking forward to the next two years.”

Romaine was sworn in last by Judge Judith Pascale.

“I pledge to work with my town board to find common purpose,” Romaine said in his speech following his oath. “To ad-dress these challenges head on and to make decisions necessary for a prosper-ous future and one that serves all the resi-dents of this town.”

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Foundation shocks Tesla Science Center with grant Money will fund the purchase of a cataloging programBy Giselle Barkley

Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe rang in the new year with another grant.

On Jan. 5, the center announced that it received a grant from the Robert Da-vid Lion Gardiner Foundation. The news comes just two days after the anniversary of Tesla’s death, which was on Jan. 7, 1943.

The money from the grant will fund the purchase of a cataloging program and storage unit. While the new unit allows the center to store artifacts and collections, the program, PastPerfect, will help the center record and document those artifacts and collections.

The organization applied for the $3,800 grant in October and was approved the following month. Although it received the grant in December, the organization was unable to buy the program at the time. But the news that they received the full $3,800 grant was a surprise.

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foun-dation supports and aims to preserve New York State history, particularly in Suffolk County. The foundation is known for meeting organizations halfway on an approved grant.

“We support [the organizations],” said Kathryn Curran, president of the founda-tion. “But they also need to find ways to

be sustainable.”Organizations applying for a grant must

be able to fund half the money it requests on the application. Curran said Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe received the full grant they applied for because the organiza-tion wasn’t requesting a significant amount of money and because, when it comes to fundraising, Curran said, the center is one of the best. Although Tesla Science Center applied for the grant in hopes of purchasing the program, Treasurer Mary Daum said the program hasn’t been installed yet, but will be soon.

In 2012, the center raised $1.37 million dollars in one month from a crowdfunding campaign. Daum said this was the orga-nization’s first real fundraising campaign. The money they raised helped purchase the Tesla Science Center property at the time. As Nikola Tesla’s last and only existing laboratory, Tesla Science Center at Warden-clyffe is world-renowned, leaving them with thousands of followers. Some followers are active donors, while others like to keep up with the center’s newsletter.

Although the organization didn’t use crowdfunding to help raise money for its last fundraiser, they raised around $17,000 during its six-week campaign.

“We’ve done so much work on construc-tion or improving the grounds, and that’s

not the kind of thing the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation supports,” Daum said. “But what they do support is preserv-ing Long Island’s historic legacy.”

While it was the first time the center applied for a grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, it wasn’t the first time the foundation gave an organiza-tion the full grant it applied for. The founda-tion wants to know that organizations like the center at Wardenclyffe are meeting their fundraising goals.

It will be a few years before the center

achieves its main goal of establishing a sci-ence center and museum, but Jane Alcorn, president of Tesla Science Center, said it recently purchased a collection of historic electrical equipment that are similar to tools Tesla may have used during his lifetime and other artifacts the center can catalog.

“We feel very fortunate that the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation provided funding for us to start our collection on the right foot,” Alcorn said. “We’re grateful to their foresight in providing grants to us and local institutions.”

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POLICE BLOTTERIncidents and arrests from Jan. 2-Jan. 10

Ale House to JailhouseA 20-year-old man from Port Jeffer-

son Station was arrested on Jan. 8 for robbery. Police said the man approached another person with a silver semi-auto-matic handgun and stole cash and a cell-phone from the victim outside Miller’s Commack Ale House on Veterans Me-morial Highway in Commack. Police ar-rested the man that day around 1:15 p.m. at his residence.

Double the troublePolice arrested a 24-year-old man and

an 18-year-old woman from Coram for loitering and unlawful possession of a controlled substance on Jan. 5. The man allegedly injected himself with heroin before throwing the needle into the woods near Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Port Jefferson Station and was also found to be in possession of marijuana.

Tools of the tradeOn Jan. 8 at 5 p.m., police arrested a

24-year-old man from Mount Sinai for criminal possession of stolen property. Police said he had three power tools that he received in December from another unidentified person, who had stolen them. Police said the man was also in pos-session of a plastic bag of cocaine, but he was not charged with drug possession.

The seat warmerA 19-year-old Miller Place resident

was arrested on Jan. 5 for unauthorized use of a car. Police said the man entered a 2011 Jeep Cherokee at a residence on North Country Road, then a 2002 Chev-rolet on the same road shortly afterward. Police said the man didn’t steal anything but remained in the car. He was arrested around 2 a.m.

Swipe leftAccording to police, an unknown per-

son stole an iPhone from a home on Bea-ver Lane in East Setauket. Police said the individual didn’t break into the home. The incident happened on Jan. 7 at 7 p.m.

Idling while intoxicatedPolice arrested a woman from Port Jef-

ferson for driving while ability impaired after receiving a call about the 45-year-old woman sitting in a 2010 red Toyota Prius outside the Applebee’s on Route 25A in Miller Place. Police said the en-gine was running when officials arrested the woman on Jan. 4 at 9:40 p.m.

A handy heistPolice said someone entered the

Lowe’s on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook on Jan. 8 at 11 p.m. and stole an electric heater and leaf blower.

Push it, push it real goodAccording to police, two unidentified

males got into a physical altercation on Jan. 10 on West Broadway in Port Jefferson. The two men shoved one another mul-tiple times. One was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for a laceration.

A safe decisionOn Jan. 8 between 6 and 8 p.m., an

unknown person broke into Old Coach Motors in Mount Sinai and stole a safe that stored money and papers.

Stopped in a flashPolice arrested a 26-year-old man

from Setauket on Jan. 7 at 12:23 a.m. for driving while ability impaired in a 2006 Honda Civic. According to police, offi-cials pulled the man over on Route 25A in East Setauket for speeding and dis-covered he was intoxicated.

Path to prisonA 35-year-old man from Centereach

was arrested for driving while ability impaired in a 2008 Jeep on Jan. 5.

License to stealOn Jan. 7 at 1:35 a.m., a 47-year-old

Holbrook man was arrested for steal-ing two license plates from a 1998 Ford Explorer on South Coleman Road in Selden. And between Jan. 6 at 5:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the following day, an un-known person stole license plates from a car parked on Old Town Road in Port Jefferson Station. It was not clear wheth-er the two incidents were related.

Hickory dickory smashAn unknown person broke a win-

dow of a residence on Hickory Street in Mount Sinai on Jan. 4 at 2:56 p.m.

Mad for musicOn Jan. 10, an unknown person stole

headphones and batteries from the Walmart on Nesconset Highway in East Setauket. The incident happened around 12:25 p.m.

Lost and foundSomeone stole a 2000 Honda Civic

from a residence in Lake Grove on Jan. 9. Police said the owner of the car didn’t know it was stolen until after the car was recovered on Elwood Road in Cente-reach on Jan. 10, around 1 a.m.

Shell gameAccording to police, just past mid-

night on Jan. 10 someone stole a televi-sion from a shed at a residence on Shell Road in Rocky Point.

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After 57 years, the Thurber Lumber Company won’t be open for business after January.

The family-owned and -operated business is giving its inventory to Riverhead Building Supply, a lumber company that announced plans for expansion on Jan. 5. The latter company will also acquire several Nassau Suffolk Lumber locations including its lumberyards in Port Jefferson, Locust Valley and cabinet showroom in Bohemia. The company will still own its Huntington lumberyard, but Riverhead Building Supply will also operate out of that location.

Although Thurber Lumber is transferring its lum-ber and tools to Riverhead Building Supply, Thurber is keeping its property in Rocky Point. Kevin Keillor Jr., co-owner of Thurber Lumber, couldn’t disclose what he and his father Kevin Keillor Sr. will do with the prop-erty, or their asking price if they decide to sell the land, because the deal between the companies is ongoing.

John Callahan, president of Riverhead Building Sup-ply, said his company expects to close the deal in early February. Callahan also wouldn’t disclose how much his company will spend on Thurber’s inventory and Nassau Suffolk Lumber’s three lumberyards. He said his business and the two lumber companies started discussing plans to transfer ownership last November.

“We have good relationships with all of our competi-tors in the area,” Callahan said. “Growth has always been a primary focus. It’s known among our competi-tors. If an opportunity arrives [the companies are] open to those discussions.”

Keillor Jr. and Nassau Suffolk Lumber owner Chris Van Tuyl approached Riverhead Building Supply. He didn’t specify why they decided to sell the company’s inventory but said the “business climate over the years has certainly changed.”

According to Chicago Mercantile Exchange, toward the end of September 2008 lumber prices dropped be-low $230/1,000 board feet. Since then, lumber prices increased to $256.70/1,000 board feet.

While the recession hit many businesses hard, Thurb-er Lumber, which was founded in 1931, and Nassau Suf-folk Lumber, survived as they had for several decades. Twenty-eight years later, Myron Keillor purchased the property. For nearly six decades the family owned and operated the business that served a wide variety of com-munities in the area. While the reason behind its clos-ing is unknown, Nassau Suffolk Lumber chose to sell because Chris Van Tuyl and his brother William don’t have another family member to take over the business.

“My brother and I don’t have any kids in the busi-ness and we started to get some offers for the property,” Chris Van Tuyl said.

Amid the property offers, the duo decided to contact Riverhead Building Supply last year. They hoped selling to a fellow lumber company would help their employees find jobs once the store closed. Riverhead Building Sup-ply is accepting job applications from former Thurber and Nassau Suffolk Lumber employees.

Nassau Suffolk Lumber was incorporated in 1927. The Van Tuyl family was one of four families in the lumber business to come together to strengthen the company during tough economic times. The company’s Port Jefferson lumberyard was established several years later, in the late 1970s.

Although the transfer of ownership is a loss to the company, Chris Van Tuyl also said his customers and employees alike will be in good hands. Once the deal closes this coming February, Riverhead Building Sup-ply’s new stores will be open to the public.

“There’s a lot to do in the next three weeks,” Calla-han said. “We look forward to continuing the relation-ships that these companies have with their customers.”

Long time lumber companies close doorsPhoto by Giselle Barkley

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Flanagan legislation sparks fire safety victoryNew law requires all smoke alarms sold in New York to operate on batteries that function for a decadeBy Phil Corso

This time, the batteries are included.State legislation aiming to address

fire safety for New York families was signed into law this week, requiring ev-ery smoke alarm sold be equipped with a nonremovable, nonreplaceable battery that powers the device for a minimum of 10 years. State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) heralded the new law he sponsored as a protective measure against house fires.

In a statement, the senator said the law would help ensure that smoke alarms are operational for a longer pe-riod of time and hopefully save lives. Since smoke alarms were first mandated in the state back in 1961, Flanagan said that deaths due to fire have been cut in half, but most deaths due to fire today happen in homes with either no smoke alarm or a nonfunctioning one. Under the new law, Flanagan said, homeown-ers can be protected from dangerous fires for a longer period of time without constant maintenance.

“Too many families in our state have suffered the loss of a loved one due to

a fire emergency, and this new law is aimed at protecting New Yorkers from this pain,” Flanagan said. “The data is crystal clear in how essential smoke de-tectors are in saving lives.”

Over the operational life of the average smoke alarm, the new law could also po-tentially save homeowners money by elim-inating the need for replacement batteries every six months, Flanagan said. After the 10-year operational time period of the device, a new smoke alarm device would need to be purchased as a replacement.

Firemen’s Association of the State of New York President Robert McConville said lawmakers, including Flanagan, have taken big steps to keep New York families safe.

“We would like to thank State Sen. John Flanagan for his leadership on this critical issue. Simply put, his efforts in passing this legislation will help save lives in New York State,” he said. “We’ve seen time and again that working smoke alarms can be the difference between life and death. Together, State Sen. Flanagan, Assemblyman Joseph Morelle (D-Irond-equoit), and N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) have succeeded in making

New York a safer place to live.”The new law will go into effect in

April 2019, once an agreed-upon chapter amendment between the Governor, the Senate and the Assembly is approved.

It will not apply to devices which have been ordered or that are in inventory when the law goes into effect. It will not impact devices that are powered through electrical systems, fire alarm systems with smoke alarms, fire alarm devices that connect to a panel or other devices with low-power radio frequency wireless

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“It is critical that all homeowners who do purchase these devices in our state are able to trust them for a full decade,” Flanagan said. “The goal is to help New Yorkers protect their homes and their families, and this legislation is a great step in that effort.”

File photostate sen. John Flanagan is celebrating one of his latest legislative victories, which address-es fire safety for homeowners across New york.


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Photo from the Town of Brookhaven Treasurer Bill Gorham, President Walter Butler, Councilwoman Jane Bonner and build-ing chairman Pat Spero pose for a photo during the annual blessing.

Ancient Order of Hibernians has blessing in Mount Sinai

On Jan. 9, Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) joined mem-bers of the Ancient Order of Hiberni-ans, Division 9 from Port Jefferson, for the annual blessing of the hall.

The mass was held by Chaplain Father Henry Reid at the Mount Si-nai Recreation Facility. In March of 2015, the town and the AOH signed an

agreement for the organization to use the center as their home.

“The Ancient Order of Hibernians has a long, rich history in Brookhaven Town,” Bonner said. “Theirs is a proud tradition of community service and I am happy that they have made their home in the Mount Sinai Recreation Facility.”

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PUBLIC NOTICE

MILLER PLACE FIRE DISTRICTTOWN OF BROOKHAVEN

SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the MILLER PLACE FIRE DIS-TRICT will change the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners from Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. to Wednesday, Janu-ary 20, 2016 at 5:00 pm.

Dated: Miller Place, New York January 4, 2016

By Order of the Board ofFire Commissioners of theMiller Place Fire District Janet Staufer, District Secretary

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NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETINGS

OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS

OF THE SOUND BEACH FIRE DISTRICT FOR 2016

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Fire Commission-ers of the Sound Beach Fire Dis-trict in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will hold its regular monthly meet-ings for calendar year 2016 at 8:00 P.M. on the First and Fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Main Firehouse of the Sound Beach Fire District, 152 Sound Beach Boulevard, Sound Beach, New York. Dated: Sound Beach, New York January 6, 2016

By Order of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Sound Beach Fire District Lynnann Frank, District Secretary

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NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE BOARD

OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE MT. SINAI FIRE DISTRICT

FOR 2016

The regular monthly meet-ings of the Board of Fire Com-missioners of the Mt. Sinai Fire District for 2016 will be held on the Third Tuesday of every month at 8:00 P.M., at the fire-house located at 746 Mt. Sinai Coram Road, Mt. Sinai, New York 11766.

Dated: January 6, 2016 Mt. Sinai, New York

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

OF FIRE COMMISSIONERSMT. SINAI FIRE DISTRICT

Marianne Waterbury, Secretary

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NOTICE OF MEETINGSOF THE ROCKY POINT

FIRE DISTRICT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Rocky Point Fire District, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, the monthly meetings of the Board of Fire Commissioners of said District for 2016 will be held at the administrative office of the Fire District adjacent to the Shoreham Firehouse, 49 State Route 25A, Shoreham, New York at 7:00 PM (prevailing time) on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Workshop sessions will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. There will not be a workshop meeting in the months of July and August. Dated: January 08, 2016BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE ROCKY POINT FIRE DISTR1CT, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York.

By: Edwin S. Brooks Fire District Secretary

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Rocky Point High School senior Christofer Casswell has been named an Army ROTC scholarship recipient and is one of only three Long Island stu-dents to earn the program’s four-year scholarship so far this year.

In order to be considered for the scholarship, Casswell was required to complete a lengthy and detailed ap-plication process, including a survey, interview, physical fitness test and ex-amination by the review board.

Casswell will be joining the ROTC program at Providence College next fall, where he plans to major in political science. Through his four-year enroll-ment, Casswell will take a traditional course load of classes while also partici-pating in the ROTC’s leadership classes and physical training program, includ-ing field and infantry exercises. Upon graduation, he will exit college with the ranking of active lieutenant and serve four to five years in the Army by com-

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OBITUARIESAlice Marie Hansen

Alice Marie Hansen, 95, of Berkley, N.J., and formerly of Rocky Point, died Jan. 5, 2016.

Born March 4, 1920, in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of the late Olaf and Olava Brinch; she was predeceased by her beloved husband John.

She was employed as a secretary for Lam-borne Sugar, in Manhattan. She is survived by her loving son Paul, three cherished granddaughters and seven great-grandchil-dren. Hansen was a dedicated member of the Brookhaven Senior Citizens Club, the VFW Ladies Auxiliary and the Order of the Eastern Star. Family and friends met at the Rocky Point Funeral Home on Friday, Jan. 8; a funeral procession at Calverton Nation-al Cemetery followed. All funeral arrange-ments were entrusted to the care of Rocky Point Funeral Home.

Beatrice A. CassidyBeatrice A. Cassidy, 76, of Rocky

Point, died Monday, Jan. 11.Born July 28, 1939, in the Bronx, she

was the daughter of the late Edward and Margaret Harvey.

She was predeceased by her beloved husband William and is survived by her loving daughters Anne Friello, Al-ice Cordova, Betty Grant and Kathleen Cosme, son William and 11 cherished grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16, at St. Anthony of Padua R.C. Church in Rocky Point. Calling hours will be Friday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Rocky Point Funeral Home. Internment will take place at Cal-verton National Cemetery at a later date. All funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Rocky Point Funeral Home.

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Family turns � ghting adversity into uplifting momentBY DESIRÉE KEEGAN

Ethan Agro has always been able to turn tears of sorrow into tears of joy.

Even though he was born with a con-genital heart defect, the 12-year-old was always a trooper, and especially so when he needed to lay on an operating table last year and undergo eight hours of open heart surgery to repair his aortic valve.

“My husband and I and my family were crying tears of joy,” Ethan’s mother Susan Agro said a� er the operation went smoothly. “Words cannot describe what a di� cult time last year was. It was a really, really hard deci-sion to make and we were re-ally surprised. It was a rough recovery for the � rst few weeks, but Ethan did great, he had an amazing recovery and we are so grateful.”

Again, on Saturday evening at the men’s home basketball game, Ethan turned the triumph of a successful sur-gery and recovery into happy tears as he won $500 by banking the Gold Coast Bank three-point hal� ime shot.

“I was just so grateful that he was able to stand out in front of that crowd and

make that shot,” she said. “I was crying tears of joy.”

His mother went to the refreshment stand and while away, a student intern group randomly picked Ethan to attempt the shot. He asked his mother for per-mission and she said yes without hesita-tion, although warning her son that no one had made the basket yet this season.

But he did.“I was surprised to see it go in,” Ethan

said. “When I was taking the shot I wasn’t focusing on what the crowd was think-ing. I was focusing on making the shot.

I was so excited, and shoot-ing in front of the crowd was an honor. I always admired those people — wanting to get picked.”

Stony Brook Assistant Athletic Director of Mar-keting Chris Murray said

Ethan was randomly picked, not know-ing that the family, which has lived in Mount Sinai for the last 16 years, had been to all of Stony Brook University’s men’s home games for the last � ve years. � e Agros are season ticket holders and especially enjoyed using the games as an escape while Ethan waited six weeks af-ter scheduling his surgery.

“I myself was on the court with Ethan when he hit the shot and his eyes lit up and he began to run in circles, unsure how to contain his excitement,” Murray said. “I couldn’t have been more happy for him, giving him a big hug as soon as we got o� the court. Ethan is the most humble and appreciative middle-school-er I have ever met.”

Ethan has been on the court before, taking part in summer camps at the school but said being on the court at that moment was extra special.

Susan Agro said the whole moment was exciting as the boy was cleared to return to all normal activity just three

months ago, and being that they are such big fans of the team.

“I told Ethan he could’ve danced a little bit with Wol� e,” his mother said, laugh-ing. “But I was completely shocked for the rest of the day. Everyone was high-� ving Ethan a� er the game and telling him it was a good shot and what a great story, they were all really excited for Ethan. It was an awesome experience.”

Ethan’s father Nick Agro said he was more excited to see his son be able to go back to playing basketball, as the boy competes in an intermural league.

“� is was just a sort of culminating moment — to see him stand up there and make that shot was awesome,” he said. “It just solidi� ed that he’s doing so well.”

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spikes into the ice and fly down the mountain on a sled she’d purchased be-fore the start of the new season. Thus far, the veteran slider, as skeleton racers are known, was a respectable 11th on the World Cup tour, competing against the best other countries had to offer.

Her mental approach before her second heat was noticeably different to Latour, who knew O’Shea had “potential that was through the roof.” Last Friday, looking down her home track in front of a raucous crowd that included school children ring-ing cowbells and screaming her name, O’Shea looked “relaxed and composed,” the head coach said. She’s a “changed person.”

Part of that change came from hiring a life coach.

“I used to take [every] problem I was having to the track,” O’Shea said. “[I] needed to get everything else off my mind. I feel like I’ve never been so strong on the inside.”

That strength, and the physical adjust-ment, helped her relax on a course where she had always felt extra pressure, especially after years of training that started when she attended SUNY Plattsburgh.

True to form, O’Shea had a strong start in her second heat, igniting a ride along a track where she and her sled sounded like a freight train as she flew past spectators camped out at their favorite turns.

“She held the corner in turn 14 well,” Latour said. “If you nail that corner well on this track, you’ll be very fast.”

Latour said O’Shea tied a track record with her 55.08-second finish in her second

heat, making up for her tenth-of-a-second deficit and putting the heat on the only two racers who could catch her. O’Shea stood at the bottom of the track with a nervous grin on her face as she watched her competition try to beat her combined time of 1 minute, 50.34 seconds.

Even before the race ended, she knew she would have a medal. At that point, she just wasn’t sure what color it would be.

A Swiss athlete, Marina Gilardoni, was ahead of O’Shea through much of the race. At the very end, O’Shea’s time was just enough, by 0.09 seconds, to keep her in first, ensuring that the color of the medallion that would soon be hanging around her neck would be, at the very least, silver. O’Shea had earned a silver medal before though, in 2011, in La Plagne, France, and this time she

wanted gold.The next competitor, Lau-

ra Deas of Great Britain, was also ahead during the second run, but she too fell back. As-sistant Coach Zach Lund, who was holding O’Shea’s hand while she awaited her

fate, assured her she’d won the gold before Deas’ run had ended.

“I couldn’t even react until she crossed the finish line,” O’Shea said. “Then, the mo-ment it showed red,” meaning Deas was be-hind O’Shea, “I lost it. I couldn’t believe it.”

O’Shea screeched, jumped in the air and gave Lund, among others, a hug. Standing on the highest rung of the platform, O’Shea had finally earned gold, and what made it even sweeter was that it was on her home track.

Back home, where she works in the Com-sewogue school district offices, her mother, Linda O’Shea, was cheering so loudly that teachers from down the hall came flocking to her desk to see what all the commotion was about.

“I’m so proud of her,” Linda O’Shea said. “It was just nice to see how happy she was. When she realized she was going to get any medal, she was really excited.”

O’Shea and her other three daugh-ters spent the better part of the morning exchanging emails. The mother has her daughter’s silver medal at home on a shelf, and is looking forward to adding the gold to the collection.

After the medal ceremony, O’Shea signed autographs for some of her enthusiastic young fans. For years, she was too focused on where she finished. Now that she’s keep-ing her approach much simpler, O’Shea, and Latour hope this is just the beginning.

“If she sticks with it and stays focused,

she can do anything,” Latour said.While she’s pleased with her first World

Cup gold medal, O’Shea has her sights set on a bigger prize: the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

“This is the start of what I want to accom-plish,” O’Shea said.

After a decade on the tour, struggling through all types of challenges, O’Shea may have found her groove months before she stepped on the ice this season.

“She did a lot of stuff this summer that’s starting to pay off,” Latour said. “This is her time.”

On the immediate horizon, O’Shea will compete in the next World Cup race in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 15 and 16.

Photo from Amanda Biro Annie O’Shea, center, claimed a first-place finish behind Marina Gilardoni from Switzerland, left, and Laura Deas from Great Britain, right, in the World Cup skeleton race in Lake Placid.

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— Tuffy LaTour

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EDITORIALBig shift coming

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel is stepping aside at the end of the year, declining to run for another term in the House this November, after what will be 16 years as the Democratic representa-tive for the Huntington and Smithtown areas. But his departure will affect more than just western Suffolk County.

Long Island residents in general should be paying attention to the 3rd Congressional Dis-trict seat in the coming year. Our officials at the federal and state levels work with their neigh-boring colleagues to get things done that benefit Long Island — sometimes in a quid pro quo sort of way. That means that no matter the elected body or who our representative is, the priorities and the character of the person who is elected in the next district over from us are important. And with Israel gone, no matter who is elected to replace him, Suffolk County will have two longtime congressman exiting in two years, after Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) unseated Democrat Tim Bishop in 2014.

That’s not to say that new blood is a bad thing.Zeldin kept himself busy during his first

year in the House, authoring several bills. Most recently, he introduced the Earnings Contingent Education Loans (ExCEL) Act of 2015, which aims to help young people manage their federal student loan debt by making the repayment system more flexible, with payment amounts based on the borrower’s salary. And in interviews with this newspaper, Zeldin has called being a newcomer a positive — party leadership supports their freshmen, he said, because they want to help them retain their seats.

We appreciate Israel’s long service to our community. That being said, electing a new point of view to Congress has the potential to be a good thing for Long Island, which is in a state of flux as we try to plan our economic and environmental future.

3rd District candidates, all eyes are on you.

File photoOne year after his Long Island colleague Tim Bishop, left, was ousted, Congressman Steve Israel has announced he will not seek re-election.

Make the pledgeTO THE EDITOR:

Some of the presidential candi-dates fully support the National Rifle Association and advocate an unrestricted interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Furthermore, they suggest that several of the recent mass killings might have been prevented, or reduced in scope, if more people were carrying guns.

Each of those candidates could exercise their conviction by mak-ing a pledge to the American public, stating that should they become president, they’ll sign an executive order stating that whenever they make a public ap-pearance, the Secret Service and all other security agencies will not do weapons screenings.

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UnbelievableTO THE EDITOR:

It's amazing how mindlessly people stroll through the Internet, and how willingly they gobble up information without knowing any-thing of its origin or accuracy.

The recent public discussion about the lottery provided us with a prime example. Someone created a meme that alleged that if the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot was di-vided among the roughly 300 mil-lion people in the U.S., each person would get $4.33 million. Sounds pretty great, right? We could end poverty and hunger overnight.

The only problem is that $1.3 billion divided by 300 million is $4.33 — as in dollars, not millions of dollars. Not exactly a sum that puts an end to American poverty.

Of course, as other critics have pointed out, there is also the matter of the U.S. population being closer to 309 million, and that a large portion of the jackpot is lost to taxes — both of which would cut individual shares even further.

Some may argue that the meme's author intended to make a point about the distribution of wealth and used false math on purpose,

Image from FacebookThis incorrect meme has been shared all over the Internet.

but whatever the intention, all that person did was prove that stupidity knows no bounds. All over Facebook and other social media sites, people were sharing the meme in complete seriousness, exclaiming they wanted their cut of the jackpot. Some, to their credit, recognized the error. But most did not and became outraged over the

meme's false information.People need to stop lapping up

every sensational thing they hear, and they especially need to stop repeating everything they hear. Maybe then we can have actually productive conversations about poverty, hunger or anything else.

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Differences between the sexes in tall stories

He started, “Once upon a time, three little brown bears.”

“No, no, that’s not right!” she shouted, interrupting him before he could get to the ac-tion. “They weren’t little, there weren’t three of them and they weren’t brown.”

“Wait!” he protested, putting up a finger. “Who is telling this

story, you or me?”“No, well, if you’re going to

tell it, tell it right,” she argued.“But it’s a children’s story,”

he snapped. “Can’t we just tell the story?”

“You want him to go to school with the wrong details? You want him to come home with a bloody nose because someone punched him when he argued about whether they were little brown bears or medium-sized, endangered polar bears?”

“You think our kid is go-ing to get into a fight because I might have used the wrong details in a story? Weren’t we trying to put the kid to sleep? Look at him now. He’s crawl-ing all over the bed, putting everything he can reach into his mouth,” he said.

“Yeah, well, get the details right next time,” she huffed, storming out of the room.

What is it about storytelling that divides the sexes? Why is it that a man remembers a story

one way and a woman seems so much better at remembering the details?

Is it fair to generalize? Well, like every generalization, yes and no.

A friend recently shared his observation that his girlfriend, whom he thinks is absolutely one of the best people he’s ever known, has only one small problem — she tends to take all the momentum out of his stories by correcting him.

Is she wrong, I wondered? And even if she’s not wrong, do the details matter? When I thought about all the couples I’ve known over the years, it seemed to me, in my nonscientific recol-lections, that the women were more likely than the men to halt a story to fix a detail.

“So, there were we were, in the middle of a fire alarm scare in Boston, and we were stand-ing at the window ledge, eight stories up,” he might be saying.

“No! No! We were in San

Francisco, not Boston, and we were on the 11th floor,” she might suggest.

A glare and bad body language often follows, as the man loses the thread of his story while he grinds his teeth, wondering whether he can or should confront the love of his life in front of other people.

Is this one of those differ-ences between the sexes that reflect the fact that men are from Mars and women are from Venus? I suspect it is. The way I see it, the details we share about our lives in stories are like the fish we might col-lect if we were standing at the edge of a pier in Stony Brook, dropping nets into the water to catch fish — or story details — as they swim by.

The holes in a man’s net are larger, letting the small fish swim through, while the holes in the women’s nets are smaller. The women pull up their nets and notice and count

the large and small fish, paying meticulous attention to every-thing, cataloging the variety of fish in their nets.

The men look at the fish and wonder: (a) “Is this enough for dinner?” (b) “Should I take a picture of it?” and most impor-tantly (c) “Did I catch more fish than my brother or the stranger at the end of the pier who kept bragging about all the fish he caught?”

The next time a man’s story goes off track because of specific details, maybe he can suggest he’s focusing on the “bigger fish.” Then again, a woman might rightfully reply that he’s just telling another “fish” story.

No! No! We were in San Francisco,

not Boston, and we were on

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Rapturously waiting for a customized diet

Here is some new informa-tion for those struggling with their New Year’s

resolution to lose weight. Not all of us metabolize the same foods in the same way. How we metabolize is unique for each of us and depends on different factors such as genetic makeup, gut bacteria, body type and chemical exposures. Further complicating the picture is the variability of response by the same individual, depending on stress and one’s environment at

any given day or week.Now we know that we are all

different in what we can eat. I remember when I was in sev-enth grade and a good friend asked me to join her every day after school at the nearby Schrafft’s, the ladies genteel luncheon restaurant, for an ice cream sundae. Slender and yet to have need of a bra during our puberty years, she thought she could hurry such develop-ment along with some more poundage — her straightfor-ward goal was to gain weight. The year was 1952 and if you can believe it females gener-ally did not go into restaurants alone, although Schrafft’s was known to cater to women.

So being a good pal, I went with her each afternoon for a month, and we rapturously enjoyed hot fudge sundaes with vanilla ice cream in chilled metal cups. At the end, she got on the scale and to her disgust she had not gained an ounce. I, on the other hand, although having changed nothing else in my ordinary diet during that time, had gained five pounds,

which I subsequently worked hard — alone — to take off. Moral of story: Different bodies digest differently.

Now if we were in the caveman days, as a physician once told me, I would have a better chance of survival in times of starvation ra-tions because I can store reserves better than she. But to this day she is reed slender … and I am not.

How do bodies absorb and metabolize differently? If we could figure that out, people like us would be more successful follow-ing diets — a notoriously difficult thing to do. The same dietary advice does not work for everyone.

A recent study published in the prestigious journal, Cell, “found a startling variation in the glucose responses of 800 subjects fed the same foods,” according to an article in Science Times, a section of the Tues-day New York Times. “Some participants had sharp increases in blood sugar when they ate ice cream and chocolate, while oth-ers showed only a flat or moder-ate response.” They could have been talking about my junior

high school friend and me.“Each person’s capacity to

extract energy [calories] from foods differs, it appears,” the article continued. The research-ers went further with their study. Using today’s high tech tools, they combined glucose responses of each participant with identifica-tion of gut bacteria, medications, family histories and lifestyles, and devised a formula that correctly predicted blood sugar responses to foods not yet eaten in the study. Once they could do that, the scien-tists could then modify diets and boost good gut bacteria accord-ing to whatever the goal might be for better health; for example, how to lose weight and/or prevent diabetes. The study is titled, “We Just Do It with Food,” and is co-authored by Dr. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

The study is based mainly on genetic testing, according to The Times, but scientists have only begun to explore the links between DNA and good nutri-tion. The answers for each person are not simple because there are the many variables previously

mentioned: those same genes, microbes, diet, environment and lifestyle on any given day. To date, 38 different genes have been linked to nutrient metabolism, and the technology in the form of sophisticated computers exists to analyze big data issues.

Meanwhile, until these stud-ies produce customized diets for us, keep eating whole grains, lean meats, and lots of fruits and vegetables, especially the green leafy kind.

Interestingly when I was a kid, I remember people who were fat blaming their weight on their “genes.” Most of us didn’t even know what genes were, and all of us scoffed at that idea. Obe-sity was considered a failure of willpower then, pure and simple. Little did we know how right those people turned out to be.

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Photos by Bill Landon Clockwise from above, the Rocky Point cheerleading team poses for a photo with its Small School Division I ‘A’ first-place trophy; the Eagles get in formation during their two-and-a-half minute routine; and the girls leap into the air.

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Cheerleading squads from all over Suffolk County converged on the mats of Rocky Point High School Sunday for the Suffolk County cheerleading sectionals, where Rocky Point and Comsewogue ran away with first-place finishes.

Cheerleading officially became a rec-ognized sport in the 2015-16 school year, making this sectional event the first time that the competition is overseen and sanctioned by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association.

Rocky Point was the first of 31 teams to take to the mat in Small School Di-vision I “A,” and the squad wowed the crowd with a two-and-a-half minute routine, despite head coach Anna Spal-

lina feeling less impressed by her Eagles, which are 12-time regional and three-time national champions.

“You have two and a half minutes to prove yourself out on the mat — if you don’t prove yourself in those two and a half minutes, you don’t get a second chance,” Spallina said. “You can’t go to the net again with a ball, or throw that pass one more time, so one little slip, an inch this way or an inch that way, and you can throw it away.”

Pleased or not, Spallina’s squad earned first place in the division followed by Longwood, and East Islip came in third.

With a team consisting of mainly eighth- and ninth-graders, and only three seniors, Rocky Point senior Court-ney Kelly said the Eagles’ only competi-

tion was themselves.“We don’t worry about any other

teams, we just worry about ourselves be-cause the only routine we have to beat is ours,” she said.

Brittany Reh said there are some other challenges now that cheerleading is rec-ognized as a sport, such as a different scoring sheet and new rules, but thought her team performed well despite the changes.

“We had a pretty good performance,” she said. “We stayed positive.”

Comsewogue hit the mat in the sec-ond session, competing in the Small School Division I “B,” and the Warriors put on their performance as the crowd exploded in applause with their finish. But head coach Stefanie Breitfeller was just relieved that the routine was behind her, as the team had yet another hurdle to jump prior to a competition.

“We had a major change this morning as I found out last night one of the girls came down with pink eye,” Breitfeller

said. “We had to replace a starter, so we came into this thinking this could go badly or it could go very well.”

Comsewogue senior Rachel Steck said she thought her team performed well, but thinks that like always, there is room for improvement.

“It could’ve been a little tighter, but I’m just so proud of my team,” she said.” We did our best today. We’ll practice our routine; we’ll make it harder and we’ll make it cleaner.”

Claire Johannesen said her Eagles team has had better execution on the mat, too, but said the squad will contin-ue to work hard to remain at the team’s standards.

“Today was an OK performance, so we definitely have things we have to go to work on in practice,” she said. “But we did many things well that we’ll build on going forward.”

The teams will reconvene on Sunday, Jan. 24, at Hauppauge High School for the second round of competition.

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