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Published by Halston Media, 2020-05-27 15:57:16

The Somers Record 05.28.20

Vol. 10 No. 6 Visit TapIntoSomers.net for the latest news. Thursday, May 28, 2020

PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL JOCKIMO The man you call in a crisis
Paul Jockimo lives ‘service to others’

BY CAROL REIF subject of fear and anxiety, much less talk ment of Emergency Services, Jockimo
STAFF WRITER openly about mental illnesses and rising is helping troubled comrades get on the
suicide rates. road to recovery.
Sometimes the rescuers need rescuing.
For anyone who doesn’t have to deal Now, in these post-9/11, current CO- As the founder and president of Peer
with catastrophe routinely, it’s nearly im- VID-19 crisis times, care and compas- Support Networks Inc. and faculty
possible to imagine the emotional wear sion for those who see their fellow hu- member of the International Critical In-
and tear many rst responders su er. mans at their most vulnerable and never cidents Stress Foundation, he engages in
Twenty- ve years ago, although “criti- countless one-on-one conversations, in-
cal incident stress” had already been rec- inch has become part of “our everyday terventions, group processes and referrals
ognized as a growing national problem, vernacular,” says Paul V. Jockimo, who 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
su erers were encouraged to suck it up just wrapped up his term as chief of the
and move on. No one dared raise the Somers Volunteer Fire Department. His brain is always on call. at in it-

And he should know. When not work- SEE JOCKIMO PAGE 8
ing his day job with the county’s Depart-

Vote on trustees, budget due by June 9

ree vie for two seats

BY CAROL REIF Lindsay Portnoy Rodric Rabbah
STAFF WRITER

ere are three candidates running for two three-year terms on
the Somers Board of Education

ey are incumbents Dr. Lindsay Portnoy and MaryRose Joseph
and newcomer Dr. Rodric Rabbah.

Here are their answers to three questions posed by e Somers
Record.

SEE TRUSTEES PAGE 16
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Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Somers Record – Page 3
Honoring those who served
Several town groups came together to or-
ganize a virtual Memorial Day ceremony in
Somers on Monday, May 25. e Somers
Fire Department, Somers Historical Soci-
ety, the Town of Somers, St. Joseph’s Church,
the Somers Lions and others all had a hand
in putting together the ceremony, which was
available for residents on Zoom. Taps was
played by Lion Vince Trotta. e full ceremo-
ny is available here: https://bit.ly/2M3mDSs.

Joseph Green, a veteran of the Korean War, stops by the Lion Paul LaSpina and Supervisor Rick Morrissey placing a
memorial to pay his respects. wreath.

Boy Scouts from Thelma Barlow
Troop 376 in Somers stops traffic for
put flags on veterans
graves at the filming of the
Ivandell Cemetery playing of the Taps
for Memorial Day for Somer’s Zoom
while following
social distance rules. Memorial Day
ceremony.
PHOTO COURTESY OF
ANDY CHEUNG

Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

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Somers trivia man takes his game online

BY CAROL REIF
STAFF WRITER

OK, pub quiz lovers, here’s your rst Kelly and Ana Barr and Charlie at Lasdon Park PHOTOS COURTESY OF KELLY BARR
question. (Disable your cell phones and no
cheating.) digitally. And side-bar confabs are held on But those gigs dried up with the launch Kelly Barr, Somers trivia meister, at home

What legendary local trivia maestro is Google Hangout, Discord chat or Zoom. of social distancing regulations. line with participants and playing (inten-
now engaging and entertaining folks like tionally) distracting music (but not loudly)
you from as far away as Colorado and Some hosts have even deployed intricately However, don’t feel too sorry for the ir- in the background while they try to come
Alaska? up with the answers.
organized videoconferences with their repressible entrepreneur; he’s found a way
Answer: Somers’ own—somewhat iron- Barr’s only been doing it for a short time
ically named—Kelly Barr. regular customers. to bring the fun to folks stuck at home. but has already hosted games involving
more than 100 people. Wife Ana’s Pomer-
Congrats to those who got it correct. Barr, who also happens to manage Barr has been dishing out the questions anian, Charlie, has been known to cutely
But, sorry, this time winners will have to photobomb the action on Barr’s end.
make do with bragging rights instead of Somers Wine & Spirits, has hosted “Kel- about history, music, sports and pop cul-
free beer. Even though there are no so-called
ly’s Trivia” contests at places such as the ture via Facebook Live on ursdays at 8
From now until the end of the quaran- SEE TRIVIA PAGE 6
tine, it’s strictly BYOB (Bring Your Own Somers Pub on Lovell Street, e Pub in p.m.
Barstool).
Yorktown Heights and the Mahopac Inn He calls it his “Quarantine Edition” and
Instead of stu ng themselves into a
booth with a pack of cheerfully rowdy for about four years. He has also done it at he tries to duplicate the bar experience as
friends, pajama-clad players now snuggle
up next to Rover on the couch before r- community residence homes. much as possible, playfully bantering on-
ing up the very devices they were told to
tuck away before.

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demic has made hanging out at the local
watering hole verboten and popular trivia
ventures like Barr’s have had to shift to the
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TRIVIA ers pay Barr to host. ey also foot VID-19 horror can hit. Her boy-
FROM PAGE 4
the cost of prizes such as free beer, friend, Stephen, just lost an aunt to

Bu alo wings or gift certi cates. the disease.

“prizes”involved,the friendly com- For the Facebook version, Barr People from all over the country

petition has never been ercer. thought about asking players for (Texas, Washington, D.C., Alaska)

MATERIALS Here’s how it works. At the ap- a small contribution, but quickly and of all ages are getting into the

MASONRY & LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES pointed time,go to Barr’s Facebook abandoned that idea when he saw act, including Barr’s nephew Jer-

page,Kelly’s Trivia.(You have to be how much it meant to folks to get emy, who lives in New York City,

Facebook friends to participate.) together,albeit virtually,for an hour and his twentysomething friends

en click the link when the site or two of “relief ” from pandemic who are currently cooped up in

Largest WmeanOufffearc: turer of goes live. worries. their Colorado apartment.

Barr takes a few minutes to e response has been great and Jeremy, Barr’s ad hoc IT guy, has

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individuals on the eld and then Said sister-in-law Lori Mos- time spent competing is “the best

lets rip with ve rounds of six kowitz-Barr: “It’s fun to win but part of the week.”

questions apiece. Answers MUST the connectedness that we all feel, at’s the biggest prize of all—

Mason Sand & Patios come in via personal messaging, not being able to physically be with knowing that a little game can

Item• T4opsoil and muFlclahgsatovnaeiTlarebaldes NOT posted in the comment each other but knowing every per- make a big impact.

box (otherwise, competitors can son’s and each team’s energy is one “It just warms my heart,” said

3/8”, 1fo1r/4a” sWlaoswhedas $2Fo0r Spteeprsyard steal them). He then tallies up the at the time—THAT is the true Barr.

GMVar•uarliAcvoheulwsgCirdaoelvoerseledalMenucdltcihpoanAFDtioilreolafTldinypdapSaegetovescneoPerrVsaCtiFvoer scores and posts the winner’s name gift. ank you, Kelly’s Trivia, for OK,, playas far and wide, here’s

on Facebook the next day. giving us that!” your last question: What do you

At rst, the trivia bu wasn’t Barr’s 25-year-old daughter, say when the weary old world is

sure where his new adventure Sarah, also plays. Sadly, she knows getting you down?

CSwemeeetnPt eBe•lotDckes livery aREvxoacciaklavHabatilomenmWerorWk ork would take him. Usually, bar own- how close to home the CO- Answer: Let the games begin.

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JOCKIMO people,”he said. Unit—perished at Ground Zero. a close pal, 35-year-old volunteer he feels “honored and privileged”
FROM PAGE 1
In New York a few days later, as re ghter Lt. Michael E. “Satch” to have worked alongside fel-

LIFE CHANGERS he looked in horror at the smoking Neuner. e ve-year veteran of low Somers re ghters, as well as

self could be stress-inducing, but On Sept.11,2001,Jockimo,then rubble of the World Trade Center. Ladder 4 died battling a house re members of the local Lions Club,

for Jockimo, it’s a blessing. one of New York City’s bravest, Jockimo was gut-wrenched, realiz- in the Putnam County village after Somers Police Department, State

Pro led in photographer Paul was on vacation in North Carolina. ing that some his friends were “part becoming trapped in the home’s Police and town government.

Mobley’s 2017 book “American But within minutes of learning of of that dust.” basement.

Fire ghter,” he makes no bones the terror attacks, he had jumped Even in that hour, he was no Also part of the crew that day, LOVE MEANS NO

about the times he needed and on his cell phone and was mobiliz- stranger to the heartbreaking ex- Jockimo survived…physically.Like LIMITATIONS

asked for support. ing dozens of emergency teams. perience of “in the line of duty” 9/11, the date is forever engraved Sel essness is simply something

Now Jockimo feels duty-bound Eighteen of his comrades— deaths. in his memory: June 22, 1997. that should never be taken for

to return the favors. many of them members of the Four years before,when Jockimo A Peekskill police o cer, Neun- granted.

“I just want people to help other Special Operations Command was a re ghter in Brewster,he lost er was supposed to be on vacation Jockimo bears that in mind ev-

but had reported to the scene be- ery Mother’s Day when he thinks

cause the home belonged to people of the woman who gave birth to

he knew. him but gave him up so he could

And it’s those personal con- have a better life, and of his late

nections that can really ramp up mother,the one who took him into

anxiety levels for rst responders. her heart and home.

For all they know, the person they “People just didn’t adopt kids like

just rescued could be a neighbor, me,” said the childhood subject of

one of their children’s teachers or Manhattan author Bernard Wolf ’s

the friendly guy who runs the deli groundbreaking book, “Don’t Feel

where they get co ee every day. Sorry for Paul.”

It’s the human factor that makes He also thinks of his childhood

the current coronavirus mess so occupational therapist who taught

“singular,”said Jockimo. him that the only limitations he

GREAT TO BE BACK! Everyone seems to know some- had were the ones he chose.
one who has gotten infected and Jockimo was born with ectro-

recovered, or has died. en there’s dactyly, a genetic condition char-

the very rational fear of bringing a acterized by hand and foot abnor-

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from 11:30am - 8:00pm for the need for psychological support But, as he said in his “American
CURBSIDE TAKEOUT & DELIVERY will last long after the pandemic’s Fire ghter” bio: “Big deal, every-
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“Service to others” isn’t a hack- He’s never let a mere digital
neyed phrase, it’s “a mind-set…a
way of life,” he said, adding that SEE JOCKIMO PAGE 9

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Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Somers Record – Page 9

JOCKIMO munity, Jockimo’s “wheels are always turning.” rough his training,Jockimo came to re- “How great will it be to hug people again?”
FROM PAGE 8
alize that suppressing thoughts and feelings he asked.

KEEPING IT INSIDE had “harmed”him “and many others as well.”

de cit get him down.“Pinkies,what purpose Shortly after Jockimo joined his rst re “ rough these simple processes, coupled A BIG‘FAMILY’

do they serve?”he once joked. company at 17, he was part of a team extri- with compassion, empathy, and presence, e SVFD has about 105 members and

A passionate home cook and baker, the cating a car crash victim from the wreckage. I now saw a new way of taking care of our handles an average 2,500 calls a year.

only kitchen utensils he’s not really good e teen didn’t know how to process seeing most valuable assets, our re ghters and “ at’s a lot of lives touched,” Jockimo

with are chopsticks. (But, hey, who is?) the person’s mangled body. He also knew EMTs,”he said “American Fire ghter.” said of his big “family.”

“I don’t like to ght with my food,”he ad- he couldn’t show that it had a ected him. “I It was Neuner’s death in 1997 that Joc- Jockimo is button-busting proud of all his

mitted jovially. didn’t want to seem weak, so I kept it inside,” kimo said changed his life forever:“From the fellow volunteers, but he’s especially pleased

Wolf followed the then 7-year-old for two he said in “American Fire ghter.” surrealism, fear and grief that was the scene by the way younger folks have been stepping

weeks during his daily routine that included Jockimo went on to ght res the same that morning, to the enormity of the plan- up to the plate.

putting on complicated prosthetic devices, way, aggressively and “without excuses.” To ning and preparing for what would follow, Five members of the Junior Corps have

horseback riding,playing football and painting. folks who asked him how he handled a hose this was unfamiliar territory.” just earned their EMT cards. Many have

His realistic portrait included the gutsy kid’s or an ax, he’d answer: “If you want some- Line of duty deaths are not uncommon in gone onto related careers in such areas as law

reactions to random insensitive remarks and thing bad enough, you just nd a way.” larger cities, but smaller communities “rarely, enforcement.

his clever way of avoiding tasks he didn’t like. By the time he was 23, re ghting was a if ever, go through such a horri c event.” “It’s a great group,a testament to their advis-

Jockimo regrets that he never got to re- “large part” of who he was, but, sadly, so was As part of his own reckoning, Jockimo ers and the way they motivate them,”he said.

connect as a grown-up with Wolf. drinking.Like everything else,he tackled the started studying them,eventually developing en there are the volunteers with 40 or

“It is easy to focus on the bad and the problem head-on, and with the moral sup- courses to help others heal. 45 years under their belts. “ ey’re still here

negative. But, adjust your view and shift port of a retired chief who had been sober for Since, he has lost many friends in the line at 3 a.m. regularly.”

your perspective to focus on the good that many years, he cleaned up his act and went of duty as well as suicide. He handed o the chief ’s helmet to Jona-

so many are doing these days, the humanity, on to work in the Bronx with the FDNY “ eir lessons,and legacies,go into all that than “Jon”Mackey on May 1 but will remain

compassion and caring for others,”he said. Bureau of Fire Communications. I do,”he said in “American Fire ghter.” as a member of the department.

Like lots of little boys, he got the yen for In 1995, he transferred to the Westches- Since 1998, he has traveled all around the Of all the titles Jockimo’s held–chief, in-

battling blazes when he rst spied a re truck ter County Fire (now Emergency) Services country sharing these lessons. As a survivor structor and author–the best are dad and

blasting by his window with sirens blaring.He and was recruited for the regional Critical of PTSD, addiction and divorce, Jockimo’s re ghter because “both mean family.”

was 4, bored and stuck in a Manhattan hos- Incident Stress Management Team by a co- looking forward to the day when people don’t Some re chiefs might wrap up their time

pital during one of his innumerable surgeries. worker who told him he had the right stu . have to stay 6 feet apart from one another. in o ce by talking about the “big ones,”ma-

However, it was godfather Freddie jor res they commanded.

Kempter who really kick-started his future CHANGING OF THE GUARD And Jockimo does not deny that public

career. A Mount Kisco volunteer re ghter, The SVFD announced the names of its new line officers, effective May 1. accolades are nice, but he treasures the pri-
Kempter was killed by a drunk driver when vate victories “somewhere down the road”–
They are: Chief Jonathan Mackey; 1st Assistant Chief Raymond Carile; 2nd
Jockimo was 13. the ones he sees in the eyes of those he’s tried

“He was the one who taught me that if Assistant Chief Gregory Lucia; Capt. John Meeker; Capt. Curt Benge; Fire to help.

your neighbor needs help, you help.” Police 1 Capt. Robert Dugan; EMA Capt. Stephen D’Angelone; Fire Lt. Michael What does he hope his “legacy” as a chief
One of those neighbors he’s helped, Larry Cyrulik; Fire Lt. Kevin Barry; EMS 1st Lt. Brendan Porteus; EMS 2nd Lt. Brian will be?
Fleming, and Fire Police 2 Lt. Mike Walsh.
U er of the Somers Lions Club,said that when “ at’s simple: that I cared about every
it comes to thinking up ways to help the com- one of my people.”

THANK YOU

TO ALL OF THE FIR ST RESPONDER S, HE ALTHC ARE
EMPLOYEES, PHARMACIES, EMT’S, FIREFIGHTERS AND
HARD WORKING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PUTTING THEIR
HE ALTH AT RISK FOR THE PUB LIC E VERY SING LE DAY...YOU
ARE OUR HEROES. PLE A SE STAY SAFE AND HE ALTHY.

1# AGENT IN DONNA O’CONNELL
SOMERS Associate Real Estate Broker
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[email protected]
donnaoconnell.houlihanlawrence.com

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