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Community aids Jamaica after hurricane out to her and asked if she was willing to help. “Without a doubt,” Espeut Christina Espeut, a PTA re c a l l e d h e r a u n t s ay i n g . mom at Meadow Elementary “Whatever you all need to help School, and her family take an with this relief, we’re happy to annual trip to Jamaica. Due to step in.” Once people saw the flier the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa in October, Espeut made, the donations Espeut had to break the news came pouring in. “People were to her children that their fami- texting me that lived in Baldly t r i p w a s c a n win, parents, even celed this year. people in different “ M o m m y, h o w boroughs, just like, can we help?” Cae‘Hey, can I send you lyn Espeut, 10, a Amazon stuff ? I fifth-grader at heard about this Meadow Elementai n i t i a t ive, ’ ” s h e ry, asked through said. “It was a comtears. She insisted plete success.” t h at h e r m o t h e r Donations were email Meadow Ele- ChRISTINA ESpEuT collected not only mentary Principal PTA mom, organizer at the school and at Yolanda Martin, as Espeut’s home in well as the school’s Baldwin, but also Parent Teacher Association, to at Gala Fresh Supermarket on set up a relief initiative for the Nov. 22. people affected by the hurri“T hey made signs, they cane. Everyone was on board, made fliers, they were at Gala and they got started. handing them out, letting peoOne potential problem resi- ple know that they were coldents faced as they began plan- lecting things that were in ning was out-of-pocket costs need,” Meadow PTA Co-presiand inter national shipping d e n t S o p h e a S a i n s u r i n fees. But Espeut had a plan. recounted. The students had Her aunt owns ACM Shipping collected money in donations, International, a company that and then purchased items at ships overseas, so she reached
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Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau
Dante White, 21, and his parents, Theresa and Wayne.
Baldwin athlete reunites with the health care heroes that saved his life By AllYSoN FERRARI aferrari@liherald.com
During this season of giving thanks, Dante White, 21 of Baldwin, and his parents, Theresa and Wayne White, welcomed the chance to reunite last week with the first responders who helped saved his life in March of this year. White, a 20-year-old student at the University of New Haven at the time, was home from school for spring break, and went for a run in his neighborhood on March 10. On his way home, he was struck by a car at the intersection of Forest Avenue and Clyde Road. In an attempt to jump out of the way, he landed on the hood of the car, and his right arm smashed through the windshield, lacerating his skin and severing the artery in his armpit.
He lost consciousness and was bleeding uncontrollably, and, according to a release from Mount Sinai, if it weren’t for the members of the Baldwin and Oceanside fire departments who responded to the scene, and the trauma team at the hospital he was treated, he most likely would have died. “I would have for sure died,” White said on Nov. 26, during a visit to the hospital where the departments’ firefighters and EMS personnel and trauma team members gathered. I was five minutes away from dying.” The trauma team at the hospital quickly treated his wounds, and saved his life. “His survival was not the work of one person, or even one team,” MSSN Trauma Medical Director James Maurer said, “but the results of a coordinated effort involving ConTinueD on page 7
here’s still people in this world that care.
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