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Grief support group suffers a new loss were there when Grillo found her. “They were able to provide For years, Circle of Hope has me comfort,” Grillo said. “I been meeting in the Lynbrook don’t know what it would have Public Library so its members been like had I been alone.” Mendola was the kind of can work through the grief of losing a loved one. Now they person who did everything face uncharted territory — with warmth. When the Herald what do they do when their worked with her on a story last leader herself, Angela Mendola, summer, she welcomed this n e r vo u s yo u n g has died? reporter into the “Angela had topCircle of Hope with ics, would bring out open ar ms. Over t h i n g s we n eve r the course of the knew we were feelmeeting, members ing, and deal with talked honestly those feelings,” said about the messy, Faye Pakula, who complicated and joined the g roup unglamorous expetwo years ago after losing her husband r i e n c e o f g r i e f. to pancreatic can- FAyE PAkUlA Mendola met it cer. “She really was unflinchingly, headCircle of Hope wonderful.” on and with a canmember Mendola, 84, died dor that didn’t sacon July 5 after a rifice kindness. It heart attack. The members of made grief less scary, somehow, Circle of Hope, which was to know that as big as it can be sponsored by Our Lady of in one’s heart, it would never Peace R.C. Church until recent- scare her off. ly, knew something was wrong Mendola was a role model to when she didn’t show up at her daughters, Laura Jean their weekly Friday meeting on Bonacore and Grillo. As an July 5 — she never missed a adult, she went back to school, meeting. They contacted her at Molloy University, to finish daughter, Christine Mendola her undergraduate degree, and Grillo. They came to the house earned a master’s from Fordand waited outside. And they
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Teeing it up for charity The Lynbrook Mayor’s Golf Outing on Monday raised money for the Lynbrook Community Chest. Above, from left, Marc Losquadro, Brian Stanton, Ralph Romanelli and Matt Fauerbachn. Below, Lynbrook Mayor Alan Beach, far right, presents Police Chief Brian Paladino with an honoree plaque, with Jeff Greenfield at near right. Story, more photos, Page 10.
think we feel like we’d have another loss. Another loss of Angela.
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