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Vol. 29 No. 25
JUNE 18 - 24, 2020
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School election results North Shore Board of Education winners Richard Galati 3,585 votes Andrea Macari 3,255 votes
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North Shore’s $110.3 million school budget passes. 3,084 “yes” votes 1,892 “no” votes Andrea Macari Courtesy North Shore Central School District
cruising by for a diploma Graduating fifth-graders like Ty Fichtl had their diplomas presented to them by Principal Jeanette Wojcik, second from left, and teachers Beth Pipala, far left, and Meredith McAssey during Sea Cliff Elementary’s Moving Up Car Parade Ceremony. Story, page 18.
New unit at Glen Cove Hospital to help recovering Covid-19 patients By AlEc Rich newsroom@liherald.com
On April 15, Etienne Fontaine noticed that his father, Edner, was struggling to breath while on a Zoom call with his congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. As the night wore on, Edner’s condition worsened, and around 1 a.m., Etienne found him screaming in his bedroom as he fought for air. On the advice of Etienne’s sis-
ter-in-law, a nurse at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, Edner, 78, was taken to Southside from his home in Central Islip, where he tested positive for Covid-19. Over the following month and a half, Edner was placed in two medically induced comas, each lasting longer than a week, and he needed the help of ventilators and a tracheotomy to breath during his time in and out of the intensive care unit. “Every time I saw the number
of the hospital calling me, if I was standing up or driving I would pull over or sit down, and my heart was just pumping,” recalled Etienne, 44, who is in the Navy Reserve. “I didn’t know what would happen if I was given bad news, but I always kept thinking positive.” His father recovered from the virus late last month, but remained weak after spending so Continued on page 4
Proposition 2, a request to use funding from the capital Reserve, passes. 3,401 “yes” votes 1,441 “no” votes The passing of Proposition 2 will enable the district to use up to $3 million in funds from the Capital Reserve Fund established in 2016 for school improvement projects beginning next year. These improvements include a renovation of the nurse’s office at Glen Head Elementary and renovations of the boys’ and girls’ locker rooms at North Shore Middle School.