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Reunited with those who saved his life as the crew was preparing to transport him to the Glen Cove Hospital emergency room, they A Locust Valley High School finally detected signs of life. “I noticed he was starting to senior who collapsed during basketball tryouts was reunited move again,” Sila said. “And within two minlast week with the utes, he was talking coaches, first responders and to us.” medical staff Allocca was whose quick rushed to the hospiactions saved his tal, where he was life. stabilized before Seventeen-yearbeing taken to old Francesco Cohen Children’s Allocca said he Medical Center in remembers warmNew Hyde Park. ing up on Nov. 17, Thanks to the and then “everyswift intervention thing kind of faded and expert medical out.” Moments care, Allocca was later, he went into able to spend sudden cardiac T hanksgiving at arrest on the gym home with his famfloor. ily. ANDREW SIEGEL Coaches reacted Head basketball Head varsity instantly. They took coach, Locust Valley basketball coach turns administer- High School Andrew Siegel said ing cardiopulmohe was part of a nary resuscitation collaborative before switching to the auto- response involving assistant mated external defibrillator coach Ben Martinez, junior stored outside the gym. varsity assistant coach Andrew Allocca was given three Bock and varsity baseball head shocks from the device, but still coach Brian Lorusso, along did not have a pulse when EMS with girls’ volleyball coach personnel arrived. Scott Sila, a Elliot Aramini and teaching paramedic with the Locust Val- assistant and track coach ley Fire Department, said that CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
By DANIEL OFFNER
Special to the Herald
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Courtesy Terry Kelly
The Rev. Walter Kedjierski, center, of St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church, blessed the new nativity scene built by Eagle Scout candidate Will Kelly, right, at a ceremony on Nov. 28.
Restoring E.N. nativity scene is a challenging Eagle project By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
For decades, the Village of East Norwich has marked the holidays with a traditional nativity scene displayed on Route 106. This year, the well-known fixture received a major overhaul, the work of high school senior Will Kelly, a 17-year-old East Norwich resident and a member of Scout Troop 253, who chose the renovation as his Eagle Scout project. Kelly said he had his eye on the project long before he was required to start planning it. The nativity scene was originally donated and maintained by the Bott family, who left East Norwich two years ago. Since
then it has been under the purview of Troop 253, although it is stored for the rest of the year at St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church. “I heard about it before I even made it to Life rank, which is the rank before Eagle,” Kelly recalled. “So as soon as I got to the point where I was going to do a project, I was like, this is it.” Kelly submitted a written proposal for approval by an Eagle board, a group separate from his troop’s leadership. Once the project was finished, he was required to file a report before applying for an Eagle Board of Review. He began planning the project over the CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
don’t think anything was really going through our mind other than what we had to do to make sure that he was safe.