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MAY 14 - 20, 2020
North Shore to honor vets American flags on power poles in Glen Head before Memorial Day and into the summer every Although the coronavirus year from 2002 to 2017. When pandemic has kept most North Public Serve Enterprise Group Shore activities on hold, two Long Island replaced the poles in local organizations 2018, however, the are determined to association was make sure those told it could not who lost their lives hang flags on serving the United them. States are still honThyben, who is ored this Memorialso the head of al Day. the GCBA’s Flag In expressing Committee, said its appreciation for that organization those who made members were disthe ultimate sacrimayed when the fice, the Gold Coast tradition was Business Associataken away. She tion has rekindled said she called the its tradition of Town of Oyster hoisting American Bay and the town flags throughout highway departGlen Head’s downment, but was reditown. The Glenrected from person Courtesy Glenwood Landing/Glen wood Lan din g / to person and Head Civic Association Facebook Glen Head Civic never reached Association will VeterAN MiCHAel “that guy” who also celebrate vet- riCH’s Hometown could help her. erans through a Heroes banner was the Thyben said she new Hometown first to be hung up in finally got in touch Heroes project, Glen Head. with someone hanging banners from PSEG who identifying and sent her an applihonoring servicemen and cation to get the flags back up women up and down Glen Cove earlier this year. She said she Avenue in Glen Head. went around the community, documenting the identification Bringing a tradition back to life numbers of 39 poles and reportGCBA Corresponding Secre- ed them back to PSEG. Her tary Ronnie Thyben said the request was approved by PSEG organization began hanging Continued on page 3
By Mike CoNN
mconn@liherald.com
Courtesy Denyce LaVeglia
deNYCe lAVegliA, left, a registered nurse who is the assistant manager of Glen Cove Hospital’s rehabilitation unit, and Nurse Nikolette Bros worked long hours at the peak of the coronavirus.
G.C. Hospital’s LaVeglia, ‘a true Florence Nightingale’ By lAurA lANe llane@liherald.com
Kee ping a promise is important to most 4-year-olds, and Mia Josephina Gambino is no different. It was difficult for her when she was separated from her parents, Joseph Gambino and Denyce LaVeglia, for three weeks when her
father was diagnosed with Covid-19. “Not seeing my daughter was the worst thing I could go through,” said LaVeglia, 36, a registered nurse and the assistant manager of Glen Cove Hospital’s rehabilitation unit. “You need that love and the feeling you get from your child, and I couldn’t have it. I
wanted to run over and hug her, but I couldn’t. She began to shut down, and didn’t want to talk to me or my husband toward the end.” Gambino, 38, began to show signs of the virus in the couple’s Dix Hills home in April, coughing and feeling fatigued. When he went to Continued on page 6