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Memorial Day parade salutes vets, students Orgs join march up Plandome Road; awards given BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Some carried flags. Some played bagpipes. Some smiled and waved from the back seats of classic cars. More than 20 organizations proceeded up Plandome Road in Manhasset’s annual Memorial Day parade Monday, en route to a ceremony at the Manhasset Secondary School honoring the community’s veterans. There, members of American Legion Post 304 and the American Legion Auxiliary presented Manhasset and St. Mary’s high school stuPHOTO BY BILL SAN ANTONIO dents with various leadership A member of American Legion Post 304 leads the way in awards and crowned Julia Manhasset’s annual Memorial Day parade. Read the story and Henry as Poppy Queen. see more photos on page 43. “I’m happy to inform you
that the future of our country is in good hands,” said James Brooks, vice commander of Post 304. Manhasset senior Andrew Moshova and St. Mary’s senior Anthony Bosko were presented with Post 304’s School awards — which Brooks said recognizes a student’s integrity, honor, leadership, patriotism, scholarship and service. “Service, to your country and community, is an integral part of the implicit contract we make as members of a democratic society,” said Moshova, a member of several honor societies and head of science tutoring at the afterschool program Adventures in Learning. “By giving our time to help those around us, we continue to pay tribute to the men and
women who fight for our freedom,” he added. The auxiliary presented Manhasset senior Alexa Durso and St. Mary’s senior Elizabeth Mannion with its Americanism awards, which its president Patricia O’Brien said recognized a combination of academics and community service. “Although on all days, we must remember all those who have served and are currently serving, Memorial Day is a day specifically set aside as a day of remembrance not only for us to celebrate our country and its freedoms, but to reflect on those freedoms and who protects them,” said Mannion, who plans to study speech pathology at Duquesne University this fall. “We must never Continued on Page 43
New video tech saves mom amid stroke BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO
the deck of her Levittown home to smoke a cigarette. The deck, she said, then beAt around 5:30 a.m. on April gan to spin and her body went 28, Sonia Survilla stepped onto numb — she was in the midst of
a stroke. “I always worked out, ate right. I tried to do the right thing,” she said Thursday. “But I had been a smoker since the age of 12.” About 45 minutes later, her daughter Ashley awoke for school and found her mother unresponsive and foaming at the mouth.
Sonia is alive today likely because of her daughter’s quick thinking in calling 911, but also due to new video technology that allowed doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bethpage to collaborate with the North Shore-LIJ Health System to identify the stroke and offer additional treatment. Upon Survilla’s arrival at
St. Joseph’s Hospital, physicians ordered a telestroke, which allows for the video examination of stroke patients from multiple locations, often with physicians outside a hospital. They held a video conference with Dr. Rohan Arora, a vascular neurologist with the North Shore-LIJ Health System who Continued on Page 50
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