Volume 11, Number 29
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Friday, October 20, 2017
‘Amazing baby’ is on the mend By Terry Sutton Special to The Citizen
At 15 weeks pregnant, expectant parents Rudy and Rachel Fasano learned that their first child would be a girl. However, the technician doing the ultrasound noticed something was not right with the baby’s heart. Several weeks later, a more advanced ultrasound would reveal a nightmare scenario. The baby’s heart had not completely formed.
Arnold’s Jewelers, 117 Washington Ave., was recently presented a Special Recognition Award to acknowledge 60 years of a Family Owned Business in Connecticut by the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association. Presenting Larry Lazaroff of Arnold Jewelers with the award is Tom Wholley of Connecticut Mattress and CRMA President Tim Phelan.
Amazon considering center redesign Amazon officials are contemplating a redesign of the planned distribution center at the former Pratt & Whitney site that shrinks the overall footprint, but adds interior mezzanine space.
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On July 20, 2017, their daughter was born. They named her Faith.
Born July 20, Faith Fasano has faced a great deal of adversity during her short life. But her parents are optimistic about the future.
“Faith’s diagnosis is a single ventricle heart disease, hypoplastic right heart syndrome and dextrocardia. This basically means that she only developed half of her heart and it is rotated to the other side of her body,” Rachel Fasano explained. “At two days old she underwent her first open heart surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, with two more needed by the age of 3.”
By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff
Amazon has approval to build an 855,000 square-foot warehouse and distribution center at 415 Washington Ave. (Route 5) that would yield 1.2 million square feet in floor space to ceiling. The
The Fasanos were devastated by the news, of course. But being religious people, the North Haven residents put their faith in God and continued the pregnancy.
“Our daughter Faith is the strongest person we know,” Rudy Fasano stated. “ She is always smiling and laughing and is such an amazing baby. People can’t believe it when we tell them what she has gone through in her life already.” An Amtrak train heads north past the future site of an Amazon distribution center and warehouse facility at 415 Washington Ave. in North Haven, a 168 acre property off Route 5 formerly used by Pratt & Whitney, last Thursday. | Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
According to the Boston Children’s Hospital website, single ventricle defects occur in five out of every 100,000 newborns. They are See Baby, A3