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Lighting the building teal for Alzheimer’s body and show that people are not alone and that we can still have meaningful interactions n honor of Alzheimer’s and quality of life for our resiAwareness Month in dents and folks who have been November, Sunrise Senior diagnosed with it, that it does Living of East not just mean that Meadow will join in they’re defined by a worldwide effort to that.” raise awareness for Alzheimer’s disthe disease by lightease is a progressive ing the building teal brain disorder that impacts memory, on Thursday. thinking, and lanMore than 800 guage skills, and the landmarks in the 50 ability to carry out states and 13 other simple tasks, accordcountries have ing the AFA’s webagreed to participate site. It’s the most in lighting their common cause of respective buildings dementia, which is with the Alzheimnot a disease, but er’s Foundation of MARY instead the term America’s awareVouloukoS that is used to ness color. describe symptoms “It’s a disease Reminiscence like memory loss or where it affects not coordinator at loss of judgment. only the individual Sunrise More than 6.2 milwho’s suffering from lion Americans are it and diagnosed currently living with the disease. with it, but the family, friends, There are three stages of caregivers,” said Thomas Harty, the executive director of Sunrise Alzheimer’s — early, middle, and late — and with each one the of West Babylon who’s been symptoms get more severe. Some helping out with Sunrise of East signs and symptoms include, Meadow before the new execumemory loss, confusion about tive director starts. “The disease time and place, struggling to comdoes not define a person. You’re able to personalize care for someContinued on page 19
By MAlloRY WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
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Courtesy Justin Colon
JuSTiN ColoN, 21, got accepted into the NASA Social program because of his popular TikTok channel, the Justonian. Part of the program included getting to watch the launch of Artemis 1.
Launching from TikTok to NASA Justin Colon is invited to watch Artemis 1 take off By MAlloRY WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
What started out as a fun way to share information that he was learning in school via TikTok, earned 21-year-old Justin Colon an invitation to watch the launch of Artemis 1, the first in a series missions that will enable human exploration to the Moon and Mars. Colon, an East Meadow High School grad and a senior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, launched his TikTok account — the Justonian — in December 2021. From there, it took off to what it is now, 75.000 people who visit Colon’s channel to see him talk about science.
The idea sprouted while he was interning at the American Museum of Natural History as a junior in college in the hall of gems and minerals. “I saw that when I was talking about the science, and I was so passionate about it, the people I were talking to started to get into the conversation more,” Colon said. “Eventually the other interns were like you should make a TikTok.” Colon said that he wasn’t really on the social media platform because he thought it was mostly dancing videos. “I just started to post what I knew, what I was teaching at the museum, and what I was Continued on page 4
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