Franklin Square/Elmont Herald 07-21-2022

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Mental Health Vol. 24 No. 30

JUlY 21 - 27, 2022

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Future bright for scholars

Full-day pre-K, expanding in F.S., coming to Elmont, aims to bolster next generation of students While the Elmont pre-K program will focus on a core curriculum that centers on building School officials, community language and critical thinking leaders and parents of students skills, the daily schedule for who attend Elmont and Franklin pre-K students will also include Square elementary schools are social and emotional learning as optimistic about the well as opportunities full-day pre-kinderfor students to g ar ten pro g rams engage in art, music, that are being rolled physical education out and expanded, and library media, respectively, in both according to school school districts. board president When the upcomMichael Jaime. ing 2022-23 school Jared Bloom, year kicks off in Sepsuperintendent of t e m b e r, f u l l - d ay the Franklin Square pre-K classes will be School District, said, offered for the first “All students in the time at each of the half-day and full-day elementary school pre-K program buildings in Elmont. receive a well-roundIn Franklin Square, MicHaEl JaiME ed pre-K experience the district’s existing President, Elmont focusing on socialfull-day pre-K pro- school board ization, play, literacy, gram will be expandb a s i c n u m e r a cy, ed from one full-day music and more.” class to two full-day classes at Bloom said that while halfeach of the district’s three day pre-K students are provided school buildings. with the same opportunities, the School officials from both dis- full-day pre-K classes offered at tricts stressed that the pre-K pro- Franklin Square schools allow grams will focus on more tradi- for deeper learning. tional academic markers, such “ O u r f u l l - d ay p r o g r a m as literacy as well as elements of expands on this experience by social and emotional learning. Continued on page 4

By roBErT TraVErSo rtraverso@liherald.com

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Courtesy the Milio family

MadiSoN Milio EarNEd the nickname ‘Mighty Madison’ with her fearless approach to her diagnosis and treatment, despite the fact that she wasn’t even 10 years old.

Honoring ‘Mighty Madison’ |

By roBErT TraVErSo rtraverso@liherald.com

In honor of Madison Milio, a 9-year-old girl who died last December of a type of cancer that attacks the brain stem, known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, the Nassau County-based nonprofit Mission Helping Hands will hold a carnival in Franklin Square to raise money for a foundation named for her, the Mighty Madison DIPG Research and Awareness

Fund. The carnival, scheduled for Saturday, from noon to 8 p.m. at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, at 984 Stewart Place in Franklin Square, will feature games, live music, and food and merchandise provided by local vendors such as T and F Pork Store and Italian Delicatessen of Franklin Square. All of the proceeds raised at the event will be donated to Madison’s fund, which is managed by her mother, Kristen, who works for the Sewan-

haka Central High School District, as well as a charity for Mary Ruchalski of Rockville Centre, who also died of cancer. DIPG, which typically occurs in children, manifests as a rapidly progressing brain tumor in an area of the brain stem that controls the body’s vital functions, such as breathing, blood pressure and heart rate. The cancer attacks the nerves in the brain stem, causing degeneration of Continued on page 9

hey will build a strong foundation, both academically and socially


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