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September 16, 2021
Higher Education ENABLING A BRIGHTER FUTURE
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Vol. 23 No. 38
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We learned we’re stronger together
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Anita Doraine, who has lived in Elmont since 1988, celebrated her 40th wedding anniversary with her husband, Joe, on Aug. 23, just three months after Anita received a heart transplant following decades of heart problems. Her first experience with heart failure came a day after she delivered her daughter in
1992, when she began to cough continually and was unable to catch her breath. A cardiologist said she was suffering from heart failure, and doctors evaluated Doraine’s “ejection fraction,” the volume of blood her heart was pumping with each contraction. A regular measurement ranges between 40 and 50; hers was between 10 and 20. “Back then, they were wondering what to do,” Doraine, 66, recalled.
After a host of tests and medications, she began to recover. “Little by little, with medication mostly, I started to get better,” she said. It took about a year, Doraine said, until she could take her children out for a walk. Even then, however, she was frequently short of breath and had to sit down, a symptom that would intensify years later. “I was only 38, and I wanted to Continued on page 23
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Longtime Elmont artist Natasha Miller unveiled her artwork to the public for the first time during her community art show last month. Story, more photos, Page 7.
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The big reveal
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The coronavirus pandemic sw e p t a c r o s s t h e U n i t e d States, including Franklin Square and Elmont, like a wildfire over the past 18 months, killing more than 600,000 of our fellow Americans. We mour n each and every one of these precious lives taken too soon. In recent months, howeve r, w e h a v e begun to emerge from this nationwide catastrophe, and because of the Pfiz erBioNTech, Moder na and Johns o n & Jo h n s o n vaccines, we are seeing a glimmer of hope. Though the Covid-19 infection and death rates have ticked up recently, we are far better off than we were one year ago. We also learned an important lesson during this crisis: We are stronger together. Throughout the pandemic, all of us at the Herald have strived to report the news of the day swiftly and accurately. Suddenly last spring, we were no longer a weekly newspaper. We were a daily, publishing the news online at liherald. com and in our newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of people a month came to our
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