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Caring for the caregivers at G.C. Hospital By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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DANIELLE KERR, A social work intern from Adelphi University, far left, volunteer caregiver coaches Christine Mills and Nancy White, and Lorna Lee-Riley, Glen Cove Hospital’s senior social worker, in one of the rooms at the new Caregiver Center.
Nancy White and Christine Mills met in 2018, when they answered an ad for volunteers at Glen Cove Hospital. Sitting next to each other at the orientation, the retired nurses immediately bonded, eventually becoming good friends. They discovered that they lived near each other, White in Glen Head and Mills in Oyster Bay, that their husbands had once worked together in the medical field, and that they had a common goal — to interact with patients again. But their
volunteerism was cut short when the coronavirus pandemic hit. White and Mills were ecstatic when they got a call in March from the hospital, asking them to come back. They would still be volunteering, they were told, but this time as caregiver coaches. “Being a caregiver coach is different than being a regular volunteer,” explained Lorna Lee-Riley, the hospital’s senior social worker and the coordinator of the caregiver program. “They don’t have to have a medical background. We’re looking CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
For school district, third time’s the charm for the bond By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Tears of joy could be seen in the hallways of Glen Cove High School on Tuesday night as a $30.5 million bond was approved with support from 58 percent of voters who turned out to cast ballots on it. The Glen Cove City School District bond — earmarked to provide much-needed upgrades to aging campus facilities — passed by a margin of 1,179 to 853, according to unofficial results. Peter LaRocca, president of the district’s booster club, said he was ecstatic about the results.
“I think that the Glen Cove families and everyone that’s been in support of this bond has changed the trajectory of our schools,” LaRocca said. “They’ve made a statement that we want things to be better for our children — for their future — and that we support our educators here in Glen Cove.” Those educators teach 3,800 students between kindergarten and 12th grade in four elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. After two failed votes in 2019 and 2020, the school district can now move forward on long-overdue renovations that go beyond simple maintenance and repairs. The bond will fund
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e’ve done a lot in this district, and we have a lot more to do. MARIA RIANNA
superintendent, Glen Cove City School District the most extensive infrastructure improvements in decades. The projects include repairs to science rooms, the cafeteria and kitchen, and corridors. Exterior doors will be replaced, and
restrooms reconstructed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Also planned is a replacement of the courtyard curtain wall, reconstruction of heating and air-conditioning systems, replacing corridor lockers as well as tennis and basketball courts, a parking lot, and curbs and walkways.
Administrators touted such changes as costing no more than $12.50 monthly for the city’s average homeowner. Construction could begin as early as next year, and continue on until the start of the 2025-26 academic year. The projected timeline, however, takes into consideration concerns such as CONTINUED ON PAGE 2