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moved to the intensive care unit, where she spent the next six weeks in a coma. It was during Many can claim inspiration that time Jaimie remembers from dreams they experience “dreaming I could make jewelry.” while sleeping. But what about a Shortly after waking up, Jaidream during a coma? mie began her rehabilitation at Jaimie Torres can. She barely St. Johnland Nursing survived a 2013 car crash, spendCenter in Kings Park. There, ing time in a coma. she was able to get But Torres managed physical and speech to emerge from her therapy. And, before calamity not only long, she was “dancalive, but with a ing the Macarena newfound skill and with the staff and full-time job: making other patients.” jewelry. While there, howNow 38, Jaimie ever, she also earned recalls little of the a nickname: “The accident. She Miracle.” remembers being in rehab was JAIMIE ToRRES the“The a car with her thenbest,” Jaimie boyfriend driving resident said. “I came out a t h r o u g h Va l l e y lot better, and I felt a Stream past the thousand times better. You just Green Acres Mall. She was con- have to stick with it, and you can scious as they pulled her from heal pretty fast.” the car that had been wrecked She was discharged that beyond recognition. She was December, and began home care, rushed to Mount Sinai South where she lives with her parents, Nassau Hospital in Oceanside, Pat and Frank. The first thing where doctors discovered Jaimie she did was walk straight to her had suffered a traumatic brain bedroom and lay on her own bed. injury and needed a craniotomy “She has worked so hard and — which relieves pressure has gotten much better,” Jaimaround the brain and prevents ie’s mother, Pat, said. blood vessels from bursting. In May of 2014, Jaimie started After the surgery, Jaimie was Continued on page 11
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AN INITIAl SITE plan for the pedestrian and cyclist pathway network through Edward W. Cahill Memorial Park shows connections to various dead-end residential streets and major thoroughfares.
Big project could make Cahill park more walkable By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
Getting around is all about cars and anything with a motor. But Valley Stream village officials have a different plan they say could create public spaces that encourage safe, viable and friendly forms of alternative travel — like walking and biking — to get around. And they got a little help from Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature with $1.7
million at the ready to carve out a series of connected walkways for cyclists and pedestrians that offer direct access to the village’s main Long Island Rail Road station. The project paves the way for roughly 3,000 feet of offroad paths to run through Edward W. Cahill Memorial Park, connecting pedestrians to surrounding residential streets and thoroughfares. There could be other benefits as well, officials say, promising to stem the flow of foot
traffic away from “car-crowded,” “high-accident” prone streets like the intersection of Central Avenue, Mill Road, and Sunrise Highway, and instead toward the relatively safer intersection of Hicks Street and Sunrise. The network of pathways ends up at a “‘T-shaped’ intersection that provides greater visibility for pedestrians crossing the highway (to the train station), and makes Continued on page 5
started to realize I can do this, and it can help me get better.