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Friday, June 14, 2013
Volume 9 • Issue No. 24
York Graduate dan Perichino Battles Cancer with a little Help from His Friends By Pat Sommers Sentinel Staff Writer YOrK – Life has become a game of numbers for Dan Perichino and the stakes are high. At age 24, the York High School graduate was diagnosed with cancer – Stage 3B. There are just four stages. Doctors told him his chances of surviving another five years were somewhere between 60 and 80 percent. Perichino, who said he’d always been a happy person, very positive in his outlook, found himself thrust into a bewildering world of medical terminology and grueling treatment schedules. Between July and December of 2012, he endured 12 rounds of chemotherapy. Then, after a brief break, Perichino began 14 rounds of radiation that continued through March of this year. In late winter of 2012, the former York resident noticed a small lump on his neck, nothing he considered terribly trou-
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wings,” he said with a wry chuckle. Then, during a telephone interview at work with a prospective Full Sail student, the seriousness of his illness struck him. “I lost it,” he said. Hodgkin Lymphoma – formerly known as Hodgkin’s disease – is a cancer of the lymphatic system. As the disease progresses it compromises the body’s ability to fight infection. Doctors had discovered not one mass but five – the walnut-size lump Perichino himself felt in his neck along with two in his chest and two in his abdomen. His parents, Earl and See PERICHINO page 10...
Dan Perichino, a 2006 graduate of York High School (courtesy photo)
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blesome. Just months before he had moved to Orlando, Fla., with his longtime friend Andrew Rapier, who was working toward a master’s degree at Full Sail University. Perichino, a part-time music producer and composer, had just landed a job at the same university, working in the admissions department. After six months on the job, he was eligible for health care coverage and it was then he sought a doctor’s opinion on the lump. The gravity of the diagnosis – Hodgkin Lymphoma – did not immediately sink in. “I continued my usual routine of skateboarding, watching videos, ordering chicken
Local business owners Norma Clark, left, and Michelle Knight display the “Garden Trellis” quilt they will raffle to raise funds for a new furnace at Union Congregational Church, York Beach. (Sentinel Staff Photo)
Quilt may Be the Ticket to Warming York Beach Church By Pat Sommers Sentinel Staff Writer YOrK BeaCH – One handmade quilt may warm the entire congregation of Union Congregational Church this winter. The king-size “Garden Trellis” quilt – now on display at Norma’s Restaurant in York – is being raffled to raise the money
needed to purchase a new furnace for the historic York Beach church. A group of women active in the small congregation told restaurateur Norma Clark about the church’s need for a new heating system and its lack of money to cover cost.
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WellS – The Wells-Ogunquit School Committee has selected Ellen H. Schneider as its next superintendent of schools. Schneider is currently assistant superintendent of schools for MSAD No. 1 in Presque Isle, which encompasses the towns of Castle Hill, Chapman, Mapleton, Presque Isle and Westfield. Schneider has 31 years of professional experience as an educator. In addition to 11 years as an elementary special education teacher, she has been a special education director, assistant principal, principal, curriculum director and an assistant superintendent of schools. Schneider graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with a bachelor of science degree in special education and elementary education. She earned a master of science degree in educational leader-
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Superintendent of the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District Ellen Schneider. (courtesy photo)
ship from the University of Southern Maine and is currently a doctoral student at Walden University. Schneider will begin her duties as Wells-Ogunquit CSD’s Superintendent of Schools on July 1.
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