JOSE L LEON | Sexual Predator | Miami,Florida
October 16, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Sexual Predator
Date Of Photo: 07/02/2009
JOSE L LEON
DOB:
10/08/1944
Reported Address:
15555 NE 5TH AVE Miami,Florida
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Victor Suarez | Sexual Predator | Miami,Florida
October 16, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Sexual Predator
Date Of Photo: 10/07/2009
Victor Suarez
DOB:
01/28/1959
Reported Address:
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Autistic By Saves Teacher’s Life
Hero of the Week – Kyle Forbes
By Dan Samaria
Publisher/YC
October 15,2009
Editor’s Note: Each Week we will be Honoring people or groups that are making a difference in helping others especially during this tough times in America.
When we as Americans are put through a test, we come out in flying colors on the other side.
We would like to know what you think? And if you know someone or group that we can Honor. You can contact us at dan@youngchronicle.com
This week we will be honoring: Kyle Forbes. Here is his story
By Kevin Quinn
October 15,2009
HOUSTON (KTRK) — A local 10-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero. He says he used what he learned in Cub Scouts to save his teacher’s life. The amazing young man explained to Eyewitness News how he reacted in an unusual situation with maturity well beyond his years.
Kyle Forbes, 10, is no ordinary kid. Most everyone will agree upon that. But now he’s being honored by his school and his Scout pack for springing into action Tuesday to save his teacher’s life.
For Hyde Elementary School teacher Sheri Lowe, every day teaching art class now is a gift.
“He saved my life,” said Lowe.
It was about 10am Tuesday when she and Kyle were alone in her classroom. Lowe was eating an apple and choked. They showed us how he reacted.
“And I was choking and he squeezed me like that twice. The first time it didn’t work, so he goes, ‘I got it, Mrs. Lowe.’ And he does it again, and he does it exactly the right way and the apple came out,” said Lowe.
Kyle says he learned the Heimlich maneuver last year in Cub Scouts and that his dad reinforced the teaching.
“I just knew what to do immediately and I just like hurried over there and did it exactly right,” said Kyle.
Lowe calls Kyle her hero, and it’s a title he’s happy to accept.
“Let’s get back to the interview about the hero thing,” said Kyle. “I mean, that was the first time I’ve ever saved someone’s life, in an accident. That’s the first time I’ve ever done it.”
Kyle is autistic. He has a passion for learning and like any child he wants to fit in.
“Before I was just like a normal kid, always being picked on. Then I was like a superhero. Everybody was cheering me when I came down to the office to get an award. Everyone clapped at me when I got back,” said Kyle.
Lowe wonders what would be today had Kyle not been with her.
“He’s in my prayers, and um, (to Kyle) tell me not to cry,” said Lowe. “He is my hero.”
Kyle’s father is quite proud of his son. He says this is proof that children with autism can do anything others can do and that they should never think otherwise.
Source ABC 13 News
Firefighter of the week – Battalion Chief John J Fanning II
October 16, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Firefighter of the Week
By Dan Samaria
Publisher/GCC
October 13, 2009
Editor’s Note: Our Firefighter of the week was Battalion Chief Haz-Mat Operations John J Fanning II .
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Naming the Future for Him
A few months after the terrorist attack, Maureen Fanning realized that her 14-year-old son, Sean, was still staring out the window looking for his father to walk up the driveway.
So she bought a new minivan to break the association brought on by the car Sean’s father used to drive. Still, Sean, who is autistic, didn’t seem to understand that his father wasn’t coming home.
“I showed him pictures of his father and the towers on fire,” Mrs. Fanning recalled, her voice barely audible. “This is smoke,” she told him. “Bad smoke. Daddy got hurt.”
Sean screamed and hurled his body about.
Explaining to her younger son, Patrick, 5, about his father’s death has been just as hard. Patrick, who is also autistic, has never spoken. One day, a firefighter friend came to their house in West Hempstead, N.Y., wearing a jacket similar to Patrick’s father’s and the boy began to cry inconsolably.
John J. Fanning, 54, also had three children from a previous marriage, Ryan, Jeremy and Jacqueline. A member of the New York Fire Department since 1969, and the chief of the Hazardous Materials Unit, he saved lives for a living.
He had a plan for what he’d do with the lottery jackpot if he won. “We’d buy a group home and you’d run it,” he told his wife. His family hopes to open the first Jack Fanning House for autistic youths next year, financed by donations they received after Sept. 11.
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on September 10, 2002.
Source Legacy
Officer of the Week – Police Officer Robert Fazio
October 16, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Officer of the Week
Remember September 11, 2001
Angels Among Us
Police Officer Robert Fazio
Shield 6667
13 Precinct
3/24/2002
Police Officer Robert Fazio
Shield 6667
13 Precinct
(recovered)
At 41, Robert Fazio Jr. was still single. People would ask him when he was going to marry. But the pressure of society’s conventions, said his sister, Carole Lovero, could not affect his decisions.
“He was a happy person, he was happy within himself,” she said. “He would have gotten married if he had found the right person, but he was happy doing what he was doing.”
What he was doing, outside of his job as a patrolman for the New York Police Department, was working on motorcycles, cars, boats and houses for anybody who needed a hand. “Half my neighbors, he fixed their cars,” said Officer Fazio’s father, Robert Sr. Shortly after he got his driver’s license, Robert Fazio Jr. could be seen on the weekend in front of the family’s house in South Hempstead, on Long Island, hoisting engines in and out of cars with the help of a sturdy tree limb.
He had worked for the Police Department for 17 years and was called from his precinct in the East 20’s on Sept. 11 to help people out of the shopping plaza beneath the World Trade Center. He had less than three years to go until retirement, his father said, and planned on setting up a motorcycle and car repair shop somewhere near his home in Freeport, N.Y., with a friend from junior high school, Gino Lanza. But though he had no children of his own, he spent as much time as he could baby-sitting for his nephew, Michael Lovero, and friends’ children, who nicknamed him the Tickle Monster
– The New York Times 3/24/2002
Source: NYP Angels
Wish of the week – Eric
October 16, 2009 by Kim
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By MWF/PIO
October 16, 2009
Six-year-old Eric is battling the hardships of diabetes and an immune deficiency. His family describes him as bubbly, social and resilient. He loves everything about horses and especially loves bull riding – he even hopes to one day become a bull rider. When volunteers from the Make-A-Wish Foundation visited Eric to determine what his wish would be, they were not surprised when Eric continuously brought the conversation back to riding bulls and riding horses. Before they knew it, Eric decided that visiting Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona would be his ultimate adventure. His family researched everything about the region before they left on their trip so they wouldn’t miss a thing.
Eric and his family spent five action-packed days exploring what the Grand Canyon has to offer. They stayed inside the park so they could experience it all! Eric’s schedule was robust – he took a helicopter tour (during which Eric was described as “awestruck”), visited a lighthouse, Navajo reservation, 800-year-old ruins, a volcano. As a bonus, he saw 5 inches of snow! One evening, prior to participating in an authentic hayride, they built a campfire, roasted hot dogs, and made s’mores. The sunsets were described as “incredible.”
The biggest highlight of his trip was when Eric went horseback riding by himself for the first time. He was so brave and proud to be riding without assistance!
His mother said, “We saw everything imaginable from gorgeous terrain, moose, cactus, desert, mountains, the Canyon and the Colorado River. He was feeling wonderful and enjoyed every second. It was a wish come true for Eric.”
Referred by: Visiting Nurse Association of Florida
Adopted by: Glantz and Glantz
Wish Granters: Melissa and Nicole Cunzo
Source Make A Wish Foundation
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Soldier of the Week – Army Pfc. James Arellano
October 16, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Soldier of the Week
by Dan Samaria
Publisher/YC
October 15, 2009
Editor’s Note:
Home State: Wyoming
Awarded: Bronze Star.
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Pfc. Arellano was deployed to Iraq in November 2005 with the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. While on a foot patrol south of Baghdad on Aug. 17, 2006, Arellano encountered insurgents using IED and small-arms fire. Arellano stepped on an IED; the explosion severely injured the soldier. He died from injuries sustained from the blast.
For his work while in Iraq, Arellano was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantry Badge on Aug. 30, 2006.
Source: Our Military
Patient of the Week – Joshua Solomon
October 16, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Patient of the Week
By St. Jude
October 14, 2009
Joshua Solomon
5 years old
Diagnosis:
Joshua was found to have a brain stem glioma in August 2008.
Joshua’s Story:
Joshua is a sweet-natured boy. He has an engaging smile and he loves to give hugs. An only child, Joshua is the apple of his parents’ eyes. “He makes our day, every day,” said his mom. When Joshua suddenly fell ill during a family trip in late August, his family immediately rallied around him.
During the trip, Joshua developed neck pain and started to vomit. His family rushed him to a local hospital where the emergency room doctor ordered a CT scan and, when the results came in, sent the family to a larger hospital with a pediatric intensive care unit. “We didn’t really know why he was sending us there. We were kind of in a daze, and just praying,” Joshua’s mom remembered. At the larger hospital, doctors ordered an MRI, which revealed devastating news for Joshua’s parents: their boy suffered from an inoperable brain stem glioma, a type of brain tumor.
But there was hope on the horizon. Joshua’s parents were familiar with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and asked his doctor for a referral.
At St. Jude:
Joshua underwent chemotherapy and 30 rounds of radiation. Throughout it all, St. Jude provided Joshua and his family everything they needed. “The doctors are first class,” Joshua’s mom said. “The care and concern St. Jude gave us was amazing.”
Joshua’s parents are astonished by the generosity of people who give to St. Jude. “Because of them, St. Jude provides care for all children,” said Joshua’s mom. “Whether families have insurance or not, the patients get first class care. I know Danny Thomas is looking down from Heaven and smiling.”
Joshua finished his treatment in November, and he returns to St. Jude every three months for checkups. He is in preschool and he loves Thomas the Train. Recently, Joshua went horseback riding for the first time. “He loved it,” his mom said. “He can’t wait to go back.”
St. Jude Editor’s Note: We regret to inform you that Joshua passed away on August 14, 2009.
Source St. Jude
Dog Scared by Cat in Laptop
October 15, 2009 by Kim
Filed under Video, Photo of the Day
Editor’s Note: This was sent into Glenn Beck’s Radio Show. We hope you will love it, very funny.
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