New Dorp daughter pens upbeat book about mom’s ‘Wild Ride Through Dementia’
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Kathleen Bulfin, one of six children, was excited to relocate from her native Brooklyn to Bay Terrace in 1981.
She would attend St. Charles School and then St. John’s University for her bachelor’s degree, and the College of Staten Island for her graduate degree. Now a teacher at Markham Intermediate School, Kathleen lives in New Dorp.
“Growing up Irish, meant managing your expectations,” she said. “You learned if you expected the worst, then you were never disappointed. When my mother got the diagnosis of dementia, I was devastated, but I knew she could probably live a long time and crying (as my mother taught me) wasn’t going to change anything.”
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Dental duo honored for their community involvement
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
Dr. Karen DiBona and Dr. Mark Scamardella, partners at DiBona and Scamardella Dental Studio, Willowbrook, are being honored with a Louis R. Miller Leadership Award. (Photo courtesy of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce/Dom Provenzano)
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By Michael Anderson | Staten Island Chamber of Commerce
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Dr. Karen DiBona and Dr. Mark Scamardella have been bringing smiles to patients and the Staten Island community for years.
The husband-and-wife duo provide safe, compassionate and experienced care to their patients at DiBona and Scamardella Dental Studio in Willowbrook while also contributing their free time to lend a hand to those in need.
Advance historic page from Feb. 25, 1977: School maintenance workers on strike
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
A citywide strike by 2,500 school maintenance workers causes disruption to Staten Island school schedules.
Markham Intermediate School (I.S. 51) in Graniteville is the only school in the borough to shut down due to the strike, as it is the only one that does not have a custodial engineer assigned to it.
The strike, now in its third day, causes other schools to operate on a curtailed schedule.
Kindergarten classes are cancelled on Staten Island because contract buses are unavailable due to dismissal procedures in the other grades, according to District 31 spokesman Christy Cugini, adding that if the strike continues, the kindergarten situation will be reassessed.