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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER INSIDE m Four women arrestedforyjfm prostitution in Deer Park —Page 3 aises $100Kfor charity ckel a t a time —Page 8 Periodicals Postage Paid- Babylon Post Office, Babylon NY 11702 (USPS 03960-8000) FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY .TOW N OF B4 ------- -- •BABYLON SC LINDENHURST SCj BABYLON SCHÖ WYANDANCH Published every T qi - 65D“ ' , k v . i c ' ' b R 'vH I . U K ! ¡ B » SOU Ï H SHORE L l ‘S I ARG EST C IRC U1 A i IO N W E E K L Y NEWSPAPER S lK t l N G 1H F CO M M UNITY SIN C r 19 66 RHIN rPD ON K E C K 111> PAPER W l iis i t p : w w w . b a b y l o n b f a c o n . c o m 1 -MAIL AUHUFSS: ACJNEWS@>RCN.COM 50 CEN T S THURSDAY, A U G U S T 19,2010 Anthony Serpenti of North Babylon wins Town's highest honor: Heroism Award of his seat and from ■ behind his father’s I back where he took ■ refuge. He found it I difficult to get u p be- I fore the audience and I accept the award, so I his parents accepted I the plaque for him. I A n thony is a student at Parliam ent Place El em entary School and likes to play with cars and trucks, and Poke- m an. He also enjoys baseball and hanging out w ith his friends. He wants to be a firefigthter when he grows up. “He’s a little shy, b u t in dire tim es he’s calm, cool, a n d collected,” said his m o ther Dawn Serpenti, who a ttended the m eeting with friends and family. “911 is a simple num b er, but it saves lives,” Dawn Serpenti a n d h e r h u sband Alan were away on a business trip together w h en the incident oc curred. “He told the dispatcher everything, and then called a neighbor,” she said. That brought police and rescue volunteers to his h o m e a n d iinm e d ia te m edical assistance to his grandfather, James O ’Shaughnessy. O’Shaughnessy was rushed to G o o d Samaritan H o spital where he was diagnosed with two brain tum o rs, both of which were not detected up until that point, causing his collapse. “I d idn’t know what was going on,” said a grate ful O’Shaughnessy. “Then when I found out what my grandson did, I was so proud o f him.” “Seeing anyone in that condition, is a traum a tic thing, but can you im agine what it was like for A n thony to see his grandfather in that condition,” said Suffolk C o u n ty Executive Steve Bellone. “Yet, he had the courage and m aturity to dial 9-1-1- and call for help.” Asked by a reporter to talk about how he felt about his actions and the award, his answer was simple: “forget about it,” h e said. A n thony’s actions can be attributed to the hard w o rk and hand-m e -dow n lessons of his father, a N o rth Babylon volunteer firefighter . A n thony and his sister Victoria were taught at a y o u n g age how to handle em ergencies of all kind. For A n thony a n d his family, those were lifesav ing lessons. by M o n ica D eLuca, J e n n a Fratello and C h ris R iotta It’s one thing to save your grandfather’s life. It’s another thing to have to stand u p at a p ublic m e e t ing a n d accept accolades for it. For 9-year-old A n thony Serpenti of N o rth Bab ylon, saving his grandfather’s life on June 8 by calling 911 when he found him unconscious in the backyard, wasn’t tough. Accepting the Baby lon Town’s Heroism Award was. On July 14, A n thony received the Babylon Town Board’s h ighest civilian award for h eroism. Standing in front of a crowd of friends, fam ily, tow n officials and tow n residents, Serpenti looked nothing like the boy who took charge of the situation w h en he h is g randfather collapsed. The award presentation m ade him uneasy, and he spent m o st of the tim e being coerced out Pi ) Mark$aC£0with his dog Max and PO. Thom a s Teufel with his dog Koda gave a demonstration of how the Suffolk County K-9 Unit operates. AU thi. children kindergarten to tifth grade listened and watched the demonstration of how the dogs weie trained to catch the “bad gu)s and answered their questions Shown, left to right, are PO Mark Sacco, Principal Christine Tona and P.O Thomas Teufel Anthony Serpenti, Babylon 9, of North Tougher DW Ilaw in e ( In*. In it video «it tlu pr«n miift f race at wvnv bai» ton6«ai.on timi
