TribLocal Schaumburg - 17 2 September 2010
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Promoting blood drives is his way of giving back
By Kate Thayer
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Hoover school staff in Schaumburg worked with seniors at Friendship Village to build a greenhouse and garden. The project is part of a proposal to establish a math and science academy. TribLocal photo by Kate Thayer
D54 eyes math/science academy
By Kate Thayer
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Parents who want their children to concentrate on math and science and be involved in an intergenerational garden, creating a prairie or building a weather station may get the chance under a new District 54 proposal.
The idea of an open-enrollment math and science academy at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Schaumburg will be discussed Thursday night at a school board meeting. Students would be able to apply for admission from all over the district for the 2011-12 school year. Hoover would continue to serve early childhood through sixth-grade students
within its boundaries. Principal Jake Chung said he expects to have room for about 15 to 20 students outside the school’s boundaries if the plan is approved. The district already has a sign language open-enrollment program at Blackwell Elementary School in Schaumburg and
PLease see academy, Page 10
Deacon Xavier Carrera can’t donate his own blood for health reasons, so he’s doing the next best thing — getting others to do so. Carrera, 70, a deacon at Church of the Holy Spirit in Schaumburg, has received countless units of blood in the past 40 years for four heart surgeries and other procedures. As a kind of repayment, Carrera is trying to educate others on the importance of giving blood as his church, along with the Village of Schaumburg, prepare for this year’s community blood drive, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 8. “I am here thanks to the blood many have donated,” he said. “I’m trying to give back in another way because I can’t donate blood.” In 1971, rheumatic fever led to heart valve problems. That, in turn, led to four open-heart surgeries. During the last one in April, he received 26 units of blood. Carrera also has had surgeries for stomach cancer diagnosed about 17 years ago. “I’ve always been in need of blood,” he said. “I encourage people to keep donating to keep many people, like me, alive.” Sister Marianne Supan of Church of the Holy Spirit said Carrera’s story could have an
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