Park Street fire that badly injured boy was ‘a mother’s worst nightmare’
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Or Eon Jackson, 8, was rescued by firefighters after his family s Park Street home caught fire on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Or Eon s shirt displays a sonogram photo of his little brother. (Courtesy of Samone Jackson)
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Syracuse, N.Y. Or’Eon Jackson - lying in a Syracuse hospital bed with burns - asked his mother why he was still alive.
His mother, Samone Jackson, said all she could do was cry when her eight-year-old son asked her that question.
Or’Eon was rescued by Syracuse firefighters from a fire in the family’s apartment in the 1200 block of Park Street on March 30. He suffered burns and was in critical condition at Upstate University Hospital, fire officials said after the fire.
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Randy Smith went to the Cayuga County Jail on Wednesday under much different circumstances than he went there exactly six months earlier.
Smith, 46, of Auburn, was presented with his recovery peer advocate certification that day by Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck. Sponsored by the Heroin Epidemic Action League, Smith s training prepares him to support people in recovery from the same addiction that brought him to the jail Aug. 23. And Schenck believes Smith s success will lead to better peer support services at the facility.
Six months earlier, though, Smith didn t feel like a success.
A Cortland native, Smith started drinking when he was 14. By the time he was 21 he was using cocaine and other drugs, but alcohol was the one he abused the hardest. When he was 24, an assault charge landed him in drug court in Ithaca, as well as probation. So he got sober, and got a job as a certified nursing assistant. He also met the woman he would call his wife for the next 21 years. With her
Trent D. Berry
FULTON – Trent D. Berry, 21, of Fulton passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on February 21
after a 10 month battle with Glioblastoma Multiforme.
He was a 2017 GRB graduate who then went on to SUNY Fredonia for Music Education until he transferred to SUNY Oswego to pursue his degree in Political Science and Economics.
Trent was an exceptional human. He touched many lives and made a difference everywhere he went. He was talented in the classrooms, on the soccer field and on stage playing trumpet in high school, college and with the Fulton Community Band. He worked at Mimi’s Drive In for three years as a dishwasher while attending school.