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values. It is separate from the newsroom. April 22, 2021, 7:00 p.m. ET Sky Sze in Brooklyn on Tuesday.Credit.Makeda Sandford for The New York Times When Sky Sze was 8 years old, the Fresh Air Fund gave him his first escape from New York City. Through the organization’s Friendly Towns program, he was able to leave Sunset Park in Brooklyn over the summer and spend a week living on Cape Cod, where he learned to swim and boogie board. A decade later, the organization again gave him solace. When both of his parents lost their jobs at the start of the Covid-19 crisis his mother worked at a nail salon and his father as a cook the Fresh Air Fund hired him to work at a city-based camp offering children free recreational programming during the pandemic. ....
Mary Monahan, Dedicated Preschool Teacher, Dies at 67 An Irish immigrant to the Bronx as a toddler, she had ample training for her job as the eldest of eight children. She died of complications of Covid-19. Volunteering for Head Start inspired Mary Monahan to become a nursery school teacher. Credit.via Monahan family March 15, 2021 This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others . As the oldest of eight children of two working parents, Mary Monahan was practically trained from birth to be a preschool teacher. After volunteering in a local Head Start program one summer during high school, she chose early childhood education as a career. ....