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Reports hint U.S. recovery will be a rutted road A student who attends Western Middle School has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, according to results released to the district by the state's Department of Public Health.
A student who attends Western Middle School has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, according to results released to the district by the state's Department of Public Health.
The student, whose name was not released, had mild symptoms, was treated and did not require hospitalization, officials said.
News of the student's infection came one day after Western Middle School's sixth-grade class was sent home from a five-day trip to Nature's Classroom in Colebrook, after 19 students became ill with fevers and an additional 36 complained of symptoms from minor headaches to fever.
The parents of the 19 sick students have been advised to have their children seen by their doctor before returning to school.
District officials said Thursday afternoon they have decided not to close any schools at the moment, based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which discourages school closures unless "there is a magnitude of faculty or student absenteeism that interferes with the school," officials said.
Town health and school officials say they continue to monitor all illnesses in Greenwich schools, adding that they will take measures to prevent the transmission of disease as needed.
Information is being collected daily from the school nurses, physicians and Greenwich Hospital, officials said.
Messages were left with Western Middle School principal Stacey Gross Thursday
PLEASE SEE:
05/21/09 Greenwich Public School's Issues A Western Middle School Swine Flu Update
05/21/09 A Mother Reports From Western Middle School
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Cops: Driver in Port Chester died of suicide, not crash PORT CHESTER - A Colorado restaurateur who died in a single-car crash early Monday committed suicide, village police said yesterday.
Christian Richard Corna, 45, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., had stab wounds transecting the carotid artery and trachea, the medical examiner said. The wounds were inconsistent with the accident, police said, and a bloodied knife was found in the car.
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Please find an update from the Greenwich Department of Health and the Greenwich Public Schools on the Western Middle School student health situation attached.The Superintendent will hold an informal press conference at 3:30pm today at the Board of Education.
Kim Eves
Director of Communications
Greenwich Board of Education
290 Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
http://www.greenwichschools.org/
Phone: 203-625-7415
e mail: kim_eves@greenwich.k12.ct.us
Fax: 203-869-8003
Town of Greenwich
Connecticut
NEWS RELEASE
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
Betty J. Sternberg, Superintendent of Schools
Director of Health Caroline Baisley and Superintendent of Schools Betty J. Sternberg announced today the first confirmed case of H1N1 flu (swine flu) in a Greenwich public school student. The student is enrolled at Western Middle School. The State of Connecticut Department of Public Health Laboratory reported the positive case. The student experienced mild symptoms, was treated and did not require hospitalization.
On Monday of this week, approximately 130 sixth-grade students from Western Middle School went on a five-day scheduled trip to Nature’s Classroom. By Wednesday, the nurse at the facility reported to the Board of Education that approximately 55 students had been to the health office complaining of a spectrum of symptoms ranging from minor headaches to fever. Nineteen of these students were ill enough to be sent home.
Consulting with the Department of Health, the Board of Education decided to abbreviate the trip bringing all of the students home on Wednesday instead of Friday. Parents of ill students were advised to keep their children home and seek an assessment from their healthcare provider.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention interim guidance states:
“School and child care program closure is not advised for a suspected or confirmed case of novel influenza A (H1N1) and, in general, is not advised unless there is a magnitude of faculty or student absenteeism that interferes with the school or child care program’s ability to function.” Given this guidance the Greenwich Public Schools has decided not to close any schools at this time.
The Department of Health and the Board of Education are continuing to closely monitor all illness in Greenwich schools. Measures to prevent the transmission of disease will be applied accordingly. Information is being collected daily from the school nurses, physicians, and Greenwich Hospital.
The Department of Health and the Board of Education continues to ask residents to take precautions to prevent getting respiratory illnesses including the flu or spreading it by staying home from work or school if they are sick, washing their hands frequently, and coughing or sneezing into their sleeve or a tissue.
For more information on H1N1 flu:
Greenwich Department of Health: http://www.greenwichct.org/
Connecticut Flu Watch: www.ct.gov/ctfluwatch/swineflu
Connecticut Department of Public Health: www.ct.gov/health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention School Guidance:
www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/k12_dismissal.htm
Call Department of Health 622-7836
PLEASE ALSO SEE:
05/21/09 A Mother Reports From Western Middle School
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Forty-four year old John Coen, from Greenwich, Connecticut, was arrested for assaulting two police officers who were attempting to escort him out of The Ginger Man restaurant.
Police were called to the local eatery last Friday night after Coen started insulting patrons, and harassing the bartender with racial slurs.
After officers told Coen he needed to leave the establishment, he became verbally abusive and lunged toward an officer "in a fighting manner," the police report says.
The officers attempted to arrest Coen, and the drunken man went berserk and tried to grab one of the officer's batons from his belt, causing two officers to pin him to the ground.
The police report says it took several jolts from a Taser to bring Coen under control.
Coen is charged with assaulting a police officer and breach of peace.
UPDATE: 5/20/09
A Greenwich Diva reader emailed Greenwich Diva about the John Coen arrest at the Ginger Man restaurant and she wrote about on April 14.
They wanted to know if the John Coen she wrote about in her post was the same John Coen who is about to be questioned in the death of a Steamboat, Colorado, man.
After doing some research this is what she came up with.
There is a John Coen whose wife, Lisette Coen, was about to marry Chris Corna from Steamboat, Colorado, and Chris was in Greenwich this week to meet Lisette's family.
While he was in Greenwich, he was killed in an automobile accident on the Greenwich, Portchester state line, and although authorities are publicly calling it an accident, IT IS ALLEGED that authorities are going to change it to murder and it is also ALLEGED that John is going to be called in for questioning.
It is also ALLEGED that John was also arrested for sexual harassment in Oct. of last year.
It is possible that there could be two different John Coen's with the same connections out there.
Greenwich Diva will keep us posted as the Greenwich Time and the rest of the "Lamestream" Media wanders around clueless.
Update: 5:43p.m Chris had stabbed wounds to his throat when he was found Monday morning around 4:30.
There Is A Whole Lot A Suicides Going On...
http://steamboatpilot.com/news/2009/may/20/corna_death_ruled_suicide/#commentsCan
Can you see the connection between this false suicide and a John Coen, 44 (who Greenwich Roundup has posted about) who resides in Conn. Someone needs to shed some light on this...
PLEASE SEE:
05/20/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed:High Noon Edition
Inconsistent injuries in fatal car accident prompts police ...
Lower Hudson Journal news
PORT CHESTER - Police are investigating the death of a Colorado man in a single-car accident early Monday
He had wounds inconsistent with the accident, police said.
Christian Richard Corna, 45, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., had stab wounds to his neck, the medical examiner said.
Corna, who was visiting friends in Greenwich, Conn., crashed a rented Toyota into the north corner abutment of the Metro North bridge driving southbound on the 300 block of North Main Street at 4:30 a.m., police said. He had to cross the road to strike the bridge, police said. A county accident reconstruction team is working on the incident.
According to the medical examiner, police said, the crash would have been enough to kill Corna.
Detectives "can't rule out" that anyone else was involved in this fatal accident until a determination is made by the medical examiner and police that the wounds were self-inflicted and/or not a precipitating factor in the accident, Lt. James Ladaireous said. ...
