State Senator Toby Stavisky gives a “thumbs up” at a recent blood drive at the Holy Family School in Fresh Meadows, as technician Karline Mass/ checks her progress.
Mass/’s son, Karl Celestin volunteered a kidney to Ricardo Manier, a grade-school pal he hadn’t seen in seven years, after finding him on Facebook.com.
The drive, on Sunday, February 24, was in support of the young men and the successful kidney transplant, which was done in a Manhattan hospital on Tuesday, February 26.