This is the annual Maino Family Christmas Newsletter 2012

1. 2012
Maino’s Christmas
Newsletter
Maino Family Newsletter! December 2012
Sylvia is always busy. We Wish You A Merry Christmas &
As a bedside nurse at the
new Lurie Children’s
Happy New Year!
Hospital of Chicago, she
2012 was a great year! We AT&T, while grandson #1
takes care of children with
all were well, happy and psychiatric illness. She is in 1st grade at St.
orthopedic and neurological
employed! Sylvia and I hopes to go back to school Bartholomew School and
problems. The new
went on a few trips, to get her Master’s grandson #2 is practicing
hospital’s downtown
location adds some travel visited interesting lands, Degree. This past to be cuter than he
time for her in the morning, and made new friends November, Christina was already is!
but this state of the art while continuing many of named, “Neumannite of
hospital is incredible. those activities we love to the Month” because of all
She continues all her do. the great things she does
activities at St. at Neumann Family
Christina has put her
Bartholomew as head of the Services.
degree in Psychology from
Art and Environment
DePaul to good use and is Dominic III, Edie,
Committee, member of the
working at Clearbrook Dominic IV and
Liturgy Committee, and
and Neumann Family Vincenzo had a great
several other parish
Services. For Clearbrook year as well. They bought
groups. She also sings alto
in the choir and often she provides respite care their first house,
cantors Mass on Sunday. for a family with a young celebrated Dominic IV’s
Sylvia performed songs man who has Cerebral 6th birthday and Photo above:
from ‘Sister Act’ with her Palsy and at Neumann Vincenzo’s very first Dominic IV and Vincenzo
fellow female choristers for she is teaching life skills birthday. My son works smiling, laughing, and
the 60th celebration of Sr. to a classroom of adults for Rolls Royce & Bentley, having fun!
Mary Kevin (a fellow who have both an my sister-in-law works for
chorister) being a nun and intellectual disability and
for the Heart of St.
Bartholomew Dinner and
Awards night.
Doc MacMaino’s Time Warped Aged,
Micro-Barrel, Very Small Batch Whiskey
Sylvia and I went to and down the Scottish thanks to a friend of mine,
Scotland this past April lands, staying at various and now we actually had a
where we did a bit of sight bed and breakfasts, chance to see how a good
seeing and I made a boutique hotels, and even whisky is made.
presentation at the in a castle.
In any case, I am now
International Brain Injury
Of course, we also visited a aging my own Bourbon,
Association meeting in
couple of distilleries. I had Rye, Tennessee and Single
A “Hairy-Cu” Edinburgh.
developed a keen interest Malt Whiskeys in 2 and 5
of Scotland While there, we traveled up in all things Single Malt liter, charred, Oak barrels.

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Check out Dominick’s blogs at MainosMemos.com and MainosMusings.blogspot.com
New Book Published & Founding Co-editor of New Journal
Dominick has had his He has been editor of College of
latest book published by Optometry & Vision Behavioural
Lippincott. This text is co- Development (journal Optometrists
edited with 2 of his of the College of will start
optometric colleagues. It is Optometrists in publishing a
titled, “Visual Diagnosis Vision Development) new journal,
and Care of the Patient for 8 years. That Optometry &
with Special Needs” and journal will cease to
Visual
is available on Amazon. publish at the end of
Performance
This is his second book December and a new
in 2013.
about eye and vision care peer reviewed journal
Dominick is
for those with disability by COVD, the
Optometric Extension very excited about all the
and his third book
published by a major Program Foundation possibilities of this new journal as
company. and the Australasian its founding co-editor.
Trips, Lectures, and More! New Office: Lyons Family Eye Care
Dominick already mentioned the trip included 3D Vision Syndrome, Special several law firms in Chicago, Florida,
to Scotland. He also lectured in New Needs Children and Adults, Binocular and Sydney, Australia.
Orleans at the Information Systems Vision and Pediatric Cortical Visual
Dominick is now seeing patients at a
Educators Conference, the American Impairment.
new state of the art office: Lyons
Optometric Association meeting in
He has also been an expert witness for Family Eye Care.
Chicago, the Opto-West meeting in
California and at the American
Conference on Pediatric Cortical All links are live. Go to
“I am American by Birth; Italian &
Visual Impairment at the Children’s SlideShare to click on the
Polish by Blood; Irish by Friendship
Hospital in Omaha, NE. embedded links in the
and Scottish by Single Malt!” DM
His lecture topics are numerous and PDF of this newsletter.
Photography, Music, and….
Dominick continues his love of himself in 2 of the things he loves:
photography by not only bringing a Learning more about Whiskey and
camera along on many of his trips, but Photography. He also exhibited
also by producing incredible images of several of his images at the Artists of
the iBAM (Irish Books Art & Music) Casa Italia Art Exhibition in Stone
Festival held at the Irish American Park and Palatine, Il
Heritage Center in Chicago. Also this As a member of the Illinois College of
coming April at Chicago’s Whiskey Photo: St. Bart’s Choir with Fr. Mike
Optometry Choir, he sang the Star
Fest 2013 as a member of the third Bangle Banner (tenor) to thousands in ***********************************
estate (reporter/photographer for the the audience as a part of the opening
Irish American News), he will engulf ceremonies in McCormick Place this
American Optometric Association’s
past June.