CONEJO VALLEY : 2 School Employees Honored for Heroism
A groundskeeper who single-handedly stopped a sport-utility truck from rolling into a crowd of cars and people and a campus supervisor who saved a choking student by performing the Heimlich maneuver have been honored at a Conejo Valley school board meeting.
Alex Mun~oz, who was working on the grounds of Aspen elementary school, put down his edger when he saw a truck moving slowly with no one inside. He tried opening the doors, but all were locked. So he braced himself to stop the vehicle and held it steady until its owner returned.
At a board meeting Thursday, Assistant Supt. Leeann Nemeroff praised Mun~oz for his “alert and quick actions” during the September, 1994, incident.
Also honored was Alicia Zuniga, who performed the Heimlich maneuver on a student at Park Oaks elementary school last October. Nemeroff called it a “heroic act.”
Nemeroff presented both Conejo Valley Unified School District employees with the district’s first “above and beyond the call of duty” award plaques.
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