Cancer patient gets help from 'stranger'
Photo credit: Newsday/Danielle Finkelstein | From left: Gary Zaccaro, a local contractor, remodeled the basement of John Sopack, of Massapequa Park, in order to create a germ-free environment. Sopack, who is battling leukemia, is readying for a transplant, and needs to remain isolated from his young children when they are sick, while his own immune system remains compromised. (Feb. 3, 2012)
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John Sopack needed a home within his Massapequa Park home -- a sanitary basement apartment where he could safely and comfortably recover from his treatments for leukemia.
A stranger volunteered to build it for him.
"When I read about John, it moved me," said Gary Zaccaro, a Massapequa contractor. "He was somebody from my community."
Zaccaro, 46, this month finished renovating Sopack's...
