2021-05-22 17:30
Annual 5K for Staten Island hero soldier halted by de Blasio COVID rules
The annual 5K honoring Army Sgt. Michael Ollis started in 2017. J.C. Rice His battlefield bravery was so heroic that the city named a Staten Island Ferry boat after him. But it wasn't enough for Mayor de Blasio to loosen up on his coronavirus rules. The parents of Army Sgt. Michael Ollis, the 24-year-old Staten Islander killed in Afghanistan in 2013 as he shielded a wounded Polish soldier from an insurgent suicide bomber's blast, say they received a de facto denial this week on a permit for the annual 5k run that honors their hometown hero son.
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