'A magic ice pack will do wonders'

On some days, Jane Scharick is a self-styled Band-Aid Queen. On others, she's more of a Disposable Ice Pack Princess. Scharick, like other school nurses around the county, knows that Band-Aids and ice packs will cure most of what ails little students.

For nine years, this registered nurse has tended to just about every malady that the students at Cayuga Elementary School in Union Springs have come down with.

Prior to her tenure at Cayuga Elementary, where she tends to kindergartners through third-graders, Scharick worked at Mercy Health & Rehabilitation Center in Auburn caring for geriatric patients.