By J.J. Smith. A former Heath High School student, who is now a Hollywood actress and entertainer, will be co-starring in the Oct. 12 epidsode of Fox TV’s “Lie To Me,” which will be broadcast at 8 pm (Central time).

Allie Gonino, 19, is the daughter of Heath residents Dr. John and Linda Gonino, who own and operate the Gonino Center for Healing in Heath

Gonino has recently appeared in five episodes of “10 Things I Hate About You” on the ABC Family Network, plus twice in 2008 as Marissa in “The Suite Life On Deck,” a spinoff of the popular Disney Channel show “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.” 

But these were not Gonino’s first acting appearances, according to her parents and the Internet Movie Database at IMDb. 

In 2007 she appeared as a cheerleader in her first movie ”Love,” as well as Monique in the Disney TV series “Cory in the House.”

Her first TV appearance was in a 2006 episode of the TV series “Unfabulous.”

Her father said Gonino just finished acting in her second movie called “Cougar Hunting,” shot in Aspen CO, which stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Vanessa Angel, Jillian Murray, Matt Prokop and Randy Wayne. The movie is currently in post-production and will be released Nov. 1, 2010.

Gonino is also working hard on her career as a solo singer and as a member of the up-and-coming Columbia Records five teen girl group called “The Stunners,” modeled after the Spice Girls and organized by former pop star “Vitamin C.”

Gonino is a blonde, joining other teens who are Black, Hispanic, Asian and a redhead. The group was created and is directed by  ”Vitamin C,” aka Colleen Fitzpatrick, whose third single “Graduation (Friends Forever)” became one of the most ubiquitous songs of early 2000, pushing her into platinum sales and worldwide fame.

The group recently recorded its first song on video called “Bubble Gum” on Youtube.com.  (Watch the video on our home page)

The Stunners are also contracted with Lionsgate to produce either a movie or TV pilot which may lead to a TV series of their own. The project is co-produced by Dave Broome, who also produces NBC”s “The Biggest Loser” reality show.

According to her father, Allie attended Heath High School into the 10th grade, but then she and her mother decided to move to Los Angeles so the former Cain Middle Schooler could pursue an acting and entertainment career. She has since graduated from high school, obtaining her GED.

She’s always had music in her blood, says her dad.

“When she was six years old, she said she wanted to learn to play the violin. My wife and I thought that was unusal, for such a young child to ask for such an instrument.”

At age seven she began taking classical violin and classical ballet lessons. She quickly grew as a dancer and young musician. When she was 9, she discovered she also had a talent for singing.

“Then one day when she was about 9, as her mom and I were driving down the road, we suddenly looked at each other and asked, ‘Is that our little girl singing?’ 

“She sounded so good that we decided then that we needed to help her explore a professional singing career,” he said.

She soon auditioned at local oprys, where she performed country music, yodeling, singing, and playing fiddle and mandolin, at the Garland Opry, The Johnnie High Country Music Review, Dennison Opry and Grapevine Opry.

As a freshman in high school, Allie took a very strong interest in musical theater, said her father. Her love for acting grew, and it went hand in hand with her other artistic passions.

Dr. Gonino said his daughter now lives in Los Angeles but returns to the Rockwall-Heath area as often as possible to visit family and friends. She still loves to perform country music, as well.

Their family is thrilled for her and believes her future is very bright, he added.

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Dr. V. John Gonino D.O., P.A, owner of the Gonino Center for Healing in Heath.

Hello everyone. Our first miracle involves a 60 year-old man (59 when we met) diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

The first day I met Jim he was nearing death with a white blood cell count of 408,000, the highest I’ve ever seen in my 22 years in medicine. Normal count is 4000-10,000.

I like Jim’s case especially for two reasons : 1) It shows a great marriage between conventional medicine and the type of medicine we practice called complimentary medicine, and 2) After Jim’s miracle he was able to witness his daughter’s high school graduation; very unlikely had not all the pieces fallen into place as they did. He continues to do well at this present time. With that, here’s Jim to tell his story…..

“I have been diagnosed as having chronic lymphocytic leukemia. I was blessed with a friend, who referred me to the Gonino Center for Healing, and feel that if I would not have taken his advice and gone to Dr. Gonino for his healing treatments I would not be alive and well today.

When I first heard from my friend of the Healing Center I was hopeful, but when I actually went to my first appointment I was overwhelmed by the spiritual outpouring of love and kindness, not only from Dr. Gonino himself but all of his staff. They were all so wonderfully kind and seemed to be so happy to help not only myself but all of their patients. While there, I met people with all kinds of debilitating diseases from many states of this fine nation who were being healed.

When I first went to see Dr. Gonino, my white blood count (WBC) was over 400,000, when normally it should be somewhere in the 4-10,000 range. He suggested going on the Candida diet immediately - to help eliminate any yeast or fungus, plus help with my overly acidic system - plus use herbal supplements and intravenous (IV) infusions of fungal and cancer fighting substances such as Hydrogen Peroxide, Glutathione and vitamins. These would all help strengthen my immune system.

The second step would be to get the Chemotherapy treatment at the hospital that my oncologist was suggesting, and the third step would be to come back to the Gonino Center to get follow-up treatments of additional IVs to get my kidneys, liver, immune system, etc. back on track after the deadly chemo treatments. The oncologist was suggesting 5-6 treatments spaced three weeks apart.

It all made sense to me, so we started with the diet, herbal supplements and two IVs per week, then three days of chemo which consisted of Fludarabine, Cytoxan and Ritoxan.

On the second day of chemo (from my oncologist), when I got my first treatment of Ritoxan, I had a bad reaction causing uncontrollable chills. I shook so badly I had to hold my mouth so I wouldn’t damage my teeth. Although they gave me some kind of drug to keep that from happening, they had to give me more. I should have suspected something was wrong then but only found out later when admitted to the hospital that the chemo was still doing damage – not only to my bad/faulty white blood cells but to my good WBCs, my red cells and platelets, too. My immune system was damaged so badly that I had to have 10 pints of blood during my three-week stay at the hospital, during which time I lost 50 pounds. And the worst thing was that I wasn’t getting much better but getting weaker and obviously had lost my appetite. I knew I had to do something so I told them I had to get out of the hospital to seek some other treatment. They finally agreed to let me go I went immediately back to the Gonino Center for Healing.

The staff was kind as ever, though now my wife and children had to drive me to and help my walk into the Healing Center because I was so anemic and weak. I couldn’t stand for more than a minute at a time and looked like either a scarecrow or death warmed-over. We restarted the diet, supplements and 1-3 of the various IVs per week that Dr. Gonino prescribed, along with use of the chi machine and lymphatic pump.

After two months of these glorious treatments I gained weight, became much stronger and began to drive myself around. My WBC and RBC numbers are presently very near normal levels and I look forward to the cancer going into complete remission, with no more than that one near-fatal chemo treatment.

What a glorious blessing to the human race – The Gonino Center for Healing.”

J. Merrick – Royse City

You can contact Dr. Gonino at the Gonino Center for Healing by calling (469) 402-2800.

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