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HERALD Vol. 25 No. 18
Genesis School in E.M. honored
New NUMC chair announced
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Las Vegas Sands pulls plug on hub bid positions across the 72-acre site. At a Council of East MeadLas Vegas Sands will no lon- ow Community Organizations ger pursue its $6 billion propos- m e e t i n g , a l s o k n o w n a s al to build a casino resort at the CEMCO, held about an hour Nassau Coliseum site in Union- after the news regarding the dale, prompting the project’s Sands broke on April 23 in the opponents to release a huge East Meadow Public Library, several of CEMCO’s board sigh of relief. members explained The company that they were will not apply in actively sitting on June for one of various committees t h r e e av a i l a b l e regarding the prodownstate gaming posed casino and l i c e n s e s i n N ew property developYork. Sands of fiment. cials said that while “I sat on the they “strongly environmental believe in the develPEARl JACoBS committee to learn opment opportunimember, what was happenty of a land-based ing in that area,” downstate casino Say No to the Casino Joe Parisi, the l i c e n s e i n N e w Civic Association group’s president York,” they cited a said. “The reason range of market forces, including the rise of online gambling, that we did that was to stay economic uncertainty in the close to the project and underU.S. and a strategic shift to pre- stand if there was anything serve shareholder value as the truly detrimental.” Parisi said they were still reason for pulling out. The proposal included a waiting to learn what impacts 400,000-square-foot casino, could potentially affect East hotels, restaurants, retail space Meadow, adding they’d keep the and a convention center, with community in the loops as the expectation of creating news developed. “I’m elated, absolutely elated more than 8,500 construction jobs and over 5,000 permanent Continued on page 23
By KElSIE RADZISKI
kradziski@liherald.com
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Pop culture brought to life at EMCon EMCon, the East Meadow community’s take on comic con, went off successfully at the East Meadow Public Library on April 26 and 27. Julianna Merrick, 10, of East Meadow dressed up as Ochaco Uraraka from ‘My Hero Academia.’ Story, more photos, Page 3.
Mobile mammography van rolls out into Nassau communities By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Nassau University Medical Center recently unveiled a new, state-of-the-art mammography van outside the hospital’s main entrance, allowing hospital staff, breast cancer organizations and county officials to take a close look at the vehicle that will provide lifesaving scans to women across Nassau County. Plans for the new mobile breast cancerscreening unit were first announced in October, with hospital administrators stating that the goal was to have the van on the road by May. The new vehicle — dubbed the “MammoVan” — will
greatly enhance the standard of care being offered to patients, replacing the hospital’s previous mammography van, which had been in use since 2002. The old van visited Nassau County communities two days a week, working in tandem with libraries or local government officials to host a screening clinic. The new van is slated to head into communities five to six days a week. “We’re going to see an increase annually of 40 percent more patients,” Meg Ryan, the president and chief executive of NUMC, said last year. “That’s 40 percent more people that we can get in the van, diagnose and treat early. So that’s very Continued on page 10
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