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Vol. 32 No. 15
APRIl 10 - 16, 2025
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Malverne hosts burn center fundraiser critical and acute care. “This burn center is it for Nassau County — most of Long The Nassau County 4th Bat- Island,” Hennig explained. “It talion Fire District and the stretches from the middle of Nassau County Firefighters Queens and out to Suf folk County — this is the Burn Center Founburn center.” dation hosted the The center’s annual Firefighters expert staff helps Burn Center Beneburn victims with fit at Malverne Fire immediate pain and Department headlong-term healing, quarters last Sunwith a support team d ay. F i re f i g h t e r s to guide patients from Malver ne, through the process L a k e v i e w, E a s t and a hospital-based R o c k a w a y, L y n peer support probrook and Rockville gram called SurviCentre attended. vors Offering Assis“The foundation tance in Recovery. supports the burn SOAR encourages center at the Naspeople with shared sau University Medexperiences to supical Center,” John port and assist one Hennig, director of another to adapt to the Bur n Center JoHN HENNIG life with burn injuFoundation board Director, ries. and ex-chief of the Nassau County “There was defiRockville Center Firefighters Burn nitely a need at the F.D., said. burn center for difNUMC, in East Center Foundation ferent equipment, to Meadow, houses a $6.7 million, 12,000-square-foot help the staff with training, burn center. With its sophisti- education, travel,” Hennig said. cated technology, the special- “That’s where we step in. The ized surgeons and nurses at foundation supports the staff NUMC can treat up to 10 above and beyond what the patients at once, with beds for Continued on page 3
By MADISoN GUSlER
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Members of the West Hempstead community gathered at Halls pond park to participate in a clean up on Sunday.
Community cleans up the trash at Halls Pond Park By MADISoN GUSlER mgusler@liherald.com
The West Hempstead Community Support and Civic Association hosted a day of community service on Sunday by organizing a clean up of Halls Pond Park on Nassau Boulevard. Sarah Greenberg, the association’s treasurer, and board member Kurt Rockensies orchestrated the event. “We try to do the Halls Pond clean up once or twice a year, just to make sure the park is looking nice and clean,” Greenberg said. “A lot of people come through here in the spring and summer. They play on the
playgrounds, they’re around the ponds, so we just want (to) make sure it looks nice for everybody.” The Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums dropped off supplies for the clean up, including gloves, garbage bags, rakes, shovels, brooms, grabber tools, and more. Volunteers from the community then gathered their needed supplies at the gazebo and set off into the park to help remove litter and debris. “We just want to make sure that the one public space in town, the park and the playground, is clean for our community,” Rockensies said. “You know, this is really the Continued on page 4
hat’s where we step in. The foundation supports the staff above and beyond what the medical center will supply to the burn center.