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Inwood channel renamed for fallen firefighter announced that the former Negro Bar Channel, which flows through Inwood Park, will now F i r e f i g h t e r s a n d f i r s t be known as Joseph Sanford Jr. responders from the Five Towns, Channel. The gathering included SanBaldwin and Long Beach gathered at Inwood Park on March 23 ford’s widow, Jacqueline, and for a remembrance and rededi- daughter, Janisha, along with cation ceremony honoring the other family members; Assemlate 1st Deputy Chief blyman Ari Brown; Joseph Sanford Jr. of Town of Hempstead the Inwood Fire Councilwoman DorDepartment. othy Goosby; Joseph Sanford, who was Ramirez, representknown as Junior, ing Gov. Kathy died on Dec. 23, 2014, Hochul; and State four days after fallSupreme Court Jusing through the first tice Chris McGrath. floor into the baseThe ceremony ment while fighting opened with the Nasa house fire in Woodsau County Firemere. He was one of fighters Bagpipes the first firefighters and Drums band to respond to the playing “God Bless blaze, at 787 Central JAcquELINE America” and the Ave. Inwood Fire DepartSANfORd Sanford was the ment Color Guard Joseph Sanford Jr.’s first African-Ameripresenting the flags. widow can 1st deputy chief Deacon Rashid of the department, Murad, of the having made his way up the M a n h a s s e t - L a k e v i l l e F i r e ranks during 19 years as a volun- Department, began the program teer firefighter, after serving the with the invocation. required five-year probationary “We ask you (God) to continperiod. He became a lieutenant, ue to grant the Sanford family captain and 1st deputy chief, and the courage and strength to was named chief posthumously. embrace that void that impacted The ceremony was organized their family when you called by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who ConTInUEd on pagE 7
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Hundreds of Touro University School of Health Sciences students attended the Interprofessional Education Symposium, at Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, on March 25.
Gaining hands-on health care experience in Woodmere By BRIAN NORMAN bnorman@liherald.com
Students from Touro University’s School of Health Sciences gained some real-world health care experience at the 12th annual Interprofessional Education Symposium, at Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, on March 25. Students from seven health care professions teamed up to work through a mock case in which they treated, and then discharged, a patient who had suffered a stroke. Touro University, one of the largest health care education providers in the country, has hosted the symposium at the Wood-
mere synagogue for eight of the past 12 years. “I think as far as Congregation Sons of Israel is concerned, it’s a service to a fellow Jewish institution,” Harriett Gefen, the synagogue’s executive/educational director, said. “Touro University also has quite a number of people enrolled in its program who come from this area or from Brooklyn, so we’re really a very good, centrally located area for them.” The participants included 380 graduating seniors as well as faculty from Touro’s nursing, occupational therapy, physician assistant, physical therapy, speech-language ConTInUEd on pagE 8
lthough it’s been 10 years, our family still feels the pain and loss as if it were yesterday.