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Cooking up competition at LIJ hospital healthcare careers and give them a clearer idea of their future professional paths. “They’re prepared for the Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hosted Academy Char- future, which is something ter School seniors from the that the school has done an U n i o n d a l e a c a d e m y f o r a amazing job in investing in t h e m , ” Ta t i a n a h a n d s - o n e ve n t Rodriguez, project that had the stumana g er at LIJ dents to exploring Va l l e y S t r e a m , the hospital’s Food said at the May 29 and Nutrition Serevent. “Then us vices department doing the part through a sensory where we’re showtasting and a cooking them the difing competition ferent modalities styled after a popand different ular television careers that you s h ow fo r m at a s can have in a hospart of the Medpital, coupling Voyage program. t h o s e t o g e t h e r, The LIJ pror e a l l y, r e a l l y, I g ram, developed in collaboration TATIANA RODRIGuEZ feel like will solidify what they want with the Center student BOCES to do in the for Learning InnoLearning Center future.” vation, be gan at During each the Valley Stream hospital in December. It pro- visit, students spend about two vides students with monthly and a half hours at the hospiimmersive experiences in vari- tal. While most are on a healthous hospital departments. Past care track, many are already sessions have included imag- certified in areas such as phleing, respiratory and periopera- botomy, electrocardio g ram tive services. The goal is to and medical assisting, that expose students to a range of
By ANGELINA ZINGARIELLO
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Linda Powell unveils her great-grandfather’ Henderson McClain’s gravestone.
Solemn memorial at Greenfield Cemetery in Hempstead Nine Civil War veterans receive headstones By STACY DRIKS sdriks@liherald.com
Nine forgotten soldiers, buried in unmarked graves at Greenfield Cemetery, were finally honored — more than a century after their deaths. The once-anonymous patches of grass belonged to Civil War veterans whose identities had been lost to time. Wayne Haddock, headstone coordinator of Moses Baldwin Camp and Philip Aguece a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War uncovered the names and stories behind the missing headstones. An unmarked grave typically indicates a burial site without a visible marker, often due to a family’s financial hardship,
a request for privacy or a cemetery’s own practices. “We use an online site called Find A Grave, to locate veteran and we use obituaries and then cemetery records,” Haddock said. “What we do is try and locate the veterans, and then we work with Phil at Greenfield Cemetery to confirm that the veteran is actually inter red — laid to rest— in the cemetery.” Aguece works for the Town of Hempstead in the cemetery office, and would ask the employees there, “‘I’m trying to research this guy — these Civil War veterans,’” said Dennis Duffy, secretary of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. If the veteran was found to have no Continued on Page 3
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hey’re prepared for the future, which is something that the school has done an amazing job in investing in them.
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