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The North Merrick Fire Department topped 72 other local agencies this year to be selected as the Nassau County Regional Medical Advisory Council’s “EMS Agency of the Year.”
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8/13/14
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Despite temperatures that hovered in the high 40s and low 50s, and a steady, at times hard-blowing wind, the ninth annual Robbie’s Run went off without a hitch on April 27, drawing participants from across Long Island and beyond.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/30/14
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The ninth annual Robbie’s Run will take place on Sunday, April 27, at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School and on the nearby streets of south Merrick. The event, which includes a 5K run, a one-mile mini-run and a half-mile children’s fun run, is held in memory of 9-year-old Robbie Levine, a Merokean who died of sudden cardiac arrest while running the bases during a Little League baseball practice in 2005.
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4/24/14
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Two signs designating Levy-Lakeside School’s front baseball field as Forever 9 Field, which the Merrick-North Merrick Little League hung in April without permission from the Merrick School District, will remain up for the rest of the year, the Merrick Board of Education decided on June 4.
The board also ruled that the Little League can apply in 2014 for permission to keep the signs up.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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6/12/13
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Robbie’s Run, which commemorates 9-year-old Robbie Levine of Merrick, who died of heart failure in 2005 while rounding the bases during a Little League practice, attracted more than 1,700 participants between the annual event’s 5K, mile- and half-mile races through Merrick streets and fields on Sunday. As part of the festivities, Joseph Rocco, president of the Merrick-North Little League announced that the league was naming its front baseball field at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick as the “Forever 9: Robbie Levine Foundation Field."
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By Scott Brinton
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5/1/13
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Attention runners and south Merrick residents: The route for the annual Robbie’s Run has changed.
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4/25/13
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Of the 60 people who helped stuff more than 1,500 bags with donated treats for participants in the eighth annual Robbie’s Run, many were children.
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By Julie Mansmann
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4/17/13
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For the fifth year, the Bellmore-Merrick community gathered for Forever 9: The Robbie Levine Foundation’s annual Dealing with Hearts Gala.
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/13/13
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To increase awareness of the importance of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and life-saving techniques such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the Robbie Levine Foundation sponsored free AED/CPR certification courses in Bellmore-Merrick recently.
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/30/13
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Big, blue canvas bags labeled “Little Anne” and “Baby Anne” sat at the entrance to the Merrick Avenue Middle School gymnasium last Thursday. Spread across the shiny wooden floor in neat rows were mannequins, a.k.a. dummies. And in a corner, physical-education teachers Art Canestro, Mallory Cogen and Jason Dove were showing a film that revealed the secrets to saving a life with only your hands and mouth to a class of eighth-graders.
Soon the students were kneeling before the mannequins, pumping the dummies’ chests with their locked hands and breathing into their plastic mouths.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/22/12
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