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Merrick Avenue Middle School physical-education teacher Jason Dove taught eighth-graders about how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation last Thursday.

Secrets to saving a life revealed at Merrick Avenue Middle School

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. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/22/12

Gearing up for Robbie's Run

Last Wednesday morning, I was a mile and half into a 3.1-mile run through south Merrick, where I live, when I was overcome by a side stitch that emanated from the right side of my abdomen and wrapped around my torso to my back. more

3/15/12

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s director of health, physical education and athletics, discussed a program to bring CPR/AED training to students at Merrick Avenue Middle School with Jill Levine, center, executive director of Forever Nine: the Robbie Levine Foundation, and Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.

Giving Central District students the power to save a life

Within six years, every student in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District should know how to save a life with cardiopulmonary resuscitation or an automated external defibrillator. That’s the hope of Merokean Jill Levine, executive director of Forever Nine: the Robbie Levine Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises funds to equip school ball fields with AEDs and provide CPR/AED training to youth sports organizations. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 3/8/12

Participants in the sixth annual Robbie’s Run dashed off at the start of the race, just outside Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in south Merrick.

Robbie’s Run attracts 1,700-plus runners

More than 1,700 runners and walkers took to the streets of south Merrick on May 22 for the sixth annual Robbie’s Run, which has quickly become one of the Merrick-Bellmore community’s go-to events. In total, the event raised $48,000. more

By David Weingrad | 5/25/11

Kennedy junior Kayla Babbush started Teens for Life, a program to train high school students in CPR and AED use.

Kennedy junior promotes CPR/AED awareness

If Kennedy junior Kayla Babbush has her way, local teens will leave high school knowing how to save a life using cardiopulmonary resuscitation and an automated external defibrillator. more

By Deirdre Krasula | 3/2/11

Dr. Bruce Decter of Great Neck, who was born and raised in the Five Towns, recently saved a Merrick man’s life at Kennedy Airport using CPR.

Former 5Towner saves Merrick man with CPR

A woman screamed. Her 58-year-old husband lay before her on the hard floor. His breathing and circulation had stopped, and he was quickly turning blue. He was, in effect, dead. more

By Scott Brinton | 1/26/11

Kayla Babbush and Kevin O'Hara demonstrate CPR for the class.

Kennedy student promotes CPR/AED training

Kayla Babbush, a sophomore at Kennedy High School in Bellmore, has been working with the Robbie Levine Foundation to bring free CPR/AED training to the Central High School District. The Robbie Levine Foundation was created by Dr. Craig and Jill Levine of Merrick, whose 9-year old son Robbie died suddenly when his heart stopped at a baseball practice in 2005. more

Deirdre Krasula | 6/15/10

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