Friday, June 21 is the official start of summer. The season should be a time of joy, spent hanging out at the beach and barbecuing in the backyard. Too often, however . . .
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6/13/19
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Summer is finally here. It should be a time of joy, spent barbecuing in the backyard and hanging out at the beach. Too often, however, summer turns tragic when it needn’t. The American Red Cross offers the following guidelines . . .
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6/21/18
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March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . .
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3/3/16
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They came from Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York City, upstate New York — even Virginia. Most of the hundreds of runners in the 10th Annual Robbie’s Run, however, came from Merrick.
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4/29/15
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The 10th Annual Robbie’s Run — the Merrick 5K fundraiser for Forever 9: The Robbie Levine Foundation, which funds automated external defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation equipment and training — will take place Sunday, April 26, at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School.
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4/22/15
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Martin Valk, a past president of the Merrick Kiwanis Club, noticed that the Merrick and North Merrick libraries did not have automated external defibrillators. Thanks to his and other Kiwanians’ actions, that soon will change.
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3/5/15
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All 1,360 Calhoun High School students are now receiving potentially life-saving training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of the automated external defibrillator. By the end of the school year, all 5,562 students in the Bellmore-Merrick Central School District will be trained.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/18/14
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Mari Titterton is a nurse by profession, and every year she goes through the same cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training to renew a certification. Her years of preparation proved crucial in a matter of moments last Thursday afternoon.
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By Brian Racow
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9/17/14
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Now that school is over, the action will ramp up at backyard and public pools as well as Long Island’s beaches.
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6/20/13
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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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