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NUMC opens new wing and celebrates an employee By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
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Making History East Meadow High School’s girls’ basketball team won its first-ever county championship Monday night, defeating Manhasset 69-66 in the Class AA final at Farmingdale State College. Story, additional photos, page ?
There was a lot to celebrate at the Nassau University Medical Center last week with the opening of a new, state-of-the-art surgical patient wing and the honoring of its employee of the month, Daniel Pena, who played an integral role in making the new wing a reality. On the hospital’s 8th floor, Nassau Healthcare Corporation Chairman Matthew Bruderman and NUMC interim president and CEO Meg Ryan were joined by hospital physicians and staff from dozens of departments on March 1 to officially celebrate the opening of the new surgical wing. Ryan said when Bruderman first began his role with the healthcare network two years ago, he walked the entire hospital. The 8th Continued on page 10
East Meadow High senior organizes book drive By MAHIRA AHMED Intern
East Meadow High School senior Kshan Pandey recently spearheaded a book drive for the nonprofit Hindi’s Libraries, collecting 1,700 books throughout January. Hindi’s Libraries was created in August 2018, shortly after the death of Dr. Hindi Krinsky, 32, a mother of five, and an English teacher at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School. There, she was also a curriculum coordinator. Pandey has been a volunteer for Hindi’s since 2020, and her
contributions have helped expand access to literature for children all over Long Island. In order to continue Krinsky’s legacy and her love of literature, her family and friends partnered together to donate books to children in need. The success of their mission to continue Krinsky’s good work, through Hindi’s Libraries, has reached children on a global scale from the 50 states to countries like India and Haiti. “Hindi had a passion for reading and love of literature, so in order to keep such fondness alive, and donate to those from low-income communities, who are often deprived of such
entities, family and friends came together to create Hindi’s Libraries,” Pandey said. The nonprofit organization has collected more than 400,000 books and partnered with 750 organizations worldwide, since its inception in 2018. To get the book drive up and running, Pandey worked with the high school’s faculty and students. As president of the school’s Social Studies Honor Society and co-vice president of the National English Honor Society, she was able to reach a wide variety of students from different backgrounds, who pitched in to donate children’s books.
Hindi’s Libraries accepts new and gently used books for children and young adults, including board books, picture books, leveled readers, chapter books, children’s novels, young adult novels and high school literary works. Along with drives run by volunteers, book-drop locations have been set up around Long Island, and these
sites could be found at HindisLibraries.org. Some include Hart & Soul Dance in Woodmere, Lollibop Cafe & Play in Lawrence and Warren Levi Martial Arts & Fitness in Cedarhurst. “This drive was important to me for a few reasons,” East Meadow High School senior Continued on page 13