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DECEMBER 10 - 16, 2020
Glen Cove Hospital earns accolades aging population. In Glen Cove, we have three nursing homes, three assisted-living centers, a Like so many people in the fantastic senior center and city, Tom Suozzi senior housing.” has a special place Suo zzi stood in his heart for beside Michael Glen Cove HospiDowling, Northtal, he said. The well Health’s prescongressman was ident and chief bor n there, and executive officer, still lives in Glen o n N ov. 3 0 t o Cove. At one time, announce GCH’s his father, Joseph, recognition as an was on the hospi“age-friendly” t a l ’s b o a r d o f health system by trustees, and his the Institute for mother, MargueMICHAEL DOWLING Healthcare Imrite, was a GCH provement and the emergency room President and chief John A. Hartford nurse. Suozzi has executive officer, Foundation. Addisupported the hos- Northwell Health tionally, GCH has pital, he said, become Northsince he was the well’s first Geriatcity’s mayor from 1994 to 2001. ric Center of Excellence. The “I had my three children hospital not only benefits the there, and I’ve been to the ER 15 older population, but will also times for my parents, wife and serve as a national model for kids,” he said. “We’ve got an CONTINUED ON PAGE 28
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ur aging population will face health issues that require the right care at the right time.
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A little holiday love Santa and Mrs. Claus, joined by a nativity scene, festive lights, reindeer and snowmen, are adding to the Christmas spirit on Jerome Drive. More photos, Page 3.
Grown and donated by a local, it’s now G.C.’s official Christmas tree By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
Frank Joseph Thompson, a former Glen Cove resident who now lives in Pennsylvania, remembers his late mother, Vicky Thompson, planting what is now Glen Cove’s official Christmas tree in front of the Thompsons’ George Street home. What was then a 4-foot-tall
tree, a blue spruce in front of the home that the Thompsons moved out of and the Maziejka family moved into in 2006, grew into the 30-footer that it is today. This year the Maziejkas donated the tree to the city to have it displayed in Village Square. Decorated with strings of colorful lights, it was the center of attention at the city’s Christmas Tree Lighting last Sunday, and
will brighten Village Square throughout the holiday season. “Christmastime was her favorite time of the year,” Thompson said of his mother, who died in 2015. “Everyone in Glen Cove knows her — the whole Police Department, a lot of people know her. She would be walking down the street and people would know her. She CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
OUR COVID-19 TRACKER With the Covid-19 test positivity rate rising across the country, the Herald is adding a weekly coronavirus tracker to the upper-left corner of our front page to help you gauge what’s happening in your area from week to week. The number is an aggregate of the communities that this newspaper covers. Data is obtained from the Nassau County Covid-19 Dashboard, which provides the total number of cases reported in an area since the start of the pandemic, and is updated regularly.