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LIJVS completes $12.5 million front renovations By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
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Valley Stream village dignitaries joined Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital leaders and staff members to celebrate the $12.5 million renovation of the front entrance and lobby of the facility.
A crowd of Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital healthcare workers wearing clean white coats gathered with hospital administrators in nicely fitted suits at the foot of the newly renovated front side of the Franklin Avenue facility. The old familiar face of the community hospital was no more, replaced with a newly renovated façade, entrance, and lobby area. What started as a year-and-a-half-long construction project to the tune of $12.5 million, which had turned a large portion of the hospital into a construction site, ultimately culminated with a formal ribbon cutting on April 15. “We are so very grateful for this day,” said Lissa Nelson, Director of Patient and Customer Experience. “We’re just glad to have our lobby back.” Hospital executives hailed the renovations as a watershed moment in the building’s 61-year history. ConversaContInued on page 7
Young journalist to watch wins second Gracie Award By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
Broadcast journalism is wellknown among industry insiders as a competitive, constantly evolving field whose on-air demands are nothing to scoff at. But neither is the talented work of this up-and-coming journalist, who — weeks shy of finishing graduate school at H o f s t r a U n ive r s i t y — h a s impressed media industry judges yet again. Fatima Moien, 23, can now officially include “two-time Gracie Award winner,” on her list of early-career achievements on her resume, which
she’ll surely be sending out soon. The Gracie Award, from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, is as much a national show of praise to the top women in journalism as it is for those with enor mous promise. Moien falls squarely in the latter. Her most recent Gracie is for a radio segment interview last May with Sheetal Sheth, a multi-hyphenated film star. The roughly 15-minute “in-depth conversation” would eventually air on the university’s campus radio station, WRHU-FM, on its long-running women’s topic talk show “A League of our
Own.” “The female staff members interview primarily 99 percent of female guests about a wide range of women’s topics,” said the university’s radio producer John T. Mullen. “We’ve done episodes covering all sorts of different topics from breast cancer to breaking the glass ceiling to overcoming the adversities of single motherhood.” Moien said the parallels between her and Sheth were clear from the start of the conversation. “When you listen to the interview, it’s just two Southeast Asian women relating from two different generations,” both
with American immig rant upbringings, said Moien. Moien was born in Pakistan but mostly raised in Queens and Valley. Sheeth is a first-generation Indian American raised in New Jersey. Both are cut from the same gutsy, careerdriven cloth and share a common mission to show “brown girls” they are seen and have
their stories told in a media and entertainment sector where their representation remains far from mainstream.
A name worth remembering But the process hasn’t been easy. “Sheetal spoke a lot about her name being mispronounced ContInued on page 20