SALAMANCA, JOHNSON ALLOCATE $$ TO LINCOLN
Councilman Rafael Salamanca and Speaker Corey Johnson recently allocated $884,000 in Fiscal Year 2020 funding to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln to transform two X-ray rooms in their
Emergency Department into a state-of-the-art radiology suite. Renovations are expected to begin in the spring.
Councilman Rafael Salamanca speaks before signing the check. Photo by Jewel Webber
ROSES FOR DISTRICT 13’S SENIOR CENTERS
LIBERTY COCA-COLA
WELCOMES STUDENTS
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(l-r) Akinola Olufemi Fisher, M.D., chief of Ambulatory Care of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln,
Milton Nuñez, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, Councilman Rafael Salamanca and
Robert F. Nolan, member of NYC Health + Hospital’s board of directors.
Photo by Jewel Webber
In preparation for Valentine’s Day, Councilman Mark Gjonaj gave roses to every senior center in District 13 on Thursday, February 13. Thomas Messina from Gjonaj’s offi ce distributed roses
to the women residing at Providence Rest.
Messina (c) with Providence Rest residents holding their Valentine’s Day fl owers, courtesy of Gjonaj. Schneps Media / Steven Goodstein
Providence Rest resident, 107-year old Loretta
Gross (c) with her Messina and his wife
Susan, Loretta’s daughter. Loretta was born
ten days after the RMS Titanic sunk in April
1912. Schneps Media / Steven Goodstein
Students from Bronx Collegiate and Longwood
Preparatory visited the Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages
distribution center last week as a part
of the fi rst ever city-wide Career Discovery
Week initiative. Nearly 60 sophomores from
the Bronx learned about future job opportunities
in supply chain transportation, customer
marketing, analytics, engineering and public
affairs within the city’s corporate, fi nancial
and cultural sectors.
Students from Bronx Collegiate and Longwood
Preparatory pose with the Coca-Cola
bear in the Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages
Bronx warehouse.
Photo courtesy of Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages