FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com NOVEMBER 13, 2014 • The Courier SUN 15 A Better Kind of Cancer Care “We give patients the opportunity to get the very best cancer care right in their own backyards.” Dr. Je rey Schneider has an Ivy League medical education and was an attending physician at a leading New York City cancer center. His commitment to lung cancer patients led him to help create thve rst formal lung cancer screening program on Long Island and to take the lead in a number of breakthrough clinical trials in lung cancer that are achieving remarkable early results. “The patients clearly come rst here at Winthrop. We were rst on Long Island to incorporate a Cancer Navigator for each of the major cancer types to work with patients and their families. No matter what anyone says, no cancer center has everything, but I can say with complete con dence that cancer patients who come to Winthrop are denied nothing. “Sometimes after a treatment a patient won’t feel well and may need to return to the hospital. It’s a big advantage to be right nearby. I’m proud to be here at Winthrop because I believe that we are o ering a better kind of cancer care, closer to home.” €‚ First Street, Mineola, New York ††€‡† • †.‰ŠŠ.WINTHROP • winthrop.org CCAABBLLEEVVIISSIIOONN CCHH 665522 ROCKAWAY BEACHES GET LAST CLEANUP BY ASHA MAHADEVAN editorial@queenscourier.com @queenscourier If you walk by Beach 116 at the Rockaways, you’ll probably think it is pretty clean. It is now, but if you had taken a closer look last week, you would have seen plastic bags, bottles, cans and various other pieces of trash floating around. The New York City chapter of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — a direct action ocean conservation organization that works to protect marine wildlife — organized a cleanup of Beach 116 on Sunday, Nov. 9. Twenty-five volunteers spent more than two hours cleaning up the beach and another hour sorting through the trash on the boardwalk. This is the third time the society has picked up litter from the beach this year. With trash piling up at an alarming rate, they felt the need to organize a cleanup. Sadly, their concerns were validated. “We filled up four large contractor trash bags,” said Ethan Wolfe, coordinator for the society’s New York City chapter. “One of the bags was filled only with the plastic bags we found. We also found plastic bottles, glass bottles, cans and fishing lines.” One of the things they found was a braided metal cable, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, connected to a large piece of metal. “It is the kind used in construction,” said Wolfe. That wasn’t the most surprising find of the day. Volunteers also found a heavy nautical rope, about three feet long, that “was probably a bumper for a boat,” said Wolfe. The cleanup had positive outcomes beyond the obvious: the society managed to spread awareness and even get a few volunteers from the public. “A woman came with her two young children. We even had yoga instructors as volunteers,” said Wolfe. While the volunteers sorted through the trash, “A large number of people walking by on the boardwalk stopped by and signed up to get more information,” said Wolfe. The plastic trash will be sent to Bionic Yarn, Sea Shepherd’s partner organization that aims to convert plastic into fiber. While this is the last cleanup the organization has planned for this year, volunteers will continue to check the beaches during the winter, and if they feel there is a need for it, they will organize another. Photo courtesy of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/George Brooks VISIT QueensCourier.com FOR MORE STORIES
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