By Nova Beall, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
University of South Florida students volunteered to help revitalize Wall Springs Park, Palm Harbor, to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. They cleared 4,000 pounds of debris from the park.
Alan J. Snider of Largo received a "Great Pioneer" award from the American Osteopathic Association on Saturday during the Pinellas County Osteopathic Medical Society's annual presidential reception and dinner at the TradeWinds resort on St. Petersburg Beach.
The AOA's national president, Karen Nichols, presented Snider, a doctor of osteopathy, with a medal and plaque in honor of his work with Largo's Sun Coast Hospital, which is now Largo Medical Center.
Snider was involved in the hospital's founding as a 24-bed facility in 1957. He watched it evolve over five decades into a full service, 200-bed acute care medical and surgical nonprofit teaching hospital.
"No one ...