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Nathaniel Pinkes receives youth citizenship award

Nathaniel Pinkes of West Hartford was awarded one of three United Technologies/YMCA Wesley A. Kuhrt Youth Citizenship Awards for Community Service at the YMCA of Greater Hartford’s recent annual meeting. The awards are made in memory of the late Wesley A. Kuhrt, who was president of Sikorsky Aircraft and a former United Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President.

A sophomore at Watkinson School, Pinkes is a certified EMT, serving both the Suffield and Bloomfield Volunteer Ambulance Services. At the age of 12, he became Red Cross certified in first aid, CPR and the use of an AED, and, at age 13, he was volunteering at both the VA Hospital in Newington and, during the summer, the Middlesex Hospital Shoreline Medical Center Emergency Room. Inspired by what he saw in these facilities, he took and passed the 80-hour Emergency Medical Responder course in Suffield and began his service there.

“I have learned that sometimes merely holding someone’s hand and speaking reassuring words can make all the difference. I plan to become a CPR instructor so that I can teach others how to save lives and help in an emergency,” said Pinkes.

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