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Felipe Santamaria ’23, Anjan Mani ’23 and Alexander Chung ’21, left to right, are pictured March 16 near the Arts Quad. On March 10, the trio helped save a 62-year-old man who fell into the 40-degree water of Cayuga Lake while fishing off a pier at Taughannock Falls State Park. Students save man from frigid lake after fishing mishap
March 17, 2021
Alexander Chung ’21 has been a competitive swimmer for years, and was a lifeguard in his hometown of Rockville, Maryland, before arriving at Cornell.
But until March 10, he’d never had to save someone from drowning.
That all changed on a balmy Wednesday afternoon at Taughannock Falls State Park, about seven miles north of Ithaca, when Chung and fellow students Anjan Mani ’23 and Felipe Santamaria ’23 helped rescue a 62-year-old man who’d fallen into the 40-degree water while fishing off a pier with his two grandsons.
ITHACA, NY Effective Monday, February 15, we will be temporarily suspending services
 at the Ithaca Urgent Care located at 10 Arrowwood Drive, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will be re-allocating all staff and resources of the Urgent Care to the hospital, until we are able to reopen.Â
Other Cayuga Health clinical services located on Arrowood Drive, Cayuga Healthâs East Campus, will remain open. They include Surgicare, Imaging, and Cayuga Hematology Oncology Associates (CHOA). Â
Many other communities locally and across the country are experiencing the same issues and are temporarily suspending services at Urgent Care centers. The Cayuga Health staff continues to rise up to the many challenges that we have faced over this past year and persevere.  We all remain hopeful as we move through 2021 as Covid-19 cases subside and the vaccines continue to rollout.Â
Starting Monday, February 15th, services at the Ithaca Urgent Care located at Arrowwood Drive will be temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.