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Football players should wear black and blue

Do we really want to see the bruisers of the NFL play for pink? As Breast Cancer Awareness month begins . . . more

9/25/14

The Sacred Heart seventh- and eighth-grade girls' soccer team was the runner-up for the 2013 Nassau County Championship title. The squad ended the regular season undefeated and in first place before falling to St. Dominic's of Oyster Bay in the championship game 2-1 on Sunday.

Sacred Heart is county title runner-up

The Sacred Heart Catholic Youth Organization seventh-/eighth-grade girls’ soccer team was the runner-up for the 2013 Nassau County CYO Championship title. The championship game was played at Town Park in Merrick on Sept. 17. Sacred Heart fell to St. Dominic’s of Oyster Bay 2-1 in the match. more

11/21/13

Halloween: a relief from real-life horrors

It is Oct. 31, 1951, a bitterly cold Halloween. My mother and I are rushing home from the neighborhood bakery in the late afternoon. more

10/31/13

The best weapon against breast cancer is awareness

Breast cancer victims are our mothers, our sisters, our friends and, yes, sometimes our fathers and brothers. more

10/17/13

Breast cancer awareness: mission accomplished

I couldn’t wait for November. Once the calendar page turned, Breast Cancer Awareness Month was officially over. more

11/2/12

Kennedy JV soccer squad helps raise breast-cancer awareness

Kennedy junior-varsity soccer players Alyssa Kaufman, Hunter Slavin, Emily Okun, Hannah Ferry, Brooke Rosen Holtz, Halley Kaye, Jessica Romano and Alyona Meyer ran a donation table during a recent Kennedy soccer game dedicated to breast cancer awareness. Through sales and donations, the girls raised $600. more

10/19/12

Kennedy goalkeeper Nicole Liotta stood at attention for the national anthem before a recent night match against Massapequa. The game, dedicated to breast cancer awareness, raised $600, and was the first girls’ sporting event in Kennedy history to be played under the lights.

At Kennedy, it’s more than a game

The Kennedy girls’ soccer team marched from under the bleachers onto the field on Oct. 11, with the players donning pink warmup shirts that read “Playing for a Cure.” more

By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com | 10/16/12

This month the focus is on breast cancer

Nassau County has one of the nation’s highest rates of breast cancer, and more than 1,200 women in the county were diagnosed with the disease from 2004 to 2008, according to the State Department of Health’s New York State Cancer Registry. more

10/11/12

The Dakota Design Center in Merrick held its “Pinkout” event last Friday to raise breast-cancer awareness throughout the community. A fashion show, above, was a highlight of the evening.

Design center puts on a ‘Pinkout’ to raise awareness

To raise breast-cancer awareness throughout the community, the Dakota Design Center in Merrick kicked off its “Pinkout” event at its Merrick Road showroom last Friday. more

By David Weingrad | 9/25/12

Dakota Design to host breast cancer awareness event

On Friday, Sept. 21, the Dakota Design Center in Merrick will host a “Pinkout” event to raise breast cancer awareness. The showroom, at 1565 Merrick Road, will host four Long Island-based breast cancer charities — the 1 in 9 Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition, the NY Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program at Adelphi University, the Carol M. Baldwin Research Fund and the F.A.C.T. Foundation. more

9/20/12

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