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Friday, October 28, 2016
Vol. 76, No. 42
Annual Breast Cancer Summit builds bridges,raises awareness
OUTDOOR EXPLORERS
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Photo courtesy of the Syosset School District
The Outdoor Education Club at South Woods Middle School in Syosset took its first geocaching trip of the school year in September. Joined by science teacher and club adviser Chris Meyers, students visited the Stillwell Preserve before school where they hiked 1.5 miles, using the Geocaching app coordinate system to hunt for the geocache, which in this case contained a small teddy bear inside. Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of coordinates and attempt to find the geocache hidden at that location.
JJC Kristallnacht Commemoration
The community is invited to join Jericho Jewish Center in its annual Kristallnacht commemoration, on Thursday, November 10 at 7 p.m. The powerful documentary Inheritance will be presented. This movie portrays the meeting of Holocaust survivor Helen Jonas, with the daughter of Amon Goeth, commandant of the Placzow Concentration camp in Germany. It is the story of Monika Hertwig, who is struggling with a profound legacy left by a father she never really knew. He had been described as a “mon-
ster” and “inhuman.” He was a prominent Nazi leader and commandant of the infamous Plaszow concentration camp where he murdered thousands of Jews and others. The fact that this man was her father is something that Monika still cannot reconcile. Feeling an aching need to come to terms with this legacy of hatred, Monika reaches out to Helen Jonas, who lived enslaved under Goeth’s roof, serving as both his maid and prey for nearly two years. In INHERITANCE, sixty years after Amon Goeth’s exe-
cution, Monika and Helen meet for the first time at what was once Goeth’s luxurious villa overlooking the concentration camp. It is a brutally honest, gut-wrenching and emotional journey. Vivian Delman, a resident of Jericho, who had gone to Germany with her mother to meet Monika Hertwig, will be introducing the movie. The Jericho Jewish Center is located at 430 N. Broadway, Jericho, NY. For information, please call (516) 938-2540.
Seven-time Olympic medalist Shannon Miller will headline Wednesday’s Long Island Breast Cancer Summit at the Woodlands, in Woodbury. A mom of two young children, Miller is now a published author at age 39. People magazine recently reported on her five-year mark for being cancer-free, as she survived the rare germ cell ovarian cancer in the public eye, now 20 years after her epic 1996 Olympic performance. But on November 2, Miller will join women from all over Long Island who can attest to resources found in communities nearby, from Garden City to Syosset and local hospitals and medical practices to Adelphi University. One of those women presenting to the crowd on November 2 was a Summit attendee last year, and in 2016 she returns to share her story. Ann Hogan of Glendale, Queens volunteers with Adelphi University’s statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program. Hogan is a 14-year survivor of a rare form of breast cancer, “invasive lobular carcinoma.” In 2002 she underwent a bilateral mastectomy followed by chemotherapy. Since then Hogan has lived courageously and built on her interactions with people every day, from her work in sales and merchandising to taking and making calls to those in need of support with the hotline. She joined the Adelphi Breast Cancer hotline as a volunteer in October 2003, and her perseverance has stood the test of time. At the Summit on November 2, Hogan will deliver a speech titled “Both Sides of the Phone.” Fourteen years ago when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she researched online and learned of Adelphi’s hotline – its phone number is 1-800-877-8077. The hotline and local support program has been part of her life ever since. “I called, I went to one of Adelphi’s groups and different programs they have offered and I took up training as a volunteer. For me it was a way to give back to other women what this support has given to me when I needed them. It is very empowering to be able to pick up the phone and hear someone where I was 14 years ago and help them, and walk them through it. When I tell that woman I am a 14-year survivor, it gives such hope to a person who’s newly diagnosed,” Hogan says. Exactly a year ago, a new form of support and motivation came her way. In November of 2015 she attended the annual Breast Cancer Summit at the Woodlands and heard inspiring words from Dr. Noel Natoli, a partner with Long Island Plastic Surgical Group (LIPSG) about. See page 8
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