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September 16, 2021
Higher Education ENABLING A BRIGHTER FUTURE
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Vol. 24 No. 38
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SEPTEMBER 16 - 22, 2021
We learned we’re stronger together
OBITUARIES
Circle of Hope founder dies at 56 By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com
Cindy Knoll
Because of her affable nature, Cindy Knoll was everybody’s best friend. She was perhaps best known for getting people to passionately support a good cause. She was an influential member of the community who helped countless cancer patients get
through their struggles by sharing her own. Knoll died of brain cancer on Aug. 31, at age 56. As a breast cancer patient and a mother of three children, treatment and recovery were a struggle for Knoll. She relied on her own mother for help with her then 1-year-old daughter. She had the support of her
family, but envisioned a community web of support for all local cancer patients to ensure that they would have the help Knoll’s mother provided her. In 2012, Knoll cofounded the Circle of Hope, at the Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh, with other breast Continued on page 11
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The coronavirus pandemic sw e p t a c r o s s t h e U n i t e d States, including the Bellmores, like a wildfire over the past 18 months, killing 617,000 of our fellow Americans. We mourn each and every one of these precious lives taken too soon. In recent months, however, we have begun to emerge from this nationwide catastrophe, and because of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, we are seeing a glimmer of hope. Though the Covid-19 infection and death rates h ave t i c ke d u p recently, we are far better off than we were one year ago. We also learned an important lesson during this crisis: We are stronger together. Throughout the pandemic, all of us at the Herald have strived to report the news of the day swiftly and accurately. Suddenly last spring, we were no longer a weekly newspaper. We were a daily, publishing the news online at liherald. com and in our newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of people a month came to our website for the latest news.
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