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At EMHS, raising funds to crush cancer skills such as entrepreneurship, marketing, and project management. The campaign culminates The Crushing Cancer Cells with the grand finale celebration team, a group of about 38 stu- on March 24. The funds raised dents from East Meadow High will benefit the LLS mission, to School, has been raising money find a cure for leukemia, lymsince Feb. 3 for the Leukemia phoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and and Lymphoma Society. The myeloma, and to improve the t e a m ’s l e a d e r s , quality of life of Nicole Gao, Sumaipatients and their ya Chowdhury and families. Maisha Sayeem, “We decided that have been accepted we really wanted to as candidates for do it again,” Chowthe LLS 2022 Studhury said. “It was dents of Year camreally fun and a paign. great opportunity The three to meet new people juniors became and gain some involved with LLS s k i l l s t h a t yo u in 2019 when they wouldn’t really get donate uSing in other clubs.” we re f re s h m e n . tHiS QR Code This year, the goal There was a is to raise money in questionnaire and the seven weeks ending March based on their answers, the girls 24. The candidates that raise the were chosen to be the leaders of most become the Students of the their team. Year for their chapter. The girls’ Gao said that she wanted to team is part of the Long Island get involved because she underChapter which means they are stands that there are a great up against roughly 30 other number of people who have teams. blood cancers. “Finding a cure Students of the Year is a phil- would really make a difference anthropic leadership develop- in so many people’s lives,” she ment program for high school said. “The money we make goes students. During the campaign, directly towards them, and being participants foster professional Continued on page 10
By MAlloRy WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
Courtesy OneKey MLS
THiS MAp SHoWS that most houses in the area are over the price of $646,000, which is the median price for homes in East Meadow.
Too few houses, high prices Low bidders lose in this real estate market By MAlloRy WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
Picture this: 20 to 30 people waiting outside an open house as the coronavirus pandemic drags on. This scene, and others like it, are what real estate agents in East Meadow, like Richie and Diane Krug of the Krug Team, a subsidiary of Coldwe l l B a n ke r A m e r i c a n Homes, are facing. “It’s crazy how the market is today,” Richie said, adding
that Covid-19 has made things much more difficult. Before the pandemic, people could come into an open house freely, but because of its lingering threat, only one or two families are allowed in at a time. Real estate agent Tatyana Agron, who works with VI Properties, a Hewlett-based subsidiary of Compass Inc., attributed the overflow of home shoppers to the idea that they are eager to move to Long Island to escape the crowds.
She explained that there has been an influx of people moving to Long Island from urban areas, seeking more space and fewer Covid-19 restrictions. In New York City, for example, vaccination cards were required to enter a restaurant until Monday. Richie also said that East Meadow is popular because of the schools. Currently, there are roughly 20 houses on the market, he said. In a balanced market, 60 to 80 homes would Continued on page 4