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Breast cancer walk honors late educator One of her most notable acts of service was her dedication to helping the less fortunate in Dr. Elsy Mecklembourg-Guib- obtaining access to proper ert, a former Elmont school health care. Through her nonboard member who died of a profit EMG Health Communicarare degenerative disease last tions, Mecklembourg-Guibert month, was comhosted several memorated for her eve n t s a n nu a l ly, public health efforts including one that and service during a focused on early prebreast cancer awarevention for breast ness walk at Valley cancer every OctoStream State Park on ber. Oct. 29. Her son, Youri MecklembourgGuibert, said early Guibert, a champion detection and preof breast cancer vention was his awareness and a mother’s “motto.” community advoShe would often cate, was Nassau encourage women to County’s first Haiconduct self-breast tian-American electexams ahead of ed official when she annual mammowas voted onto the grams, which led school board. She many women to disdied on Oct. 3, at age cover lumps on their 68 of Creutzfeldtbreasts on their Jakob disease, which YoURi GUiBERT own. kills one in every “There were honoree’s son. million people each women who attendyear and for which ed the conferences there is no treatment or cure. every year, some of them came The inaugural Dr. Elsy Meckl- back and said (to my mother), embourg-Guibert Memorial ‘You saved my life,’” Guibert Breast Cancer Walk was held said. last month in the Elmont resiFor his mother and granddent’s honor. Continued on page 10
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SEwaNHaka HiGH ScHool students Andrew Baptiste, left, Grace Toussaint, Sebastian Ulysses Jocelyn Galdamez and Kathleen Galdamez with items collected for the Thanksgiving food drive.
At Sewanhaka, teaming up for Thanksgiving food drive
Students and Teachers Against Cancer take lead By aNa BoRRUTo aborruto@liherald.com
Sewanhaka High School students learned a valuable lesson of gratitude by giving back to those in need before the Thanksgiving holiday. Since Oct. 31, members of the high school’s Students and Teachers Against Cancer have been collecting donations for their annual Thanksgiving food drive. Each year, the items are delivered to St. Vincent de Paul Parish Out-
reach, on Depaul Street in Elmont, and the school’s guidance department, and then distributed to the needy. T his year, the g roup planned to donate the items on Wednesday, just in time for Thanksgiving. Alyson Ruvel and Antonietta Barbosa, the club’s advisers, have been involved in the food drive since they began teaching at Sewanhaka High School. Debra Bolton, a former special education teacher, founded STAC and ran the
club, as well as its initiatives, until she retired. “She is very charitable, even now, she’s always supporting our department, or if we do a fundraiser, she’s our mentor with that — a heart of gold,” Ruvel, also a special education teacher, said of Bolton. Barbosa, a mathematics teacher who began overseeing the club as co-adviser in 2010, said that in each of the last 12 years, she has seen an Continued on page 5
here were women who attended the conferences every year, some of them came back and said (to my mother), ‘You saved my life.’