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Girls fight, cancer loses Aptly named weekend fundraiser pulls in more than $65,000 Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach. Another 100 people marched under the same banner In 2014, the Rix sisters Mikae- in Rye, in Westchester County. la, now 28, and Marguerite, 26, It was We Fight Like Girls’ secboth of Long Beach, were healthy, ond annual parade, which athletic and training to run the raised $70,000 the first time. At New York City Marathon. the latest count over the weekThen the unthinkable hap- end, the sisters said $65,000 had pened. been raised, and they In August 2018, believed they would Marguerite was diagtop the first year’s nosed with ovarian total. The money will cancer. Eight months go to support the later, Mikaela was Foundation for Womstricken by en’s Cancer and breast cancer. Memorial Sloan Ket“I just thought I tering Cancer Center had had too much in New York. pizza,” Marguerite marGuerite The road from the said, explaining that dark days of diagnoher only symptom rix sis to the sunny was bloating before Cancer survivor weekend in Long an exam that Beach was long and revealed her cancer. difficult. Mikaela felt a lump under her Mikaela studied finance and armpit. Her diagnosis, she said, theology at Boston College, play“was shocking to hear.” ing lacrosse there for four years Both have undergone treat- and graduating in 2015. Marguement and are now cancer-free. rite attended Elon University in They fought then, they have not North Carolina, 201 studying edustopped fighting since, and in cation and psychology.. 2020, they started an organizaMikaela now works on the tion, We Fight Like Girls. trading desk at Morgan Stanley, Last Saturday, Mikaela, Mar- the Manhattan financial giant. guerite and a third sister, Mor- Marguerite is a counselor at gayne, who is cancer-free, led a parade of about 200 that began on Continued on page 4
by James berNsteiN jbernstein@liherald.com
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WeatHer permittiNG, studeNts spend at least two periods outside for phys. ed., sports and lunch to help avoid crowding indoors.
Long Beach school district’s Covid numbers remain low by breNdaN carpeNter bcarpenter@liherald.com
So far this year, the Long Beach School District has escaped the widespread Covid19 outbreaks that have been seen in a number of other districts since September, according to officials. Superintendent Jennifer Gallagher said Long Beach has had 21 positive cases since school began. “We have additionally only had to quarantine four students since September,” Gallagher said. Most of the positive cases have been middle or high school students and staff, she said. A total of 6,577 students
across Nassau and Suffolk counties have tested positive for the coronavirus since the start of September, according to the New York State Department of Health. Over the past two weeks alone, there have been 2,654 new cases, or 68 percent of last month’s total of 3,923. There are 125 public school districts and 656 public schools across both counties. Long Beach has six schools. School officials here said the district has complied with all state Covid-19 guidelines. Dr. Andrew Smith, the high school’s vice principal, said he believes the students have played a key role in keeping the numbers down. “We’ve had a good number of students
who are vaccinated,” Smith said. “The kids have been very compliant with the masks as well.” Teachers and staff have also allowed students to be outside for at least two periods a day during good weather, including during lunch. “We try to keep at least half of the kids outside during their lunch period,” Smith said. “The weather has been extremely helpful in keeping kids outside and in the open air so far.” Inside school, masks are required, and students must sit three feet apart. If they must take their masks off for any reason, they must sit six feet apart. Mask breaks are allowed throughout the day.
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