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Kids help lend a hand to the Mary Ruchalski Foundation by selling gold bows and luminarias to ‘Light it Up Gold’ for pediatric cancer awareness month.

The Mary Ruchalski Foundation helps fund groundbreaking cancer research

The Mary Ruchalski Foundation and others like it are helping change the picture by funding groundbreaking cancer research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. more

By Daniel Offner | 9/8/23

Now pitching, after five weeks on the injured list . . .

Last week I had the opportunity to throw out the first pitch before a Long Island Ducks game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. more

6/8/23

My unexpected medical adventure

I had never spent more than one night in a hospital or been confronted by serious illness, so my recent surgery for stomach cancer and six-day hospital stay were a life-altering experience. more

5/11/23

Carol Ruchalski is the Rockville Centre Herald's 2022 Person of the Year for her efforts to raise awareness of pediatric cancer.

She's leading the fight against pediatric cancer

Mary Ruchalski was a seventh-grade student at St. Agnes Cathedral School in 2017 when she was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that affects muscle tissue. After she underwent months of intense treatment, doctors told her there was nothing more they could do. more

By Daniel Offner | 12/29/22

There’s no escaping the division, in every arena

Why do you have to make everything a political issue? some readers ask, and then they sign off with, “[Expletive] Biden!” more

10/13/22

From left: Andrew Lazzara, Madeline Lazzara, Vincent Lazzara, Christine Biegner, George Biegner, and Susan Biegner help raise money in memory of Ronnie Biegner.

Runs for Ronnie hosts annual fundraiser

Runs for Ronnie hosted its annual fundraiser to help raise money for cancer research at R.J. Daniel’s in Rockville Centre over the weekend. more

By Daniel Offner | 9/28/22

Carol Ruchalski carried on the local tradition, lighting up the tree at Village Hall in gold lights in memory of her daughter, Mary, and for others who have died of pediatric cancer.

Focused on child cancer, RVC ‘lights it up gold’

Each September, Rockville Centre residents gather at Village Hall for a special tree-lighting ceremony, where they “Light it Up Gold” to kick off pediatric cancer awareness month. more

By Daniel Offner | 9/8/22

Thanks to her work with a foundation named in memory of Rockville Centre’s own Mary Ruchalski, Sophia Paesano — No. 24 — was awarded the U.S. Lacrosse Jackie Pitts Award soon after she graduated from Sacred Heart Academy.

Lacrosse star honored for work with RVC foundation

A foundation named after a Rockville Centre girl who died from a rare cancer, is celebrating a recent Sacred Heart Academy graduate who won a U.S. Lacrosse award. Sophia Paesano was presented with the Jackie Pitts Award last month, in recognition of her charitable efforts with the Mary Ruchalski Foundation and Camp Anchor. more

By Daniel Offner | 8/11/22

Greta Ohanian, far left above, with her parents, Daniel and Ginnie, and siblings Charles, Todd and Grace before the 4K for Cancer run in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

South Side grad is running across the country for a cause

Rockville Centre native Greta Ohanian has already beaten cancer, and now the South Side High School alumna is embarking on a 4,000-mile cross-country run over the next month and a half during which she will tell her story and lend a hand at cancer centers from Baltimore to San Francisco. more

By Tom Carrozza | 6/30/22

The Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition raised about $65,000 at its fifth-anniversary gala last Friday. Taking part were, from left, Co-president Erin O’Sullivan, honoree Laura Altman, Co-president Peggy McDonald and honoree Kathy Baxley.

Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition's gala a great success

When called on to support the Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition at its annual gala, the village came through more than ever before, raising about $65,000 to help those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. more

By Mike Smollins | 3/17/22

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