Giuliana Geller, who’s known as Gigi, may be only a year and a half old, but her mother, Jackie — a Mepham High School teacher — said she is already a dancing queen. Not even cancer could slow her, evidenced by her parents’ videos of her moving and grooving in a crib while undergoing chemotherapy several months ago. Gigi recently took her dance moves to the Mepham High School gym, the site of the annual Chop Your Locks for ...
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/27/14
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More than 250 Mepham High School students, faculty and staff members are preparing to shave their heads and donate their hair during the annual Chop Your Locks For Charity fundraiser.
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/13/14
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Students, faculty and community members will come together at Mepham High School in North Bellmore for the annual “Chop Your Locks” fundraiser for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation on March 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. in the school’s gymnasium.
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3/7/14
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The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-driven, nonprofit charitable organization that raises money for childhood cancer research, will host one of its signature head-shaving events at Calhoun High School on March 18, when more than 200 people will shave their heads “in solidarity” with children with cancer and raise money to eradicate childhood cancers.
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2/26/14
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Each class at Wellington C. Mepham High School did battle for a cause last week, as an annual spirit event became a fundraiser for a cancer charity.
Battle of the Classes, which was organized by seniors in Chris Parren and Kerry Dennis’s Participation in Government class, was held in the Brookside School gymnasium on Nov. 14. The evening, filled with physical activity and Pirate pride, doubled as a fundraiser, with $3,815 collected for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/22/13
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Dean Brownworth was one of more than 200 students to have their heads shaved at Sanford H. Calhoun High School’s annual fundraiser to benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation on March 19. But his …
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/29/13
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