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Fighting blood cancer as a 2025 student visionary junior at Calhoun High School, also in Merrick. He was diagnosed with cancer at 13 months Jackson Amiruddin, 16, an old and underwent three-and-aEast Meadow native, is taking half years of treatment at Winthrop’s Cancer Center for Kids. on blood cancer During that time, through leadership he received various and service as a chemotherapy 2025 Student t r e a t m e n t s, s t e Visionary with the roids and surgerLeukemia & Lymies. His treatments phoma Society. As ended at the age of part of this leader4 on Dec. 29, 2012. ship development Amiruddin was program, Amirudnominated by LLS din will spearhead to be a participant local fundraising in this year’s Stuefforts to support dent Visionary procritical blood cangram for the Long cer research and Island region, after e n h a n c e p at i e n t meeting with an support services. advisor from the The prog ram, organization in r u n by L L S , i s JACksoN November of last designed specifical- AmIRUDDIN year. Since then, ly for high school Student Visionary for he’s named two costudents who want Leukemia & captains for his to make a meaningteam — Mathias ful impact in the Lymphoma Society Osback and Donofight against blood van Butler, two of cancers. At its core, the program empowers students to his lifelong friends, who both develop and execute their own reside in East Meadow — and fundraising campaigns to sup- has been assembling a small squad of additional friends and port LLS’s mission. Amiruddin, 16, who’s origi- classmates to help his cause. The fundraising campaign, nally from East Meadow and now resides in Merrick, is a Continued on page 5
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emma Vulpi among $10,000 worth of toys she collected for children with cancer and in shelters to ensure they had gifts on Christmas morning.
Emma Vulpi raises $10,000 in toys for children in need By JosEPH D’AlEssANDRo jdalessandro@liherald.com
Emma Vulpi, 13, has set a new personal record by collecting over $10,000 worth of toys in her 6th annual toy drive on Dec. 21, in partnership with the John Theissen Children’s Foundation. “I’m doing this for all the children with cancer and people in shelters, because they also deserve a Christmas,” Emma said. “It was a really fun experience, it’s nice to see everybody be happy.” Local businesses rallied to support the toy drive, including the A&S Pork Store and Deli in Massapequa, the Cornell Cooperative
Farm, and the Grand Stage Diner in East Meadow. Emma, a 7th grade honor roll student at W.T. Clarke Middle School, began her annual toy drive on her seventh birthday when she received several gift cards to buy herself toys. To her parents’ surprise, she said she would rather buy toys for children in the hospital. The Vulpi family’s toy drive runs all year, collecting toys in preparation for the holiday season. Last year, Emma Vulpi was a recipient of the 17th State Assembly District’s “Women of Distinction” Award for her extraordinary Continued on page 11
’m doing it for the children who are still in the hospitals, who are dealing with or going through what I went through.