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Starting a new tradition Malverne goes gold for Pediatric Cancer Awareness this month vided them with gold lights if they promise to light them every year.” The Village of Malver ne Last year, a tree in Rockville hopes to start a new September Centre’s village green was decotradition. Inspired by its neigh- rated with gold lights, and a cereboring village, Rockville Centre, mony honored those affected by the village turned the water in pediatric cancer. This year, trees its Hempstead Avewill be lit gold in nue fountain gold in four other villages honor of Pediatric — Malverne, East Cancer Awareness Williston, Mineola Month. There will be and Williston Park a tree lighting near — as well as at two t h e fo u n t a i n o n area high schools, to Thursday at 7:30 bring awareness to p.m. to support the the disease. M a r y Ru c h a l s k i Malverne Village Foundation. T r ustees Lauren “The Mary Touchard and Tim Ruchalski Founda- kEiTh CoRBETT Sullivan have both tion is a real integral Malverne mayor raised the cause part of raising with the villa g e awareness and funds board. “It’s really an for pediatric cancer,” Malverne important event that we look forMayor Keith Corbett during the ward to recognizing and assistvillage’s Sept. 2 board meeting. ing in any way we can,” Corbett Mary Ruchalski, of Rockville said. Centre, a seventh-grader at St. Ruchalski said she wanted a Agnes Cathedral School, died of special way to honor her daughcancer in March 2018, just two ter. “Mary and I always loved days before her 13th birthday. Christmas, and we wanted to do “The foundation is trying to something different, so I had the step up its awareness cam- idea of lighting a tree,” she said. paign,” said her mother, Carol, “Everyone has a tree in their vilthe organization’s director. “We lage, and when no other lights reached out to other villages and to several high schools, and proContinued on page 3
By NakEEM GRaNT and Jill NoSSa ngrant@liherald.com, jnossa@liherald.com
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Courtesy Doris Bové
MalVERNiTE DoRiS BoVé has donated garden flags and blue ribbons to residents in support of police officers.
An abundance of blue ribbons Campaign aims to support police officers By NakEEM GRaNT ngrant@liherald.com
Last year, there were a record 228 suicides of police officers in the U.S., according to Blue HELP, a nonprofit that aims to reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues among those in law enforcement. The group also reported that there had been 110 suicides this year. In light of this trend, Malvernite Doris Bové said she wanted to find a way to sup-
port police officers. “There’s a lot of police officers in the country right now that are questioning their job,” Bové said. “They need to be reassured that we need them.” Bové, an animation and digital media teacher at Nassau BOCES, started a blue ribbon campaign in the village three weeks ago, urging residents through Facebook to tie a blue ribbon on their tree, lamppost or house to thank police officers for their service. A number of residents
quickly took up the cause, and blue ribbons can now be seen hanging throughout the village. Bové said she got the idea from Cathy Bien, of Lynbrook, who started her own campaign in June. “Once I saw what she was doing,” Bové said, “I told myself that I shouldn’t wait for someone else in the village to do it, so I stepped up. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t do something like Continued on page 4
t’s really an important event that we look forward to recognizing.