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Garden City Lights The Night For Leukemia, 'Absolutely Amazing Avery'
The community came out to support third grader Avery Lam, who is battling leukemia.
GARDEN CITY, NY — On Oct. 22, the Garden City community came out in full force to support one of its own at the Light the Night event in Eisenhower Park. The event was held for Stewart School third grader Avery Lam, who is currently being treated for leukemia.
Light the Night is a series of fundraising campaigns benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's funding of research to find cures for blood cancer.
Individual donations, along with Stewart School's Pizza with a Purpose profits, brought the donation total to over $7,700. In addition to many friends from Stewart School, members of the Garden City High School marching band, cheerleading team and football team were present to help root for their hero, “Absolutely Amazing Avery.”
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Together, they walked to show their support and generate a collective bright light to drive out the darkness of cancer.
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