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World Cancer Day Raises Awareness Prevention And Detection February 4th

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World Cancer Day is an international day marked on 4 February to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. World Cancer Day is led by the Union for International Cancer Control to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008.

WCD seeks to improve awareness and offer preventative measures, early detection, and treatment, while serving as a reminder to everyone, ranging from ordinary citizens, NGOs, to government institutions, of cancer’s effects on the entire global population.

Campaigns ‘World Cancer Day’ is an educational and awareness campaign that encourages people to actively participate in cancer prevention measures.

It is possible to prevent cancer by eating healthily, exercising regularly, and avoiding the consumption of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages.

More importantly when these types of cancer are detected at an early stage, such as breast, cervical, and colon cancer, the prognosis is much better.

 

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Hezekiah Easter The First Black American To Be Elected Into Rockland County Legislature

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Hezekiah Easter, was inducted into the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame in 2003.  In his career and in the history of Rockland, Hezekiah Easter was often the first. He became the first Black person elected to public office in Rockland County 1965 when he won a seat on the Village of Nyack Board of Trustees. Easter served as deputy mayor and police commissioner in the village. In November 1969, he was elected as an inaugural member of the Rockland County Legislature.

Easter, a Nyack community leader ensured the preservation and restoration of a historic Black Cemetery (Mt. Moor Cemetery is currently surrounded by the Palisades Mall) and worked on behalf of social justice issues, including affordable housing and an integrated workforce.

” I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and for as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can”  Yours in Christ, Trustee Ezekiah Easter.

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Rockland County At It’s Most Beautiful There Is No Better Way To Start The Day

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                  Beautiful Sunrise at Haverstraw Bay Park
                                                           Photo by Rockland Photographer, Owey Cramsie Jr.

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