New Jersey girl with rare leukemia needs bone marrow donor
By Arun Kristian Das
Jackie Erb (Courtesy of the Erb family)
CHATHAM, N.J. - A New Jersey community is coming together to help a 5-year-old girl who has a rare form of blood cancer and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. Jackie Erb, of Summit, has juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, which occurs in just one or two children per million each year.
Jackie is the daughter of Lauren Gonnella and Brian Erb, a special education teacher at Chatham High School in Chatham. The school district and the Chatham Education Association, which represents the district s educators, have teamed with the organization Be The Match to hold a marrow-donor screening drive both in-person at a local COVID-safe drive-thru event and online to anyone in the country.
The Spires at Berry College has been named a winner of the Senior Housing Newsâ Architecture and Design award.
Close to 100 retirement communities across the country submitted nominations in 10 categories of senior housing. The Spires took top honors in the Life Plan Community category. Nominees included projects in Cary, North Carolina; Chesterfield, Missouri; Reston, Virginia; and Auckland, New Zealand.
The community in Rome, under the direction of Greenbrier Development, began construction in the fall of 2018 and opened this June.
Tony Teague, first vice president of development at Greenbrier, said the inspiration for the design of The Spires started with the architecture on the Berry College campus.
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