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Niyanna Brooks is rewriting child labor laws.
The 8-year-old city girl was engaged with the public as she and other youngsters helped sell baked goods from under the Cornerstone Bakery Project’s tent at the Schenectady Greenmarket Sunday.
A new addition to the weekly farmers market, Cornerstone Bakery is a segment of the nonprofit Community Fathers’ Occupations Instead of Incarceration, earn-to-learn program.
The OIOI program aims to set youngsters on a path of business and entrepreneurship, hopefully derailing them from incarceration, Community Fathers executive director Walter Simpkins said.
Shoreline teen’s heroic journey to fight cancer Tracey Leong
For 16-year-old Mercy Haub, her mission to end cancer started at a young age, when her best friend’s father lost his battle with the disease.
“I’ve wanted to contribute my efforts to the fight against cancer for the majority of my life,” Haub said.
The Shoreline teen joined the 2020 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Students of the Year campaign to raise money and awareness. LLS Students of the Year is a philanthropic leadership program that encourages students to develop skills to help fund groundbreaking research.
Haub promised to shave her head and donate the hair if she raised more than $30,000 for LLS. But this moment of celebration in the summer of 2020 was short-lived. Weeks later, Haub was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma.
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