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Bella and I are very honored to participate as co-candidates in the in the 2021 Students of the Year program, a seven week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The candidate/candidates that raise the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year.  Our mission is not to only to raise the most money, but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.

In July 2020, my grandfather, Nicola Pietropaolo Sr. passed away after fighting Chronic Leukemia Lymphoma (CLL) for 11 years.  He did radiation, chemo, and was eventually put on a chemo pill, because that seemingly worked the best to treat it.  It worked so well to the point everyone completely forgot he had this disease to begin with. His disease was slowly transforming into a more aggressive type called Acute Leukemia Lymphoma (ALL), towards the end of his fight.  To be honest, no one would've known he was fighting this disease due to the positive face he always wore even in the darkest of times.  Anyone who knew him well knew how hardworking he truly was.  In fact, he was out landscaping with his company, Nick Pietropaolo Landscaping, until the day before he went into the hospital.  He was in the hospital for 2 weeks until it took a turn for the worst.  He was a truly amazing man who inspired many people.  His fight and battle has motivated us, both, to raise money in order to find a cure for this terrible disease. Ciao Bella!

Therefore, Team CUREageous Crew is running for this campaign in memory of Nicola's name. 

We are super excited and cannot wait to make a difference in order to change the face of blood cancer!!!!!

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org