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Liz's Day continues breast cancer fight in Floral Park

Floral Park resident Lydia Krawec, who died of

Photo credit: Kathleen Fordyce

Nancy Daly never met Elizabeth McFarland. But 13 years ago, she put an ad in a local newspaper looking for volunteers to help organize an event in memory of McFarland, a friend’s sister, who battled breast cancer before dying in 1999 at the age of 42.

“We had a meeting and about 50 people showed up. A man wrote a check for $500 for us to start with,” said Daly, 54, of Floral Park and a nurse...

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