Kidsday: Southold's Relay for Life

Each year, millions of people ride bikes or walk to help save people who are sick with cancer. They are trying to raise money and awareness about cancer. Awareness means teaching people about something. Each day people die from cancer and other diseases.

People all around the United States ask others to pledge money to help find a cure for cancer. They pledge money for every mile that you walk, swim, ride or run because they're so relieved and grateful that someone is trying to find a cure for cancer.

There are many different kinds of cancer. You can get cancer in any of your organs, like your brain or stomach. You can even get cancer in your blood. My dog, Molly, died from that. I had her my whole life, and I was so sad when she died. Scientists all over the world are working to find a cure. Cancer is when bad cells take over the good cells. You can't catch cancer; it's not contagious.

If you want to help, there's a Southold Relay for Life on June 2 (relayforlife.org). All night the track is open: There are team camps, and members of the teams take turns walking around the track. There are food, games and music, and everybody can do this.

A Lindbergh anniversary

Sunday is the 85th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's takeoff on his famed flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was a famous aviator. He was born on Feb. 4, 1902. His nicknames were Lucky Lindy, the Lone Eagle and Slim. When he was 25, he was hailed for his nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field to Paris, France. He flew 3,600 miles in a single seat, single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. He was very brave, because six pilots had died trying to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.

Lindbergh had been a mail pilot who flew between Chicago and St. Louis and had attended the Army Flying School in Texas. He won the $25,000 Ortieg prize, which was a prize for the person who flew from New York to Paris.

He became so famous that the post office made an airmail stamp with a picture of his plane. A ticker-tape parade in New York City was held in his honor.

He died of lymphoma on Aug. 26, 1974 at age 72 in Hawaii.

You can see the Spirit of St. Louis at The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

--Kidsday Reporter Joe Silvestro

CLASS OF THE WEEK: Kevin McGoey and Jennifer Drower's fourth-grade class, SOUTHOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL