'Spring for Sarah' to raise funds for cancer fight

FALLBROOK – With a high wattage smile and a hug for anyone within arm’s reach, the only thing giving away the fact that Sarah Girgis has been in a fight for her life is a bright orange headband wrapped around a scalp with stubble-like growth on the top of her head. Her thin frame hints at the nausea from the countless rounds of chemotherapy and, most recently, major surgery around her right eye in an effort to harness the stubborn and extremely rare cancer that refuses to budge from her skull and connective tissue.

In a cruel twist of fate, this one-of-a-kind 21 year old whose high-octane life...