DOOR COUNTY (NBC 26) — The Jacksonport Thanksgiving Day Parade is honoring a Sevastopol student this year, and her family says the community rallying around them has been a bright spot in a hard season.

Melanie Ramirez and her daughter Lucia spoke with NBC26 about their family being named this year’s Bucket Collection beneficiaries.

Watch below as the Ramirez family explains what being in the parade means to them: 'She’s just on her own little mission’: meet the Sevastopol student riding in the Jacksonport Thanksgiving parade

"Even though she has bad days, she tries really hard to be positive and happy," Melanie Ramirez, said.

Back in March 2025, the eight-year-old began her battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

"That day we weren't really expecting to hear that it was cancer

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