Greater than 1,000 Most cancersCare buddies and supporters got here collectively to participate within the thirteenth Annual Most cancersCare Lung Most cancers Stroll for Hope, held at The City of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury, on Sunday, November 8. The highly effective occasion raised greater than $180,000 in help of Most cancersCare’s Lung Most cancers Assist Program, the one ongoing program on Lengthy Island offering free counseling to sufferers, family members and caregivers affected by lung most cancers.
“Life doesn’t finish, it simply adjustments type,” mentioned Win Boerckel, Most cancersCare’s Director of Social Companies for the Lengthy Island Workplace. “This annual Lung Most cancers Stroll for Hope is a time to pay tribute to our survivors and all who’ve cared for them, in addition to those that are scuffling with the illness and its lasting implications.”
Win offered the highest particular person and crew fundraising awards to Most cancersCare volunteer Phyllis Sobel a Woodbury resident and two-time lung most cancers survivor, whose crew “Will to Survive” raised over $21,000 towards sustaining the Lung Most cancers Assist Program. Phyllis was then offered with a memorial plaque honoring the reminiscence of her son, Jonathan, and to commemorate the indelible mark he has left on the occasion and people who will profit from the companies he so strongly advocated.
Most cancersCare Board of Trustees member, John Evans, was honored with the 2015 Management Award for his 12 years of laborious work as chairman of the occasion. Mr. Evans handed the management baton over to Seaford resident and captain of “Staff Butterflies” to Kim Pellizzi. Kim, who misplaced her mom Vera to lung most cancers, organized the ninth annual “Strike Out Most cancers” bowling night time which has raised over $100,000 because the first occasion.
Bethpage resident and co-owner of Hicksville’s Final Health club, Mat DeSanno, led the excited crowd in a warm-up. By way of occasions on the health club and different outreach to household, buddies and colleagues, Mat’s crew, “Staff Debbie,” named in honor of his mother who handed away from lung most cancers, has supported our mission since 2010.
The success of this 12 months’s Lung Most cancers Stroll for Hope was a neighborhood effort. Our immense gratitude goes out to Joann Centrone of Massapequa and Diana Gerhardt of East Rockaway, who’re the spirit behind “Ices for Andrea,” named in honor of their beloved mom who handed away from breast most cancers, and “Ralph’s Most cancers Killers” headed by captain Ralph Gagliano of Lynbrook. The 2 groups rounded out the highest 5 supporters for this 12 months’s occasion. Efforts by all these groups and people are important to the sustainability of the Lung Most cancers Assist program and we deeply thank our particular neighborhood to your laborious work and dedication.
Most cancersCare can be appreciative of the occasion sponsors and neighborhood companions: Ices for Andrea, Harborside Press, Final Health club, Eli Lilly & Firm, Teva Oncology, UBS Monetary Companies, Axis Promotions, Ben Jacobson Portray, Genentech, John & Alicemarie Evans, Gerry and Jack Gentile, Morgan Stanley, Winthrop College Hospital, TMK Sports activities & Leisure, WBLI & WBAB, Anton Media Group, Information 12 Lengthy Island, Pennysaver, Apple & Eve, Trace Water, Panera Bread, Pure, Shoprite of Plainview, Starbucks, Suburban Eats, City Bagel of Plainview and a particular thanks to Supervisor John Venditto & the City of Oyster Bay.