Event has raised more than $21K in past 7 years
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Sharing from a Facebook event page:
"Join us [May 19 at Ansonia High School, 20 Pulaski Highway], for our 8th Annual Softball Breast Cancer Awareness Game Fundraiser to Benefit The Hewitt Center For Breast Wellness at Griffin Hospital [in Derby] via the Griffin Hospital Development Fund.
Music, Food, Snacks, Raffles, 50/50 Raffle and much more.
Thank you to our sponsors Boar's Head, The Dew Drop Inn, Shop Rite of Derby, Dunkin' Donuts of Derby, Petal Pushers Florist, Hot Tamale of Seymour, Big Y, and Adzima/Riverview Funeral Homes.
We have been able to raise just over $21,000 over the past seven years of holding this event.
We were honored in the spring of 2015 by having an exam room at The Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness at Griffin Hospital dedicated in our name for our efforts. Please continue to share the event so that we can continue our to raise funds and awareness!
Varsity softball game between DHS and AHS starts at 11 a.m.
3rd ANNUAL ALUMNI GAME: Join us at 1 p.m. for our Derby and Ansonia alumni game. This was a big hit the last two years. Will you be the next alum to take the field again?"
This event looks like a lot of fun!
As a kidney recipient I was invited to the sixth annual Join the Journey event Saturday at Messiah Baptist Church in Bridgeport. I'm so glad I was able to attend.
I heard some amazing stories of strength and resilience recounted by other kidney transplant recipients, and a liver transplant recipient who now needs a kidney.
I'm pictured here with Joyce Albert, senior clinical transplant coordinator at Yale-New Haven Hospital, left, and Devon Greenwood, center, who donated a kidney to someone she didn't know.
Her husband, William, was working and unable to attend. He needed a transplant last year and received one from my sister-in-law, Suzanne Watson, who stepped forward and was tested to be a donor when she learned I needed a kidney.
Devon Greenwood said her husband is doing fine, as is she. I'm happy to report that Suzanne, my husband's sister, is also feeling fine.
Before going to the program I wrote this post about not being able to take anything from the breakfast buffet.
I had no problem getting food straight from the kitchen. All of the church women working there were so friendly and accommodating to visitors!
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ANSONIA - Mayor David S. Cassetti threw out the first pitch Saturday at the first-ever Ansonia High School v. Emmett O’Brien Technical High School boys' varsity baseball game.
Onlookers said it was a perfect strike.
*This information and photo are shared from the City of Ansonia Facebook page.
We're going to a program today for kidney donors and their recipients and we're pretty sure there will be a buffet.
But as a kidney recipient I need to steer clear of buffets and salad bars, since I take immunosuppressant medications.
Daughter Allegra said, "Wait, a buffet? You'll have to go first."
It suddenly dawned on both of us. "Everybody will have to go first," I replied with a giggle. "We're all in the same boat."
All of the recipients, that is.
We cracked up at the irony of it all.
Gotta laugh, right?
