The Alzheimer”™s Association Connecticut Chapter has invited the Fairfield County community to attend Celebrating Hope 2016 in honor of the 73,000 Connecticut residents who are currently living with Alzheimer”™s disease and their 177,000 caregivers.
The fourth annual benefit will be 6:30-11 p.m., Friday, April 29, at L”™Escale at the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich. Tickets ($250 each) are available at 501auctions.com/celebratinghope or by phone at 860-828-2828. The event will feature dinner, dancing, live and silent auctions, raffle prizes and a speaker. Guests are encouraged to wear the Alzheimer”™s signature color purple and to bid on items such as vacation getaways, luxury accessories and more.
The Celebrating Hope organizing committee, back row from left, Denise Della Gala, Mimi Rafferty, Claire Hunter, Sharon Parker, Maria Scaros-Mercado, Adonis Filpo, Mary Kathleen Chartier, Carol Burns, Kendra Farn Finz, Lisa Rae Koorbusch, MaryKate Donato, Lisa Anderson, Lexi Rodriguez Kennedy, Leslie Hinshaw, Loretta Lacci; and front row, also from left, Eleonora Tornatore-Mikesh, Alesia Williams, Lauren Messina, Dean Brown, Ginge Cabrera, Cristin Marandino, Nancy Ozizmir, Claudia Schechter, Nicole Peluso, Courtney Montgomery and Jacquie Carlsen. Committee members who do not appear in the photo include Lynn Hagerbrant, Ali Jabick, Meredith McBride, Grace Aslanian, Lyn Black, Jennifer Borzykowski, Evangela Breitbart, Dr. Ann Callahan, Allison Cary, Jen Cornwall, Katrin Czinger, Jen Danzi, Lisa Duguay, Ann Fiteni, Rich Granoff, Laura Incerto, Lindsay Johnson, Margie Johnson, Philip Ketonis, Alison Leigh, Suzanne Lio, Lia Matthow, Frederica McGannon, Ali Nichols, Jeffrey Ruden, Felicia Nichols, Christa Picciano Daniello, Tania Paparazzo, Michelle Piskin, Maura Rail, Shannon Sawyer, Jennifer Walker, Patty Shea and Carolyn Alessi.
Bill Fallon is editor of the Fairfield County Business Journal. He has worked at Westfair Communications for more than five years, previously editing an upstate New York daily and a national motorcycle magazine in Nevada. He attended Iona Prep in New Rochelle, N.Y., and the University of Virginia.
