The Alzheimer”™s Association Connecticut Chapter recently held its Fifth Annual Celebrating Hope event at the restaurant l”™escale at the Delamar Greenwich Harbor and raised nearly $450,000. The money will be used for research and to support the organization”™s efforts to help the estimated 75,000 state residents who have Alzheimer”™s and their 177,000 caregivers. A special dinner menu was created for the occasion by chef Frederic Kieffer.
Featured speaker was actor and best-selling author Hill Harper. He is best known from his appearances on “CSI: NY” and “Homeland.” Harper described how he had been touched by Alzheimer”™s through his close friend, Gene Wilder, and the comedian”™s secret battle with the disease. Wilder died in August 2016 at age 83.
Co-chairs of the event were Ginge Cabrera, Cristin Marandino and Nancy Ozizmir, whose mothers are victims of the disease. They agreed that in dealing with Alzheimer”™s it”™s important to turn anger and sadness into impassioned determination.
