On Monday evening, May 29, hundreds of community residents, family and friends came to Sidekicks Restaurant on Park Boulevard, Massapequa Park, to attend a fundraiser held to benefit Christina Cowan. Christina is a nine-year-old East Lake lementary School third grade student who is in need of a double lung transplant due to complications from cystic fibrosis. She was diagnosed with this currently incurable genetic disease at six and one-half months old. Christina will be going to Duke Medical Center, North Carolina, in June to await the transplant.

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