2000-06-14 / Front Page
Community comes out to support local girl
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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