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Local dance studio brings joy to pediatric cancer patients
Susan Rizzo president of the Andrea Rizzo Foundation was present. She presented Morgan Daly with a plaque honoring Morgan for her dedication to this foundation and her "devotion to making this world a better place". She also presented a plaque to Maryellen Behr, director - M & T Dance Studio for their 2nd annual participation in the event. Along with studios across the United States, M&T Dance Unlimited's director, Maryellen Behr helped raise funds through a Dance-a-thon on Sunday, April 22 at her Seaford, location. Dance Across America is one of many fundraising efforts created by the Andrea Rizzo Foundation, dedicated to bringing dance therapy to children with cancer at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, NYC and to children with special needs in local public schools and local Ronald McDonald Houses. Created in memory of a young special education teacher, Andrea Rizzo was a dance therapy graduate student at NYU and survivor of childhood cancer who was killed at the age of 24 by a drunk driver. The foundation aspires to bring dancers, both young and old together to blend dance and compassion. Dancers of all ages in all parts of the country can make a difference in the lives of fragile children by doing what they love best…dancing. For more information on the Andrea Rizzo Foundation or the Dance Across America program, please call 401-952 2424 or email DreasDream@aol.com
To make a pledge to M&T Dance Unlimited for their Dance Across America event, please email: j9daly@aol.com.
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