STEWART AIRPORT – Over 100 people came to New York Stewart Airport International Airport Sunday morning at the Second Aviation Hangar, trying to pull an airplane with a rope. The event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, well held to raise money for cancer research.
Each group of participants had to raise at least $1,000 before the plane pull in order to qualify as a team. Organizer David Claisse assembled the event and where dozens not only wore pink, but at least one man donned a pink tutu.
It was a typical fall morning with windy and chilly weather.
In the end, the plane was largely the victor in most of the morning team pulls. Still, it proved the point that each little bit of progress and each team brought thousands of dollars to unlock new keys in the fight against cancer.
Asked whether there was a special person or memory that brought them to the event, several attendees said that grandparents and other relatives had been lost to cancer in the past, but that they were really there to raise awareness and for the sake of everyone’s future, a future without cancer. The top fundraising performers were:
BELFOR ($20,305), Resorts World ($45,020), Bodies by Colotti ($3,380), Hudson Valley Women in Business ($2,260), GioLeo ($1,470), Advanced DRI ($1,055), SERVPRO ($1,024), Merck & Shumen CPAs ($1,000), The Flexions ($3,380), Walden Savings ($1,010), Jacobowitz & Gubits ($1,000), and Breast Friends Forever ($1,000).
