St. Vincent's SWIM Across the Sound will hold its 13th Annual Celebrity Breakfast on Thursday, February 5,2009 at 7:30 a.m. in the ballroom of the Holiday Inn, located at 1070 Main Street in Bridgeport.
The event will include a silent and live auction of sports memorabilia provided by Mike Riccio Sports, LLC, breakfast and sports commentary.
Approximately five hundred guests will turn out to hear Keynote Speaker Brian Cashman, General Manager of the New York Yankees, share his insider experiences with one of the most successful teams in the history of baseball.
Cashman is the youngest general manager ever to win aWorld Series Championship and the longest-tenured GM under current Yankees ownership.
In his past 11 seasons as GM, he has seen his team win eight division titles, five American League pennants, and three World Series Championships.
Cashman will share his personal stories of his encounters with other Yankees past and present, including Derek Jeter, David Cone, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, and George Steinbrenner,too. Each table sponsor will serve as a "Celebrity Waiter" for their friends and colleagues, hoping to earn a $100 tip from each of them that will also be donated to the SWIM.
People's United Community Foundation is the event sponsor and Dr.DeJesus & Associates will sponsor the breakfast. John DiMarco of Luigi's of Bridgeport and John Matthews, senior class advisor at Trumbull High School and founder of the SWIM Fish & Sunflower Fundraiser, will co-chair the breakfast.
The winning ticket for the SWIM's 2009 Car Raffle will be drawn. This year's prize is a fuel-efficient 2009 Nissan Versa Hatchback donated by Mario D'Addario - Cadillac, Nissan, Buick, Pontiac, GMC and William B. Meyer, Inc., a transportation, storage and logistics company headquartered in Stratford. Table sponsorships at the Celebrity Breakfast are available for $500.
To sponsor a table at the breakfast or to purchase a car raffle ticket, please call the St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation at (203) 576-5451. To learn more about St. Vincent's SWIM Across the Sound visit www.swimacrossthesound.orghttp://www.swimacrossthesound.org/ .
St. Vincent's SWIM Across the Sound is a charitable, grass roots organization run by St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation. For 21 years, the SWIM has had a unique niche, providing cancer education, screening and prevention programs at low- or no-cost for the elderly and underserved. In addition, the SWIM helps individual cancer patients on a case-by-case basis with specific needs, such as the funding of wigs and prostheses, medication assistance, free transportation to treatments and appointments, day-care scholarships, support groups and more.
The charity raises funds through events such as the SWIM Marathon, Breast Cancer Luncheon, Walk/Run for Cancer and Prostate Cancer Celebrity Dinner. Wherever possible, the SWIM covers costs and expenses of events through corporate sponsorships, and staffing overhead is covered by the St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation. The SWIM's main area of reach is eastern Fairfield County, but outreach programs extend to other areas of Connecticut with the SWIM's Hartford Chapter and annual fund raisers for New Haven County, as well as support for Connecticut's first responders and correction officers with cancer.
The SWIM's Teen SmokeStoppers program has reached 100,000 children throughout the entire state to date. The SWIM raised $2.65 million in the 2008 fiscal year and helps more than 20,000 people annually. For more information, contact the St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation at (203) 576-5451 or visit www.swimacrossthesound.org.
