Sharing the stage with a group of big-time celebrities coming out for a benefit concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Manhattan tonight [0x04]— Bill Cosby, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, John Mellencamp, Keb' Mo' and Stevie Wonder — will be a talented young singer from Cortlandt.
The Travelers Championship announced that $1.1 million from 2010 tournament proceeds will go to two primary beneficiaries — The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and the Greater Hartford Jaycees — and more than 130 other charities.
McBride, 24, finished the Leadville Trail to raise $12,500 for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, founded in 1988 by actor Paul Newman to serve 15,000 seriously ill children per year.
They'll gather in California, and Connecticut and New York. They include serious cyclists and recreational cyclists - some who can trek 100 miles, others who are happy to pedal their way toward 15 - but they both share a common cause: to raise funds for Paul Newman-inspired Hole in the Wall Camps across this country.
Founded by actor/ philanthropist Paul Newman, who died in September 2008, there are other such camps in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and five other countries.
SHREWSBURY – The summer before one’s senior year in high school is inevitably a stressful one. But for rising SHS senior Leland Smith, life poses a whole new level of challenges.
ESSEX -- No matter what you call it -- traditional jazz, Dixieland, New Orleans jazz or Ragtime -- it's alive and well at The Hot Steamed Jazz Festival at the Essex Steam Train (Exit 3 Route 9).
The festival gave away over 2,000 tickets and sold just under 3,000. Portions of the proceeds are going toward the CT Childrens Medical Center and YPI, a residential artist program among others.
CROMWELL, Conn. – Not even pouring rain could stop The Miz from being “Awesome” on the golf course. The WWE Superstar entertained and delighted the WWE Universe and PGA Tour fans in his first, albeit wet, Travelers Celebrity Pro-Am to help raise funds for charity.
