FAIRFIELD, Conn. Charlene Lebo and Suzanne DeSantie received a nice gift Tuesday evening. The Fairfield sisters stopped by Chips Family Restaurant, and took home a $6,000 donation for the charity they run in their husbands memory.
Both the sisters husbands, Keith Lebo and Jim DeSantie, died from pancreatic cancer in the past few years. The two decided in 2010 to start A Night of Music, an annual concert to benefit Swim Across the Sound. Last year they helped start the Lebo-DeSantie Center for Pancreatic and Liver Diseases at St. Vincents Medical Center.
Before last Novembers Night of Music show, Lebo contacted Chips owner George Chatzopoulos about making a donation. He said, Ill do you one better, Lebo said.
The restaurant hosted a pancake dinner on Dec. 12, with all proceeds going to the charity. More than 200 Fairfielders turned out for the dinner. In the end they raised $6,000 for the Lebo-DeSantie Center. Lebo and DeSantie accepted the check Tuesday, in front of their family members, who also act as the centers chief volunteers.
With our community of like-minded people, were trying to raise money with grassroots on the ground, Lebo said. Were both determined to fight his disease.
Photo, Left to right: Linda Bennett, Town Clerk Betsy Browne, State Rep. Brenda Kupchick, Suzanne DeSantie, Charlene Lebo, Brian Smith, George Chatzopoulos, Selectman Cristin McCarthy Vahey, and Lisa, Lenny, Lindsay, Ashley, Susan, and Leonard Sabia.
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