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Wilton Resident Peggy Grodd Spearheads Team That Raises $2M For Cancer Research Wilton Resident Peggy Grodd Spearheads Team That Raises $2M For Cancer Research
Wilton Resident Peggy Grodd Spearheads Team That Raises $2M For Cancer Research Wilton resident Peggy Grodd has worked diligently to spearhead a team that has now raised a cumulative $2 million for cancer research. Peggy and her team, now called Amy’s Admirers/Webber’s Warriors, joined the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk in honor of Peggy’s sister, Amy Kohlberg Quinlan, who died of cancer in 2003.  The team name was eventually expanded to include Neal Webber, a friend of Peggy’s husband’s friend who died of prostate cancer. The team has been participating for 15 years. “We raise about $140,000 each year,” Peggy writes. “Our team has averaged 60 Walkers per y…

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by Valerie Musson