Tickets still available for Maggie’s Mission Gala Set for Vanderbilt Museum
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Maggie’s Mission will hold its 6th annual Glow for Gold Angelversary Gala at the Vanderbilt Museum next Friday, June 2, from 6:00 to 10:00 pm. The annual event honors and celebrates Long Island teenager Maggie Schmidt’s love of life and children. Maggie’s Mission raises funds to help find cures for pediatric cancers and to help families with children affected.
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The evening will include a Maggie’s Bucket List parachute jump into the event, presented by longtime Maggie’s Mission supporter New York Community Bank, a division of Flagstar Bank, N.A.
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The gala will kick off with an item from Maggie’s bucket list found in a notebook after she died – a skydive Jump with Mike Elliott, a retired U.S. Army Golden Knight. (The Knights are the Army’s official aerial parachute demonstration team.) Elliott, who took the late President George H. W. Bush on three tandem jumps, will accompany Maggie’s mom, Donna, for a jump ...