Community Corner
Dinner and Fun for a Good Cause to Help MCC Student
Scotty O'Brien, a South WIndsor resident and Manchester Community College student, broke his neck in May and a fundraiser has been set for tomorrow night to help the family.
After several years of helping out Ellington students, guidance counselor Nancy O’Brien now needs some help of her own.
O’Brien’s 19-year-old son, Scotty, sustained a broken neck in May in an accident at the beach and was transported to Hartford Hospital via Life Star. Doctors have said that he will have no movement below his shoulders and continues to face challenges every day.
Tomorrow, a fundraising dinner will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hartford. The dinner is a dress to impress or come as you are event and will feature dinner and entertainment by The Degenerates and South Windsor’s own DJ NoNo.
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The dinner, sponsored by the “One Love” fund created in O’Brien’s honor, will run from 6:30 p.m. until midnight and the donation is $25. For more information, contact Patricia Garafolo at 860-604-4220 or pg5611@cox.net.
All proceeds from the night will go to O’Brien and his family.
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At the time of the accident, O’Brien, a 2010 South Windsor High School graduate, was attending his first year at Manchester Community College where he was majoring in art.
People who know O’Brien know of his natural ability to draw, his free spirited attitude toward life, his love of music, and mostly his love of people and the care he showed his many friends.
A Facebook page has been created so that all of O’Brien’s friends and supporters can follow his progress.
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