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Return to Ballon Manor:
Here is an imaginative Halloween Fundraiser, a BALLOON HAUNTED HOUSE that will be open at Medley Center in Irondequoit during Halloween week.
The name of it is, the RETURN to BALLOON MANOR, and it is being produced by Larry Moss, Henrietta resident and the Guinness Book record holder for the largest balloon sculpture ever! Sounds like a dubious honor, but Larry's the real deal, a world class artist right in our own backyard. Creative high school students will benefit from meeting and working with Larry.
Larry successfully produced BALLOON MANOR two years ago and raised $35,000 for the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center (his wife was undergoing treatment at the time).
THIS YEAR for RETURN to BALLOON MANOR, the proceeds will go to both the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, and MELISSA's LIVING LEGACY FOUNDATION, a cancer foundation that provides information and resources specifically targeted to teens living with cancer, their families and their friends. Melissa Sengbusch, the namesake of Melissa's Living Legacy Foundation was an Interact member in Rush-Henrietta, graduating in 1998, and seccumbing to cancer in 2000. Honoring a deathbed request, Melissa's mother - Lauren Spiker - began Melissa's Living Legacy Foundation to help other teens get treatment and information geared for teens (instead of pediatric oncology, with centers on small children and significantly misses the mark for teens). In six short years, Melissa's Living Legacy Foundation has become an international force in the fight against cancer!
Helping on this project will be helping other teens . . . so for Interactors, this will be teens helping teens. They will be working with a world-class artist to help a world class foundation, both headquartered locally.
TO SEE MORE about Balloon Manor, including an interactive tour of the original Balloon Manor from two years ago, and more about Melissa's Living Legacy Foundation, please go to these three sites, (at the very least, make sure to view the interactive tour . . . this should really stimulate the imaginations of your students):
More about BALLOON MANOR:
BALLOON MANOR 2004 Interactive Tour:
More about Melissa's Living Legacy Foundation:
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