Kids & Family

More Than $7K Raised for Cancer Research at Event in Cortlandt

The second annual Kathleen F. Marks Memorial Foundation Halloween Masquerade Ball for cancer research netted more than $7,000 Friday, nearly double what the event raised last year, according to organizers.

Held at The Mansion at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt Manor, guests enjoyed plenty of food and lots in the form of entertainment—a "foggy, eerie entrance," mingling vampires, jugglers, an aerial performance, a dance performance of a Venetian waltz and tango, and more.

This year the beneficiary for the event was Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. All the proceeds from the ball go to "cutting edge angiogenesis research," in the hopes that manipulations of a person's blood can treat and eventually cure the cancer in his or her own body, organizers said.

The foundation is named for a woman who was best known as Kathy or Kat. She was a Queens-native who grew up in Yorktown Heights and spent most of her adult life in Peekskill. She died at in 2001 at the age of 48, after a four-year battle with cancer.

Sponsors included:

  • The Mansion at Colonial Terrace
  • Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Dutchess
  • Open Aperture Photography
  • Events To Remember
  • HipFoto Booth 
  • Events by Mikey
  • Park Lane Jewelry - MaryEllen Howard
  • Eimi Studio
  • Wheelabrator Westchester 
  • ITI Strategies


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