Verona-based Minette’s Angels has long supported breast cancer patients with gifts cards, home cleaning and feel-good services such as manicures and pedicures. Now it can add one more good thing to its list: Paul Miller Porsche will host a free raffle for all breast cancer patients and survivors to win a Porsche Macan for a weekend at Minette’s Angels inaugural fundraising walk in Verona Park on Sunday, September 29.
Online registration for the walk ends September 24 at midnight. The event will open at 11 a.m., with the walk around the park to run from 1 to 4 p.m. The walk’s honorees include Pat and Barbara Filoso, the owners of Hillcrest Farms in Verona; Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr;, and four surgeons from the Center for Breast Health & Disease Management at Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center: Drs. M. Michele Blackwood, Elissa J. Santoro, Sarah S. Schaefer and Janette H. McDermott.
The Minette’s Angels Foundation honors Minette Grosso McKenna, a Verona resident and nurse who died in 2003 after a long battle against breast cancer. In addition to its work for breast cancer patients and their families, the Foundation provides scholarships to Seton Hall University’s College of Nursing and it funds the pink gear that Verona High School athletes wear in every October for breast cancer awareness month.
Minette’s Angels has also donated $18,000 to the Trinitas Health Foundation for wigs, lymphedema sleeves
and gloves, mastectomy bras and prosthesis and food gift cards. It gave a $20,000 mammogram grant to the Center for Breast Health & Disease Management at the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center to support uninsured and underinsured patients. It has also presented a $35,000 check to Saint Barnabas Medical Center to support the renovation of one of the 23 private infusion rooms in its Infusion Center in memory of Minette McKenna.
