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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
Bay Ridge
Big-hearted volunteers at Bay Ridge Cares organized a fund-raiser at the Wicked Monk last month, and raised $10,000 for 13-month-old Sally “Sunshine” Noel Kabel, who suffers from infant leukemia.
Then they presented Sally and her family — dad Matthew, mom Nicole, and sibs Thomas, 7, and William, 4 — with a check for the amount at a “thank you” brunch for the vollies on Nov. 17.
Organizer Kristen Pettit sprang into action after learning about the Kabel’s family plight on Facebook.
“We decided that we wanted to make the neighborhood a better place,” she said. “We wanted to help this family.”
The large-scale effort was part of living in a small, tight-knit community, said Bay Ridge Cares founder Justin Brannan.
“Bay Ridge comes together like no other place on earth,” he said. “We take pride in Bay Ridge being a small town in a big city — when someone falls down, we pick them up, when someone needs help, we come together, that’s what this is all about.”
Now that’s what Standing O is talking about.