Cancer still can’t kill love: Annual benefit to honor memory of reporter’s parents
For the third year in a row, the Home Reporter’s own Meaghan McGoldrick is kicking cancer where it hurts with her annual Cancer Can’t Kill Love Benefit Concert—a chance for friends and family to come together, enjoy local bands and indulge in great eats, all while raising money for cancer research—in honor of her late parents Joanne and John Patrick “Butch” McGoldrick.
“My mom passed away in October of 2013,” McGoldrick said of her mother who lost a brief, four-month battle with Leukemia. Her father, Butch, succumbed in 2008 to Mesothelioma, an asbestos-triggered lung cancer brought on by his work at Ground Zero. “My friends were sitting around one day and said ‘we need to do something.’”
Today, that “something” has taken off and turned into a big event in Bay Ridge—collectively raising close to $10,000 since its first year.