Pietro’s Fight gears up for milestone fifth annual Fight Night
Fresh off an especially successful year, one local organization is gearing up for another annual fundraiser.
Pietro’s Fight – a nonprofit co-founded by Dyker Heights parents Dayna and Manni Scarso in hopes of helping find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) – will host its fifth annual Fight Night, “The Anniversary Knockout” on Thursday, March 9 at the El Caribe Country Club (5945 Strickland Avenue).
The event, which typically funds the group’s efforts to find a cure for DMD – a recessive X-lined form of muscular dystrophy that affects one in every 3,500 to 5,000 boys, including the Scarso’s son, Pietro, a seven-year-old boy who was diagnosed at just three — will fund even more this year, according to Pietro’s mother, Dayna.