PLAINVILLE There was no disguising the love in Plainville on a mild spring evening.
It was heralded by blaring sirens, flashing lights, honking horns, music and shouts, adorned with handmade signs, balloons, streamers, bubbles, pink and blue powder smoke, and a crowd of white lawn signs with red hearts on them, and expressed with words like, You ve got this, Girl! We love you! and Malia Strong X2!
One after another, fire engines, ambulances, police cruisers and family cars proceeded past the Cowell Street home of nearly 13-year-old Malia Jusczyk and her family on May 7: A parade of love for a girl who has won countless hearts in her community.
BOSTON – Make-A-Wish
® Massachusetts and Rhode Island announced Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is the recipient of the 2021 Community Hero Award. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, received the award on April 10, 2021, at the Make-A-Wish
® Gala: Heroes for Hope, a live virtual event.
The Community Hero Award recognizes an organization or individual providing vital partnership in the Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island mission creating life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has championed the Make-A-Wish mission for more than 30 years, referring more than 2,500 children in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to experience the powerful impact of a wish fulfilled.