LAGRANGE â Show off your classic car and help a family battling to get their daughter healthy this Saturday at Everage Auto just north of LaGrange.
The LaGrange car lot will be hosting the first-ever Daniah Nieto Car Show and Fundraiser this Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
The event was created to help the family of Nieto, a 10-year-old Lakeland Intermediate School student, cope with the costs associated with traveling to Chicago where Nieto is being treated for two extremely rare medical conditions. Nieto suffered from two linked genetic mutations â Smith-McCort Dysplasia and Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen Dysplasia. Those conditions result in uncharacteristic and somewhat abnormal skeletal development and are characterized by shorter limbs, a shorter trunk, and a barrel chest. These conditions are not noticeable at birth, and the condition is so rare fewer than 100 cases have been observed worldwide.