Cindystock Rocks On to Raise Support for Cancer Research and Awareness
Sewickley woman creates a concert -- now in its eighth year -- to help a friend.
You have to have some pretty understanding neighbors if you are going to have a backyard concert every year. Especially if you invite hundreds of guests. Fortunately for Cindy Yates, she does. Yates, of Sewickley, will be the host of her eighth annual Cindystock on July 30. The event serves as a fundraiser for cancer research and support, funds administered through her nonprofit organization, Yates Fund for Cancer Hope. She organized her first concert in 2004 when Yates’ husband, Ted, lost his best friend, Mike Fatigante, 51, to pancreatic cancer. Both men were teachers at the Moon Area School District, and the Yateses wanted to do something to help Fatigante's widow, Linda, and her three children. “We had hosted a couple of golf outings, …
In this Article:
