The Beverly Fund and Stand up to Cancer

Since today is September 11th and I'm blogging, first and foremost I want to take a minute to remember all of the thousands of people who were lost to severe tradgedy 7 years ago today. I was living in NYC, and like everyone else there, I was devistated by what happened on 9/11/01. NYC changed forever, as did the state of our country. I can only hope that we always remember the many people who lost their innocent lives to such an unexplainable sadness. Hopefully my children, neices and nephews never have to experience anything as horrific.

On a more cheerful note, I want to introduce all of my blog readers to The Beverly Fund and Stand up to Cancer. The Beverly Fund was founded by my wonderful sister in law, Tracy Sestili, as a tribute to her mom (Beverly) who died of lung cancer almost 3 years ago. Tracy has done an amazing job with the Beverly Fund and increasing lung cancer awareness in the community. She even won The Jefferson Award in San Francisco for her efforts and community service.

Last Friday, Tracy and my brother Paul visited me here in LA because Tracy won the grand prize from Stand up to Cancer's telethon contest. She was part of the celebrity phone bank, which took in millions of dollars in donations for cancer research and funding. Not sure if you watched the telethon, but Stand up to Cancer is an organization that was started by Katie Couric and some other very well known women in the entertainment business. Tracy got to spend the whole day hanging out with some really big celebrities and educating them about lung cancer in a way only she can - it's amazing! She got many of them to autograph some TiVo devices that she will be auctioning off for the Beverly Fund. I will keep everyone posted on when that will take place! If you are interested in helping fight cancer (lung or otherwise) please check out these websites.

Here are a few pics we took with Tracy's camera last Friday. My brother and I were Tracy's "talent guests" and got to hang with her in the green room all day...it was quite fun!

Tracy, me, and my bro