St. Vincent’s Foundation’s SWIM Across the Sound, a charitable, grassroots organization in Bridgeport, recently hosted their 13th Annual Sports Gala & Auction at Anthony’s Ocean View in New Haven. The event is one of several to benefit Connecticut’s first responders, correction officers and their family members with cancer.

Among those in attendance at the event were (pictured below, L to R):

Halloran & Sage attorney, Fred Trotta; Fox 61 Sports Director, Rich Coppola; Executive Director of St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation, Lyn McCarthy; President and CEO of St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation and Senior VP of St. Vincent’s Health Services, Dianne Auger; Halloran & Sage attorney Arnie Menchel; and the event’s guest speaker, Mike Greenberg—ESPN commentator and formerly the co-host of the Mike and Mike ESPN radio show.

This year’s 15.5 mile SWIM Across the Sound marathon is to be held August 4th, when swimmers, boat captains, volunteers, friends and families will join together to support patients, honor survivors and remember loved ones. The SWIM provides funding for cancer education, screening and prevention programs for patients and their families, and helps uninsured and underinsured individuals with specific needs, medication assistance, free transportation to treatments and appointments, day-care scholarships, support groups and more.