Woodland Senior, Mary Fitzgerald, has always been adamant about giving back and for her senior project it will be no different.

About eight months ago Fitzgerald began formulating an idea of how she would complete her senior project. In just a few days Fitzgerald will be putting this plan to action with a benefit concert.

“I came up with the idea for a benefit concert because I have performed in several benefit concerts for the Red Cross and I wanted to combine something that I love doing, which is performing, with something that would help my community, which is donating money for breast cancer research,” said Fitzgerald.

In order to put on this concert Fitzgerald approached a number of Woodland students about preforming. In total there will be 13 students performing in the concert. 11 of these students are from Woodland however, two of the girls performing, Jessica DePalma and Maura Beltrami, do not yet attend Woodland as they are only eight years old.

Aside from DePalma and Beltrami, Woodland students Nicholle Petracca, Katie Steinbacher, Kiley Soulier, Karlee Vogel, Kasey Smith, Erica Gomez, and Lily Fontaine along with Fitzgerald herself will be singing in the concert. Singing will not be the only talent showcased though. Fellow students Joshua Muniz and Nicholas Barra are playing the piano and accompanying the performers. While Kyra Conroy, Lindsay Hawthorne, and Alyssa Korzon are dancing and Catherine Pelkey is doing a monologue.

The purpose behind this concert is in order to raise money to benefit both the DePalma Children’s Education Fund and the Harold Leever Cancer Center.

On December 31, 2012 Prospect resident and family friend of Fitzgerald, Karen DePalma, lost her battle with breast cancer. Half of the money being raised will be going to the education fund for her two children and the other half to the cancer center where she was treated.

“I wanted to raise money for breast cancer as my mother had breast cancer and Karen DePalma, wife and mother of the DePalma Family, recently passed away after an 11 year battle with breast cancer,” said Fitzgerald. “I chose the Leever Center because Karen went there for her treatment and I chose to donate money to her children’s education fund because I love the family and wanted to make some of their challenges less stressful.”

The concert will be Saturday April 27th at 7pm at the Prospect Grange Hall and tickets are $10 and can be purchased by contacting Mary Fitzgerald at 203-758-5891.If you cannot attend, but would still like to donate you could also call 203-758-5891.