Please attend. This Bone marrow drive is for Mike Costanza who is fighting for his life. Mike attended CONNETQUOT High School Class of 93' and was a first responder to ground zero. Please show your support for him and his family. He desperately needs our help!!!!! Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010 Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm Location: Grand Central Terminal (89 E. 42nd Street at Park Avenue)

Our dear friend, Sgt. Michael Costanza of the MTA police has been diagnosed with Leukemia; he is a young man, only 34 years of age with a wife and two young children.

Sgt. Costanza, a Bohemia resident, needs to find a compatible bone marrow donor. Both of his siblings have already been tested but unfortunately they are not a match. He and his family need our help. We need to get the word out to the Italian American community, especially the Sicilian community since he is of Sicilian descent; if you are from the same region, there is a slightly better chance of being a match. We need to get as many people tested as we can to find a donor; we have less than 6 months to find a match.

Sgt. Costanza at that time a member in the NYPD is one of the many selfless individuals that spent months at Ground Zero immediately after the September 11th terrorist attacks helping sort through the rubble for survivors and aide in the clean up process as well. Now it’s our turn to return the favor and be his family’s hero.

Please come to Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal on
Saturday, February 27, 2010 from 11Am to 6PM
Please partake in a simple, non painful check swab (saliva test).

The National Council of Columbia Associations of Civil Service, Brooklyn Staten Island 10 13, NYPD, MTAPD, and Columbus Citizens Foundation are reaching out to all of our friends and family in hope that we will be able to find a match for Sgt. Costanza.

If you are already registered with the National Bone Marrow Registry, a donation of $26.00 to the “Terry Farrell Marrow Program”

C/O MTAPBA
75 S. Central Ave Suite 1D,
Valley Stream, NY 11580

would be appreciated.

Contact # 516 – 823 - 8930

The PBA will be sponsoring the bone marrow recruitment drive for persons that can not afford the test, however it is only $26.00