Central New Yorkers have been supporting St Jude Children's Research Hospital since the very beginning. In the early 1960s, Danny Thomas came to Utica to ask for help with his mission to build a shrine to St Jude.
Imagine thinking your child has the flu and it turns out to be cancer down the spine. It happened for one Utica family when their son was only 6 years-old.
St Jude may be a hospital in Memphis Tennessee but it saves the lives of kids in their hometown. Vincent Russitano of Holland Patent is a testament to that.
Zachary Dievendorf lived for 13 years. This year marks the same number of years he's been gone. His memory lives on through his sister who became a nurse in Buffalo in his honor.