Schools
Teachers, Parents Take To Court To Raise Money For Student's Brain Cancer Treatment
Families of students at Berkeley and Brookside elementary schools supported Elizabeth Fasciano with basketball fundraiser.
Westwood residents held a basketball game between parents and teachers from and elementary schools Thursday to raise money for , a first-grade student at Brookside who is undergoing treatment for cancer.
Fasciano was first diagnosed with brain cancer when she was 13 months old. She is currently receiving a new orally-administered chemotherapy, which is expensive and not covered by insurance.
More than $2,500 was raised for the Fasciano family at Thursday's event. Another $700 was raised at the Westwood Softball opening day and the Berkeley Spring Fling earlier this week raised more than $1,300.
