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Follow on Google News | Celebrating a life taken… NYCID’s YABC program organizes a race in deceased student’s nameProceeds to start scholarship program to honor SIYABC graduate, Cesar Sanchez Race occurs on Mother’s Day, May 10th….celebrating all moms!
By: New York Center for Interpersonal Development Cesar Sanchez, 20, a June 2014 graduate of the Staten Island Young Adult Borough Center (SIYABC), a program offered by the New York Center for Interpersonal Development (NYCID) in cooperation with the NYC Department of Education, was felled by a gunshot on September 24, 2014. Proceeds from this event will go to a scholarship in Cesar's name. A day has not passed in which the students and staff of SIYABC have not remembered Cesar, their peer, their friend. They remember his successes, his progress, and his inspiration. With this in mind, his peers have coined the now familiar phrase – Cesar Sanchez is YABC – which serves as a guiding point throughout their days in the YABC program paying homage to Cesar and all he represented at SIYABC. The race is scheduled for May 10th, Mother’s Day, beginning at 10 a.m. with the start and finish at Miller Field, on the bottom of New Dorp Lane. Moms participating will receive a special gift to honor Cesar and his mom, Maris Sanchez. “Cesar’s optimism and stick-to-itiveness was contagious. This race and Cesar are parallel. In the wake of adversity, Cesar showed perseverance and determination to finish high school. He was on a flight toward his future endeavors on the wings of that achievement. Our students prove to themselves that they can reach their goals. Ultimately, they prove this level of resiliency to themselves. A running event is a contest against oneself. Everyone running and walking toward the finish become someone different upon crossing the line. You become someone you didn’t know existed before you began. Cesar knew he would make it to the finish line. His tragedy is that he didn’t have the opportunity to see how much he had changed from that success. So we run for him. We walk for him. We carry the touch of change for Cesar,” said Michael De Vito Jr., Program Director of YABC. Cesar was accepted into several CUNY schools and planned to attend school in 2015. He also had aspirations to run the New York City Marathon. To register for the run\walk visit the New York Center for Interpersonal Development’ www.nycid.org and click on the Cesar Sanchez Tribute Run link. “Cesar was one of the funniest, care-free individuals I have ever met. He brought a light into this YABC that won’t go out,” said Savannah, a YABC classmate. Baby Johnson, a dear friend, remembers that Cesar’s Instagram handle said, “Forget being cool. I need success.” End
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