PC offers ‘Movies and Music for a Cure’

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PROVIDENCE – Want to help create a world free of multiple sclerosis and have some fun too? Then you’ll want to attend “Movies and Music for a Cure” on Saturday, March 15 from noon to 7 p.m. at McPhail’s, the student entertainment facility on the campus of Providence College.

The first film, “The Departed” (rated R), an Academy Award winner, will start at 12:30 p.m. The band “Triple Point” will perform at 3 p.m. and the second film, “Anchorman” (rated PG-13), will start at 4 p.m. Single movie admission is $5 and band admission is $5, or you can buy a full day admission for $7. Raffle tickets will be sold for prizes from such restaurants as Kabob-N-Curry, Fire + Ice and more. This event is open to the public. All tickets may be purchased at the door the day of the event.

“Movies and Music for a Cure” is being organized by Richard Dell’Isola, a freshman at Providence College, whose family is affected by MS.

“Through our situation, we have come to realize the pain that people afflicted with this unpredictable disease go through,” Dell’Isola said. “It has such a huge impact, both physically and mentally. This is what inspired me to organize ‘Movies and Music for a Cure’.”

Proceeds from this event will go to the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which supports direct services for the more than 3,000 people with MS and their families in Rhode Island as well as national MS research to fund a cure for this chronic disease of the central nervous system.

For more information, call Meghan Griffiths, Campus Minister, (401) 865-2216.

About Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information from the brain to the body and stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system.

Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are being made. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men afflicted by the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.5 million worldwide.