Raising Spirits, Awareness, Funds ; Down Syndrome Focus of Event

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Sammy Vogel-Budd of Cliffside Park and Alex Turchi of Tenafly will be smiling upon Times Square today. So will 10-month old Hope Olivito of Clifton.

Photographs of the three are among 200 that will be shown on the 40-foot Astrovision screen in honor of National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. The pictures in the montage were chosen from about 2,000 entries nationwide. All are of children and adults with Down syndrome.

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Raising Spirits, Awareness, Funds ; Down Syndrome Focus of Event

"The message here is that my kid is a kid," said Sammy's mother, Susan Vogel-Budd. "You see these pictures and see wonderful, bright, happy children. There is such...

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