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Business to Give 20% of Sales to Long Valley Boy With Rare Disease

Pizza place to hold fundraising event Oct. 20 for one-year-old.

The Washington Township community is coming together yet again to help one of its own. This time it’s a one-year-old boy battling a very rare disease.

Jayden Feichter was diagnosed with hyperinsulinism just seven days after he was born last fall, and has spent much of his first year in and out of hospitals and taking tests to monitor his condition.

Feichter, the son of Adam and Jennifer – a Washington Township Police officer and Old Farmers Road School teacher, respectively – is one of just 400 diagnosed hyperinsulinism cases treated by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia since 1998.

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Now, to help the family with ever-growing medical costs, Bob’s Long Valley Pizza, Deli & Bagel is holding a fundraiser on Oct. 20 to aid the family. That Sunday, the restaurant will donate 20-percent of all gross sales to the Feichter family.

The fundraising event will take place between noon and 5 p.m. and have dine in or take-out menu options available. Live music from local band Mudfoot will be the entertainment.

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Various other events have been held to fray the rising medical costs for the Feichter family, including a week long physical education program at Old Farmers Road School that brought in approximately $12,000.

For the second straight year, the Washington Township community has come together to help the family of a sick child. In 2012, numerous events were held to support the Lightner family, whose oldest son Glenn battled brain cancer.


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