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A Bay Ridge man who takes part every year in the March for Babies event sponsored by the March of Dimes is expanding his mission.
John Quaglione, deputy chief of staff to state Sen. Marty Golden, is the co-chairman of the newly formed Brooklyn Chapter of the March of Dimes New York. Quaglione and his wife Kerry participate in the annual March for Babies walk-a-thon in Manhattan to help raise money for the March of Dimes, the nationwide organization founded in 1938 to help premature babies and infants with birth defects. At this year’s march, the couple and their friends raised nearly $5,000.
The Quagliones call their walk-a-thon group “Team Natalie” after their older daughter, Natalie Grace, who is four years old now. Natalie was two months premature when she was born in 2011. The couple has a second daughter, Olivia, who is five months old.