Welcome to the 2008 Southern New Jersey/Shore Region Chapter's Light The Night® Walk Web site!
 Join thousands of participants nationwide who carry illuminated balloons during non-strenuous evening walks to celebrate and commemorate lives touched by cancer. Funds raised support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Anyone can participate. Children, adults and seniors are all welcome. This is a casual walk with no fitness requirements.
2008 Light The Night Walk Events
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September 13 - Cape May County, Wildwoods Convention Center
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September 27- Mercer County, Waterfront Park: Home of the Trenton Thunder
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October 4- Monmouth County, Ocean Grove Youth Temple
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October 11 - Camden County, Campbell's Field: Home of the Camden Riversharks
Registration for all walks: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
All walks begin at 7:00pm
.jpg) Greg Coy will Emcee the Camden Walk!
Co-Anchor/Host, “Your Morning”
Greg Coy is a 22-year news veteran with extensive journalism experience spanning the entire East Coast, from Florida to Massachusetts. Coy brings this expertise to his role as co-anchor/host for “Your Morning,” which airs from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. every weekday to CN8’s more than 9 million viewers from Maine to Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Most recently, Coy served as senior reporter for “CN8 News” at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Prior to joining CN8 in 2000, Coy reported for WTXF-TV in Philadelphia and for
WMAR-TV in Baltimore. Before that he served as anchor/reporter at WFSB–TV in Hartford, Conn., as a correspondent for Buena Vista Productions’ pilot show “Crusaders” in Los Angeles and as a news reporter at WCVB-TV in Needham, Mass. Coy also held positions as a city hall/investigative reporter for WJKS-TV in Jacksonville, Fla., as an anchor/reporter for WHUR News on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as a city hall reporter at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. and as a reporter at WRIC-TV in Richmond, Va.
Coy has received various awards during his broadcast career, including a prestigious New England Emmy Award in 1996, the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcasters Award in 1995 & 1997, and numerous Society Professional Journalist Awards. Coy is a member of the NAACP, The Urban League and The National Association of Black Journalists.
Coy volunteers his free time to “Friends of Children,” a non-profit after school program for inner city children. He also volunteers on the weekend for Habitat for Humanity in Chester County, Pennsylvania and is a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Wilmington, De.
In his spare time, Coy enjoys yoga, golf, cycling, listening to jazz, and attending the ballet and theater. His current vocation is refurbishing his 70-year-old home in North Wilmington, De., a work in progress.
A Mount Vernon, N.Y. native, Coy is a graduate of Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and sociology. He currently resides in Wilmington, Del.
 Mary Caraccioli will Emcee the Mercer Walk!
Host and Executive Producer, “Money Matters Today"
Director of Business and Consumer News
Mary Caraccioli is a multi Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and host and executive producer of “Money Matters Today” seen weeknights on CN8, The Comcast Network. Caraccioli also serves as CN8’s director of business and consumer news.
At the helm of “Money Matters Today,” Caraccioli offers viewers straightforward answers to their money questions. She also directs CN8's coverage of news from the financial world offering exclusive economic and industry breaking special reports.
Caraccioli’s financial beat has taken her to the boardrooms of some of America's biggest companies and introduced her to such influential newsmakers as: Steve Forbes, John Bogle, Charles Schwab, Jon Huntsman, Billie Jean King, Jeff Bezos, Vince McMahon, Tipper Gore and Bill Gross, to name a few. In this role, she also became the first TV reporter to do live daily reports from the floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Throughout her career, Caraccioli achieved many firsts as both the top female news manager at the Fox-owned-and-operated station in Philadelphia and creator of the station’s Emmy Award-winning "Good Day Philadelphia" morning show. During her tenure at Fox Philadelphia she also served as senior executive producer for the "Fox Ten O'Clock News." Caraccioli arrived in the nation's fourth-largest TV market when she joined WCAU-TV, Philadelphia’s former CBS-owned-and-operated station, where she became the youngest person to be named a show producer.
Other career highlights include her time in Cuba when she was one of only a few TV journalists granted access and coverage of that country. In that post, she uncovered stories of economic inequities in the lucrative cigar trade and Cuba's burgeoning tourism industry. Another milestone was her time working with respected business broadcaster Lou Dobbs to launch the nationally syndicated radio report, “Lou Dobbs/ Financial Report.” She also served as a producer at CNBC's World Business.
Caraccioli’s second love is tennis. She has worked with the United States Tennis Association as a broadcast communications manager at the prestigious U.S. Open Tennis Championships. She is a member of the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Board of Directors where she heads up the scholarship committee. She also has spent time as a match commentator for World Team Tennis’ Philadelphia Freedoms.
Currently, Caraccioli is a candidate for a Master’s of Business Administration Degree at Drexel University, and is finishing her thesis for a Master's degree in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she is a sought after public speaker on such topics as leadership development, women’s money issues, entrepreneurship and saving tips for kids, motivating her audiences to take charge of their own financial future.
Caraccioli and her husband have one daughter.
For more information about Light The Night Walk in southern New Jersey, visit our Local Walk Site information page.
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