Lori Enright, Toni's mother, started off the event with a cannonball.
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Howard Taub, the owner of Sunny Atlantic Beach Club, jumped in for a cure.
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One good splash deserves another ... After spraying the audience with pool water from his cannonball, Steven Beja gets payback from the not-so-innocent bystanders.
On the last day of the summer, adults at Sunny Atlantic Beach Club line up to do non-stop cannonballs for a half-hour as part of “Cannonball for a Cure,” a fundraiser to benefit The Diabetes Research Institute in honor of Toni Enright, who was diagnosed with the disease five years ago. When the adults are all about to collapse from the cannonballs, many kids at the club line up and do the same. Everyone turns their cannonballs into cash during this fundraiser by getting donations from their families, friends and local merchants. Other funds were raised through a raffle with a grand prize of a half-shower cabin at Sunny Atlantic valued at almost $2,000 and by selling orange tie-died T-shirts (the beach club color) that said “Team for Toni” on them.
