Heather and Dom Napolitano launched SeeShore Fest in 2015 after Heather began losing her vision in 2013. Held at The Starboard, the event raised more than $30,000 Aug. 24, pushing its nine-year total to more than $166,000 to benefit the Foundation Fighting Blindness and The Eye Institute. ELLEN DRISCOLL PHOTOS
Napolitano family friend Amy Jones, shown selling raffle tickets, travels from Florida each summer to help with the event.
Long lines queued up for the punch board game, where everyone is a winner.
Rising Beacon Middle sixth-grader Jade Spangler was the first to punch the final board of the day. 
Pleased with a table-top umbrella prize are friends (l-r) Kim Burton, Pam VanSant and Marie Kozel.
Danielle Thompson watches as her daughter, rising Rehoboth Elementary fourth-grader Jade Thompson, takes her turn at the board.
Supporting the event with their hands full of punch board prizes are (l-r) Chris, Abby and Alice Rausch.
Enjoying a day in Dewey for a good cause are (l-r) Meredith, Suzannah, James and Jack Frederick.
Doris Person shows off the new bag she won at the punch board.
Ethan Lytle is all smiles with his punch board win.
Laityn Napolitano takes a break from running the children’s games to take her own chance at the punch board.
Plenty of silent auction items, raffles worth up to $5,000 and children’s games were also available in and around the outside tent.
The Napolitano family has organized and held SeeShore Fest since 2015. Gathered in back are Dom and Heather, and in front are Dax and Laityn. ALEXIS MEARS PHOTO
Heather and Dom Napolitano launched SeeShore Fest in 2015 after Heather began losing her vision in 2013. Held at The Starboard, the event raised more than $30,000 Aug. 24, pushing its nine-year total to more than $166,000 to benefit the Foundation Fighting Blindness and The Eye Institute. ELLEN DRISCOLL PHOTOS
Napolitano family friend Amy Jones, shown selling raffle tickets, travels from Florida each summer to help with the event.
Long lines queued up for the punch board game, where everyone is a winner.
Rising Beacon Middle sixth-grader Jade Spangler was the first to punch the final board of the day.
Pleased with a table-top umbrella prize are friends (l-r) Kim Burton, Pam VanSant and Marie Kozel.
Danielle Thompson watches as her daughter, rising Rehoboth Elementary fourth-grader Jade Thompson, takes her turn at the board.
Supporting the event with their hands full of punch board prizes are (l-r) Chris, Abby and Alice Rausch.
Enjoying a day in Dewey for a good cause are (l-r) Meredith, Suzannah, James and Jack Frederick.
Doris Person shows off the new bag she won at the punch board.
Ethan Lytle is all smiles with his punch board win.
Laityn Napolitano takes a break from running the children’s games to take her own chance at the punch board.
Plenty of silent auction items, raffles worth up to $5,000 and children’s games were also available in and around the outside tent.
The Napolitano family has organized and held SeeShore Fest since 2015. Gathered in back are Dom and Heather, and in front are Dax and Laityn. ALEXIS MEARS PHOTO
Friends, supporters and strangers gathered at The Starboard Aug. 24, to play, punch and bid their way to raise $30,110 for the ninth annual SeeShore Fest.
“We did it! We reached our $30,000 fundraising goal,” said event organizer Heather Napolitano. “Between that, watching everyone get excited for their prize behind the punch, and so many people from our community being there, it was truly our best year yet.”
In 2015, Heather launched the event with her husband Dom to spread awareness about sight loss and provide research funding after she began losing her vision in 2013.
Heather has a working diagnosis of autoimmune retinopathy, meaning her body is attacking her vision. There is no cure, and she relies heavily on her peripheral vision, but what she sees often resembles an abstract painting.
In nine years, the event has raised more than $166,000 to benefit the Foundation Fighting Blindness and The Eye Institute.
Before the day’s events began, Dom said local business and community members had already donated $14,000 in sponsorships and funding.
“We have more sponsors than ever before,” Dom said.
The big draw was the punch board, a large display Dom created that hides prizes behind a sheet of paper that participants punch through to reveal. Long lines queued up for a chance to win prizes ranging in value from $25 to $500.
Plenty of silent auction items, raffles worth up to $5,000 and children’s games were also available in and around the outside tent.
Learn more at facebook.com/SeeShoreFest.
Heather and Dom Napolitano launched SeeShore Fest in 2015 after Heather began losing her vision in 2013. Held at The Starboard, the event raised more than $30,000 Aug. 24, pushing its nine-year total to more than $166,000 to benefit the Foundation Fighting Blindness and The Eye Institute. ELLEN DRISCOLL PHOTOS
Napolitano family friend Amy Jones, shown selling raffle tickets, travels from Florida each summer to help with the event.
Long lines queued up for the punch board game, where everyone is a winner.
Rising Beacon Middle sixth-grader Jade Spangler was the first to punch the final board of the day.
Pleased with a table-top umbrella prize are friends (l-r) Kim Burton, Pam VanSant and Marie Kozel.
Danielle Thompson watches as her daughter, rising Rehoboth Elementary fourth-grader Jade Thompson, takes her turn at the board.
Supporting the event with their hands full of punch board prizes are (l-r) Chris, Abby and Alice Rausch.
Enjoying a day in Dewey for a good cause are (l-r) Meredith, Suzannah, James and Jack Frederick.
Doris Person shows off the new bag she won at the punch board.
Ethan Lytle is all smiles with his punch board win.
Laityn Napolitano takes a break from running the children’s games to take her own chance at the punch board.
Plenty of silent auction items, raffles worth up to $5,000 and children’s games were also available in and around the outside tent.
The Napolitano family has organized and held SeeShore Fest since 2015. Gathered in back are Dom and Heather, and in front are Dax and Laityn. ALEXIS MEARS PHOTOEvent Details :
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