AtlantiCare crowns new talent champion

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Jacqueline Scaffidi sings “Someone Like You.”

GALLOWAY – Jacqueline Scaffidi of Hammonton, a registered nurse AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s Atlantic City Campus, is this year’s AtlantiCare’s Got Talent champion.

Scaffidi won the title with her rendition of Adele’s “Someone Like You” at AtlantiCare’s sixth annual talent competition Monday, Feb. 13 in the Stockton Performing Arts Center at Richard Stockton College.

The event raised more than $3,300 for United Way of Atlantic County.

Scaffidi wowed the audience as well as judges Claire Collins, Holy Spirit High School music department chairperson; Heather DeLuca, SoJo 104.9 FM music director and midday host; John Emge, United Way of Atlantic County executive director; and Brian K. Jackson, Stockton chief of staff.

Scaffidi was one of 12 finalists selected from staff auditions AtlantiCare held in December.

She wins an additional one-week paid vacation and a six-month membership to the AtlantiCare LifeCenter in Egg Harbor Township.

Placing second was Bay Grass Harmony featuring Bruce Townsend of Absecon performing “Graveyard Shift” by Steve Earle. Townsend is a cardiovascular technician at the Heart Institute, located at the Mainland Campus. Band members include Joe Maher, Jef McLaughlin, Bill Melor, Ian Townsend and Fred Weber.

Third place went to Michael Peterson of Mays Landing who performed an original song, “I Am AtlantiCare.” Peterson is an engineering specialist at the Mainland Campus in the in the biomedical engineering department.

The evening included a performance by 2011 winner Twana Brandon.

See video.

More photos are online at www.facebook.com/atlanticare.

Bay Grass Harmony performs “Graveyard Shift.”   Michael Peterson, of Mays Landing sings his own “I Am AtlantiCare.”


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Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:33  


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