2016 Out of Darkness Walk
Raising awareness and
raising funds
Now, here’s a true light coming out of the Darkness.
After her uncle, Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office
Local 32 member Ed Zubrzycki was lost to suicide in 2015,
Rachel Colbeck created a tribute to his memory. In October
2015, Rachel organized a fundraiser at a batting cage and laser tag facility that generated $16,000 in donations to help
Zubrzycki’s wife and four children. She procured tons of donations of food and more than 100 gift baskets which were
raffled off to help raise the funds.
But that’s not all.
“Every year at my birthday, I always collect money to donate to an organization,” Rachel explained. “Instead of presents, I ask for money.”
Last year, she took her birthday donations and gave them
to Cop2Cop, nearly $1,000.
But that’s not all.
Rachel, who came in from the University of Delaware where
she is a freshman, participated in the Darkness Walk with another fundraiser in mind. Along with her mother, Mary, Ed’s
sister, she is setting up the Zubrzycki Children’s Support Fund
to fund scholarships. Rachel already has planned a “Girls’
Night Out” at a local p