October 6, 2024

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Emmy winner in Columbus’ Hilltop on balanced dwelling

Emmy winner in Columbus’ Hilltop on balanced dwelling
Emmy winner in Columbus’ Hilltop on balanced dwelling

Melinda DelFratte is just your regular 62-yr-previous from the Hilltop who likes to swim and bike and run.

Besides her devotion to activity — and her sister  landed her an Emmy.

The spunky, shorter-haired Columbus resident has the award nonchalantly resting on her piano, but even she will get starstruck by the piece of hardware she obtained in October at the 64th once-a-year New York Emmy Awards.

“It’s surreal,” DelFratte reported. “To feel that I basically am an Emmy winner is just unbelievable. It is still even tricky to wrap my brain all over.” 

She was 1 of two subjects involved in a documentary referred to as “500+ The Ride of a Lifetime” that was introduced in 2019. The movie, available on YouTube, shows DelFratte taking part in the Empire Condition Experience — a 540-mile bicycle ride from New York Town to Niagara Falls, New York that raises funds for most cancers research — and describing her sister’s two-time battle with the ailment.

The virtually 12-minute movie won an Emmy for human desire extensive-form documentary (lengthier than 10 minutes).

Now, she aims to use the practical experience as inspiration to acquire matters a phase even more and grow to be an advocate for folks to stay a far more lively lifestyle. 

“If I could adjust one person’s thoughts to reside a more healthy life style, then it is all value it,” she reported.