CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Community members came together Thursday to support a special young boy.

WPLR's Chaz and AJ, Connecticut Make-A-Wish and the Bethany Volunteer Fire Department teamed up to help raise money for 5-year-old Teddy, a Bethany resident who was diagnosed with cancer when he was just eight months old.

Teddy loves giraffes, dance parties and Hot Wheels. His one Make-A-Wish wish was to have a backyard race track — a dream that will soon become a reality.

Since the beginning of his journey, the outpouring of love and support that we and Teddy has received... we can't even describe," Cara Hutchinson said. "We are forever grateful to everybody, the amount of love. It's such a beautiful thing."

"He is going to have this as not only as something he can remember today," Tara Navar

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