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Ellen White grew up helping others. “My mother would say, ‘You always feel better about yourself when you’re helping someone else,’” recalled her sister, Joanie Kelly.
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By Alex Costello
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12/31/14
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She is the go-to person in our community,” Tommy Asher says of his neighbor and friend Terry Burton Reichel. “There has not been one event, one benefit that she has not orchestrated or has been intimately involved with that has not been a success. I have never heard her say no to something that was going to better an individual or our community as a whole.”
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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12/31/14
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Canals resident Kevin Reilly was having dinner at Swingbellys with his wife, Kristie, last Saturday when a waitress whose parents’ home was damaged by Hurricane Sandy asked him for advice.
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By Anthony Rifilato
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12/31/14
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When Gary Sgroi injured his back lifting weights more than 30 years ago, he didn’t realize the long-term impact that would have on his life. Eventually, he healed, but treating others with back ailments became his calling.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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10/22/14
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Sports coaches have, for decades, been rewriting the rules of math by encouraging their players to give 110 percent on the field. The platitude — a mathematical impossibility — is meant …
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12/27/13
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Since moving to Valley Stream in 1965, Dorothy Walz hasn’t spent much time sitting still. In the past 48 years, she has
volunteered with one organization after another, making the lives of her neighbors a little bit better.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/26/13
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When you sit down with West Hempstead native Patti Locurcio, an
indefatigable and vigorous volunteer in her community, you would be excused for fixating on the gears you imagine methodically …
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By Emily Webb
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12/26/13
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Thinking back on the many soccer games she played as a child with her father watching in the stands, one in particular springs to Catherine Bucaria’s mind — one that took place on a cold, wet day early one March.
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By John Maher
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12/26/13
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Wendy Tepfer is such an obvious choice for the Herald Life’s Person of the Year, we wondered why we had not selected her before.
Then it occurred to us: Tepfer, 63, is among the most selfless, humble people we know. But make no mistake about it: As executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, and as a PTA leader and a dedicated sports mom before that, she has been an advocate for the community for three decades.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/26/13
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A year and a half after he was born, Michael Giangregorio’s son, Nicholas, was diagnosed with a developmental disability that, for his father, was at once terrifying, mind-numbing and life-altering.
Nicholas, Michael was told, had a severe form of autism.
Michael, who is now 48, had a choice, he said, after Nicholas’s diagnosis. He could wallow in despair, or he could accept his son’s condition and not only live with it, but also embrace a new life within the “autism community.” He chose the latter, which has brought its challenges, for sure, but also great satisfaction and joy.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/26/13
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