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SERVING UP GENEROSITY
Dozens of Long Island chefs fired up their grills for the fourth annual Chefs of Long Island Tasting Event to raise funds for the nonprofit Life’s WORC’s
Family Center for Autism, which helps people with developmental disabilities, at The Carltun in East Meadow.
1. Amy Greenberg, President of the North Shore
Autism Circle and an event sponsor, with Speech
Pathologist Melissa Concepcion.
2. Life's WORC Board Member Rick Ritacco, Life’s
WORC Founder Victoria Schneps-Yunis and her
granddaughter, Life's WORC Board Member Tariq
Khan, Life's WORC Board Member John Murn,
and Life's WORC Board Member and honoree Ed
O'Donnell.
3. Chairman of the Board of Life’s WORC Rick Del
Mastro, Life's WORC Board Member Peter Klein, and
Life's WORC CEO Janet Koch.
4. Joseph Messana of Angel Guardians for the Autistic
and Elderly with Priscella Arena, Executive Director of
SASI.
5. Rick Ritacco, Ed O'Donnell, Life's WORC CEO Janet
Koch, and Life's WORC Board Chair Lynne Koufakis.
6. Michael Billia, senior vice president and regional
manager at Investor's Bank, with his colleagues.
Photos by Ed Shin
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Life’s WORC was founded by Victoria Schneps-Yunis, the president and founder of Schneps Media, the Long Island Press’ parent company.
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