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CHARITY FIGHT A KO
Long Island Fight for Charity, the nation’s only all volunteer amateur charity boxing event, held
its 16th annual main event at the Hilton Long Island/Huntington, giving more than $1.4 million
to charities and people in need since 2003.
Alure Home Improvements
President Sal Ferro, center, served
as emcee of the event.
BOOK FAIRIES EYES RECORD
More than 150 volunteers with the nonprofit The Book Fairies spent three hours
lining up 31,000 books through two Wyandanch schools in an attempt to set a
Guinness World Record for the longest-ever line of books.
Volunteers line up three miles of
books during the charity event.
BENEFIT CONCERT ROCKS
Billy Joel’s original backing band, The Lords of 52nd Street, headlined The Marty
Lyons Foundation Benefit Concert at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.
SCENE & SEEN
EAC CELEBRATES 50TH
EAC Network, the Hempstead-based human
services agency, celebrated its 50th year of uninterrupted
service to people in need across Long
Island and New York City at a special Golden
Anniversary Gala at the Fox Hollow in Woodbury
L. to R.: Honorees Nassau County
Police Commissioner Patrick J.
Ryder and Suffolk County Police
Commissioner Geraldine Hart.
FCA DRAWS $275K
The nonprofit Family & Children’s Association raised more than $275,000 at its 2019
Fall Harvest Celebration at the Engineers Country Club in Roslyn Harbor.
L to R: April Intrabartolo, ECA, Michael
Monahan, CohnReznick, Angela
Montamarano, FCA, Peter Morandi, ECA,
Lisa Burch, FCA, Drew Crowley, FCA and
Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, FCA.
LIFE’S WORC HONORS INVESTORS
The Garden City Hotel grand ballroom was packed as many contributors from
communities throughout Long Island and as far away as Manhattan supported
the Life’s WORC/Family Center For Autism Annual Gala.
L. to R.: Dennis
DelGaudio, Liberty
DeVito, Joan
MacNaughton,
and Doug Kistner.
L. to R.: Michael Billia,
Corporate Honoree
Bill Brown of Investors
Bank, WABC-TV’s
Jeff Smith, and Life’s
WORC’s Lynne
Koufakis and Janet
Koch.
For more photos, visit longislandpress.com/categories-scene-seen Photos by Ed Shin, Tab Hauser, and Matt Kropp.
Editor’s note: Life’s WORC was founded by Victoria Schneps-Yunis, president of Schneps Media, the parent company of Long Island Press.
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