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Metro Queens Boys & Girls Club honors youths
Dawn Giudice Assistant Branch Manager
Glen Cove, First Central Savings Bank,
Ed Petrosky CEO, First Central Savings
Bank, Patricia Fulton-Lawrence Vice
President Business Development Offi cer,
Glen Cove, First Central Savings Bank; &
Taryn Squiciarino Universal Banker
Michael Serao, Senior Vice President and Director of Retail Banking, First
Central Savings Bank, Ed Petrosky, CEO, First Central Savings Bank, Lisa
Thouin, Managing Director of Mercadian, Sal Zerilli Managing Director
Mercadian
(l to r) George Russo, Law Offi ce of George Russo & President, Boys &
Girls Club of Metro Queens Board of Directors; Joseph Pistilli, Chairman
of the Board, First Central Savings Bank; Michael Serao, Joseph Pistilli,
Senior Vice President, First Central Savings Bank; NYC Councilman Eric
Ulrich; and Ed Petrovsky, President, First Central Savings Bank
PHOTOS BY CORAZON AGUIRRE
The Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens
celebrated its annual “Youth of the Year”
dinner on April 17 at Russo’s on the Bay
in Howard Beach. John DeCristoforo,
CEO of the Metro Queens Boys & Girls
Club, welcomed the honorees including
First Central Savings Bank, Resorts
World Casino New York City President
Scott Molina and D. Thomas Ruttura of
Ruttura & Sons Construction. Attendees
also heard from the Youth of the Year
award fi nalists: Lola Gbemmi, Travis
Greaves III and Ashley Reyes.
(l to r) Joseph J. Ferrara, Esq, Ferrara Brothers
– AUS Concrete Company & Boys & Girls Club
of Metro Queens Board of Directors; Peter
Ruttura accepting on behalf of D. Thomas
Ruttura, President, Ruttura & Sons Construction;
Constantine Quadrozzi, US Concrete; & Thomas J
Santucci, President, Gateway Investments & Boys
& Girls Club of Metro Queens Board of Directors
(l to r) Joseph J. Ferrara, Esq, Ferrara Brothers
– AUS Concrete Company & Boys & Girls Club of
Metro Queens Board of Directors & Sal Armao,
Managing Partner of Armao, LLP
Thomas J Santucci, President,
Gateway Investments & Boys
& Girls Club of Metro Queens
Board of Directors
(l to r) Joseph Liana, Chairman, Board
of Directors, Boys & Girls Club of Metro
Queens & Scott Molina, President, Resorts
World Casino NYC
(l to r) Tom Grech, President, Queens Chamber of Commerce; Anthony
Hill, Manager Con Edison Corporate Aff airs & Secretary, Boys & Girls Club
of Metro Queens Board of Directors; Carol Ann Conslato, Director of Queens
Regional & Community Aff airs; Thomas Santucci, President, Gateway
Investments & Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens Board Member; and John
DeCristoforo, CEO, Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens
Members of the Long Island Board of Realtors (LIBOR) with board
member Victoria Schneps
Boys & Girls Club of Metro
Queens Club Member & 2018
Youth of the Year winner Lola
Joseph J. Ferrara, Esq, Ferrara
Brothers – AUS Concrete Company
& Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens
Board of Directors; & Vicki Ferrara
(l to r) Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, Vicar for
Development, Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn
& Queens; & Joseph Pistilli, Chairman of the
Board, First Central Savings Bank
(top l to r) John DeCristoforo, CEO, Boys & Girls
Club of Metro Queens & Giovanni Casas, Owner,
GEO Events & Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens
Alum; (seated l to r) Michael Aversano, CFO, Boys
& Girls Club of Metro Queens & Marie Covelli
(l to r) Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens Youth of the Year Honorees: Scott
Molina, President, Resorts World Casino NYC; Peter Ruttura accepting
on behalf of D. Thomas Ruttura, President, Ruttura & Sons Construction;
Joseph Pistilli, Chairman of the Board, First Central Savings Bank
City Councilman Eric Ulrich with
Frank and George Russo