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Valley Stream raises funds for Fiona victims By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
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VAllEy STREAM lATINo Society and Latina Moms Connect Inc. organized a fundraising event at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1790 banquet hall to aid Hurricane Fiona victims in Puerto Rico.
As communities across the South Shore reflect on the scale of devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy a decade ago, members of the Valley Stream community gathered to raise money for two organizations providing on-the-ground relief to Puerto Ricans currently recovering from their own crushing storm surge — Hurricane Fiona. The Oct. 27 fundraising event, organized by the Valley Stream Latino Society and Latina Moms Connect Inc. and
hosted in the banquet hall of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1790, brought a wide patchwork of community groups. Local businesses joined student and teacher organizations and school board members to chip in for the night’s refreshments and entertainment. The banquet hall also displayed hurricane recovery-inspired artwork by Junior Memorial High School students. Attendees were treated to a Latin dance ensemble performance by North, Central, and Junior Memorial High School students followed by a poetry reading in Continued on page 18
LIJ Valley Stream manager is Business Person of the Year By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
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alley Stream’s sister business organization, the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce, nominated chamber member Patricia McColley for Business Person of the Year for her work with Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital. A five-person committee of chamber president Lisa DelliPizzi, previous honorees, and chamber members selected McColley as the 2022 honoree. “We felt that Patricia McColley was the most qualified member of the Franklin Square
Chamber of Commerce to receive this honor,” DelliPizzi said. “The integrity of this award is very important to me.” McColley’s career began at Northwell Health in 2012 as the patient experience manager for South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. In 2016, she accepted a position as the program manager on the Northwell corporate community relations team in Islip. In 2019, as a program manager for the central region, McColley was asked to help build relationships for LIJ Valley Stream and the communities it serves while also assisting the corporate team in leading larger cor-
porate events. “She is LIJVS’s ear and ambassador to the community,” said Jason Tan, executive director of LIJ Valley Stream Hospital. “She is responsible for informing us of any new ways it can help meet the community’s changing needs, while also advocating and sharing all of the great work that’s occurring within our walls. Patty has a genuine love for the Franklin Square community and is deserving of this award.” “What we do at Northwell is work in the communities that we serve by looking out for their wellness, improving their ability to find food, and doing screen-
ings that help with improving their overall health,” McColley said. “We focus on communities near and dear to LIJ Valley Stream that really can use some support through health screenings and education.” One of her first projects in her new role at LIJ Valley Stream was to build a relationship with Baldwin High School.
McColley is the program manager for the community and population health team and has spent the last three years at LIJ Valley Stream assisting in and helping create community contacts and connections. “My role during that time was to help them get the word out Continued on page 4