Junior Achievement awards dinner
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full-house crowd of 150 attended The Spirit of Achievement and Business Achiever Awards Dinner recently at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown. The event was sponsored by Junior Achievement of the Hudson Valley Inc., which last year served more than 6,200 students with business help from more than 380 J.A. volunteers. The evening’s honorees included Best Plumbing, Tile & Stone, with showrooms in Scarsdale, Somers, Stamford, Conn., and Yorktown, whose Michael Weiner accepted The Business Achiever Award from the Westchester County Business Journal. The Spirit of Achievement Awards went to First Niagara Bank, whose Pearl River Branch Manager Ada Ferreira accepted the award, and Yonkers’ Riverside High School Principal Don Solimene. Verizon Vice President Chris Levendos, who also is board chairman of JA of the Hudson Valley, was emcee. The evening featured fundraising auctions and presentations from several JA participants. — Bill Fallon
Students Christopher Hamilton and Nadia Marriott.
JA project manager Orla Fitzsimons.
JA volunteer Nancy Olson with JA high school ambassadors Joshua De Los Santos and Samantha Robinson.
Cousins Michael Weiner and Kymberly Weiner of Best Plumbing, Tile & Stone, and Barbara Stewart Hanlon, Westfair Communications director of metro sales and custom publishing.
JA board members Jim Fosina, president and CEO, Fosina Marketing Group; Sharon Gorman, IT director, Avon Products Inc.; Mike Bellach, partner, KPMG; Ed Ankudavich, sales director, Alcatel Lucent; Peter DiNicola, group tax manager, Fujifilm; and John Cole, director financial reporting and analysis, Global Infrastructure Partners.
Jay Cheraskin, Yonkers’ Gorton High School social studies department chairman and, for 18 years, JA coordinator.
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