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Family of disabled girl receives free gas, special van
Sunday, August 12, 2007
ADVANCE STAFF REPORT
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A total of $27,800 in funds and contributions were donated by three organizations -- one, to help transport a severely disabled little girl, another, to help a young person go to college, and the third to help rescue animals.
LUKOIL GETTY
Lukoil Getty donated $2,000 worth of gas to the Trimarchi family.
The check was presented by Sem Logovinsky, vice president of wholesale/new business development for Lukoil Getty in New York, to Rosina and Joseph Trimarchi. Also present was Todt Hill businessman Charles LaGanga and Nino Cutillo, owner of the Getty station in Dongan Hills, where the check presentation was made.
The funds will go to help the Trimarchis transport their daughter, 6-year-old Alexia, to and from weekly doctor and hospital appointments. Alexia was born with spastic quadriparesis cerebral palsy, mental retardation, a seizure disorder and gastrosomy deficits, as well as visual and verbal impairments, rendering her in constant need of assistance. She currently receives physical, occupational and feeding therapies.
The Trimarchis have previously been on the receiving end of charitable giving. After an article ran in the Staten Island Advance last year, the family (with LaGanga's help) is now receiving a handicapped-accessible suite designed specifically for Alexia at the family's Rosebank home. The family also received a specially equipped van funded by local donors and others including the Carmine DeSantis Foundation and the Sunshine Lady Foundation.
BRIAN CANNIZZARO
The Brian Cannizzaro Memorial Fund donated $25,000 to St. John's University, Grymes Hill.
The check was presented by Foundation founders and directors John Pisapia and Allen Terjesen to St. John University representatives Harry P. Doherty, Ronald J. Mazzucco and Annette Sangiorgio Anguili.
The Brian Cannizzaro Memorial Fund is a perpetual scholarship fund at St. John's University for Sept. 11 relatives and the children and grandchildren of FDNY firefighters.
Foundation members raised the funds during their annual golf outing in memory of Brian Cannizzaro.
Cannizzaro, 30, died responding to the World Trade Center, along with six other members of the FDNY's Ladder Co. 101/ Engine Co. 202 in Brooklyn.
Pisapia, Terjesen and Cannizzaro became lifelong friends while attending St. John's.
The check presentation took place in the South Shore Country Club, Huguenot, during an event hosted by St. John's University in which all five individuals were being honored for their contributions.
Over the past four years, the Brian Cannizzaro Memorial Foundation has donated a total of about $300,000 to St. John's University and other charitable organizations on the Island.
TOTTEN INTERMEDIATE
The Seventh Grade School Spirit Organization of Totten Intermediate School presented an $800 check to P.L.U.T.O. Rescue (Pet Lovers United Together as One.
The check was presented during a P.L.U.T.O. adoption event in front of PetSmart in Port Richmond.
© 2007 Staten Island Advance© 2007 SILive.com All Rights Reserved.
Family of disabled girl receives free gas, special van
Sunday, August 12, 2007
ADVANCE STAFF REPORT
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A total of $27,800 in funds and contributions were donated by three organizations -- one, to help transport a severely disabled little girl, another, to help a young person go to college, and the third to help rescue animals.
LUKOIL GETTY
Lukoil Getty donated $2,000 worth of gas to the Trimarchi family.
The check was presented by Sem Logovinsky, vice president of wholesale/new business development for Lukoil Getty in New York, to Rosina and Joseph Trimarchi. Also present was Todt Hill businessman Charles LaGanga and Nino Cutillo, owner of the Getty station in Dongan Hills, where the check presentation was made.
The funds will go to help the Trimarchis transport their daughter, 6-year-old Alexia, to and from weekly doctor and hospital appointments. Alexia was born with spastic quadriparesis cerebral palsy, mental retardation, a seizure disorder and gastrosomy deficits, as well as visual and verbal impairments, rendering her in constant need of assistance. She currently receives physical, occupational and feeding therapies.
The Trimarchis have previously been on the receiving end of charitable giving. After an article ran in the Staten Island Advance last year, the family (with LaGanga's help) is now receiving a handicapped-accessible suite designed specifically for Alexia at the family's Rosebank home. The family also received a specially equipped van funded by local donors and others including the Carmine DeSantis Foundation and the Sunshine Lady Foundation.
BRIAN CANNIZZARO
The Brian Cannizzaro Memorial Fund donated $25,000 to St. John's University, Grymes Hill.
The check was presented by Foundation founders and directors John Pisapia and Allen Terjesen to St. John University representatives Harry P. Doherty, Ronald J. Mazzucco and Annette Sangiorgio Anguili.
The Brian Cannizzaro Memorial Fund is a perpetual scholarship fund at St. John's University for Sept. 11 relatives and the children and grandchildren of FDNY firefighters.
Foundation members raised the funds during their annual golf outing in memory of Brian Cannizzaro.
Cannizzaro, 30, died responding to the World Trade Center, along with six other members of the FDNY's Ladder Co. 101/ Engine Co. 202 in Brooklyn.
Pisapia, Terjesen and Cannizzaro became lifelong friends while attending St. John's.
The check presentation took place in the South Shore Country Club, Huguenot, during an event hosted by St. John's University in which all five individuals were being honored for their contributions.
Over the past four years, the Brian Cannizzaro Memorial Foundation has donated a total of about $300,000 to St. John's University and other charitable organizations on the Island.
TOTTEN INTERMEDIATE
The Seventh Grade School Spirit Organization of Totten Intermediate School presented an $800 check to P.L.U.T.O. Rescue (Pet Lovers United Together as One.
The check was presented during a P.L.U.T.O. adoption event in front of PetSmart in Port Richmond.
© 2007 Staten Island Advance© 2007 SILive.com All Rights Reserved.