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Registration
Under Way for Garbarini Golf Event
The
Milltown Fire Department will present the sixth annual Charles
Garbarini Golf Outing on June 9 at the Cranbury Golf Club, 49
Southfield Road, West Windsor. The shotgun scramble will begin at 10
a.m. Charles Garbarini, a lieutenant with the New York City Fire
Department, was lost in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Funds
collected from the golf event will go to charities, as well as other
causes, requested by the Garbarini family. Cost is $135 per person,
which includes breakfast (doughnuts and coffee), lunch and buffet
dinner. There will be prizes for winning teams, longest drives,
closest to the pin, door prizes and "Beat the Hunky." For
information and to reserve, call Jules at (732) 803-8691 or log on to www.milltownfire.org.
FDNY
Honoring Charleston 9
A
golf tournament in Myrtle Beach
created six years ago to thank the New York City firefighters who
faced death at the World Trade Center is being dedicated this year to
nine fallen Charleston firefighters. The FDNY tournament later this
month will bring more than 600 firefighters from across the nation and
Canada will play on 30 Grand Strand courses. One of the nine
Charleston firefighters killed in the furniture store fire last June
was Captain Louis Mulkey, who had brought fellow firefighters to the
FDNY tournament before and volunteers to cook for the awards ceremony.
9/11
Charity Held Up as Model of How Best to Help Bereaved
Nearly
seven years after a hijacked airplane crashed into the Pentagon, the
largest charity established to help Washington area victims and their
families is closing, becoming the last major Sept. 11-related charity
to shut down. The Survivors' Fund raised $25 million from more than
12,000 area residents and businesses in the months after Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks and spent it over the subsequent years
treating the grieving, the distressed and the traumatized...more>
NYC
Firefighters' Help In Greensburg Inspires New Book A
project that began this winter with the help of New York City
firefighters has now become the subject of a new book. The book called
“Greensburg’s Stars of Hope” shows how 220 Greensburg children
brightened up the barren landscape with the help of an organization
called “The New York Says Thank You Foundation.” Back in December,
Parness and a group of New York City firefighters helped the children
of Greensburg make the stars as their way of paying forward the
generosity they received after 9/11....more>
Veterans,
Firefighters to Flock to Strand This Month
The
seventh annual FDNY 9-11 Memorial Golf Outing May 21 will be dedicated
to the late Capt. Louis Mulkey and the nine Charleston firefighters
who lost their lives in a furniture store fire in West Ashley last
June. Mulkey had assisted with the tournament each year by bringing
members of his fire department to cook for the firefighters and their
families at the picnic and awards ceremony. The FDNY 9-11 tournament,
created by former New York City firefighter Kevin O'Brien, is the
world's largest firefighter golf benefit. More than 600 firefighters
from 27 states and Canada are expected to participate on 30 Grand
Strand courses this year...more>
Baskin-Robbins
Honors FDNY Firefighters
Baskin-Robbins
will again partner with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF),
in an effort to extend support to the firefighting community, by
donating $100,000 to the organization. Together, Baskin-Robbins and
the NFFF will honor 31 firefighters from across the country who have
demonstrated exemplary commitment to community service through the
newly created America's 31 Firefighting Heroes program...more>
Pair
Splits Torch Bearing Route to Honor Fallen Firefighters
When
Rick Doran, Fire Department of New York retiree, was selected by
Samsung to carry the Olympic torch through San Francisco as a part of
the Samsung Mobile Phone Samaritan Contest, no one could have
predicted the chaotic environment he and other runners were about to
enter...more>
Applications
for John F. Ginley Scholarship
The
applications for the John F. Ginley memorial scholarship are now
available at the guidance office in Warwick Valley High School. The
Ginley family established the scholarship fund in the memory of John
F. Ginley, a lieutenant with the FDNY, Engine 40, in Manhattan who
died on September 11, 2001...more>
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