Season of Giving

: Employees’ Retirement System Local activist Janine Patschureck joins other CSEA Capital Region members and area labor union members for a food donation drive event in Albany that was coordinated by the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. (Photo provided by Capital Region Executive Vice President Cynthia Stiles.)

: Capital Region activists embrace the holiday spirit by donating truckloads of toys at the region’s recent executive board meeting. The region Women’s Committee organized the drive. Donations went to the Holiday Closet of Ballston Spa for distribution to area families in need. From left are Capital Region 2nd Vice President Susan Watson-Amos, who is also the region Women’s Committee officer liaison; Capital Region Director Denise Warren; Capital Region 1st Vice President Stu Whipple; Capital Region Women’s Committee Chair Deb Staulters; Capital Region President Shana Davis; Ballston Spa Central School District Unit President Kate Pieniazek and Ballston Spa Central School District Unit Vice President Corey Osborne. Pieniazek and Osborne helped coordinate the donations.

: CSEA City of Long Beach Unit members were active in every part of the city’s November Food Drive for the Long Beach Soup Kitchen. Members donated food, accepted donations on the city’s behalf and delivered the food donations for the food compromised city residents. Pictured, from left, are CSEA City of Long Beach Unit members Matthew Kohut, Jon Paggi, Danella Farr and Kelly Llewellyn. (Photo provided by CSEA City of Long Beach Unit President John Mooney.)

: CSEA Long Island Region Women’s Committee Chair Maureen Walsh staffs the committee’s table at the region’s Fall Conference, at which the committee accepted food donations for those in need. (Photo provided by Maureen Walsh.)

: From left, Haverstraw Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Brittany Delahanty; CSEA Organizer and former NOVA EMS worker Ethan Darbee; Haverstraw Ambulance Corps EMTs Julia Cantatore, Peter Graziano and Greg Scharfenberg volunteer for a recent community food drive to collect donations for Rockland Community Against Hunger (RCAH). (See Page 2 for more about the ambulance corps. workers.)