The Community Service Committee would like to thank everyone for their generous donation to our Fourth Annual Toy Drive. It was a huge success. We were able to bring cheer this holiday season into the homes of 4 families from Lee Avenue School. A special thank you to the Simonello family for their generous donation to these families.
The principal and nurse at Lee Avenue School were taken aback by the amount of gifts that we brought. They couldn’t thank us enough.
Happy Holidays!!!!!
The mission of Hicksville Gardens Civic Association (HGCA) aims to improve the quality of life for the Hicksville community by encouraging community awareness, participation, and civic pride.
Thanksgiving is a time when we remember those in our community who are not as fortunate as we are in celebrating a family meal together on Thanksgiving Day. Through Lee Avenue School, we were able to help donate a Thanksgiving meal for three families and fill their cupboards for the Holiday Season. The Community Service committee would like to thank our members for their enormous generosity to our Thanksgiving Food Drive. It was a huge success, enabling us to donate to a third family this year.
A special thank you to Foodtown for donating gift certificates for the purchase of a turkey for each family and to T Mobile for donating 2 cases of cereal. A thank you to Mrs. Stam and Mrs. Kravitz for making us part of this successful food drive.
From left to right is the Nicholas Mirro, Christina Mirro co-chair HGCA Community Service, Mrs. Stam, principal of Lee Avenue School, and Mrs. Kravitz, the school nurse.
At the June 2016 general meeting, scholarships were awarded to 8 deserving students this year. After receiving their awards, each of the students gave a gracious speech to thank the sponsors and the civic, as well as to note their intended area of study.
Recipients pictured left to right: Melissa Agnese, Pujan Patel, Abdullah Khalid, Adam Patel,
Jaineel Doshi, Matthew Cimino, Louis Valentino, Hosnia Samadi
Recipients have the following plans for study upon graduation:
| Name | Plans | Sponsor |
| Melissa Agnese | attending SUNY Plattsburg, studying Nursing | Joe Dubon |
| Pujan Patel | attending SUNY Stony Brook, studying Health Sciences | Perillo Brothers |
| Abdullah Khalid | attending Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, accelerated Medical program | Perfect Pharmacy |
| Adam Patel | attending SUNY Stony Brook, Pre-Med program | Perfect Pharmacy |
| Jainell Doshi | attending Vassar College, Pre-Med program | Foodtown |
| Matthew Cimino | attending SUNY Stony Brook, studying Engineering | Delco |
| Louis Valentino | attending Stevens Institute of Technology, studying Engineering | HGCA |
| Hosnia Samadi | attending University of Notre Dame, Dental program | HGCA |
We’d like to thank all of our sponsors for their generosity and their participation. We’d also like to extend our thanks to Marie Dunker and the rest of the Scholarship Committee for their hard work in organizing this year’s scholarship program.
The Community Service Committee would like to thank everyone for their generous donation to our Third Annual Toy Drive. It was a huge success. We were able to bring cheer this holiday season into the homes of 3 families from Lee Avenue School.
The principal and nurse at Lee Avenue School was taken aback by the amount of gifts that we brought. They couldn’t thank us enough.
Happy Holidays!!!!!
The Community Service Committee would like to thank everyone for their generous donation to our Thanksgiving Food Drive. It was a huge success. We were able to donate 8 boxes of food and Gift Certificates for a turkey to two needy families in our community. We had enough donations for a Thanksgiving meal and to fill their cupboards for several meals!
We also would like to thank our commercial supporters Ferreira Foodtown for their generous donation of four $25.00 gift certificates and Hicksville T-Mobile for donating 2 cases of cereal.
At the June 2015 general meeting, John Rigert introduced and called up each recipient and their commercial sponsor to present the award. In total, 7 scholarships were awarded this year.
Recipients pictured left to right: Priya Mishra, Sebastian Niculescu, Charlene Abogado,
Kaitlyn Sullivan, Conor Larkin, Kathryn Anderson, Gabrielle Goubran
Recipients have the following plans for study upon graduation:
| Name | Plans | Sponsor |
| Priya Mishra | attending Columbia University, studying Computer Science and Economics | Delco Plaza |
| Sebastian Niculescu | attending joint program between Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, studying Mathematics and Sculpture | Foodtown |
| Charlene Abogado | attending Molloy College, studying Nursing | Perfect Pharmacy |
| Kaitlyn Sullivan | attending Oneonta, studying Psychology | Perfect Pharmacy |
| Conor Larkin | attending John Jay, studying Forensic Psychology | Perillo Brothers |
| Kathryn Anderson | attending Siena College, studying Education and Accounting | HGCA |
| Gabrielle Goubran | attending Hunter College, studying Theater and Economics | HGCA |
We’d like to thank all of our corporate sponsors for their generosity and their participation. We’d also like to thank Hicksville High School Principal Raymond Williams for joining us to speak about the students’ accomplishments and community service.
A Big Thank You to all our members who made this possible. We were able to bring cheer this holiday season into the homes of 3 families from Lee Ave. School. The Principal and Nurse were very thankful.
The Community Service committee would like to thank everyone for their generous donation to our Thanksgiving Food Drive. It was a huge success. We were able to donate 7 boxes of food and a Gift Certificate for a turkey to a needy family in our community. This is done through the Lee Ave. school administration and nurse’s office, which selected an appropriate needy family. We had enough donations for a Thanksgiving meal and to fill their cupboards for several meals.
We would also like to thank contributions: Foodtown for donating a gift certificate for the turkey and T-Mobile for a case of cereal.
Happy Thanksgiving
Chairwoman Marie Dunker introduced and called up each recipient and their commercial sponsor. The following scholarships were awarded:
| Name | Plans | Sponsor |
| Faiz Ahmed | attending Adelphi for Biology | Perfect Pharmacy |
| Matthew Chung | attending Northeastern School of Pharmacy | Perfect Pharmacy |
| Megan Locke | attending St. Joseph’s double major Speech pathology and Education |
Perillo Bros Fuel |
| Jessica DeTurris | attending SUNY Binghamton majoring in Math | Food Town |
| Shincy Thomas | attending St. Bonaventure | DELCO/Alvin Rush |
| Amy Fine | attending SUNY Plattsburg | HGCA |
Six (6) scholarships, $500 each, were awarded at the June 13th meeting. Ed Bossong, Scholarship Chair, announced that he was very proud to award the money and grateful as to how our Scholarship Program has grown over the past few years. Ed introduced the award recipient’s for this year: