The Seven Mile Beach Realtors Association consisting of Avalon and Stone Harbor Realtors presented a check in late June to the Great American Trolley Company. The check was presented as a donation for the trolley service in Avalon and Stone Harbor. The trolley service began July 3rd and will continue daily through Labor Day. Pictured are Dutch Dechert, Seven Mile Beach Realtors, Dick Adelizzi, Great American Trolley Co., and Lew Purdy, Seven Mile Beach Realtors.


The CapeBank Charitable Foundation presented a $5,000 grant to the non-profit Gilda’s Club as a contribution to their capital campaign. Founded in 1995, Gilda’s Club provides emotional and social support for people suffering from cancer. With a completely free membership, the club gives cancer patients, along with their families and friends, an opportunity to learn how to live with cancer through workshops, seminars, support groups and social gatherings.

 
Sturdy Savings Bank is a sponsor of Access to Art’s 2009 programs, including the 12th annual Sam Maitin Chamber Music Festival. Barbara Beitel, Access to Art’s executive director, is pictured left with Jane Vitullo, branch manager of the Bank’s Cape May Court House office. The ongoing festival includes a Sept. 12 concert by The Mondrian Ensemble, and a Sept. 19 performance by violin virtuoso Alexander Markov and pianist Aurelia Mika Chang. Call 465-3963 for more information.
 
Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors honors each of the highest sales producers at the Breakfast of Champions. Featured are the champions from the Ocean City offices being congratulated by management for exceptional production during the months of January, February and March. Pictured are Jim Marshall, Mike Allegretto, Pete Madden, all from the 55th Street office and honored for outstanding business contribution to the Trident Group; Marge Swanson, Trident; Billy Mack, 34tth Street, honored for outstanding business contribution to the Trident Group; Paul Gilbert, 34th Street; Joan Docktor, executive vice president of sales; Steve Booth, 34th Street manager and Bill Stewart, Trident. Honored but not pictured were Jack Zaborowski and Peter Lucca, Battersea office, honored for outstanding business contribution to the Trident Group; Kevin DeCosta and Lorraine Swires, 34th Street, honored for outstanding business contribution to the Trident Group; Ann Ross, Gardens Plaza manager, honored for outstanding business contribution to the Trident Group; Cheryl Huber, 34th Street, Jeffrey Quintin, 55th Street, Bob Davis and Mike Rayno, Gardens Plaza.
 
Sturdy Savings Bank partnered with Stone Harbor Elementary School’s kindergarten students to help baby turtles return to the marsh. The children sold turtle shaped cookies throughout the year and donated the proceeds to the Wetlands Institute’s turtle release program. Sturdy Savings Bank matched the group’s funds. Pictured from left are students Anthony Cozzan and Nynoshka Vazquez; Gina Frattaroli-Becker, Sturdy Savings Bank’s Stone Harbor branch manager; and Rena Samodurov, a student researcher at the Wetlands Institute. The tiny turtles in the photo were retrieved as eggs from females hit by cars. The eggs were then brought to the Institute to incubate.


Sturdy Savings Bank is a sponsor of the West Cape May Farmer’s Market, held Tuesdays from 3-8 p.m. through Sept. 1. The bank’s donation helps provide musical entertainment at the popular summertime event, which is held outside the borough’s municipal building, 732 Broadway. Michael Clark, Sturdy Savings Bank’s assistant vice president and branch manager of the Cape May office, is pictured (right) with Pamela Kaithern, mayor of West Cape May.


The CapeBank Charitable Foundation reaffirmed its dedication to healthcare with a $5,000 grant to the AtlantiCare Foundation’s Cancer Center. The grant will help support AtlantiCare’s state of the art cancer treatment center. This generous donation will bring more comfortable and accurate services to patients undergoing therapy.


The CapeBank Charitable Foundation showed support for the advocacy of foster children with a $5,000 grant to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). This generous grant by the CapeBank Charitable Foundation will help strengthen programming, recruiting and managing for CASA volunteers to ensure that foster children in South Jersey are properly cared for. It will also increase awareness about the necessity for policy makers and volunteers to be aware about the issues faced by neglected and abused children.


The Board of Trustees of Fox & Roach Charities, the charitable arm of Prudential Fox & Roach, Realtors, recently made a charitable donation to CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Atlantic and Cape May counties. Pictured here Fox & Roach charities director Kassie Aungst presents a check for $5,000 to Brett Castone, CASA supervisor.


Jeff Ropiecki of the CapeBank Charitable Foundation presented Anne Salvatore of the Historic Cold Spring Village a $7,000 check to be used in support of three annual education programs. Since its inception in January 2008, the CapeBank Charitable Foundation has awarded more than $344,000 to more than 90 area non-profit organizations, including the American Red Cross (Atlantic and Cape May County chapters), Cape Regional Medical Center Foundation, the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and the Big Brothers & Big Sisters program.


Jeff Ropiecki of the CapeBank Charitable Foundation presented Joanne Carrocino, FACHE, president and CEO of Cape Regional Medical Center, a $10,000 check to sponsor the Golf Classic that was held on May 26 and the A Classic Evening at the Shore gala that will be held on Oct. 3. The proceeds from these events will benefit the Robert J. Sorensen MD Continuing Education Endowment Fund and the Thomas and Claire Brodesser Jr. Cancer Center.


Shore Memorial Hospital recently launched the public phase of a $20 million campaign for the hospital’s $125 million campus expansion project, the largest in hospital history. The Shore Tomorrow Campaign will provide philanthropic funding for the new four-story 135,000 square foot Surgical Pavilion, new main entrance and lobby and expanded parking facilities at the hospital. Shown are Paul and Sandi D’Amato, with Bill Elliott executive director Shore Memorial Health Foundation, at the kickoff event July 9.


On July 15, Sturdy Savings Bank president Gerald Reeves welcomed Cape Assist’s board of trustees to the bank’s main headquarters, where Cape Assist opened its strategic plan meetings and Cape Assist executive director Lynne Krukosky gratefully accepted a donation from Sturdy Savings in the amount of $3,000 to the agency’s 2009 annual fund. Pictured from left are Cape Assist board members Rebecca Logan, Jenn Somers, Barbara Peltzer, and Danette McDevitt; Sturdy Saving Bank president Gerald Reeves; and Cape Assist board members Matthew Buesing and Darius Sheik.


Volunteers in Medicine's trustee Robert Jones accepts a check for $5,000 from Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) commissioner Susan Atkinson DeLanzo as VIM’s medical director Marna Cutler and clinical director Marilyn Golden, RN, BA look on. The DRBA donation will assist with providing patients in need with medications.


Avalon Lions Club president John Molnar, treasurer Sam Beddia and assistant treasurer Abner Dowdell present United Way executive director Suzanne Nardi with a $750 donation to the United Way of Cape May County’s First Call for Help Food Pantry in Wildwood.