CEO fetes Senior Center Volunteers

Senior Center Volunteers Mrs. McDowell, we’d like to do something for the people at the Senior Center said members of the high school Community Environmental Organization. Eileen McDowell, Director of the Joseph Cipolla Paramus Senior Center immediately suggested the volunteers, those who give willingly of their time. The date set was Thursday evening.
Of course Eileen had to help out; she was seen in ShopRite the previous evening stocking up on the beverages, hotdogs, hamburgers and the other accoutrements that would be offered.

12 members of the CEO pitched in preparing the food and entertainment for this group of approximately 80 people. They set up tablecloths and fired up the grills to cook the hamburgers. Hotdogs were cooked and brought in from the Center kitchen and served to the hungry group in the screened cabana adjacent to the area along with salads and sauerkraut. Senator Joe Coniglio and Valerie, his wife, dropped in to visit and were warmly greeted.

After feeding the hungry horde, the CEO invited the volunteers to return to the main hall of the building where they were served entertainment in addition to coffee and dessert. The entertainment all done by these teenagers, included a piano recital, a jazz and blues piano rendition, a trio consisting of 2 clarinets and a bass clarinet. It was the bass clarinetist who gave us the piano rendition afterwards and a Chinese scarf dance done in full costume.

Members of the CEO present were: Ariel Braun, Go Young Han, Su Bin Yum, Maria Tuchinsky, Tanya Habibian, Amy Phillips, Tony Lee, Michelle Wenelczyk, Tyler Ehrlich, Jane Kao, June Kao, Kelly Tam and president Anny Chong who is off to NYU in the fall.

It’s a pleasure to be able to write about the good things teenagers are doing! They deserved the round of applause given to them by the Seniors.