{"id":290328,"date":"2026-07-08T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:59:09","slug":"qsac-annual-fundraiser-dinner-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290328\/","title":{"rendered":"QSAC Annual Fundraiser Dinner &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-07-08\/5p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205449\" class=\"wp-image-205449 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5p1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"The QSAC Board.\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-205449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The QSAC Board.<\/p>\n<p>On June 9, QSAC, a NYC and Long Island based nonprofit that sup\u00adports children and adults with autism, held its annual fundraiser dinner at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. Evan Metalios, Board Member and Board Treasurer, was hon\u00adored with the Bea\u00adcon Award. The award recognizes champions for people with intel\u00adlectual and developmental disabil\u00adities who have made a meaningful and measurable difference in the lives of people with autism and their families through service, ad\u00advocacy, leadership, and philan\u00adthropy. Over 300 attended the event on an evening with perfect weather <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205453\" class=\"wp-image-205453 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5p2.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Parisy, Board Vice Presi\u00addent; Paul Halvatzis; and Yvette Watts, Board President.\" width=\"269\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-205453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Parisy, Board Vice Presi\u00addent; Paul Halvatzis; and Yvette Watts, Board President.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-07-08\/5p3.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205457\" class=\"wp-image-205457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5p3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Evan Metalios, QSAC Treasurer and 2026 Beacon Award Recipient and Paul Halvatzis, a Vice Presi\u00addent of QSAC.\" width=\"225\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-205457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan Metalios, QSAC Treasurer and 2026 Beacon Award Recipient and Paul Halvatzis, a Vice Presi\u00addent of QSAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The QSAC Board. On June 9, QSAC, a NYC and Long Island based nonprofit that sup\u00adports children and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-290328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}