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Steve Argentine, left, Liz DeHart, Colleen Mulvey and Tito Santiago will receive the 2026 Safe Harbor Award. (Courtesy Teresa Cirelli)(Courtesy Teresa Cirelli)Safe Harbor Award honorees<\/p>\n
Steve Argentine, Liz DeHart, Colleen Mulvey and Tito Santiago will receive the 2026 Safe Harbor Award, which recognizes longtime supporters of the agency.<\/p>\n
Steve Argentine<\/p>\n
Argentine, owner of A List Janitorial Supplies, has been a Kiwanis International member since 2002. In 2016, he co-founded the Verrazano Kiwanis Club, which he now leads as president. The club has raised more than $500,000 for charitable causes, including $50,000 for Sunrise Day Camp and $75,000 for the pediatric wing at Staten Island University Hospital. <\/p>\n
He was named a Hometown Hero by the Richmond County Bank Foundation and the New York Islanders in 2019.<\/p>\n
Liz DeHart<\/p>\n
DeHart, a property manager with Gateway Arms Realty Corp., serves on the committee for the Fitzsimmons Family Fun Day & Walk, which benefits Seamen\u2019s Society. <\/p>\n
She is the immediate past president of the New York State USBC, has co-chaired the Rab Wilkinson Foundation Bowling Against Breast Cancer for more than 20 years and was inducted into the Staten Island Bowling Hall of Fame in 2015.<\/p>\n
Mulvey, a licensed real estate salesperson with Gateway Arms Realty, spent 14 years as a middle school teacher at the former St. Peter-St. Paul Elementary School, where she led her students in food drives, senior outreach and care packages for chemotherapy patients. <\/p>\n
She has volunteered at the Family Fun Day every year since its inception, supporting the Robert & Barbara Fitzsimmons Children and Family Fund.<\/p>\n
Tito Santiago<\/p>\n
Santiago, a lifelong Staten Islander, is the foreman at Gateway Arms Realty, where he has worked since 2008. He has been on the Fitzsimmons Children and Families Fund committee since its start. <\/p>\n
He and his wife, Dawn, are kinship foster parents with Seamen\u2019s Society.<\/p>\n
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Beverley Thompson, left, and Lisa Thomas will receive the Joan Arnold Award, given to foster parents who show exceptional compassion, leadership and dedication. (Courtesy of Teresa Cirelli)(Courtesy of Teresa Cirelli)Joan Arnold Award honorees<\/p>\n
Beverley Thompson and Lisa Thomas will receive the Joan Arnold Award, given to foster parents who show exceptional compassion, leadership and dedication.<\/p>\n
The award is named for the late Joan Arnold, a foster and adoptive parent who was with Seamen\u2019s Society for more than three decades.<\/p>\n
Lisa Thomas has been a kinship foster parent for more than 10 years and is the adoptive parent of two children. She has advocated for her granddaughter\u2019s access to therapy and in-home services, and she speaks publicly on behalf of the agency to encourage others to become foster parents.<\/p>\n
Beverley Thompson, originally from Jamaica, has spent many years fostering and mentoring children. She has worked with children since her youth in the church.<\/p>\n
Proceeds support the agency\u2019s foster care services, family support programs, early childhood education and domestic violence prevention initiatives.<\/p>\n
Teresa Cirelli, the agency\u2019s chief development officer, said every sponsorship, ticket purchase and contribution helps fund programs that provide \u201cstability, support, and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Founded in 1846, Seamen\u2019s Society serves children and families across Staten Island and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Seamen\u2019s Society for Children and Families will host its annual HOPE Gala on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-368494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368494","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=368494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}