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SAGE golf tournament to benefit seniors ensure that the center remains vibrant and welcoming for the more than 2,000 seniors it When 93-year-old Glen Cove serves. resident Olga Scileppi gave up This year’s outing will also driving, she worried that her honor two community leaders independence and social con- who have devoted their careers nections might disappear. But to strengthening Glen Cove: Dr. when she discovered the Glen Peter J. Kurzweil, a retired Cove Senior Center, she said, it internist and geriatric specialgave her a new ist who practiced sense of purpose. medicine in the city “The senior cenfor 45 years, and ter has opened the Irma Jeanty, prodoors for me,” Scigram director of the leppi said. “It’s wonGlen Cove Economderful socialization, ic Opportunity and I try to come Council. every day. The peoThe senior center ple I meet, the conoffers a wide range v e r s a t i o n s , t h e lIz lucIANo of programs — meals — it’s been a SAGE board member from fitness classes very, very wonderand trivia games to ful transition for bereavement me.” groups, stroke-prevention clinFor seniors like Scileppi, the ics, and trips to New York City. center is more than a place for It also runs an Adult Day Prolunch and activities. It’s a life- gram for seniors with physical line — one made possible in or cognitive limitations, giving large part by the Glen Cove caregivers valuable respite. Senior Activity Generational Westbury resident Jill McKEndowment, or SAGE, Founda- issack started coming to the tion, which raises money to center after she recovered from supplement government sup- a stroke. “I found friendship, port for senior programs. On activities I love, and a good Sept. 29, SAGE will host its 5th lunch every day,” she said. “It’s annual Golf Classic Tourna- like another home for me.” ment, the foundation’s largest Christine Rice, the center’s fundraiser of the year, to Continued on page 13
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Photos courtesy Roni Jenkins
Fall soccer season kicks off downtown
Valley Sports has been sponsoring the Glen Cove Junior Soccer League for over 20 years. At right, Shannon Cornelis with her daughter, Emma, a member of the Division 1 Girls Portugal Team. Story, more photos, Page 8.
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t’s our largest fundraiser of the year.