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Knopf Team is Chamber’s 2025 honoree help?’” R. Cory Knopf, a lifelong Oceanside resident who leads The Hal Knopf Team at the Hal Knopf Team as the Compass has been named the associate broker, called the recOceanside Chamber of Com- ognition a tribute to the hard merce’s Business of the Year work and dedication of her late for 2025, an honor that reflects father, Hal, who founded the the real estate agency’s com- business 43 years ago. Knopf, mitment to the community and 53, a realtor for 30 years, has led the business its long-standing legwith the same pasacy of excellence. The team will be sion and integrity reco gniz ed at the that her father chamber’s installainstilled in her. She tion dinner at Temcredited her parents ple Avodah on Feb. as inspirations for 13. her career, adding “As a board, we that her father was collectively braina mentor to many in stormed businesses the local real estate in town that go industry. above and beyond “I feel more like for the community,” it’s an honor for my said Brittany father than for me,” Humes, secretary of she said. “But of t h e O c e a n s i d e BRITTANY HUmES course, I appreciate Chamber of Com- Chamber secretary it very much and merce. “There were someone that kept it many on the list and in the going, but I think it’s very well end, there was only one option, deserved. My father worked his and it was the Hal Knopf team. entire life, for the community. They continue to support the And I think that recognition is children and the families with- wonderful.” in the community any way that The Hal Knopf Team has they can. Anything that is deep roots in Oceanside, both asked upon them, Cory and her professionally and personally. whole team are always the first Cory Knopf ’s parents were ones to say, ‘Yes, how can we
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A packed house at the Paramount in Huntington cheered emcee Nicole Grehn and several children with limb loss and limb differences at the Limb Kind Foundation’s fifth annual Show Your Shine adaptive runway event.
Kids with limb loss star in runway event By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com
Hundreds of people gathered at the Paramount, in Huntington, which played host to the Limb Kind Foundation’s fifth annual Show Your Shine Adaptive Runway Show last Saturday. The event is organized by Rockville Centre resident Jill Smith, an occupational therapist who founded Show Your Shine to raise funds to benefit the Limb Kind Foundation and celebrate those with limb loss. Smith teams up each year with her brother, Oceanside resident Robert Schulman, the founder and executive director of Limb Kind, a nonprofit that was founded in Oceanside and is now headquartered in Ozone Park, Queens.
Its mission, according to its website, is “improving the lives of children with limb loss, both domestic and international, by strengthening the amputee community and providing pediatric prosthetic care to all.” “When I think about how Limb Kind began, it all comes back to belief,” Schulman said. “Seven years ago, this organization started as a simple dream of mine to help children around the world with limb loss. But dreams don’t grow in isolation. They need people who believe in them.” Smith, the foundation’s domestic director, created the Show Your Shine event in 2020, to empower children with limb loss and to raise money for international missions. Over the past five years the event has grown, and now CoNtiNued oN PAGe 10
hey continue to support the children and families within the community any way that they can.
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