New rules for coronavirus testing requirements at catered affairs
Updated 8:09 AM;
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Students of Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning High School, celebrate their senior prom at the Hilton Garden Inn on June 6, 2018. As guidelines change for indoor and outdoor gathering limits, smaller catered affairs will get a reprieve from mandatory coronavirus testing requirements come Friday.(Staten Island Advance/ Victoria Priola)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. As New York City guidelines change for indoor and outdoor gathering limits, smaller catered affairs will get a reprieve from mandatory coronavirus (COVID-19) testing requirements come Friday, April 2.
Due to an increase in the amount of people allowed to gather inside and outdoors by the state, proof of a negative COVID-19 test will no longer be required for smaller indoor and outdoor catered parties, including weddings, Sweet 16s, birthday parties and bridal showers.
Meet your neighbor: Q & A with Evelyn Kormanik, founder of Staten Island Giving Circle
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In January 2008, Evelyn Kormanik, an Advance Woman of Achievement, and her husband, Mike Kormanik, invited 24 neighbors, tennis and church friends together for “cake and coffee” and discussed ways to help the community better by assisting underserved children, seniors, military and the homeless.
Evelyn had read a 2007 “Family Circle” article describing a ‘giving circle,’ and wanted to create a local ‘giving circle.’ And thus, the Staten Island Giving Circle (SIGC) was born.
Fast forward to 2021, SIGC now boasts over 1,000 volunteer members. The group quickly outgrew the Kormanik house as a meeting place, and through the generosity of John and Ceil Scalia, has met at the Old Bermuda Inn for a number of years when in-person meetings were viable.