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Sam Boulmetis Sr., Hall of Fame New Jersey Rider, Dies at 94
He died Sunday at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, his family said.
Boulmetis won 2,783 races and his mounts earned $15.4 million in purses. The earnings ranked in the top 10 all-time for riders when he retired in 1966. He started riding in Florida in 1948 and his first win came at Garden State Park in New Jersey. His Monmouth Park titles came in 1949, ‘53, ’55, and ’56.
Tosmah was probably his best mount. The filly defeated top males in the 1964 Arlington Classic Stakes, when the race was a key event for 3-year-olds in North America.
UJA-JCC Greenwich donates 100 Dignity Grows packs to local food pantry
GREENWICH – During the month of May, UJA-JCC Greenwich gave the local food pantry ‘Neighbor to Neighbor’ 100 totes filled with essential hygiene supplies. The do-nation was made as part of the organization’s Dignity Grows program, which provides monthly personal and feminine products to those who cannot afford such products.
It is estimated that one in five American women lack the means to purchase menstrual supplies and toiletries. While such products are often taken for granted, for those who must go without the upshot can mean missed days of school or work and and an ac-companying sense of shame and loss of income. Government benefits such as SNAP don’t cover menstrual products and toiletries.
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CT NEWS 2020 – The Year in Review
JANUARY
• More than 300 guests fill the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase on Jan. 25 for an elegant gala honoring Rabbi Mitchell M. Hurvitz for his 25 years as spiritual leader of Temple Sholom in Greenwich.
Rabbi Mitchell M. Hurvitz with the evening’s emcee, Stacey Delikat, Fox News 5 anchor and Temple Sholom member.
MARCH
• The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, in collaboration with Madison residents Bob and Amy Stefanowski, create “Masks for Heroes,” a grassroots, volunteer effort to deliver surgical masks to hospitals, nursing home residents and caregivers, medical personnel and first responders, in over 125 towns throughout Connecticut. More than 500,000 masks are given out.