October 7, 2008 by Hank Russell, Patchogue Medford News Lined up with the other beautiful homes along the North Ocean Avenue corridor is a white two-story house with a black wrought-iron fence that borders the well ...
October 10, 2008 by Hank Russell, Patchogue Medford News Getting flowers may be sweet, but getting uniquely designed chocolate-covered fruits from Edible Arrangements is even sweeter. The concept of this store is to...
October 17, 2008 by Hank Russell, Patchogue Medford News Although the law firm of Keegan & Keegan, Ross & Rosner, LLP has been around since 1978, the Keegan name has been in the legal field for more than hal...
October 24, 2008 by Hank Russell, Patchogue Medford News Whereas other chiropractors treat only one area of the body — the back — Dr. JoAnna Fasulo of Fasulo Chiropractic in Patchogue treats the entire body from...
October 31,2008 by Hank Russell, Patchogue Medford News For a quarter of a century, Utopia Home Care, Inc. has been providing not just home care for its patients, but training people to care for those who need it mo...
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By Hank Russell, Patchogue Medford News Long before the term “reduce, reuse, recycle” became one of the most popular catch-phrases in the environmental movement today, Sam Gershowitz did something when others talked about it. In 1964, he formed Gershow Recycling. Realizing the rising solid waste problem in Long Island's landfills, Gershow Recycling mined thousands of tons of automobiles from every area landfill because they felt they could be recycled. At the beginning, Gershow Recycling was a two-man operation. Gershowitz had only a tractor and a trailer, a boom truck and the first-ever portable car flattener. The scrap metal and paper products that Gershow Recycling purchases are then turned into high-quality scrap products for recycling. The company produces ferrous, non-ferrous and paper grades in customer-specified forms including baled, sheared and shredded. To produce such high-quality products, Gershow Recycling uses the most high-tech, modernized equipment in recycling scrap metal and paper. As part of its support for the environment, Gershow Recycling provides funding for grass roots environmental programs that promote recycling and environmental conservation. The company has also done its share of outreach to local governments at the town and county levels. Gershow Recycling has worked with Brookhaven Town Supervisor Brian Foley on various beautification projects, and with the Suffolk County Legislature, which passed a bill earlier this year cracking down on the theft of scrap metal from recycling facilities. This summer, Gershow Recycling won a contract to recycle more than 100 transit buses that were decommissioned by the city of New York. Kevin Gershowitz, president of Gershow Recycling, has taken an active role in the community. He has generously donated his time and money for the “Christmas in June” program that was held by the Patchogue Lions Club, and “Operation Cookie,” in which local Girl Scouts filled up a van with Girl Scout cookies that were shipped to troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and soldiers recovering at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
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