{"id":118822,"date":"2024-01-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/?p=118822"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:37:03","slug":"celebrating-the-news-reviews-2023-people-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2024\/01\/118822\/celebrating-the-news-reviews-2023-people-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the News-Review&#8217;s 2023 People of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Times Review Media Group celebrated several exceptional members of the North Fork community at its annual People of the Year Awards reception Thursday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honorees and their guests joined the Times Review Media staff along with newly elected town supervisors <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolktimes.timesreview.com\/2023\/11\/southold-election-2023-live-updates\/\">Al Krupski<\/a> and <a 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(photo credit: Jeremy Garretson)<\/span>\n\t  \t\t<span slideKey=\"1\">Diane Wilhelm accepts the Public Servant of the Year award. (photo credit: Jeremy Garretson)<\/span>\n\t  \t\t<span slideKey=\"2\">John McAuliff accepts the 2023 Person of the Year award on behalf of EPCAL Watch. (photo credit: Jeremy Garretson)<\/span>\n\t  \t\t<span slideKey=\"3\">Luis Siguencia accepts the award for 2023 Business Person of the Year. (Jeremy Garretson photo)<\/span>\n\t  \t\t<span slideKey=\"4\">Kate Fullam, executive director of East End Food, accepts the 2023 Community Leader of the Year award. (photo credit: Jeremy Garretson)<\/span>\n\t  \t\t<span slideKey=\"5\">Caitlin Gould and Tracy Von Eschen accept the 2023 Educator of the Year award on behalf of the Shoreham-Wading River special education department. (photo credit: Jeremy Garretson)<\/span>\n\t  \t\t<span slideKey=\"6\">Paolo Bartolani accepts the Northforker of the Year award for 2023. (photo credit: Jeremy Garretson)<\/span>\n\t  \t<\/div>\n\t\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When John&nbsp;McAuliff&nbsp;took a lead role in the campaign opposing a controversial development proposal at <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2023\/10\/118024\/riverhead-town-board-schedules-emergency-session-over-epcal-deal\/\">Enterprise Park in Calverton<\/a>, he brought a lifetime\u2019s worth of activism to the table. John has been working since the early 1960s to promote reconciliation and healing and build commonality all over the world.&nbsp;A Peace Corps vet who went to Mississippi for 1964\u2019s Freedom Summer voter registration campaign, John went on to champion post war reconciliation in Southeast Asia, and more recently in&nbsp;Cuba. As&nbsp;his wife Mary eloquently described him to us, John \u201cbelieves fiercely in this country, and in its democracy, and in what it can be. He wants to help America be good, be right, live up to its values, its morals, its ideals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was by no means singly responsible [for EPCAL Watch],&#8221; Mr. McAuliff said upon receiving his <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2024\/01\/118601\/2023-person-of-the-year-john-mcauliff\/\">Person of the Year <\/a>award Thursday.  &#8220;I just had the biggest mouth  &#8230; it was the [local news] publications that helped turn what we were doing into a community sentiment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since taking the helm as executive director at the East End Food Institute, now known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastendfood.org\/\">East End Food<\/a>, Kate Fullam has worked tirelessly to realize the organization\u2019s top goal of creating a more sustainable and equitable local food ecosystem. For her remarkable efforts connecting farmers and food producers directly with the community,  Ms. Fullam was named Riverhead News-Review\u2019s 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2024\/01\/118597\/2023-community-leader-of-the-year-kate-fullam\/\">Community Leader of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The educators at Shoreham-Wading River Central School District&#8217;s special education department, have experienced plenty of &#8220;aha&#8221; moments\u2014both big and small\u2014 when they realize this is the profession they were meant to pursue. Whether it&#8217;s students showing off their talents on stage, scoring their first-ever points on a basketball court or learning to cook meals for their families, these are all significant accomplishments. These teachers are not only educators, but advocates, motivators, sources of comfort and their students&#8217; biggest cheerleaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I work with the most amazing educators; I agree that they deserve this,&#8221; Tracy Von Eschen, SWR&#8217;s director of special education, said upon receiving the <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2024\/01\/118593\/2023-educators-of-the-year-shoreham-wading-river-central-school-districts-special-education-department\/\">2023 Educators of the Year <\/a> award on behalf of the department. &#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful to the children we have the honor of educating.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than a quarter-century of distinguished service to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.townofriverheadny.gov\/\">Town of Riverhead<\/a>&nbsp;came to a close last month at a spirited, jam-packed retirement party for Diane Wilhelm, Riverhead\u2019s beloved longtime town clerk.&nbsp;Everybody at the party talked about Diane\u2019s kindness and humility, her easy laugh and her absolute mastery of a job that demands a wide portfolio of knowledge. For her decades of service to Riverhead,&nbsp;her sincere joy in helping others and her reliably great sense of humor, Ms. Wilhelm was named Riverhead News-Review\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2024\/01\/118599\/2023-public-servant-of-the-year-diane-wilhelm\/\">2023 Public Servant of the Year.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thank you so much for this honor; I&#8217;m completely overwhelmed,&#8221; Ms. Wilhelm said. &#8220;I want to congratulate all the award recipients this evening &#8230; We are very very lucky to have all these people in our community who do such wonderful things.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luis&nbsp;Siguencia, owner of&nbsp;Golden Jalape\u00f1os Caf\u00e9&nbsp;in Calverton, was honored as <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2024\/01\/118595\/2023-businessperson-of-the-year-luis-siguencia\/\">2023&#8217;s Business Person of the Year<\/a> for his years of giving back to veterans and those in need within the community. Since opening Golden Jalape\u00f1os in 2014,&nbsp;Mr.&nbsp;Siguencia&nbsp;has offered free Thanksgiving meals to families in need.&nbsp;\u201cHe\u2019ll help anyone, and he tries to hire people that can use the help,\u201d&nbsp;one friend and fellow volunteer said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his acceptance speech, Mr. Siguencia remarked how deeply impacted he was when learning of the valiant efforts of U.S. veterans while studying for his citizenship test. 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