| At a recent awards ceremony held at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Commissioner Doherty honored special Departmental units associated with the World Trade Center cleanup, announced the 2001 Employees of the Year Annual Winners, and cited an employee who served with the Department for 50 years.
Thirty employees from the Emergency Response Division and from the Fresh Kills Landfill Unit were awarded Unit Citations for their involvement in the nation’s largest cleanup and recovery effort in the wake of the World Trade Center tragedy. In addition, Commissioner Doherty named the winners of the 2001 Employees of the Year competition. They were General Superintendent David Callery, Brooklyn North Borough Operations; Supervisor Thomas Fitzgerald, Bureau of Cleaning and Collection; Sanitation Workers Nick Comisa and Lawrence Reilly, Queens East 8; Thomas Dimino, Supervisor of Electricians, Bureau of Support Operations; and Elissa Werbin, Central Correspondence Unit, Bureau of Public Information and Community Affairs. Each winner received two commemorative plaques and a $500 check.
Also, at the ceremony, Angelo Cipollaro, a mechanic in the Bureau of Support Operations who actually started his career as a Sanitation Worker in the 1950’s, received a special 50-year service plaque and a Golden Apple Award for his half-century of outstanding service to the Department. Mr. Cipollaro recently retired.
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