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Slide Show: Riley Ave. students walk for the Trincas

By Vera Chinese

Despite chilly temperatures Monday morning, about 250 students at Riley Avenue Elementary School marched the school’s field in support of a Manorville family who lost their mother and young son in a car crash earlier this month.

The students raised an estimated $5,000 in pledges to benefit Jay Trinca whose wife Keri and seven-year-old son Jason were killed in a two-car crash in Manorville Oct. 8, that also critically injured the family’s two other young children.

Although the family does not live in the Riverhead School District, the students waved checkered flags in memory of Jason, an avid go-karter and Riverhead Raceway regular, as they circled the field four times.

“Many of the kids here don’t know them personally,” said fourth grade teacher Jim Schaefer. “I am overwhelmed with the support they have given.”

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VERA CHINESE PHOTO | Third and fourth grade students at Riley Avenue Elementary School participated in a walk-a-thon Monday to benefit the Trinca family of Manorvile. The money will benefit Jay Trinca, whose wife Keri and son Jason were killed in a car crash earlier this month.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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