Riverhead Polish Hall was packed Thursday night with firemen, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), police officers and community members who came out to support the eighth annual Heidi’s Helping Angels fundraiser dinner.
Tag: Heidi Behr Memorial Scholarship
Highway department workers Ed Reeve (center) and Chris Bugee install a street sign in July along the Peconic River in memory of fallen ambulance volunteer Heidi Behr. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file)
The Heidi’s Helping Angels nonprofit organization is accepting applications for its Heidi Behr Memorial Scholarship. (more…)
Heidi’s Helping Angels is hosting its annual steak dinner tonight to raise money for the scholarship named in the memory of Heidi Behr, a Riverhead ambulance volunteer who died at the age of 23 in a tragic ambulance crash in May 2005.
The dinner to benefit the Heidi Behr Memorial Scholarship will be served at Polish Hall at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 5:30 p.m.
Riverhead police officers Eric Cohen, Kerri Davis and 911 dispatcher Melissa Elco will be honored at the dinner for their heroic actions this past February, when they saved an unconscious 15-month-old boy in Riverhead.
The cost of the event is $35 per person, which includes a cash bar.
If you’d like more information or are unable to attend but would like to make a donation, contact Jim Stark at 631-727-6060 or Ron Schmitt at 631-722-4944.
MICHAEL WHITE PHOTO | Rich Podlas (left) and Chuck Thomas (middle) were honored for their service to the Behr family at the first dinner in 2011.