RECOGNIZING & COMMENDING Sponsored by President Mildred C. Crump 1. The Women’s Leadership Council of United Way of Essex and West Hudson 2016 Award Breakfast 2. A.M.E. Church Newark District Ministers Fellowship African Methodist Episcopal Bicentennial Celebration 3. Mr. Levi A. Holmes, “50th Birthday Celebration” 4. Sarah Vaughn Commemorative Forever Stamp, United States Postal Service First-Day-of-Issue Ceremony 5. True Reflection Ministries 2016, “Black History is American History” 6. Chief Olubukola Olarobayimika Okunola Adetula 7. The 59th Anniversary Celebration of Ghana’s Independence (March 6, 1957 - March 6, 2016) 8. Apostle Jose Guzman and Grace & Kingdom Christian Church 5th Anniversary Service Sponsored by Council Member Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins 9. Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, City of Refuge Church of Christ 10.D.A.D. Network, Dads Are Dynamite” Sponsored by Council Member Eddie Osborne 11.Reverend Dr. Elton T. Byrd, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, Men & Women’s Day Committee Black History Prayer Breakfast 12.Barringer Academy Arts and Humanities Senior Class of 2016 13.Ms. Joyce Salmon-Frierson, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Dance Ministry 14.Ms. Gail Muhammad, President, New Jersey Food Service Workers Union-Local 3 15.Ms. Daisy Hargrave-Johnson, Founder, Sherman Community Day Care Center 16.New Salem Baptist Church, 80th Anniversary, 1926-2016 17.Pastor Patrick O. Council, 5th Pastoral Anniversary Service, St. John’s Baptist Church Sponsored by Council Member Luis A. Quintana 18.Members of the Pan-American Caribbean Boxing Organization and the Elite Heat Gym 19.Individuals during the Dominican Independence Day Flag Raising Ceremony on Saturday, February 27, 2016 20.Mr. John F. Squitieri 21.D.E.A.P.E.R., (Digging In, Embracing, Accountability, Planning for the future and Employment Readiness) Life Transformation Program Sponsored by Council Member Anibal Ramos, Jr. 22.Iglesia Cristiana Vencedores En Cristo 5th Anniversary Celebration 23.Pastor Yancy Mejias and Co-Pastor Aida I. Crespo 24.Mr. Reggis Dabbs, Nationally Acclaimed Youth and Adolescent Motivational Speaker and Personality 25.Mr. Jose Luis Salazar, Peruvian Singer