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UPCOMING EVENTS Shred-a-Thon • April 9-10 • Spring Fling at the Paramount • April 12 • Veggies for Veterans • April • Administrative Professionals Day • April 27 • Family Fun Day • May 31 • East Setauket Grand Opening • May • Wading River Grand Opening • June • Fishing Charters • June • Bring Your Dog to Work Day • June 24 • Habitat for Humanity Hoedown • June 20 •
COMPANY AWARDS Congratulations to all of our agents! We’re incredibly proud of each and every one of you for your hard work and dedication, but most especially for your big hearts! Our Diamond Circle Award Dinner at Rare650 celebrated our top agents company-wide. Platinum Circle Award winners got together at Limani to celebrate! We can’t wait to celebrate all of our agents at the Paramount! SignaturePremier.com
ACLD Charity Event • Summer • Build-a-Backpack • August • Annual Montauk Retreat • September 21-23 • Signature Golf Outing • Fall •
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WELCOME!
New Additions To Our Family Vincent Davi | Amity Harbor Elizabeth Petrizzo | Amity Harbor Erin Conway | Babylon Jenny Matthews | Babylon Jaclyn Moss | Babylon Marianne Lappas | Babylon Maria Calabro | Babylon Shahinur Arif | Babylon Mary Beth Algarin | Babylon Dorrie Hammill | Babylon Sarah Mullane| Dix Hills Heather Saal Duffy| Dix Hills Louise Scalza | East Northport Christine Harnos | East Northport Patricia America | East Northport Toni Ann Galiano | East Northport James P Ruggiero | East Northport Karla Vega | East Setauket
SIGNATURE CARES FOOD PANTRY To kick off 2022, our Northport office donated food to the Saint Vincent De Paul Food Pantry at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in East Northport! Then our Sayville agents spent the month of February hard at work collecting donations for the amazing people at Lighthouse Mission! Throughout March, the East Northport and Dix Hills offices teamed up to collect donations to deliver much-needed food to Helping Hands Rescue Mission.
THE BEST OF THE BEST We are so proud to announce that we won Best of Long Island for Best Real Estate Company for a SIXTH year in a row and our very own Kathy Viard won Best Real Estate Broker AGAIN! A great big thank you to everyone who voted, we couldn’t have done it without you!
Jessica Speck | East Setauket Andrew Sulz | East Setauket Carter Baron | East Setauket Appio Fragoletti | East Setauket Thomas Scarpinato | East Setauket Edin Lukolic | East Setauket Patricia Casamassina | East Setauket Lefkios Antoniou | Garden City Christopher Grant | Garden City Timothy Schmitt | Garden City Manuel Paghubasan | Garden City Wendy Kaplan Hyde | Huntington Kevin Chadrjian | Huntington Samuel Cioffi | Merrick Jason Galka | Miller Place Francis Miletti | Miller Place Diane Tomkin | Miller Place
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Geraldine Grieger | Miller Place Brittney Mulvaney | Miller Place Melissa Mathieu | Miller Place Allegra Cottone | Northport Marsha Welikson | Rockville Centre
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ANNUAL BLOOD DRIVE
WELCOME!
New Additions To Our Family Demetrios Babatsikos | Rockville Centre Priya Varughese | Rockville Centre Rachel Hoskins | Rockville Centre Michelle Muscara-Vilsaint | Ronkonkoma Johanna Penagos | Ronkonkoma Danielle LaBarbera | Ronkonkoma Destiny J Sullivan | Ronkonkoma Judi McAvoy | Ronkonkoma
Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual blood drive! This year we had a total of 23 donations, saving 69 lives! Our friends at New York Blood Center let us know that this was the most amount of donations they’ve received since 2020, pre-pandemic! We couldn’t have done it without all of you.
Michael LaCava | Ronkonkoma Tyler Meigel | Ronkonkoma Sheri Bender | Ronkonkoma Ginger Sicurella | Ronkonkoma Nader Kassis | Ronkonkoma Danielle McGuire | Ronkonkoma Gina Loffredo | Ronkonkoma
SIGNATURE STUDIO
Fiona Gabel | Ronkonkoma
We’ve spent the past few months building this space, including a beautiful bar and lounge area and a fully equipped state-of-the-art podcast studio exclusively for our Signature agents to use!
Debra Tringali | Sayville Christopher Petrocelli | Sayville John Trotta | Sayville Emily Guerrero | Sayville Kristen Antle | Sayville Gabriella Eisendorf | Smithtown Andrew Ambrosio | Smithtown Kevin Blunt | Smithtown Lydia Febus | Smithtown Lisa Enright | Smithtown Rotara Ripley | Smithtown Ginamarie Gragnaniello | Smithtown Renee Klee | Smithtown
BETTY WHITE CHALLENGE In honor of Betty White’s 100th birthday, our rockstar agents, Donna Mello & Barbara Vanchiere, organized a fundraiser for Almost Home Animal Rescue & Adoption. When we heard what they were doing, Signature contributed $1000. Together with the generous donations from our agents and friends, they collected a grand total of $3,370! SignaturePremier.com
Johnna Bluni | Smithtown Kayla Farrell | Smithtown Lorraine Marotta | Smithtown Isabel Bank | Smithtown Barbara Schnall | Smithtown Danielle Ciriello | Smithtown Lori Zamore | Smithtown Nancy Diez | Syosset Vicki Walsh | Syosset Ashley Mancino | Syosset
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WELCOME!
New Additions To Our Family Jacqueline Ferranti | Syosset Maureen Cappelli | Wantagh Joanna Gilmor | Wantagh Anna Risolo | Wantagh Annemarie Zito | Wantagh Martin Nerone | Wantagh Christine C Ambrosio | Wantagh Rose Failla | Wantagh
EASTER BASKET DONATIONS This year we donated 370 Easter baskets to benefit Helping Hands Rescue Mission. They will be distributed to local children in need. Thank you for an amazing turnout to help assemble the baskets!
EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION DAY We’re so grateful to our incredible staff members for all of their hard work and dedication. We love working with each and every one of you!
Erin Rappa | Wantagh Albert Gershengoren | Wantagh Assunta Cangero | Wantagh Barrie Serrano | Wantagh Paul Rogina | Wantagh John-Paul Ferrante | Wantagh Rebecca Ferrando | Wantagh Francesca Horowitz | Woodbury Andrew Pedote | Woodbury Ana Schneider | Woodbury Taylor Schoen | Woodbury Jennice Velasquez | Woodbury
WANTAGH ST. PATRICK’S PARADE The Wantagh office participated in the Wantagh 2nd Annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 20th. The parade went right in front of our building where there was a balloon arch, face painting for the children, goodie bags and giveaways for the adults. Wantagh agents were present and had food and festivities inside. It was a great community event and we look forward to next year!
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HERE WE GROW AGAIN Signature offices are popping up all over! We look forward to joining the communities of Massapequa Park, Wading River, Bay Shore and expanding all the way down to sunny Sarasota, Florida. We’ve also welcomed the agents of S.A.S. Realty and Landmark Realty to our growing family.
SIGNATURE SNOW DAY We had fun with a good old fashioned snow day! Now we’re ready for warmer days and summer fun!
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY We celebrated all of the strong and amazing women across our Signature offices and across the world!
ACHIEVE GRADUATES Congratulations to our recent graduates of Signature Univeristy’s ACHIEVE New Agent Training Program. ACHIEVE is a 30 hour, 15-module, comprehensive training program to get new and new-to-Signature Agents “Up and Running”. Signature provides training, tools, coaching, and encouragenent to jump start your real estate career.
Anthony Tarlentino | Ronkonkoma Ashley Rice | Northport Carolyn Lucia | Smithtown Dorothy Tytlar | Babylon Ebru Altiner | Smithtown Jason Mendes | Ronkonkoma
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Jason Andrews | Wantagh Jennifer Gibat | Ronkonkoma Jessica Post | Smithtown Marguerite Ahizeid-Hachem | Babylon Marie Ulysse | Garden City Marzena Feal | Ronkonkoma
Max Nartowicz | Northport Nychol Novissimo | Miller Place Sabrina Pulizzi | Wantagh Wade Greenberg | Syosset Alicia Rath | Sayville
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SIGNATURE SPOTLIGHT Behind every one of our agents and staff there is a wonderful support system. We love celebrating each other’s greatest moments! Here are some of our loved ones’ most recent accomplishments.
Barbara Goodman welcomed a new addition to the family, Charlie.
Janet Ciafardoni’s son, Brian, got engaged to Melissa Myles on January 15th. A Fall 2024 wedding is planned. Gina DiBenedetto’s son, Salvatore, AKA The Grubfather, hosted comedian Sebastian Maniscalco on a Meet and Eat food tour around Long Island to some of his favorite restaurants.
Debi Power’s daughter, Julie, assumed the role of acting director at the ABCD North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center.
After 5 years away from racing, Kathy Martin hit the indoor track at the armory in NYC and set a new World Record in the mile & an American record in the 3000! Mark Fisher’s oldest son, Eric, was married in Dallas, TX on March 25th.
On March 5th, Donna Mello’s son, Erik, and his beautiful fiance, Victoria, celebrated their engagement at Larkfield Manor. A 2023 wedding is planned!
William James and wife, Kristee, welcomed Zeida James on February 14th at 2:46pm. She weighed in at 6.9 ounces!
Nina Harris’ daughter, Nicole, and son-in-law, Keith Morrice, are expecting their first child the beginning of August. Rosaria Marchetta’s son, Michael, a mechanical engineer, has passed the National License Certification for Mechanical Engineering and is now a Professional Engineer, the highest standard of competence, a symbol of achievement and assurance of quality. He will be required to continue taking classes to maintain the license in addition to his Bachelor’s Degree from Lafayette College in Mechanical Engineering. Ren Jainarine ranked #1 again in Sales, Service and Claims with Allstate Insurance Countrywide. He also ranked #18 as “Best In Company“ out of 10,000 agents.
Glenda Guzman, got engaged to fiance, Alex. SignaturePremier.com
Chrissy DeJong’s daughter, Kayla Costello, has accepted an offer into a PhD program at University of Albany for Clinical Psychology and will be attending the 5 year program beginning in August. 6
SIGNATURE SPOTLIGHT Behind every one of our agents and staff there is a wonderful support system. We love celebrating each other’s greatest moments! Here are some of our loved ones’ most recent accomplishments.
Warren Wendt’s nephew, Cris Sullivan, along with 24 other Kidney Donors, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. This group climbed to support kidney donors and show that you can do anything with one kidney!
Susan Modelewski’s husband, Christopher, was elected as a Supreme Court Justice. He was sworn in and received his robes in January.
On January 5th, Jonathan Finnerty turned 40 years old! Shortly after, on January 11th he celebrated 11 years together with Christopher Cheeseman. April Hughes Kaufman’s son, Alexander, married the love of his life, Amanda, on March 6th in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Lori Dredger just became a firsttime grandmother!
Paula Johnson’s granddaughter, Julia Carvalho, will be studying computer science and has been accepted to all 12 colleges she applied to. She’ll most likely attend Renssaler Polytechnic on an incredible scholarship. Best of luck through her pursuits! SignaturePremier.com
Deborah Berkman’s daughter, Allix, has been promoted to Senior UX/UI Designer at Canon USA Melville.
Debra Attardi welcome her first grandchild, Cooper Maverick Fols, on January 29th during the blizzard.
Victoria Seeger’s son, Billy, graduated from Touro University Worldwide with a Master of Science in Health Sciences, Concentration in Health Education Magna Cum Laude! Her daughter, Katie, is a Pace University student who is on the First Honors role and is currently doing the Disney Internship in Walt Disney World. 7
HAPPENINGS AT CONTOUR CONTOUR MORTGAGE’S BABYLON OFFICE IS OFFICIAL!
We are excited to finally announce that our Babylon office is officially opened and ready to help the Babylon community, led by Branch Manager Abe Ohanian. Located right in the heart of Babylon, right next to Signature’s Babylon office! Stop by and say hello! 116 West Main Street, Suite 116N, Babylon, NY
CONTOUR MORTGAGE WELCOMES
MATT NIEVES
TUGCE DIVISCONTE
Division Manager
Mortgage Loan Officer NMLS ID#1899391 Cell: 631.710.0707 | tdivisconte@contourmtg.com mypage.contourmortgage.com/tugce-divisconte Tugce DiVisconte has joined the Contour Mortgage family alongside Division Managers, Matt Nieves & Jeff Cacace to help Signature’s East Setauket and Miller Place offices. Matt & Jeff’s powerhouse team has already taken on the east end of Long Island. Tugce has years of experience in the mortgage industry as well and is Fluent in Turkish and English and is a great addition to better serve more of your buyers!
SPOTLIGHT ON
NMLS ID#1079123
JEFF CACACE Division Manager NMLS ID#1445746 mypage.contourmortgage.com/ southshore
TARA SACCO
Senior Loan Officer NMLS ID#784676 Cell: 516.749.1879 | tsacco@contourmtg.com mypage.contourmortgage.com/tara-sacco
With over 21 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Tara has helped over 1200 families achieve their goal of homeownership or refinancing, a solution is always possible! She’s looking forward to helping your buyers too!
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