NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — The eightieth Annual Columbus Day Parade returns to Fifth Avenue in New York Metropolis on Monday.
The town’s celebration of its Italian cultural roots is a practice connecting these with a bit of or lots of Italian heritage to ancestors who made this their house.
The parade begins on Fifth Avenue at forty fourth Road and continues north alongside Fifth Avenue to 72nd Road.
WABC will broadcast the parade beginning at 12:00 p.m. on Monday (10/14). The parade can be hosted by anchors Sandra Bookman and Mike Marza, with Comic Joe Piscopo. Reporters Joelle Garguilo and Lauren Glassberg will be part of the crew alongside the parade route.
Columbus Residents Basis introduced that enterprise govt Michael T. Strianese will function Grand Marshal this yr.
Strianese is greatest identified for his tenure because the Chairman and CEO of L3 Applied sciences, Inc., a world aerospace and nationwide safety firm.
Meet Mike Strianese, Columbus Day Parade Grand Marshal
As Grand Marshal, Strianese will lead marching bands, floats, and over 100 marching teams up the Fifth Avenue parade route.
Teams, establishments, and companions from throughout the USA and Italy will participate on this yr’s celebration.
Amongst this yr’s honorees is Carmine Di Sibio, the previous International Chairman and CEO of EY (previously Ernst & Younger) and performed a pivotal function within the progress and innovation of one of many world’s main skilled companies organizations.
Born in Italy, Carmine emigrated along with his household at age three and was raised in Glen Cove, New York. He was the primary in his household to attend faculty, incomes a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Chemistry from Colgate College and an MBA from the Stern Faculty of Enterprise at New York College, which propelled his in depth profession in monetary companies.
Meet Carmine Di Sibio, Columbus Day Parade honoree
One other honoree is Vivian Cardia, a philanthropist and former president of Vivicar LLC.
Born, raised, and educated in New York, she earned her BA in Italian from Fordham College. Notably, she was one of many first Italian American feminine members and merchants of the American Inventory Alternate, buying and selling choices from 1982 to 1988.
Following the crash of 1987, she joined her household’s enterprise, the storied Greenwich Village restaurant, the Beatrice Inn, which the household owned from 1955 to 2005.
Meet Vivian Cardia, Columbus Day Parade honoree
The parade is organized annually by the Columbus Residents Basis.
Along with the Parade, the group additionally plans a Gala (Saturday, October 12), to lift scholarship funds and a Wreath-Laying ceremony (Sunday, October 13), paying tribute to the civil servants and first responders who contribute to our neighborhood and assist preserve town protected.
“We’re very proud to say that previously 40 years, we’ve provided $40 million in scholarships to deserving Italian-American highschool, faculty and graduate college students to help their training desires,” mentioned Lisa Ackerman, CCF’s Govt Director.
The Basis has disbursed over 40 million {dollars} in scholarships to college students and grants to charitable causes over time.
For extra info, please go to the Columbus Residents Basis.
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