My Hometown

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk with Donna Pagano, 3rd Vice-President of The New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of The American Society of Travel Agents Small Business, and the Metropolitan Association of Travel Agents, and owns her own travel agency, “Travelling with Donna.”

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about parenting with the Long Island Parenting Institute, a division of the EAC Network. Joining us today is Grazielle Simonetti Long Island Parenting Institute Parent Educator, and their Program Director Kathryn Cannino.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about Island Harvest, who provides food and services for people who are hungry, and a voice for people who are in need. Island Harvest is the largest hunger relief organization on Long Island – and their President and CEO, Randi Dresner, joins us in studio.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about The Olivia Hope Foundation and learn all about it with their President and Founder, Shelley LoRusso, along with Ali Donato, their Marketing Director. The Olivia Hope Foundation raises awareness and funding for innovative targeted therapies for childhood cancer treatments and improve overall survival rates and quality of life.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about The Long Island Authors Group with Roland Allnach, their President. The mission of the Long Island Authors Group is to encourage, support and promote authorship, primarily in the Long Island, New York area.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about the Greater Long Island Running Club, Long Island's largest and most active running club, with a membership that spans all of Nassau and Suffolk Counties and beyond. with their President, Mike Polansky, and Sue Fitzpatrick, who is the Executive Director of the organization.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk to Mimi Pierre-Johnson, who was named the Franklin Square and Elmont Person of the Year for 2018 from the Long Island Herald newspapers! She is also the founder of the Elmont Cultural Center.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about PRIDE FOR YOUTH, a Division of the Long Island Crisis Center. Bellmore-based Pride for Youth, in its 25th anniversary year of providing programs and services to young LGBTQ people, is proud to announce that it is expanding to Suffolk County. Our guests today include Joe Walsh, Crisis Center Director, and Fran Karliner, their Director of Development.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program and how they are helping Long Islanders affected by this horrible disease. Our guests today include Reyna Machado, their assistant director, along with Desiree Abdelkader, one of their social work interns.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk about Nassau BOCES, which offers state-of-the-art programs for learners of all ages and abilities as well as cost-effective services for school districts and municipalities. Our guests are Dr. Robert Dillon, District Superintendent of Nassau BOCES, and Michele Cohen, principal of Nassau BOCES Adult Education.

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk with The President of the Farmingdale Community Summit, Mr. Ken Ulrich, and Summit Vice President and Farmingdale Expo co-chair, Ellen Krammer. The Farmingdale Community Summit is a coming together of communities in the Farmingdale Union Free School District for the common good

Bill Horan and Zac Turkel talk with Jennifer Cantone, the Director of Development for Special Olympics Long Island. They are holding a special fundraiser called the Polar Plunge along with The Town of Oyster Bay on Saturday, March 16th at Tobay Beach, and we learn all about the organization on the show.

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel learn about SocialPreneurship with the President and Founder of the Long Island Breakfast Club, Valentina Janek. The Long Island Breakfast Club is an organization providing advocacy, support, career, employment counseling, referrals and more with the goal to prepare mature individuals for productive employment.

Bill Horan discusses the Maurer Foundation for Breast Health Education with their Executive Director, Ms. Susan Samaroo! The Maurer Foundation’s mission is to save lives through breast health education that focuses on breast cancer prevention, healthy lifestyle choices, early detection and risk reduction.

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk to Linda Sama, Associate Dean and Professor at St. John’s University, and the founder of Global Loan Opportunities for Budding Entrepreneurs (GLOBE) – an academic microcredit program that engages students in providing microloans to entrepreneurs living in poverty around the world. In this program, borrowers develop small businesses or expand existing ones...

Bill Horan talks with Douglas Miller, the Census Recruiting Manager and Jennifer Albert, their Partnership Specialist – as we learn about the 2020 census coming up soon, and how you can get paid to help! More info can be found at https://www.2020census.gov/jobs

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk to Ilan Danieli, founder and CEO of Precipio, a cancer diagnostics company focused on battling the devastating problem of cancer misdiagnosis. Precipio’s mission was achieved by establishing a platform that matches up the patient’s biopsy with the right academic experts within its network, to ensure the right diagnosis is achieved. With its full service c...

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk to Paul Rubin, Founder and Executive Director of Camp Good Mourning. He is also a Clinical Mental Health Counselor-LP specializing in grief and loss. For the past 16 years, Paul has been supporting children, parents, and families in a variety of different roles. As a Crisis Counselor for Hurricane Sandy survivors, he was recognized by the Nassau County Ex...

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk with Dr. Adrian Krainer from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His lab studies the mechanisms of RNA splicing, ways in which they go awry in disease, and the means by which faulty splicing can be corrected. In particular, they study splicing in spinal muscular atrophy, a neuromuscular disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in infants. It was rece...

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk with Bernadette Starzee, an editor/reporter for the Long Island Business News. She covers a broad range of industries and topics impacting the Long Island business community. She edits a weekly section on a specific industry that varies from week to week. She also edits the Movers & Shakers page, which features news about new hires and promotions in Nassa...

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk to Eugene Alletto, CEO and Founder of BEDGEAR. Eugene is the innovator and creative force behind the fast-growth brand of BEDGEAR PERFORMANCE lifestyle products. He has propelled BEDGEAR to rank on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies and Crain’s New York Fastest Growing 50 Companies. He believes in being a global ambassador and building a brand...

Bill Horan talks with Maureen Dolan Murphy, Executive Programs Manager for Citizens Campaign for the Environment. CCE is a not-for-profit grassroots environmental organization working to protect public health and natural resources. Maureen has been part of the organization for 17 years. Today's program will discuss the various local, state, and federal campaigns to advance renewable energy, reduce...

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk to Tom Gibson, the founder of Interchange Business Organization (IBO), a business development networking organization where people learn, grow and build relationships with a team of professionals. Tom began IBO in 2006 with the notion that businesses can dramatically increase sales through the right connections. Tom has been teaching the members of IBO ho...

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk with Randell Bynum, CEO of Girl Scouts of Nassau County. Randell will talk about the latest happenings at GSNC, as well as their 100 years of service in Nassau County, including how their program meet the needs of today's girls, the critical issues initiative, opportunities in STEM, how they provide for girl scouts in underserved communities, and more.

Bill Horan and NCC Student Zac Turkel talk to Major Chuck Kilbride, a retired member of the United States Marines, about Toys for Tots, a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which distributes toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for the holidays. We also speak with Lance Wolff, the Assistant General Manager and Brand Ambassador for Miller’s Ale House of...