Mayor, council member promote organ donor awareness

NJ | Andrew


Courtesy of the City of Bayonne
Pictured left to right in bottom row: Councilmember Ray Greaves, Manny Miranda, Paul Kuzminski, Jr., and Donate Life Co-Leader Barbara Kuzminski. Pictured left to right in top row: Donate Life Co-Leader Maryann Rosenberg, Gerry Kelly (heart recipient), Mayor Mark A. Smith, Glenn Rosenberg (liver recipient), John Gannon, Paul Kuzminski, Sr., and Paul Kuzminski III. Also participating in the ceremony were Sharing Network board member J.D. de Leon and Alyssa D'Addio, Education and Partnership Coordinator of the Sharing Network. The Kuzminski family honors the memory of Jonathon Paul Kuzminski, who passed away in 2011. His liver and kidneys have saved the lives of two New Jersey children.

Members of the Bayonne Chapter of Donate Life met with Mayor Mark Smith and city council member Ray Greaves to promote organ and tissue donor awareness.

Mayor Smith presented a proclamation in honor of Donate Life Month, April 2012.

The local Donate Life chapter includes organ recipients and members of organ donor families. Donate Life is affiliated with the New Jersey Sharing Network

{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}