Thirty-three people from the various ethnic ministries in Brooklyn and Queens were honored by the Diocesan Migration Services at its annual Shining Stars Dinners held Oct. 6 and 13 at Gargiulo’s in Coney Island.
Those honored were:
- Ecuadorian: Fredy Cubillos and Blanca Amendona
- Pakistani – Ghazala Arif
- Gariofuna – Arnaldo Arzu
- Filipino – Ramil and Jane Marie Buenaventura
- Haitian – Patricia Brintle
- West Indian – Lennox Calder
- Guatemalan – Deacon Jorge and Alma Castillo
- Panamanian – Amelia S. Castro
- El Salvador – Mr. and Mrs. Joksael Armando and Rosa Fuentes
- Lithuanian – Anatolijus Garbauskas
- Ukrainian – Sergiy Kondratenko
- Mexican – Miguel Angel Garcia
- Vietnamese – Quang Xuan Hoang
- Polish – Iwona Drag Korga
- Croatian – Dalibor Kostan
- Indonesian – Martha Ku
- African-American – Angela Spivey Lewis
- Colombian – Martha Mendez
- Ghanaian – Agnes Mills
- Brazilian – Silas Freire de Oliveira
- Czech/Slovak – Helen Otypka
- Korean – Kihyo (Peter) Park
- Indian Latin Rite – Dr. Celine Paulus
- Russian-speaking – Halnia Pilchiuk
- Italian – Jennie Rizzo
- Chinese (Queens) – Peter (Shiang) Tien
- Chinese (Brooklyn) – Yuen Ti Tse-Chiu
- Nigerian – Deacon Dr. Okafor Uzoigwe