Port Washington Community Chest to honor Curt Trinko as the 48th Citizen of the Year

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Port Washington Community Chest to honor Curt Trinko as the 48th Citizen of the Year

The Port Washington Community Chest today announced that Curt Trinko Will be honored as the 48th Citizen of the Year, at a Ceremony on April 17th at the Port Washington Public Library.  The free event open to all will start at 7:30 p.m.

The Community Chest’s Citizen of the Year Award recognizes a lifetime of outstanding volunteer service on behalf of the citizens of Port Washington and has been awarded to pillars of the community since 1969.

Curt was originally selected as the 2021 Citizen of the Year and that ceremony was postponed because of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Curt Trinko is being recognized for his decades of remarkable volunteer service to Port Washington, including as Chairman of Residents Forward for 20 years (formerly known as Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington).

Through his active education and advocacy work at Residents Forward, Curt has recently been working on safeguarding our drinking water and advocating for effective land use plans.  Among his most important contributions to this community was his work with the Port Washington Landfill Citizen’s Advisory Committee which helped to ensure that the former West shore road sand mines became  Harbor Links, rather than an incinerator.

His many other volunteer roles include the Port Washington Parent Resource Center, New Salem Civic Association and Our Lady of Fatima, where he currently serves on the Pastoral Council, looking after the members of the parish.

He is the managing partner at the Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, specializing in complex litigation. Curt grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and got his law degree at New York University.

He has been actively practicing law for more than 45 years and gained notoriety from an anti-trust action that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.  After clerking for a judge in Chicago for one year, he moved to Port Washington in 1978 and began focusing on investor-related litigation.

“We are proud to honor Curt Trinko as our 48th  Citizen of the Year,” said Community Chest Board chair, Drew Hershkowitz.  “Since the opportunity to honor Curt has been delayed, we hope even more residents will attend the ceremony, to recognize Curt and his service to our community.”

All are invited to place an ad in the Community Chest journal that honors Curt. For more information about the journal, the event, the honoree, or to RSVP, contact the Community Chest at (516) 767-2121 or [email protected].

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