Joseph Carubba, president of Carubba Collision Corp. in Buffalo, N.Y., will be honored as the Italian American Leadership Council’s 2014 recipient of the Anthony M. Castiglia Achievement Award during the council’s annual St. Joseph’s Day Table celebration. The award will be presented Wednesday, March 19 at 6 p.m. at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens, 6461 Transit Road, Depew, N.Y.
“Joe Carubba is a great Italian American leader in our community and more than deserving to receive this award,” said Italian American Leadership Council Chairman Charles M. Castiglia.
The Council was organized by successful Italian Americans in business and public service whose primary goal is to recognize and promote the best that the Italian American ethnic pride brings to Western New York.
Over the years, Carubba has supported several not-for profit organizations including:
- Make A Wish Foundation
- Cradle Beach
- Parkinson’s Foundation
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Women’s and Children’s Hospital
- YMCA
- Food Bank of WNY
- Niagara County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit
- Mercy Flight
- Wings Flights of Hope
- Kenney Field Tonawanda U.S. Navy Blue Angels Jet Restoration Project
- Buffalo Niagara Victory Scholarship Awards
- ECMC Trauma Unit
- Tonawanda Police Department K-9 Unit and SWAT Team
- City of North Tonawanda SWAT Team
- NYS Golden Glove
- SUNY at Buffalo
- Boat Restoration for the Herschell Carousel Factory Museum
“I am very grateful to have been selected for this recognition,” said Carubba. “This is a day that my family and I will never forget and this honor is special because it is symbolic of my Italian heritage which I am very proud of.”
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