Christina Galvin

3 weeks ago | localsyr.com | Christina Galvin

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Nancy Chappell says the nomination as Central New York’s Remarkable Woman comes at the perfect time in her life. She’s experienced great loss and heartache over the last decade, and this surprise has provided her with a rare and much-needed moment of joy. In 2018, an unimaginable tragedy struck her family when her son Stephen Gudknecht was murdered along with co-worker Kristopher Hicks during a late-night shift at a local Chili’s restaurant.

1 month ago | informnny.com | Christina Galvin

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Edie Shillitoe has always had a love for music and a love for helping others understand it. “I have music in my head all of the time, and if you learn how to play an instrument, you understand music a little bit more,” said Shillitoe. A wife and mom of three daughters, she has been a music teacher for most of her life, crafting musicians of all ages in California, Texas, and eventually Central New York.

1 month ago | localsyr.com | Christina Galvin

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Edie Shillitoe has always had a love for music and a love for helping others understand it. “I have music in my head all of the time, and if you learn how to play an instrument, you understand music a little bit more,” said Shillitoe. A wife and mom of three daughters, she has been a music teacher for most of her life, crafting musicians of all ages in California, Texas, and eventually Central New York.

1 month ago | localsyr.com | Christina Galvin

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — After her mother’s death, Rhonda Vesey said she was looking for some sunshine. Going through a bout of depression, she says her life changed when she saw a need on Syracuse’s Southside: food accessibility. “I know good and well there is no fresh food, other things in ‘Dollar General, ’ but no access to fresh food,” Vesey said. So she planted the seed, starting Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now, a market that offers fresh food to people in Valley Plaza.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Christina Galvin

SYRACUSE, NY (WSYR-TV) — The Foodbank of CNY was offered a huge donation of fresh fish this month, but it came with a catch. LocalCoho, a salmon farm in Auburn is closing its doors on Friday, Jan. 31. Before they shut down for good they wanted to cast a parting gift: 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) of salmon to the Food Bank of Central New York, which could feed thousands of families. But the fish were still alive and swimming in the farm’s giant indoor tanks.