The first annual Yolanda Lopez Service Award dinner-dance is being held tomorrow at Town & Country in Congers. Haverstraw Supervisor Howard Phillips says the benefit is in memory of a dedicated, local Gold Star mother…
Yolanda Lopez’s son, Manny, was the first Rockland resident to die in the Iraq War 19 years ago, when he was just 20 years old. Manny’s name can be found on a panel at the War on Terror Memorial in Haverstraw. Yolanda passed away in February last year at the age of 64.