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Helping Others is a Way of Life
Issue 2 - 2007
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Retired BAC Local officer Joe Mollica coordinated logistics for this road race last fall to benefit the Terry Fox Foundation, which works to advance cancer research.
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| Mollica indulges his passion for gardening by helping to maintain Bradshaw Park. |
Retired BAC Local Business Manager, 50-year member and recipient of the 1993 BAC Craft Award for Public Service, Joe Mollica of Welland, Ontario is definitely ‘the glass is half-full’ kind of guy.
With more than a dozen charitable and community organizations relying on his generous nature and seemingly endless energy, this is one 74-year old who isn’t getting older, he’s getting busier.
Whether it’s raising public awareness about the importance of tissue and organ transplants (Joe’s sister, Jean Ann Cousineau, died in 2002 while awaiting a kidney transplant), through his work with the Kidney Foundation, the Trillium Gift of Life Network, and as a Board member of Kristopher’s Wish, coordinating fundraising races and other events to benefit cancer research and education, or helping preserve nature’s gifts of flora and fauna at the 50-acre Bramshaw Park in Pelham, Joe Mollica isn’t happy unless he’s lending a hand.
“If it weren’t for the IU,” Mollica says, “I would not be enjoying my retirement to the fullest. My goal is to help others. Today I have good and better days!” Those are truly ‘glass half-full’ words to live by.
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