By Tim Healy
tim.healy@newsday.com
Skip the top row for a minute and find the small boy with the proclamation.
He’s Adam “A.J” Swicicki, an 8-year-old from Huntington Station whose recent good deeds were noticed by an official at the town’s animal shelter.
A.J. raised $40 by collecting hundreds of recyclable bottles and cans and used the money to buy toys for homeless cats and dogs at the shelter in Northport.
“We used to go to the animal shelters all the time, just to pet them, and to say hello to them,” explained his mother, Laura Aloe. “And then we always saved cans … so he decided that that’s what we were going to do, go to the store and buy all the animals toys.”
Aloe said shelter workers allowed A.J. to go to each cage and give each animal a toy. Someone from the shelter notified Councilwoman Glenda Jackson about A.J.’s deed, and she arranged for him to receive a proclamation Tuesday night just before the Town Council meeting.
Strays have not been the only recipient of A.J.’s charity. He has been collecting food and donating it to a local church for three years to feed the needy, beginning as a scout. He collected between 250 and 300 cans during November in each of the past two years, according to his mother.
Joining A.J. in the photo above are, from left, Town Council members Jackson, Mark Cuthbertson, Frank Petrone (the supervisor), Susan Berland and Stuart Besen.
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