BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:110@scca-nnjr.com DTSTART:20290228T050000Z DTEND:20290228T050000Z DTSTAMP:20250421T141510Z URL:https://scca-nnjr.com/events/vinny-blancuzzi-we-remember-2029-02-28/ SUMMARY:Vinny Blancuzzi - We remember.... DESCRIPTION:Vinny Blancuzzi “Yo!!!”\nOctober 1\, 1968 – April 21\, 20 05\n\nVinny Blancuzzi died on April 21st at Saint Clare’s Hospital in Do ver. He was 36.\n\nVinny joined the SCCA in October of 1991. He was a memb er of the Berkeley Heights Rescue Squad and was already a big fan of autom obile racing. His interest in auto racing had been sparked by his father a t an early age. Years later\, when he came to Lime Rock as a young man\, h e must have liked what he saw because he quickly became one of us and was embraced by our SCCA family.\n\nIn short order Vinny earned his Flagging a nd Communications license as well as his Emergency Services license. Regar dless of the region conducting the event\, it was a virtual certainty that Vinny would be there working a corner or doing his thing at the track’s medical station.\n\nVinny was a quiet guy. He was quiet about himself. Vi nny was very quiet about himself. He was always most interested in the per son with whom he was speaking. Vinny was more interested in you. Rememberi ng back\, it seems that whenever you greeted Vinny\, his typical response was\, “Hey! How’re you doing?” or “Hey! What’s happening?”\n\n He never said\, “Can you do this for me?” More often it was\, “Can y ou help me with this?” Or\, hearing that something needed doing\, he wou ld simply go and do it. He wouldn’t look to be thanked. Often\, not know ing that Vinny had already taken care of things\, when you went to do a ta sk\, you discovered that it had already been done.\n\nBut as serious as wo rking corners is\, Vinny also had time for a lighter side. A water balloon fight at a gathering of SCCA folks or the silliness of squirting Redi-Whi p all over in the cab of the Region’s van well\, each of these was possi ble with Vinny. He loved to have fun.\n\nHe was awarded the honor of NESCC A Worker of the Year in 2002 affirmation of the high regard which the Flag ging &\; Communications community as well as the entire SCCA NorthEast Division held for his abilities and his dedication.\n\nIn 2004\, when he b ecame ill\, he was examined at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in t he city. He had to endure over a month of daily radiation treatments at Sl oan-Kettering. Showing their love for him\, his friends rose to the occasi on and made themselves available to drive him to Manhattan and back to Ber keley Heights each day.\n\nHe not only loved the SCCA and the sport\, but he also found his love in the SCCA. Robin &\; Vinny. Vinny &\; Robin . If you saw one\, then you also saw the other. They attended our Region ’s meetings together. At our Annual Dinner or at the Region’s Worker P arty each January\, they were there together. On the first Friday of the m onth labeling the newsletter at Robin’s Vinny was always there.\n\nVinny loved kids. And kids loved Vinny. Jessica and Rachel and Kenneth all love d him. All the tykes in our SCCA family loved Vinny because he would take the time to play and kid around with them.\n\nVinny is survived by his fol ks Diane and Vincent Sr.\, by his love Robin\, by his two brothers Jeffrey and Stephen\, and by his SCCA family of friends.\n\n“Yo!” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scca-nnjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02 /Vinny.jpg CATEGORIES:Meeting END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR