North Star Organizer Betty Kapetanakis Killed in NYC Traffic Accident

Betty Kapetanakis, Executive Director of the North Star Fund, was killed
yesterday in a traffic accident on 23rd Street. Under Betty's leadership the
North Star Fund has been a sustaining force on the New York City progressive
community and she will be greatly missed. Its hard to imagine someone as vivacious, warm and ubiquitous as
Betty being taken away this way.

The North Star offices will be open this Thursday from 4-9 pm for people to
drop by to pay their respects, see staff, mourn with other community
members, etc. There will also me a more formal memorial event sometime this
fall.