Golden Heart Group -Commissioner Dennis Zappone

I have helped people all my life starting out in the 1970’s as a volunteer on an ambulance crew in West Oak Lane in Philadelphia. I have volunteered my time at my parish helping the kids with computer training and also assisting with the annual carnival.

In 1996 Abington Township was hit with a flood and that flood happened to be in Ardsley, my community. I helped a friend with clean up as well as other neighbors. I was then approached by the civic association to run for commissioner, and I did. I had so much strong support from my neighbors it made me feel good and I wanted to carry over that good in a positve way and that was helping my community with their many problems.
Over my 10 years span as commissioner I helped many people with township matters as well as personal matters. I guess my mentor was Jon Fox. I strive to respond to community issues like he did when he served as Congressman and state rep. I tend to go out of my may to help my seniors, and appreciate their hard work and labors when they were coming up through this community.

It’s time we pay them back. When one of my seniors call I stop by and visit them, they simply love that their Commissioner took time out of his busy schedule to sit with them, they deserve it. i want nothing in return but the fact that they are happy. Their problems become my problem.