With the Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association, once a year we honor our own and we honor those who do good in the Hasbrouck Heights community. That’s how we award members and residents who go above and beyond for our community. Every year we chose a member for “Member of the Year”, who helps build our organization and whose contributions go above and beyond and best represent the organization.

Our second award of Community “Man of the Year”’” is given a resident whose contributions benefit the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights. It is our organization’s way of saying ‘Thank you’ to these active members of the community.

For the last three years, we have enjoyed our dinner at Segovia’s Steakhouse in Little Ferry, NJ. Our evening started with a cocktail hour and members and their spouses catching up with one another. It is always a nice way to relax and start the evening.

Enjoying the start of the evening with members and their spouses

It is such a great evening for members and spouses to catch up

The food and the service at Segovia’s is excellent and the meals are top notch. We always enjoy the assortment of dishes at dinner. The restaurant celebrates classic Spanish/Mediterranean food.

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The Banquet menu at Segovia’s is extensive and the dinner that night was fantastic. While many members enjoyed a drink, then we started with Tapas to start our meal. It was a combination of salads, seafoods and sausages.

Garlic Shrimp, Calamari and Chorizo sausage

Mussels in Red Sauce

Potato Croquettes with cheese

The salad

The freshly baked rolls to sop up all the juices and sauces

As soon as we finished the appetizers, the pasta course came out and we continued our meal with wonderful conversation.

The Appetizer hour is always wonderful

Then we moved on to the Pasta dish that followed the Tapas.

The Penne a la Vodka

The entrees are a classic combination of influences from Spain and Italy representing the owners background from this area of Europe.

The seafood Paella was full of all sorts of meat and seafood

The Chicken Francais

The Poached Salmon

The Grilled Beef Steak

After the main part of the dinner was over, it was time for our honorees. Before that happened, the incoming board recognized me for the twelve years I had spent on the board. My feeling was it was time to step down and let the next group of guys take over from us and keep the building of the organization.

After that it was time to present the awards to our honorees of this evening. Our ‘Member of the Year’ was long time member Ed Hauptman, who was surprised and touched by the award when his name was called.

Congratulating Ed

‘Member of the Year’ Ed Hauptman

“Member of the Year” Ed Hampton with the Executive Board of the Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association 2025

Our organization also picks a member of the community for “Man of the Year”, who has given back to our organization and to the community at large. This year we picked Jason Catalano.

Our ‘Man of the Year’ was Hasbrouck Heights resident, Jason Catalano with his son

“Man of the Year” Jason Catalano and son with the Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association Board

We were very proud of our winners and the contributions they make to our community. Our awards recognize these contributions the Hasbrouck Heights community. To the end the evening, it was time for our traditional group photo and dessert.

The Hasbrouck Heights Men’s Association Membership for 2025

Our traditional toast at the end of the dinner at the bar at Segovia’s

Our dessert, a traditional Cannoli Cream Cake with our town colors

What a wonderful way to end the evening.

It really was a wonderful evening for our organization, our family’s and the winners of our awards. Thank you to the Hasbrouck Heights community for supporting us and making us the success that we are as an organization.

We are looking forward to another successful year in 2025!