Newfoundland resident Marion “Mayme” Puccio’s lifetime of service began when she was a young wife and mother, feeding the poor and helping street people in her community. She purchased a former crack house in Paterson and turned it into Trinity Retreat House, a place to care for people and animals who had no other safe haven. She helped addicts and prostitutes get into detox programs, often driving them to treatment centers in her truck. She started a baseball team to steer youngsters away from drugs and into sports and campaigned against the practice of dog fighting, even diverting what money she had for her own needs to purchase dogs about to be used as bait. From her current home, she continues to rescue homeless and abused animals and provide for heroin addicts in Newark at a detox center in Paramus. She hopes to open another facility in an urban area to provide shelter from the streets for both people and animals.