STILL SHOVELING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS:

Photo by Jim Grossman

Howard Rubenstein (right), the veteran public relations executive who has made a career of digging clients out of holes, got an engraved shovel from Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association President Harry Nespoli citing 'his four decades of service' to the union's membership. Mr. Rubenstein took on the union as a client in 1968 following a phone call from its then-president, John DeLury, who at the time was in jail for leading a strike.