Local Businessman To Be Honored At Geraldo Rivera Gold Classic

John Murn of Greenlawn will be the guest of honor at the 32nd Annual “Geraldo Rivera Golf & Tennis Classic” to be held at The Creek Club in Locust Valley on Thursday, Sept. 27. Proceeds from the $750-per-ticket event will benefit Life’s WORC/The Family Center For Autism, a 47-year-old non-profit organization based in Garden City. Life’s WORC/Family Center provides a variety of services in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk for more than 2000 people with developmental disabilities and autism.

Murn is the founder and CEO of Next Level Fitness Water, a premium Adirondack artesian well-sourced water from a Hartford, NY region geological aquifer dating back over 450 million years, more than 250 feet deep.

For more than 20 years, Murn and his brother Tom have been the principals of Answer Vending, a family-owned Northeast market leader automatic convenience vending company, based in East Farmingdale. This company was recently acquired by Compass/Canteen.

Murn is also the principal of M & J Commissary in Long Island City, an operation dedicated to servicing, upgrading, improving and expanding food carts in the greater New York tri-state region.

Murn established RSA Management Group, which so far has enabled more than 2,000 blind people to establish automatic convenience vending enterprises across the nation. Together with Nick Gacos, president of the National Association of Blind Merchants, the two have been catalysts for opening many states to have policies on vending concession contracts parallel to the Federal government.

For information to attend the Sept. 27 event, go to https://lwevents.org/ or call 516-741-9000-X15000.

Photo courtesy Danny Frank