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In the Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT ON

CAROLINE SAGGIOMO

For more than 36 of her 89 years, this lighting veteran has

been cheerfully helping consumers at Capitol Lighting.

Caroline Saggiomo is passionate about lighting, customer service, and helping others.

was in my 50s when I started part-time These days, Saggiomo works two days a week at
with Capitol Lighting in the Woodbridge the Eatontown, N.J. store, which is a more manage-
I Center location, she recalls. Her prime able commute although not many people her age
motivation was to do something interesting afer would like to drive that far, let alone still be work-
raising her family. Saggiomo was on the job when ing. If I didn t come here, Id be doing volunteer
Herman Lebersfelds daughter Joanie and son Eric work or something. I always like to be busy, she
graduated college and joined the family business. I admits.
love them both, she confesses, adding, Joanie still Saggiomo is truly a people person. I enjoy
sends me cards. people, and you meet a lot of them working here. I
When the Woodbridge store closed, Saggiomo love talking to young people especially, she notes.
commuted 20+ miles to the Lawrenceville store. My job and my family [which now includes eight
It was a trip and a half for me. My husband said I grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren] have
was crazy [for commuting that far], but I really liked always been important to me.
everyone there, she explains. The lighting industry is a job where interaction

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