‘Little Mish’’s big honor for ‘Dr. Dave’ 

Dr. David Ores a.k.a. “Dr. Dave” accepted the Sara Curry Award at the Little Missionary’s Day Nursery’s annual benefit dinner on April 23 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Norfolk St. In August 2008, The Villager first reported on Ores’s new Restaurant Workers’ Health Care Cooperative, an affordable healthcare plan for uninsured East Village and Lower East Side restaurant workers. The other honorees at the Little Misssionary’s benefit were Natacha Weiss of Refugees International and Nilaja Sun, creator of the one-woman, smash-hit show “No Child.”