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Kings & Queens

TOUCHING LIVES AND DELIVERING HOPE

At Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, Professionals at Jamaica QUEENS COMMUNITY LIONS CLUB
New York, over 200 medical staff Hospital Center, Queens, New
were served a surprise lunch of York. At the new Coronavirus CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE
sandwiches with sodas, fruit juices
or water. Our Lions were saying Testing Site at Joseph P.
"Thank you for what you are do- Addabbo Health and Family
ing for our community and the Center in Far Rockaway,
world" Kudos to the Lions who Queens, 50 hot lunches were
participated in this special service distributed to staff and clients.
event. "Where There Is A Need Early every morning, many day
There Is A Lion.”
Our pride of courageous Lions laborers gather at the parking
donned their PPE and continued lots at 2 neighborhood Home
to serve at Long Island Jewish Depot stores. Because of the
Hospital, bringing 200 lunch bo- COVID-19 Pandemic and so-
xes with a choice of pizzas, cial isolation, most of them
sandwiches, rice with chicken, return home to their families
and drinks. without wages for that day. At
We champion “Kindness!.” When each location, 125 hot meals
the Essential Workers at The Jef- were distributed. Meals were
ferson Bucks Hospital in Pennsyl- also served at the junction of 107
vania expressed their need, The Street and Liberty Avenue to
Queens Community Lions Club neighbors in need.
responded. In partnership with a As a tribute to P.O. Vinnie Per-
community based organization, saud, one of our fallen First Re-
"We Gat Ah You Bac" (We Got sponders from the NYPD 101st.
Your Back) the club donated 50 Precinct, the club provided a
Face Shields and 50 Masks. respite lunch for the surviving
brothers and sisters. The Precinct
To help relieve some of the stress Commander sent this message.
of COVID-19 and show our ap- "It’s comforting to know there
preciation to the First
Responders, we paid another sur- are people out there who remem-
prise visit to our neighborhood ber our fallen”. Lion President
precinct. Lunch was served to the Indajeet Paul reciprocated,
police officers at 106 Precinct in "thank you for all that you are
Richmond Hill, Queens. We doing to keep us safe. Kindness
thanked them for keeping our
community safe. Matters to Lions and We Serve!”

A simple act of Kindness some-
times means a lot to the recipient. Reported by
Essential Workers at (2) two ZC Indajeet Paul
Food/Grocery Markets on Liberty
Ave. Richmond Hill, Queens,
were astounded when Lions ap-
peared at lunchtime with 50 boxes
of hot pizza and cold drinks. We
thanked them for risking their
lives in order to facilitate the com-
munity’s need for groceries. Our
message to all community resi-
dents who we met was,” Please
Protect Yourself By Staying At
Home".

In collaboration with BENA
HomeCare Agency, 200 lunches
were served to the Medical