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Participating: Robert Loesch, Glenn Paul, Ted Van Erk, Mark Poitras, and John Touhy

In an email to the Sag Harbor Lions Club members, the Scholarship Selection Committee introduced the 2020 Scholarship recipients:

Halle Brooke Kneeland— Halle’s career choice is to be a pediatric nurse or a children’s oncology nurse. In her personal essay, she stated that she “would love to work with children in a cancer treatment center…” Halle plans to attend the University of Florida.

Henry Wagner Brooks—Henry’s career choice is either business or law. In Henry’s essay, he stated that he wants “to pursue opportunities to continue…to make the Sag Harbor Community proud.” Henry plans to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lola Rita Lama—Lola would like to be an actor or a playwright. In her essay, Lola wrote about volunteering at East Hampton’s LVIS thrift store where she “learned so much about giving back.” Lola plans to attend NYU Tisch School of Arts.

Lion Steve is pictured at the headquarters of The International Association of Lions Clubs In Oak Brook, IL while attending the DGE weeklong seminars back in February 2020.

Project Sweetness 4/22/20VP Sean Kiely [L to R], Pres Tony Lawless, Jeanne Zaykowski, and DG Marianne [end] deliver ice cream to the loading dock of the hospital. The ice cream is given to the front-line medical personnel to make their lives a little bit sweeter.

The funds to purchase the ice cream, delivered to Suffolk County hospitals, including Southampton, were provided through an emergency block grant of $200,000.00 from LCIF to NY State & Bermuda Lions – MD-20. In turn, 20-S applied and received $18,250.00 to provide “Project Sweetness” approved by the 20-S Cabinet. The ice cream was purchased from Hershey’s Creamery in East Northport who donated the time for the drivers and the delivery truck.

SHLC’s Steve Espach was Santa Clause from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce Holiday Village.

The SHLC kicked off its 2020 scholarship fundraising campaign with a reception held at Lion Ted Conklin’s American Hotel.

For Dr. Patricia Turner, the Senior Dean and Vice Provost of Under-graduate Education at UCLA, Sag Harbor native and Pierson High School Graduate, Coach Wooden’s wise words [found in the article in the Sag Harbor Express] sum up what makes the Sag Harbor Lion’s Club commitment to supporting the collegiate dreams of Pierson High School graduates so important.

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The Club presented a check for $1,000.00 to Ms. Mary Crosby, the President, and CEO of East End Hospice, at the Club’s monthly meeting at the American Hotel on Wednesday night October 25.

The presentation of the check was made by Lion Colin Mather to Ms. Crosby. Afterward, Ms. Crosby presented her remarks to the membership and their guests assembled. East End Hospice provides its end-of-life services from central Brookhaven Township to the lighthouses on the North and South Forks.

In Ms. Crosby’s remarks, she let the members know about one of East End Hospice’s programs called Camp Good Grief. this is a bereavement camp for grieving children and teenagers. She made a specific point that the club’s $1,000.00 donation will provide the funding for one child to attend this camp and begin to heal.

Ms. Crosby began her nursing career at a large cancer hospital in New York City. She shared a heartbreaking story about a terminally ill woman in that hospital that was unable to attend her son’s wedding due to her illness. Ms. Crosby found that the care that terminally ill patients were not receiving proper human care, aside from medicine, leading up to the end of their lives. Ms. Crosby left her position and worked towards building East East End Hospice where that terminally ill woman would have had several volunteers to help her to apply makeup, be dressed, and immediately be provided a wheelchair so that she could have been able to attend the wedding.

Several club members have family members that have availed themselves of the life-affirming services and appreciate the caring, charitable work of East End Hospice.

Past President Ernest Schade dropped by the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry to present a $1,000.00 donation from the club to the Director Emeritus Evie Ramunno and other pantry workers preparing to dole out groceries for the week.

Lions Club Scholarship winners Nancy Hallock (on behalf of her daughter Emily), Paige Schaefer and Ella Knibb with Sag Harbor Lions Club members Paul Zaykowski, Tony Lawless and Mark Poitras during the Lions Club Awards Dinner at the American Hotel on Wednesday night, 7/24/19

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