Lion’s Club Celebrate Christmas at Last
Raised $4133.00 for Food Pantries

Back row - Club Banker Ivan Calderon, President Luke Adams, Roel Vanderkooi, Mary Murphy, Mark Wilensky, Joam Gasparro, Elizabeth Montenegro, Fran Kraemer. George Custance. -  Front row – Maria Konecko, Maura Wilson, Norberto Saldana, Club Treasurer Frances Schmidt presenting checks, Sister Marguerite, Father Tom Pettei.

On Saturday February 3rd, 2007 it was the day the members of the Sunnyside Woodside Lions Club had all waited and worked for. They proudly presented checks totaling $4000.00 to St. Raphael’s and St Vincent de Paul’s food pantries.

The club members gave up there weekends in December and stood in the cold in front of Food Town, Associated Food, Butcher Block, St. Raphael’s and St. Theresa’s Church collecting funds for our 2 local food pantries. The members were beaming as the checks were presented to Norberto Saldana  the President of St. Vincent’s de Paul’s food Pantry for $2000.00 and to Sister Marguerite and Father Tom for St. Raphael’s food pantry for $2000.00. Four Lion members were missing at the presentation who had worked with the club due to their prior commitments, Geraldine Go, Kris Czerniachowicz, Marvin Jeffcoat, and Ruth Haupert-Lengeman.  The food pantries were the group’s favorite project for the season;

President Luke Adams speaking on behalf of the members “we wish to express our sincere thanks to all our friends, neighbors and the people who came forth to help us reach our goal; we could not have done it with out you. the club wishes to extend special thanks to the Woodside Herald not only for all the publicity in helping promote our cause and giving us at donation to get us started. Special thanks must also be given John Murphy from  P. J. Horgan’s Pub, Ruth Haupert-Lengeman, Francis Schmidt,  Kris Czerniachowicz, Patricia Dorfman, Richard Drake and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan for their very special donations”.

The Lions Club is open to all who live and work in our communities and would like working with us on neighborhood project. The club is neighborhood people working for the community they live and work in. Their next meeting will be Monday February 26th^t at 7 PM at P.J. Horgan’s and they would enjoy having you to join them.