East Meadow Kiwanis delivers again

Once again, the Kiwanis Club of East Meadow delivered.

As per the triannual tradition, volunteers collected, packaged and delivered food baskets to community members in need during this holiday season.
   
One hundred and six families who wouldn't otherwise have a Passover or Easter dinner were treated to the components of a complete meal without charge. The number of families rose more than 30 percent than last spring.

   
Baskets were assembled on the evening of April 3 at W.T. Clarke High School in Salisbury. The following morning, April 4, volunteers hand-delivered those gifts to assigned families in town. Those recipients are selected through local rabbis, priests and social workers, who act as liaisons between the families and Kiwanis.
   
Money and food was collected by the East Meadow Kiwanis Club members, students in the East Meadow and Clarke High School Key Clubs, and the Builders Club of Woodland and Clarke Middle Schools, and the K-Kids of Bowling Green, as well as citizens who deposited non-perishable items into bins strategically placed throughout town.
   
Local businesses that also made contributions, include: North Shore Fitness, A Taste of Home Bakery and Waldbaum's.
   
The program is led by Kiwanis Holiday Basket Chairman Alan Hodish, Food Drive Committee Chairman Jay Steinmetz, and Sponsored Youth Co-Chairpersons Shelley Francis, Mickie Leamy, Rich Santer and Mary Mannino.
   
Kiwanis also hosts the holiday basket program at Thanksgiving and during Christmas and Hanukkah.
   
For more information about the Kiwanis Club of East Meadow, visit, www.eastmeadowkiwanis.com. The club meets weekly, on Tuesdays at 7:15 in the Empress Diner.

Information provided by Ivan Launer of the East Meadow Kiwanis.