Providing a meal to those in need

the East Meadow School District’s Key Club, Builders Club and K-Kids members aided the Kiwanis Club in assembling Thanksgiving food baskets last Friday. WT Clark Key Club Builders Club Kiwanis Club

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Kindness runs in this family, as twins Matthew and Isabella, left, with their older sister Alexandra, played their part.

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114 packages were delivered to local families on Saturday morning.

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2-year-old Giulianna Sacco, a future Clarke student, learned about volunteering and helping the community.

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Local students lent a hand.

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Members of the East Meadow Kiwanis Club, joined by local students, spent last Friday evening assembling Thanksgiving food baskets in the W.T. Clarke High School cafeteria, which they delivered to 114 families in the local community the following morning.

Money and food were raised by Kiwanis members, and students in local Kiwanis-sponsored Key Club, Builders Club and K-Kids Club, and by shoppers who donated during the club’s food drive outside of Waldbaums the previous two weekends.

Kiwanis members deliver the food to families in the community who have recently fallen upon hard times, and otherwise may not be able to afford a full Thanksgiving dinner. Led by chairpersons Alan Hodish, Jay Steinmetz and Steve Perrick, about 35 cars full of Kiwanis members personally hand-delivered the food to the families on Saturday morning.

“It’s a fun event,” said Perrick, who has co-chaired the event for 15 years. “It’s what makes me want to do Kiwanis. It’s something I never want to miss.