Service award Winners-(left to right) The Carver Centers Daniel Bonnet & Anne Bradner, Jason Summers, OCRA students & OCRA leader Joe Liberti, LM Lions President Lina Pasquale
Present the Jack Coughlin Award & Other Community Service Recognitions
The Larchmont Mamaroneck & Port Chester/Rye Brook Lions recognized and honored over 50 community service groups at their January 12th Points of Light Celebration of Service at the Orienta Beach Club in Mamaroneck.
Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker was the keynote speaker. The event was attended by state, local, and Lions leaders and leaders of the many service groups being honored at the event.
The centerpiece was the presenting of the community service awards – the Lions Jack Coughlin Community Service Awards to Jason Summers of the Sandbox Theatre and Mamaroneck High School’s OCRA civics program. This award, named in memory of long time Lion and founder of Coughlin Insurance, Jack Coughlin, recognizes a group and an individual for outstanding and dedicated service to the Larchmont Mamaroneck community.
The LM & PC/RB Lions Community Service Award, which recognizes outstanding and dedicated service to the Port Chester/Rye Brook community, was given to Port Chester’s Carver Center.
The Lions also presented the Melvin Jones Fellow to LM Lions President Lina Pasquale. Named after the founder of Lions Clubs, the Lions International Foundation’s Melvin Jones Fellow is given to an individual in acknowledgement of dedicated humanitarian services.
The event individually recognized the many groups and individuals who today serve the community including Alzheimer’s Association, At Home on the Sound, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boy Scouts, Cancer Support Team, Carver Center, Coalition for Community, Community Counseling Center, Community Resource Center, Council of Community Services, CURE, Don Bosco Community Center, Family Services of Westchester, Fields For Kids, Forever Families Through Adoption, Friends of Karen, Friends of Larchmont Parks, Furniture Sharehouse, Girl Scouts, Grassroots Grocery, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Junior League of Westchester, KidsSight Vision Screenings, La Plaza de Paulo, Larchmont Chamber of Commerce, Larchmont Friends of the Family, Larchmont Library/Friends of Library, Larchmont Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force, Larchmont Mamaroneck Pollinator Pathways, Larchmont-Mamaroneck Local Summit, Larchmont Rotary, LMC Media, Mamaroneck Elks, Mamaroneck Historical Society, Mamaroneck Library, Mamaroneck Chamber of Commerce, Meals on Main Street, Neighbors for Refugees, OCRA, Open Door, Pediatric Cancer Foundation, PEO(Philanthropic Education Org), Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library, Port Chester Youth Bureau, Rye YMCA, Salvation Army, Sheldrake Environmental Center, Sustainable Port Chester Alliance, The Fuller Center, The Sharing Shelf, The STEM Alliance, VHP (Volunteer Health Program), Victory Farms, Visions VCB, Washingtonville Housing Alliance, Woman’s Club of Larchmont.
The Points of Light celebration of community service is the primary fundraiser for the LM Lions Foundation – the 501c3 financial resource at the center LM Lions support of many of these service groups. Of importance is that the Foundation grows donated funds as seed money to attract matching grants and other partnerships to deliver more support for local and Lions service. All donations are 100% tax deductible.
The LM Lions would like to thank Gold sponsor The Coughlin Group, Silver Sponsors Orange Bank & Nancy Joselson and all the other sponsors and donors for their support.
