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Nanuet and COTA Lions Run Weekend Food Drive


The Nanuet and COTA  Lions Club held their first service project this weekend, July 5 and 6 at West Nyack Shoprite.    The  COTA  Lions, together with the Nanuet Club,  filled    5  mini vans  and one car  with  groceries,  which  will be  given to  for  local food pantries --   People to People Rockland, Helping

Hands Rockland, Rockland Independent Living,  and United Methodist Church -- Spring Valley Food Pantry.

 

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The  COTA Lions Club (Childrens Organ Transplant Association) formed in response to the compassion and action  that the Nanuet/Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam Lions Clubs have shown on behalf of Jayshawn Jones.  Jayshawn is a five year old Nanuet resident who needed and received a heart transplant earlier this spring.

 

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The Nanuet Lions, under guidance of Lions Pat Hart and Past District Governor Barbara Chuck,  took  up the challenge of fundraising to cover Jayshawn’s medical expenses --- $25,000 --- NOT COVERED  by insurance.    With  great  assistance from Lion Angelo Purcigliotti and the Somers Lions Club, along with the Yorktown Lions Club,     in  less than three months, Lions have  raised nearly $14,000 toward the $25,000 in medical expenses. 

 

 

Donations can be sent to:

 

COTA -- Jayshawn Jones Fund

c/o  IPDG  Barbara Chuck

108 Brookhill Drive

West Nyack, NY  10994

 

 For more information on Lions Clubs:

 

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