Nanuet Lions Present Award To Fellow Member David Carlucci

The Nanuet Lions collected 2.5 tons of food this past Sunday at the Stop and Shop in Nanuet. With such a high note of success, they continued their high spirits last night by presenting Clarkstown Town Clerk and fellow Lion member David Carlucci with an award.

They held their monthly Board of Directors meeting last night at the Dog House. The Dog House owners help the club in their charities and are prospective Lions.

Lion President Barbara Chuck presented Carlucci with the President's Award for his recent efforts as a Lion.

"There are very few people who can do Lions work while at work," Chuck said. "While he's been working as a town clerk, he's also been doing Lion work helping out causes such as environmental, vision and hearing. He helped me set up a glasses box at the town hall." She's referring to a donation box for eyeglasses and hearing aids. The Nanuet Lions collect these each month and recycle them for those in need of one.

"The Nanuet Lions have been a tremendous asset to our community. I consider it a great honor to help the Lions achieve their mission in anyway I can," said Carlucci.  "As an elected government official I am consistently thinking of out of the box ideas to make government as efficient and user friendly as possible, in order to improve the quality of life of the people I serve."

They collected 318 glasses from these boxes that are found in several places around the community. Donation drop off boxes are at the following locations in Nanuet:

• Post office
• Library
• Sterling Optical
• St. Anthony Church
• The Dog House

Other drop off locations in neighboring towns are:

• New City post office
• Valley Cottage post office
• Bardonia Chiropractic
• Low-Tor Optical
• Bardonia Post Office
• Spring Valley Optical

Chuck added that Carlucci also mentions the Lions' fundraisers in short blurbs in newsletters, both email and mailed ones.

"It has been my good fortune, to partner with the Nanuet Lion's to achieve our mutual goal of serving our community," said Carlucci.

Also at the meeting, two new members were also sworn in: Vedeta Hanley and Melinda Rivera, both from the Community Action Program in Rockland County. Hanley is the executive director and Rivera is an administrative assistant and the Angel Action Coordinator.

The Angel Action Committee are volunteers that plan fundraisers for their anti-poverty efforts. Their first fundraiser is coming up soon on Nov. 4. For more information, call 845-352-4167.