On Jan 13, 2021 Rotary District 7255 was a part of the Million Mask Challenge where over 300,000 masks were given out to be distributed across Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The Rossi Family Foundation sponsored the mask contributions and the event organization was done by Rotary Past District Governor Jack Solomon. Forty-one clubs from the District and Rotarians came to the Sears Parking lot on Broadway in Hicksville, New York for getting the masks allotted to their Club for further distribution to the needy people in their communities. Present were Fire Trucks and members of Fire Departments of Glen Cove and Hicksville to receive the surgical masks for their use as first responders, front line and essential workers.
Citations and Proclamations were given out by the representing officials of the Offices of Senator Kevin Thomas, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Supervisor of Town of Oyster Bay Joseph Saladino to Rotary District 7255 Governor Jaqueline Yonick, Rotary District 7255 Governor Elect Mel Ellwood, Rotary Club of Hicksville South Club President Nilima Madan, RCHS Project Chair Quddus Mohammed and RCHS Project Co Chair Sandy Bhatia.
As a participating club Rotary Club of Hicksville South received 15,000 masks and distributed them to recipient organization representatives present, there and then namely, SACSS – South Asian Council of Social Services, Domestic Harmony Foundation, United Methodist Church of Hempstead (further to several churches), Asian American Community Services, Kingdom Family Ministry and others. RCHS will also shortly be giving out 240 kid masks that were given on that day.
