About 105 boxes were filled with everything from a baking hen to cake ingredients to frozen dressing to rolls as they rolled on dollies down a kind of conveyor line of Lions. After being lined up on two rows of tables, the boxers were carried to trailers, backs of trucks and trunks of cars to be delivered to 105 low-income households in the Hope and Hempstead County area.  

These households had applied for the annual gifts by filling in forms obtained from the Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce headquarters on South Main and East Second as well as from the Caney Creek Estates offices.  

Some deliveries were made to as far-flung places as Fulton, the eastern outskirts of Emmet and county roads in Hempstead County’s woodsy southeast.

By late afternoon most boxes were delivered.  See our photos below for what it looked like from the Coliseum.