Brooklyn Mechanics Order feeds homeless on Thanksgiving Day
The Brooklyn District Grand Lodge of Brooklyn-headquartered Grand Council of the Independent United Order of Mechanics, Friendly Society of North, Central and South America, Islands of the Seas and the Entire Western Hemisphere, Inc., known by the abbreviation IUOM, FSWH, Inc., on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, provided warm meals and clothing to homeless people and members of the community.
Officials of the Executive Committee of Grand Council told Caribbean Life , at IUOM’s headquarters, on Putnam Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, that many of the people fed were members of the surrounding communities.
Panamanian-born Hon. Orlando Maxwell, chair of the Thanksgiving Day Committee, said that Guyanese-born Hon. Myrthland Ince, district grand master for Brooklyn District Grand Lodge, assigned him to spearhead the committee. Ince welcomed and thanked attendees and volunteers.
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