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River Reporter Thursday, May 3, 2001.
Sister Kevin John Shields receives By TOM RUE LIBERTY - Sister Kevin John Shields, a well-known Sullivan County nun of the Amityville Dominican Sisters, received the DeWitt Clinton Masonic Award, given to non-Masons for outstanding community service. The award was presented by Sullivan District deputy grand master John Green at an event in Liberty hosted by Fallsburg Lodge #1122 on April 25th.Shields founded the Sullivan County Cares Coalition, which annual drug and alcohol "awareness day" programs in area schools and promotes a "Holiday Watch" program, in which volunteer drivers provide free rides home to those who would otherwise have gotten into a car with someone under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In addition to working with the Sullivan Prevention Alliance Network (SPAN) and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation and Education (DARE), Shields has served since its inception as a member of the Sullivan County Youth Board. She serves the Archdiocese of New York as regional director of religious education for all the Catholic parishes in Sullivan and Orange counties. "She has been described as a dynamo. Although she professes to be only flesh and bone, she possessed the unique ability to engender in others the same drive for accomplishment she so readily displays herself. She has the capability of galvanizing others into action," said Sullivan County Court judge Burton Ledina during the event. Shields spoke briefly. "I accept it in the name of the wonderful people that I work with," she said modestly. |
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