Staff of New Community Extended Care Facility thanked its volunteers, who selflessly give of their time year-round. Elizabeth Brookins, activities director, served drinks. The annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner featured dinner, words of appreciation, musical entertainment and a praise dance. Nursing home staff Yonette Semple, standing center, and Martina Gracias, to her right, ensured that everyone enjoyed the evening. Administrator Robert Smolin, left, gave certificates of appreciation to representatives of each church group and to individual volunteers.
For more than 50 years, New Community Corporation has walked the walk of social justice, helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement. After all, NCC was birthed from the literal ashes of the civil disorders of 1967 by a core group of Black community leaders and White allies, including a young priest named William Linder. Together, they modeled through word and deed the moral principle and reality that Black Lives Matter.
Today, just as in 1967, NCC joins in solidarity with all those who seek justice and an end to police brutality and racism.
