Middletown Lions Club Continues
Legacy of Service to the Community
The Middletown Lions Club
has never stopped supporting
the community or performing
charitable good deeds,
the Lions created the Harvest
Initiative to help replenish food
pantries in the area and mobilized
assistance from other
community groups. Later in the
year, the club conducted another
project to collect items for the
homeless in conjunction with
The Blessing Bag Brigade.
Most recently, the Middletown
Lions Club awarded
two student scholarships to
academically gifted and exceptional
college-bound students
From left: Lions District 16L Governor Doug Both, Lauren Crowley Johns from Investors Savings Bank,
Middletown Lions Club President Beverly Bova Scarano and Middletown resident Vincent LoSapio
from Middletown High School
South. Victoria Libretti and Vic-
charitable fabric of both the educational community and community at
large through extracurricular activities and involvements in addition to
achieving high GPAs.
Libretti will attend the University of Scranton with a major in physiology
on the pre-med track. Her interest lies in the area of oncology and
orthopedic surgery, noting she has been an athlete most of her life and
Victoria Libretti (left) and Victoria Medl (right) are
congratulated by Middletown Lions Club President
Beverly Bova Scarano after being presented with college
scholarships recognizing their achievements.
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also taking inspiration
from her mother,
who was diagnosed
with stage 3
carcinoma in 2018.
“This whole experience
with my mother
has driven me
to help people just
like her in the future,”
Libretti said.
Medl will
attend Rutgers University
in the SAS
Honors Program
and will major
in biology in pursuit of a career in medicine. Her major is an altruistic
syndrome just prior to entering high school. During a treatment session,
a young boy gave her a plush zebra, the mascot of the chronically ill com-
munity, and it was at that moment that Medl realized her calling to help
and encourage others and to obtain an education that would allow her
to make discoveries about chromosomes to become others’ hope for the
future. Despite her own challenges, Medl has also been helping to care
for her grandmother, who has suffered a plethora of past and present
medical problems including Graves’ disease, glaucoma and cancer. “She
remains the most optimistic person I know, and this simply amazes me,”
noted Medl. “As a passionate physician, I can put my blood, sweat and
tears into a new therapy or cure, and leave a lasting impression in the
hearts of my patients.”
The Middletown Lions Club also inducted two new members. District
16L Governor and Lion Douglas Both welcomed Lauren Crowley Johns,
from Investors Savings Bank in Middletown, and Vincent LoSapio, a Middletown
resident.
The club is also preparing for an environmental clean-up project on
Saturday, Sept. 18 and was selected by the Middletown Township Clean
resume the “Lion Tamer Fourth Friday” Lunch Meal Program, in its 11th
year, at the Bayshore Lunch Program at the Community Church of Keyport.
charitable programs and especially food pantry and feeding programs.
The Middletown Lions Club is increasing charitable outreach efforts to assist
families that rely on these programs and has not stopped helping and
supporting the most needy and vulnerable amongst us for one moment,”
noted Middletown Lions Club President Beverly Bova Scarano. For more
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