Third from left again row is Doris Rodney, founder, and members of the Hills Social Membership, holding faculty provides donated to college students through the very first Brooklyn/Queens Linkup Household day on July 28, in Canarsie Park on Seaview Avenue
Photograph by Tangerine Clarke
Enjoyable, meals, and festivity had been on faucet, on the very first Hills Social Membership Household Enjoyable Day Brooklyn/Queens Unite 2024, organized to convey Guyanese from the 2 boroughs collectively in concord.
Doris Rodney, proprietor of the Hills Restaurant, and Waterfalls Night time Membership, each on Church Avenue, on the intersection of Schenectady in Brooklyn, was fired up with pleasure about bridging the hole between the Indo and Afro Guyanese within the Canarsie Park on Seaview Avenue, below Guyana’s motto: One Individuals One Nation One Future.
The hours-long enjoyable day that started at 10 a.m., below sunny skies, featured a Hulu hoop demonstration, and past-time customs equivalent to a aggressive sport of Dominoes, sack race, lime and spoon race, and household expertise present. These actions introduced emotions of nostalgia, camaraderie, and a spirit of togetherness, on the grounds of the large park, full of colorfully dressed revelers.
Nationals relaxed below tents, and had been seen hugging one another, shaking fingers, and slapping one another on the again, excited to be connecting through the summer season outside occasion.
Rodney, and membership members who had been decked out in Tee shirts emblazoned with the phrases – The Hills Social Membership Household Enjoyable Day Brooklyn/Queens Unite 2024, reiterated the significance of unity, saying, she was pleased to host the occasion. She then known as on her compatriots from the Borough of Queens to reciprocate subsequent yr, by internet hosting the household enjoyable day, whereas bridging the hole between the 2 races.
“We’re one individuals, one nation with one future. We at all times should keep in mind that. To the Hills Social Membership members, we did an outstanding job at present. Due to all who donated meals. That is going to be an annual occasion. This yr we did it in Brooklyn. However what we want for, is that the subsequent time we’ll do it in Queens. To the Queens people who find themselves right here, we hope you welcome us, like we welcomed you at present.”
Rodney additional thanked Leroy of Metro Plus, and Rhonda of Queens Lions Membership for his or her assist, and applauded social media bloggers, and Caribbean Life information for reporting on the day of togetherness.
Moreover, Rodney and shut good friend Sherif Barker, who got here from a small village named Soesdyke on the East Financial institution of Demerara in Guyana, additionally introduced their fellow villagers collectively.
Through the actions, the village sisters, with the help of membership member Burgette Williams, founding father of an athletics membership, handed out greater than 100 backpacks of faculty provides to college students who attended the occasion.
“I wish to congratulate the Hills Social Membership for the outstanding job they’re doing, not solely right here, however different locations,” stated volunteer Sherif Barker, including.
“We walked in, and we had been served free meals, and also you distributed faculty provides. Every thing was donated by members of the membership.”
“I would like us to be useful to verify this membership attempt and increase to incorporate extra individuals. We’ve got been part of the Guyana Day in New Jersey. We should proceed, to come back collectively for the betterment of all of us, as we give again to the group, stated Barker, who requested the picnickers to applaud the group, based by Doris Rodney, for the distinctive work they’ve been doing on the Hills Restaurant and for planning the household day.
Woman Ira Lewis, president of the Guyana America Heritage Basis Inc., New Jersey, who deliberate a profitable Caribbean American/Guyana Household Day, on July 14, expressed thanks, and applauded the group for his or her contribution.
The emigrants, who had been on their on their toes dancing to the infectious beats of Soca, and Calypso music offered by DJ Flexx Royce Andre Doorn, and DJ Danny Soesdyke #1 Sound System, and DJ Curry, appears to be like ahead to the subsequent festive occasion.
