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Lancaster Catholic teen receives international service award
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Shannon Hickey, a 17-year-old Catholic from Lancaster, Pa., is this year's recipient of the Service to Mankind Award from Sertoma International, an organization that raises money for local community projects. Hickey, who is scheduled to receive her award July 18 at the Sertoma International Convention in Denver, is being honored for her work with the nonprofit group she founded in 2002 called Mychal's Message. The organization collects and distributes items for the homeless. It is named after the late Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain for the New York Fire Department who died helping victims in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The priest was a family friend of Hickey and her mother, Kelly Lynch. Steven Murphy, executive director of Sertoma, described this year's pool of nominees for the service award as "highly competitive" and "extraordinary across the board." Murphy also found it "very encouraging" that more and more of the nominees are from the younger generation.
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