White House Names 6 ‘Points of Light’ Recipients

Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s Daily Points of Light Award.

The awards, which are given to those who have done exemplary volunteer work, take their name from President Bush’s description of people who do community service as “points of light.” Some 1,020 people received the honor when Mr. Bush was in office.

The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the President in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the award winners and the program is available at the foundation’s World-Wide Web site, http://pointsoflight.org, or by contacting the foundation at 1400 I Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington 20005; (202) 729-8184.

The recipients:

1236. Robert Cincotta, Hempstead, N.Y., a high-school baseball coach who adopted a “no pass, no play” policy, encouraging his players to take academics seriously and to volunteer at Habitat for Humanity and other charities.

1237. Christian Whitton, West Monroe, La., a teen-ager who mows lawns to raise money for smoke detectors for wooden houses in his town and who is conducting a public-awareness campaign to make West Monroe’s athletic fields more accessible to disabled people.

1238. Monica Ponoroff, New Orleans, who established a reading program through which volunteers alternate storytelling duties with children, helping them to become literate by listening, then reading.

1239. Friends of Reading, Roselle, Ill., a literacy program that focuses on children in the second grade who have reading difficulties; volunteers meet twice a week with 87 children at three local schools.

1240. Communi-I-Care, Charleston, S.C., which provides free monthly health screenings, and a toll-free telephone number for doctor referrals, to some 27,000 South Carolinians who lack health insurance and do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare.

1241. Foodshare Commission of Greater Hartford, Conn., which distributed approximately 4.5 million pounds of food to 200 local organizations in 1996, organizing businesses, churches, elementary schools, synagogues, and other institutions to donate food.