emily tam was acknowledged for her role as a community paramedic. she does go the extra mile and she's done several things that were not required or asked of her, including collecting clothing and shoes and gift cards for folks, so that our community paramedics have things to give out to folks on the street, and she was also instrumental in getting a program going in chinatown, called life line where they worked with non-english speaking community to get folks to fill out all their medical information, medicines, the conditions they have, their conditions, et cetera on a card for us so we don't have to scurry around and waste time trying to get information on somebody when it is right there for us and so, and her mother has been involved because her mother speaks cantonese and several other members have been involved in this, so hopefully it will be rolled out to other non-english speaking communities in the city. stuff like that, she doesn't have to do any that and she does it so she was recognized. it is nice to have a feel-good ceremony and the p