A banner year for Girl Scout Thanksgiving collections
November 30, 2023 at 12:22 a.m.
Girl Scouts pose with the boxes they decorated to hold 23 Thanksgiving dinners to distribute to the needy at the Girl Scout House on Sunday, Nov. 19. Back row, from left, Aria Cavallino, Savannah Jones, Emma Ramos, Ithalia Rojas, Ella Gosling, Arabella Gutierrez, Julietta Stone, Juliet Devaney. Front: Amelia Zuccarelli and Camila Hidalgo.Courtesy of Susan-Anne Cosgrove
The Port Chester-Rye Brook Girl Scouts had an amazing year collecting donations to put together 23 Thanksgiving dinners for needy Port Chester families.
“The Port Chester/Rye Brook Girl Scouts have been engaging in this tradition for over 20 years and this year with 23 dinners donated is the most successful I can recall in the last 15 years,” said Troop Leader Susan-Anne Cosgrove.
The girls collected donations from the community at a food drive at Stop & Shop in Port Chester on Friday, Nov. 17 and also asked their friends and families for donations. The entire Girl Scout community from kindergartners to high schoolers participated.
On Sunday, Nov. 19, the girls packaged up the food donations into boxes they decorated and wrote on.
Michael Carpenito from the Port Chester Housing Authority picked up the boxed dinners Monday morning which were distributed to residents throughout the PCHA buildings, as he has been doing for many years.
From left, Girl Scouts London Villega, Sophie Alvarado, Aurora Alessi, Camila Hidalgo, Sienna Alessi, Amelia Zuccarelli, Ithalia Rojas and Arianna Butkiewicz decorate boxes in which to place Thanksgiving dinner ingredients at the Girl Scout House in Lyon Park on Sunday, Nov. 19.Courtesy of Susan-Anne Cosgrove
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