The collected coats, donated by families in Rye, Purchase, Harrison and Greenwich, Conn., filled up two classrooms at The Carver Center. Some coats were sent from as far as Texas and Florida.
Children enjoy a monster-sized Thanksgiving-themed feast at The Carver Center in Port Chester prepared by Chef Gustavo Diaz before receiving coats from The Children's Hope Chest, a non-profit in Purchase that encourages children to help other children. Volunteers from Hope Chest gave 300 brand new coats along with hats and gloves to Carver children during two dinner seatings on Sunday, Nov. 23.
Veronica Lopez of Irving Avenue, accompanied by her children Leanny Cortez-Lopez, 7, and Andira Cortez-Lopez, 8, picks up a turkey and other Thanksgiving fixings such as vegetables, rice, lentils, raisins and dried cherries from Allen Clark of Rye at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Port Chester on Tuesday, Nov. 25. Clark and other members of Christ Church in Rye as well as Rabbi Jaymee Alpert of Congregation KTI in Port Chester passed out 240 turkeys and fixings to needy Port Chester families.
Members of the Rye Brook Seniors donated 20 large turkeys to St. Peter's Episcopal Church for families in need. One senior said as a child she was on welfare and appreciated the help and wanted to assist others. From left: Clem Patafio, Bernice Martino, Marion Aicher, Joe Pavone, Nancy Weinberger, Jean Apuzzo, Barbara Nardi, Lucille Porto, Gloria Orzo, Anna Amaturro, Dorothy Anderson, Vivian Langworth and Jean Mendicino.
Anna Kobelka of Ossining, secretary of the Port Chester/Rye Brook Rotary Club, stands in front of A&P Fresh in Rye Brook. Anna works in Port Chester.
The Rotary Club of Port Chester and Rye Brook arranged a food drive at A&P Fresh in Rye Brook on Saturday, Nov. 22 to benefit the ongoing efforts of Food 2 Grow On to provide nutritional bags of food for Port Chester students to take home with them over the weekend. Seth Golden of Harrison and Michael Goldstein of Rye Brook unload their haul at All Souls Parish/Presbyterian Church on Parkway Drive.
Students at Corpus Christi-Holy Rosary School in Port Chester organized a food drive during November and collected more than 20 boxes and 15 large bags of food to donate to Caritas, the food pantry associated with Holy Rosary Church, and local senior centers. Front row, from left: Joshua Oommen, Ken Kamiya, Connor Byrne, Silvestre Alarcon, Chris Paucar, Daniel Pokornicki, CarolinneMoura and Angelyce Gerrald. Back row, from left: Gabriella Buccieri, Kevin Orozco, Ethan Tieng, Michael Pokornicki and Nadeya DeDiago.
