Thornton Elementary School last week offered students a lesson in community and caring.
“We collected 351-1/2 pounds of [non-perishable] food” for the Thornton Community Closet, said Deborah Gannon, who serves as nurse and goodwill ambassador at Thornton Elementary School.
The food was collected by Thornton and the Cranston Christian Fellowship (CCF) Care Group, which for the past three years have teamed up to keep the closet filled with as much non-perishable food as possible.
Back on May 9, the two groups distributed 360 fliers throughout the Simmonsville Avenue neighborhood to advertise the third annual Thornton Community Closest Food Drive.
Sometime around 11 o’clock Saturday morning, a group of students and their parents collected and later weighed the food before re-stocking the Thornton Community Closest.
Gannon said what was collected “will help us feed 15 to 16 families. We even get a weekly donation of eight-dozen eggs from Baffoni's Farm. I can’t tell you how much we appreciate that act of generosity.”
While Gannon heads the food drive, Thornton Principal Louise Denham works alongside her students and their parents from the Cranston Christian Fellowship to put food on the plates of need families.
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