Barnes runs annual Thanksgiving food drive

Angelina Emerson arranges the boxes of stuffing on the table in preparation for loading up the bags of Thanksgiving foods.

Parent volunteers Kristen Brien, Bethany Littlefield and Marga Spence help the students fill the bags with donated foods.

Carlos Fragoso, David DiOrio, Eddie Melvin and Rudy Landin help to sort out the donated foods.

Delaney LaRose, Joshua Brien, Dyemin Ratchford, Angelina Emerson and Stephanie McCoy check out some of the donated food items for this year's Thanksgiving food drive.

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:00 pm

The fifth grade students at Barnes Elementary School helped parent volunteers bag up the Thanksgiving baskets for families in the school community on Tuesday morning.

"This was a last-minute food drive with all else going on, but Barnes families always come through," said Kristen Brien, noting that besides all of the food donated by the families, five baskets with five gift cards were also donated from the Johnston Fire Department Local 1950.

"The fire department does something for us every year," said Bethany Littlefield.

Each basket will be donated to a needy family from Barnes Elementary School.

(Sun Rise photos by Jen Cowart)