Bay View collects Thanksgiving baskets for area families

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St. Mary Academy - Bay View students, faculty, staff and parents united to collect food and clothing for those in need. An Academy-wide collection provided for 36 baskets of Thanksgiving meals that were delivered to area families.

Each basket included either a gift card for a turkey or a frozen turkey, in addition to all of the traditional fixings. The Middle and Upper Schools’ collection was organized by the Bay View Chapter of the National Honor Society and it yielded 27 baskets.

The administrative staff collected two complete additional baskets and the Lower School’s collection garnered seven more, to total 36. The baskets were distributed to a variety of local organizations and families, including Re-Focus, a Rhode Island non-profit that caters to adults with differing physical and developmental needs, St. Vincent’s Home for Children in Fall River, Mass., the Sisters of Mercy for use in their ministries, and to families in need within the Bay View community.