Long Island students are making the holidays more bounteous for people in need.
Food collections at schools this fall have yielded everything from boxes of pasta to canned vegetables to make family gatherings more joyous for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
One such effort saw hundreds of nonperishable items donated as part of a four-week drive organized by Massapequa High School’s National Junior Honor Society. The food went to the parish outreach center at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa Park.
“It’s important to help those in the community who are less fortunate,” said freshman Sofia Dalton. “It warms my heart to help out people in my town.”
In Copiague, the district’s food pantry was stocked with more than 20 boxes of food thanks to a drive organized by Andrew Falco, a junior at the high school. Falco, a member of Boy Scout Troop 2000, held the drive as part…
