University Holds Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive
University of Scranton student volunteers prepared 150 Thanksgiving food baskets for area families in need. The annual Thanksgiving Food Drive was organized by the University’s Center for Service and Social Justice. From left: Zoe Honney, a cybercrime and homeland security major from Scranton; Victoria Lewis, a physiology major from Dunmore; Fione Evans, a biology major from Scranton; Abby Casal, an early and primary teacher education major from South Abington Township; and Grace Okrepkie, an occupational therapy graduate student from Scott Township.University of Scranton students volunteered to pack and deliver 150 food baskets to area families in need as part of its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive organized by the University’s Center for Service and Social Justice. The food baskets included turkeys as well as other food items needed to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
The students gathered at the Friends of the Poor warehouse in South Scranton on Nov. 19 to prepare the food baskets, which they later delivered to families at Bangor Heights, Hilltop Manor and Valley View Terrace in Scranton.
WNEP-16 covered this year’s annual Thanksgiving Food Drive in a news story.
