New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
“The members of the Sr. Teresa Trayers, SND Chapter of the National Honor Society held their annual Rock-a-thon Food Drive on Friday and Saturday, September 29th and 30th. Starting in 1999, the NHS Rock-a-thon has collected over 183,000 pounds of food to assist the needy in the Greater New Bedford, Fall River, and Taunton areas.
The event gathered non-perishable food for the area’s needy. This is a school-wide event in which proceeds benefit the Shepherd’s Pantry in Acushnet, St. Anthony’s of Padua Church Food Pantry, Damien’s Place in Wareham, Citizens for Citizens in Fall River, St. Mary’s Food Pantry in Taunton, UMass Dartmouth Campus Ministry, and the Solanus Casey (Catholic Social Services) Pantry both in New Bedford. Last year a total of 10,121 pounds of food were collected. Although we were not successful in breaking the all-time record of lbs. collected, we beat last year’s collection by 921 pounds.
With so many faculty members, homerooms, NHS members, and two local schools, St. Francis Xavier in Acushnet and Holy Name School in Fall River, we were able to donate 11, 041 lbs. of food to seven different food pantries.
The food was distributed this week to the following local pantries:
• Citizen for Citizen in Fall River
• St. Mary’s in Taunton
• Shepherds Food Pantry in Acushnet
• Solanus Casey in New Bedford
• St. Anthony’s Church in New Bedford
• St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Wareham
• Damien’s Food Pantry in Wareham
The attached photos show student volunteers collecting, sorting, and loading food onto the food pantry trucks.”
Bishop Stanf High School photo.
Bishop Stanf High School photo.
Bishop Stanf High School photo.
Bishop Stanf High School photo.
