Boys Town South Florida
 2005 Basket Brigade Delivers Hope
More than 120 volunteers spent their Saturday at Boys Town South Florida November 19, filling bags with Thanksgiving fixings. With brown paper bags decorated by area elementary school kids in hand, they paced the tables piled high with supplies, furiously filling them for 150 families in need of hope – and a good meal.
People of all ages put together meals of turkey, potatoes, canned vegetables, yams, cranberries, stuffing, rolls and Jell-O. The food was bought with donated funds then delivered to the most needy families in the two counties served by Boys Town in the past year.
Regina Battle, Boys Town Assistant Coordinator, brought her two daughters to volunteer loading up bags. "I want to teach them that there are people who don't have the means to have a Thanksgiving dinner every year," said Battle.
In addition to bagging the groceries, volunteers delivered the food to families that do not have means of transportation. This year 28 families picked up, some coming on Public Transportation and 122 dinners were delivered.
Boys Town employees and community volunteers raised more than two thousand dollars for this year’s Basket Brigade. Publix Supermarkets donated another $1-thousand dollars and supplied the food at their cost. The Anthony Robbins Foundation partnered with Boys Town as they have in passed years by soliciting donations for the Basket Brigade. |
