Limestone students feed families for the holidays

National Honor Society members from the Limestone Community School have been heavily involved within the Limestone community, whether it be through volunteer work or a variety of other events and activities the group has worked to provide for community members.
This year, the group spent a great deal of effort to make sure community members were able to enjoy the holiday seasons. National Honor Society students took time out of their busy schedules to volunteer at the Saint Louis Parish Catholic Church in Limestone.
NHS students spent a great deal of time preparing food baskets that would be handed out to any community members who may have needed a little help preparing a Thanksgiving meal for their families. LCS senior and National Honor Society member Alexis Bell recalls the preparation for the day being quite long, but well worth it.
“We had to get there around 7 a.m. to start preparing and setting up the baskets,” said Bell. “Then, we set the baskets up on a long table with different family’s names on them and those families were called up in order of the size of the family.”
The baskets were no small donation either, as Bell recalls. Not only did the students hand out the Thanksgiving baskets, but the students provided Thanksgiving turkeys for all the families in attendance.
“The baskets had everything you could imagine in them. We put loaves of bread and gallon jugs of milk in them to go along with the turkeys,” said Bell
The event at the Catholic church was not something that just happened, of course. There was even more preparation that needed to be done by students leading up to the event. The food for the food baskets needed to come from somewhere, and the students from LCS required some assistance from other community members in order to put together such a large-scale donation.
“We also had a food drive here at the school leading up to the Thanksgiving food basket donations,” said NHS senior Bailey St. Pierre. “We asked for people from the community to bring in and donate any food they could, and we took that food to the church for the food baskets.”
Bell went on to explain that it was a joint-effort between the students in National Honor Society and the members of the church.
“The church also provided their own food. We just brought the food we collected in to sort of help them out.”
Between the two groups there was lots of food to be handed out to the less fortunate families who needed a little extra help during the holiday season, and the Limestone NHS students were happy to oblige. The students involved also donated any money they raised to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Members of the Limestone Community School’s National Honor Society this year include, Chelsey Pelkey, Mariah Williams, Melissa Cantafio, Courtney Chartier, Jackie Peers, Annie Sinclair, Jordyn Hopkins, Tristan Kirk, Chris Bernier, Jason Sprague, Kaylin Blood, Ellyzabeth Bencivenga, Bailey St. Pierre, Kareena Woodworth, Alyssa Sinclair, Jared Elliott and Alexis Bell.