GALLERY — Community support turns endangered holiday program into unexpected gift
Published 12:24 am Friday, November 11, 2022
Students from Bob Hope High School help organize cans for the Rotary Club of Port Arthur's Thanksgiving Food Drive program. (Monique Batson/The News)
Students from Bob Hope High School and members of the Rotary Club of Port Arthur are pictured Thursday morning at the Carl A. Parker Multipurpose Center. (Courtesy photo)
Volunteers pack boxes filled with the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinners onto a trailer. (Monique Batson/The News)
Students from Bob Hope High School, as well as their mentors, form an assembly line outside Community Care Prayer Outreach to unload Thanksgiving boxes. (Monique Batson/The News)
The Bob Hope High School Interact Club and the Rotary Club of Port Arthur brought 150 boxes of Thanksgiving dinners to Community Care Prayer Outreach Thursday. (Courtesy photo)
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The Rotary Club of Port Arthur, along with the 25 students and two supervisors from the Bob Hope Schools Interact Club, assembled 150 boxes of ingredients for Thanksgiving dinners that will be distributed to economically challenged members through Community Care Prayer Outreach.
Last year, the club assembled 125 boxes with a goal to do more this year. However, inflation and other challenges faced by the Southeast Texas Food Bank prevented the club from purchasing the food at the usual discounted price.
What was 125 boxes was, at store cost using Rotary budget, going to be reduced to 50.
With the more than $1,000 in donations from club members, canned drives placed at five Port Arthur locations and a grant from the Port Arthur LNG Season of Giving program; the Rotary Club of Port Arthur was able to meet the original goal of 125, but increase by an additional 25.
