LIFE ON HIMES
The Thanksgiving
Basket Drive
Delivers in 2020
12 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • WINTER 2020-21
For the second straight year, Jesuit High
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secure families, providing them with a
robust holiday meal to enjoy on the Thanksgiving
holiday.
tradition on the Jesuit school calendar, and
this year, during the COVID-19 pandemic,
and gift cards. The copious homeroom
promise of 261 meals for families in need,
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving (Nov.
22), as always, hundreds Jesuit students
and families came to campus for Mass,
brunch, and then to pack and deliver all the
applesauce, vegetables, gravy, rolls, etc.)
gift cards).
basket-packing was done outdoors, in Oliva
Courtyard. Each basket was designated for
with the Migrant Education Program. The
students/families then fanned out, deliv-
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launched the drive at
Convocation in late October, challenging
the students to raise more than $400 in
each homeroom via weekly collections,
to guarantee Jesuit could produce the
of the food and supplies plus the gift cards.
Dr.
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with the bulk-purchased side items. Dozens
close to the Thanksgiving Basket Drive.
from Jesuit families during morning drop-off
and afternoon pick-up, were provided to
local food pantries.
Jesuit students raised money for, packed,
and delivered 278 robust Thanksgiving
family meals this year
Scan to view a FOX 13 TV segment
about the Thanksgiving Basket Drive