POTTSTOWN PA – Students and teachers at the Pottsgrove School District’s Ringing Rocks Elementary School plan this week to pack some Thanksgiving cheer for families in need the same way they’d pack their lunch boxes on a school day.
Ringing Rocks Principal Michelle Bozzini reports that children and adults alike will converge Wednesday morning (Nov. 18, 2009) at 9:15 a.m. in the school’s cafeteria to make and wrap sandwiches that will be served by the Community Meals Program of the Outreach Center for the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities, 137 Walnut St., Pottstown PA.
- This event has been added to The Post calendar.
“The kids are very excited to be helping their community,” district spokeswoman Beth Trapani noted in an e-mail Sunday.
The cluster is an organization consisting of local churches and religious groups whose social and other programs benefit Greater Pottstown area residents. Its community meals effort serves those who lack cooking facilities, are incapable of cooking for themselves, are in need of a meal, or who just want to share some companionship.
The program’s lunches are served from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on:
- Mondays at Christ Episcopal Church, 316 High St., Pottstown PA;
- Wednesdays, The Salvation Army, 137 King St., Pottstown PA;
- Fridays, First United Methodist Church, 414 High St., Pottstown PA; and
- Saturdays, Walnut Street Seventh Day Adventist Church, Walnut and Warren streets, Pottstown PA.
The cluster also serves dinner twice weekly, at 5 p.m. on:
- Tuesdays, at Trinity Reformed Church, Hanover and King streets; Pottstown PA; and
- Thursdays, First Presbyterian Church, 750 N. Evans St., Pottstown PA.
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