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Holiday Project is a Wrap!

In fact, students K-12, faculty and staff, and McDonogh family groups volunteered to help. They contributed everything from stuffed animals, toys, warm clothes, and games to canned vegetables, peanut butter, and holiday sweets. Their mission was to supply all 120 sponsored families with gifts, a week's worth of food, and all the fixings for Christmas dinner.

Before Thanksgiving, music teacher Robin Divizio enlisted faculty and staff to buy and store frozen turkeys at prices as low as $.19 a pound, saving an estimated $600. That savings will be donated to the St. Gregory food pantry to help restock the shelves in January, when donations are low and need is high.

The McDonogh community responded again to St. Gregory volunteer Gloria Williams, who coordinates the effort to bring Christmas to anywhere between 2,500 and 4,000 families each year. She relies on McDonogh and communities like it to answer the call for help.