Organizers for St.
Luke’s Annual Coat Drive are preparing for a busy drop-off day on Saturday,
November 18,2006 for the parish’s annual cold-weather clothing drive
to benefit area social service organizations. Now in its third year, the
drive is scheduled as an easy drive-through/drop off at the Church
parking lot from10 a.m. –
2 p.m.
Last year nearly 900 coats and other articles of warm clothing were
collected. Deliveries
were made to Tap-in in
Barrington
(children’s clothing), along with Amos House, St. Francis Chapel, and
St. Patrick’s Church, all in
Providence
.
All “gently used” articles of clothing should be clean, and
other warm clothing such as hats, scarves, mittens, boots, fleecewear and
heavy sweaters will be accepted.
Other congregations in the community—most notably,
St.
John’s Episcopal Church—have offered to help with the event by
publicizing the
Coat Drive
in their own parishes and seeking volunteers to assist with deliveries.
Volunteers are needed the day of the drive to help sort the clothing
and package it into bags in preparation for delivery to the various
agencies. In addition, drivers with vans or small pick-up trucks are
especially needed to help make deliveries to the agencies from
8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
on Monday and Tuesday, November 20 and 21.
A collection box will be placed in the St. Luke’s foyer for
donations of paper leaf bags and heavy-duty flex force trash bags. Anyone
wishing to volunteer at the event, to drive and make deliveries should
contact Michele Pimentel 246-2113. If
you are willing to sponsor refreshments (Box o’ Jo, hot chocolate,
munchkins, etc., or make a financial contribution for refreshment
purchase), please contact Ann Molak at 245-1908.
