By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
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St. Agnes Academy students stand outside a local supermarket announcing their Thanksgiving goal of feeding 600 families.
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St. Agnes Academy students pose with some of the donated food they collected.
St. Agnes creates
'Miracle on Harbor Drive'
KEY BISCAYNE | St. Agnes Academy has been working on its annual Thanksgiving food drive, also known as the “Miracle on Harbor Drive.” Each student is asked to bring at least one grocery bag full of Thanksgiving food items to donate to needy families at the Redlands Christian Migrant Association. The school's goal is to fill 600 grocery bags to provide a Thanksgiving feast for 600 families, with the help of the entire St. Agnes community.
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St. Michael School's principal, Carmen Alfonso, poses with some of the Thanksgiving gift baskets school children donated to needy families living around St. Mary Cathedral in Miami.
St. Michael's Mission Club works year round
MIAMI | Children from the Mission Club at St. Michael School are working on a food pantry to feed the needy in the community. During the year-long program, the children are collecting canned goods and non-perishable food in their classrooms. During the month of November, the parents and children from the Mission Club made beautiful Thanksgiving baskets to give to the needy, so they could have a happy Thanksgiving. They distributed the baskets to residents of the area around St. Mary Cathedral in Miami.
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Families living around St. Mary Cathedral pick up Thanksgiving gift baskets prepared by students in St. Michael School's Mission Club.
Gesu religion students give food, then give thanks
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After collecting canned goods for families in need, students in Gesu Church's religious education classes gathered to give thanks by sharing a Thanksgiving lunch meal. Posing with the confirmation class, at left, are Gesu's parochial vicar, Jesuit Father James A. Marshall, and catechist Terrance Gleason, far right.
Immaculate Conception feeds 80 families
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Immaculate Conception eighth graders pose with one of the truckloads of food which students collected and donated to the needy. Immaculate Conception Church and School in Hialeah provided 80 families with a full Thanksgiving meal including turkey and "all the fixings."
St. Kevin students collect for more than 600 families
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St. Kevin eighth graders Gabriel Paz and Anthony Alonso help load the food delivery truck.
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St. Kevin middle school students carry food bags to be loaded into a truck for delivery to various community organizations.
The annual St. Kevin School Thanksgiving Food Drive collected 660 bags of food, including a gift card to a supermarket, for the needy in the community. Many of the students in the intermediate grades helped to sort and load the bags. The bags were distributed to families in the community through various charitable organizations such as Good Shepherd Child Development Center, Metro Dade, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Ignatian Spirituality Center.
