Students Organize Thanksgiving Food Drive
ELIZABETH—Students at Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth began collecting food on Nov. 17 to donate to the Elizabeth Coalition for the Homeless. Young women at the all-female Catholic college prep high school were hoping to gather plenty of food items to donate in time for Thanksgiving.
Pictured are Academy student council officers (left to right): President Anika Dodson of Elizabeth; Treasurer Thanita Kennedy of Hillside; Secretary Natasha Ballah of Irvington; and Vice President Jordan Jenkins of Newark. The school’s student council organized the food drive.
