Photos: Westmere Elementary gives back to the community
At an assembly at Westmere Elementary on Tuesday morning, Fifth grade teach Mrs. Gejay's class stood in front of their classmates to show off the amount of food the school will be donating to the Guilderland Food Pantry.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Over 700 items of donated food that will feed 90 families this holiday season are displayed in shopping carts, one for each grade, as a staff member at Westmere Elementary raises her hand to quiet the crowd. Kindergartners contributed 76 bread mixes; first-graders, 154 cans of vegetables; second-graders, 110 cans of fruit; fourth-graders, 105 boxes of stuffing; fifth-graders, 86 bottles of vegetable oil; and teachers, 63 pie crusts and 43 jars of gravy, according to fifth-grade teacher Megan Gejay.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Feeding the needy: Sue Hennessy, who co-directs the Guilderland Food Pantry with her husband, Mark Hopper, reaches for a box of cereal Tuesday morning during an assembly at Westmere Elementary School where she thanked the kids for their generosity.