Students pose with more than 35 packages of non-perishable food, which alumna Pearl
Marinas delivered to Santa Maria Parish.
Photo courtesy Gabriela Del Valle
Preston High School’s Annual
Compassion Connection Food Drive
collected over 10,000 pounds of food
for local pantries donated by students,
faculty and community members
over the course of seven weeks.
A friendly school-wide competition
encouraged students and faculty
alike to bring in non-perishable
food items. All pantry items collected
were donated to local pantries
in the Bronx, Westchester and
New Jersey.
-Bronx Times
BRONX TIMES R 42 EPORTER, DEC. 3-9, 2021 BTR
Organizations team up to
clean Willis Avenue
Members of El Diario de Deliveryboys de la Gran Manzana, the Anti-Litter
Project and Transportation Alternatives Bronx Activist Committee cleaned up
the pedestrian and bicyclist path on the Willis Avenue bridge on Saturday, Nov. 20.
Volunteers clear a dirty mattress off of the bike and pedestrian path on Willis Avenue
Bridge. Photo Adrian Childress
Phipps Neighborhoods concludes
fall pop-up markets
On Nov. 12, Phipps Neighborhoods celebrated its fi nal of four Pop-Up Farmers
Markets hosted at its affi liated organization’s sites in West Farms and Crotona
Park. Phipps’ fall food justice farmers markets served more than 1,200
Bronx families with 18,000 pounds of healthy, local produce grown by Black
people, indigenous people and people of color through FoodStream.
A customer purchases fresh produce. Photo courtesy Phipps Neighborhoods
Preston donates food
to local pantries