Once a month, volunteers from around the Greater Fall River Area descend on the Veterans' Memorial at 72 Bank Street to prepare hundreds of brown bags for distribution by Bristol Elder Services to the City's elders in need of nutritious food. On November 13, 2007, volunteers from Ocean Spray in Middleboro joined volunteers from the Swansea Wood School and other community members to work on the task of separating food received from the Greater Boston Food Bank and other sources into hundreds of individual bags. Other volunteer groups include the Fall River and Westport Councils on Aging, Community Connections, Steppingstone, and youth from the Old Colony YMCA. For more information about volunteering for the project, contact Karen Scott Statser at Bristol Elder Services.
 

(Top row, left) Stanley Davis of the Greater Boston Food Bank and Mark Santos of People, Inc. pass boxes of food items to awaiting volunteers from the Swansea Wood School. (Top row, center) Ocean Spray employees arrange cans of cranberry sauce onto tables for packing into individual bags. (Top row, right) Volunteer Donald Pacheco arrives to lend a hand. (Middle row, left) Rondelle Hadrick of the Swansea Wood School receives a box of food from Mark Santos. (Middle row, right) Ocean Spray volunteer Dan Mardeusz hefts a bag of onions onto the table. (Bottom row, left) Brenda Laferreire and Maddie Leccese enjoy some conversation while unloading ground turkey. (Bottom row, right) Volunteers unpack more donated food for separation into individual bags for distribution.