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Baskets And Bags For Easter Sunday
Published: Mar 26, 2016 12:00 AM
Members of Women Involved in Newtown spent a few hours on March 18 working on one of the club's annual projects: filling baskets with treats for children whose parents might need a hand making sure the Easter Bunny finds his way to their homes this weekend.
WIN works each year with Newtown Social Services, AIDS Interfaith Ministry, Harmony House, Healing Hearts, and the Western Connecticut Hospice Center to find out how many baskets - or bags of treats, for young adults - each group needs.
Then the women work as a group to fill those bags and baskets, making sure they are delivered in time for distribution on Easter Sunday.ÃÂ This year the group provided 120 filled baskets and 56 candy bags for children and young adults.
Members of WIN making sure filled Easter baskets and candy bags were delivered last week through Newtown Social Services, AIDS Interfaith Ministry, Harmony House, Healing Hearts, and the Western Connecticut Hospice Center last Friday were, from left, Julie Mack, Colette Ercole, Dot Dwyer, Mandy Monaco, Erica Sullivan, Cyndi DeMarco, and Cyndy DaSilva. The group was standing with one of the delivery vehicles, ready to go. (Bee Photo, Hicks)
WIN takes care of young adults who may be too old for an Easter basket, but young enough to still hope for a treat on Easter Sunday. Shown here is part of the collection of 56 bags filled for tweens and teens. (Bee Photo, Hicks)
Easter baskets in various stages of completion. (Bee Photo, Hicks)
An entire room at the Monaco home is filled with baskets and stuffed animals when it is time to start putting the WIN Easter Baskets together each year. (Bee Photo, Hicks)
The interior of the Monaco home becomes a workshop with candies and other treats, small games, stuffed animals, baskets of many sizes, and other items needed to create the filled bags and baskets for the WIN Easter Basket Project. Erica Sullivan was among those putting together some of the baskets on March 18. (Bee Photo, Hicks)