This request may find you busy preparing for the upcoming holidays and sharing special celebrations with family and friends. It is our hope, however, that your family will reserve some time to help with our community service project.

Our community service activity this month is donating “Blizzard Boxes” to Meals on Wheels. We are welcoming Blizzard Boxes until Monday, December 16th. A Meals on Wheels representative will be joining William O. Schaefer for an assembly to personally receive the boxes and thank the SOCSD students for their kindness.

A BLIZZARD BOX is an assortment of donated non-perishable food items packed into shoeboxes. Refer to Blizzard Box Instruction to find out all the details, including the suggested foods. Please be sure to check product expiration date. NO fresh fruit or vegetables please!

Please wrap the lids separately from the boxes – wrap the top of the shoe box separately from the bottom of the shoe box (no boot boxes please) in grocery bag paper in order to make sure contents are easily accessible. Do not put any decorations on the box.

Students can use their imagination to draw pictures on the paper that senior citizens would enjoy receiving! The BLIZZARD BOXES will be delivered to the recipients of the Home Delivered Meals Program as a food source ahould the regular food deliveries be halted due to weather related or other emergencies.

For more information about Meals On Wheels and how you can help the Rockland County Community visit the Meals On Wheels website.

Please consider creating a BLIZZARD BOX with your family. Drop off your BLIZZARD BOX at William O. Schaefer (WOS), 140 Lester Drive, Tappan, New York between Tuesday, December 3th and Monday, December 16th.

Thank you in advance for giving so generously to the seniors in our community during this winter season.
Questions can be forwarded to hhill@socsd.org, ebarsanti@socsd.org, ccosgrove@socsd.org.