Over 100 youngsters, sporting smiling faces and their hands and arms loaded with cans, boxes and bags, arrived by school bus Friday morning to drop off food and more to the Community Fridge at the Boothbay Town Office.

Boothbay Region Elementary School students in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first and second grade, along with their teachers and support staff, were greeted by Holly Stover of the Community Resource Council, who collected and shelved the students’ donations to the Community Fridge. The shelves, which were nearly empty before the students arrived, are now overflowing with canned and boxed food and toiletries.

The donations to the Community Fridge were organized by the following BRES teachers: Kate Rice and Jess Murray (pre-K); Jordan Plummer and Jessica Lessner (kindergarten); Sarah Wade and Amanda Powell (grade 1); Allison Crocker (grade 1) and Barbara Carbone Crocker (grade 2).

The students were bused to the Boothbay Town Office in two groups and lined up to deliver the goods to Stover after photos were taken of both groups.

Stover explained to the students what the Community Fridge is (free and open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week) and told each group that “you have done a wonderful thing for those who need food and other items.”