Food Basket Collection at Villa Duchesne Another Big Success

Administrator Krista Richardson of and her girls celebrated the end of the first semester by having another highly successful food basketball collection drive.

Nearly 400 baskets were collected and distributed to a wide variety of charities, churches and non-profits throughout the region.

In this stressed economy the requests for aid were greather than ever before. By 7:30 a.m. Wednesday cars were lined up, with donors dropping off huge baskets of food. They also donated blankets, gloves, sweaters, baby essentials and other items.

A Christmas basket Mass was celebrated before the girls scattered for holiday break until the first week of January 2012.

The Villa Duchesne basket food drive is among the most prominent metro St. Louis efforts of its kind, dating back to the late 1930s.