Stepping up to help our veterans

Combination food and toiletry drives at Hendricken High School and St. Rose of Lima, St. Peter, St. Kevin and St. Joseph parochial schools collected truckloads of donations for Operation Stand Down Rhode Island. OSDRI provides housing for 88 veterans and services more than 2,000 in the course of the year. Gathered around the collection at St. Kevin School is the second grade class of Mary Ann McKenney with Dennis Gallagher of the school and George Luttge and Tom Ruel of OSDRI. (Warwick Beacon photo)