Holiday Preparations at Felician Center

Olio Studios from Lake City started the season with ceramic art with the children from the Learning Center as well as a group from Vital Aging.

The children painted Christmas Tanenbaum trees that would be taken back to the studio to be glazed and fired in the kiln.

Senior citizens from Hemingway, Greeleyville, and Kingstree advanced their techniques to work on small lighted Christmas trees for their homes.

The Kingstree Community Youth Group students and leaders collected over 1300 food items during their annual Food Drive scavenger hunt. Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, and St. Ann Catholic Church also took up additional food collecting to stock the shelves of the Food Pantry. Visiting Sisters Denise Marie Jaworski and Sister Paul Marie Baczkowski from Buffalo, New York assisted the Felician Sisters of Kingstree with purchasing and sorting an additional 1000 items to pack 200 Thanksgiving grocery bags for distribution. A generous donation was received from the Franciscan Center in Bluffton, SC to add more. Volunteers and Felician Center board members prepared the grocery bags. Monetary donations from all over the state and country continue to keep the Food Pantry stocked and serving the underserved of rural South Carolina.