by Noella Noelophile™
By noon, more than 900 Easter baskets had gone out the door.
And baskets, supplies and volunteers kept right on coming.
According to their Facebook page, Justin Rudd’s Operation Easter Basket celebrated its ten-year anniversary today. The scene at Long Beach’s Bay Shore Church, in Belmont Shore, amounted to a lively and loving celebration.
Tables were set up with candy, T-shirts, personal-hygiene items, toys and school/art supplies. Volunteers took baskets or plastic sand pails with shovels, started with Easter grass or ribbon and filled the baskets from there. The goal was 1,600 baskets for underprivileged youth in the area, ages birth to sixteen years.