Amherst Junior Women’s Club’s holiday food basket program enters 35th year

AMHERST – This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Amherst Junior Women’s Club Holiday Home-Life Project. The club has delivered holiday food baskets to more than 1,000 families in Amherst in the past 34 years. This project will take place Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Amherst fire station. Volunteers from the AJWC and the Lions Club will coordinate and deliver baskets of food and household essentials to Amherst families in need. Baskets will include goods baked by local Girl Scouts, cheerful place mats made by students at the Clark and Wilkins schools and fresh bread donated by Panera. The group delivered to more than 33 families last year and expects more families will be in need this year. Individuals, businesses and organizations are asked to make a monetary donation to the project.