Veritas Volunteers served goodwill and lunch at The Chefs’ Charity for Children. Held at Hilton New Orleans Riverside, the annual tradition marked its 43rd year and featured local chefs who conducted cooking demonstrations and served a banquet lunch of their creations. Event proceeds benefit St. Michael Special School that educates students age six through adulthood… Read More
The Dominican family reached across the country and oversees, sending Christmas cards signed with personal messages to a child in a Portland, Maine hospital and to US troops far away from home. Nine-year-old Jacob Thompson is a cancer patient who has been fighting Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma. At age five, he was diagnosed with… Read More
At the Chefs’ Charity for Children to benefit St. Michael’s Special School, St. Mary’s Dominican High School Veritas Volunteers club members were volunteer servers at the annual event. Celebrity chefs conducted cooking demonstrations and benefit attendees enjoyed their culinary creations. Veritas Volunteers lead moderator is Dione Prince and Dawn Frick is moderator. Read More
At the Chefs’ Charity for Children to benefit St. Michael’s Special School, St. Mary’s Dominican High School Veritas Volunteers club members were volunteer servers at the annual event. Celebrity chefs conducted cooking demonstrations and benefit attendees enjoyed their culinary creations. Veritas Volunteers lead moderator is Dione Prince and Dawn Frick is moderator. Read More
Food drives and cleaning flooded homes are among flood-relief responses by the St. Mary’s Dominican High School community. Students, faculty, and staff supported a collection drive that totaled $1,480 for distribution to relief programs. A donation of 361 pounds of food and cleaning supplies, plus $200, was given to Second Harvest Food Bank. Alumnae Megan Guidry… Read More
St. Mary’s Dominican High School Veritas Volunteers Club members were volunteer servers at the 39th Annual Chefs’ Charity for Children to benefit St. Michael’s Special School. Celebrity chefs conducted cooking demonstrations and the estimated 1,500 benefit attendees enjoyed their culinary creations. Read More
The Veritas Volunteers Club at St. Mary’s Dominican High School collected approximately 50 blankets that will be distributed to a local shelter this winter. Nikki’s Blankets was started in 2009 in Orlando, Fl, by a nine-year-old girl named Nikki who asked Santa for blankets to give to the homeless or anyone in need. The organization has… Read More
Seventeen Veritas Volunteer club members volunteered at Boo at the Zoo on October 24. At the end of September/early October, Veritas Volunteers and Student Ambassadors joined forces to collect candy to be donated to Boo at the Zoo. Over 20,000 pieces of candy were collected and donated. Read More
On Saturday, May 9, Veritas Volunteers met with Susan, the founder of “Lara’s Gowns for Smiles” to cut out fabric pieces to make hospital gowns for children with long-term illnesses. The girls cut out fabric to make 35 hospital gowns. Some gowns will be sent to Children’s Hospital in New Orleans and others sent overseas…. Read More