For the 11th year, St. Francis employees donated 407 super-sized Easter baskets, overflowing with candy and gifts for needy children, to area agencies through the hospital’s annual Adopt-a-Bunny project. The baskets were delivered by the hospital’s Mission Awareness Team to Open Door Community House, Muscogee County DFACS, Damascus Way and House of Mercy on April 6, just in time for Easter. Two other organizations—Children’s Treehouse and Hope Harbour—picked up some of the baskets on April 5.    

     The project was sponsored by St. Francis’ Mission Awareness Team. Associates volunteered to fill baskets for the children they “adopted” with everything from jelly beans and chocolate cream eggs to stuffed baby dolls, fishing rods, basketballs, games and stuffed animals, plus many practical items, such as toothpaste and shampoo. Students from St. Francis Partner-In-Education schools St. Anne School and Eddy Middle School contributed 20 additional baskets to the effort.