Our annual Thanksgiving Feast at ACE has been happening on the last day before Thanksgiving break every year for many years.  Stew Leonard’s donates between twenty-five and thirty turkeys every year for us to cook up and serve to families for our Thanksgiving feast.  All the kids work hard and pitch in to set everything up, send out invitations, make and put up decorations, park the cars, serve the food and drinks, help out our guests, and then pick everything up afterwards.  Every year between three and four hundred people come and have a great time.

During the Thanksgiving Feast, a lot of the student’s friends and families come in and sit down and eat with them.  It’s an excellent way for families to spend some time with their kids and sit down and connect with them, especially if they don’t have enough time to spend with their kids at home.  Cassandra Urban, a junior, states, “The Thanksgiving Feast was full of great experiences and I enjoyed the time I spent with my good friends and close family.”

Hundreds of people of all ages come to the Thanksgiving Feast for the good food and the atmosphere.  Everyone here at ACE pitches in to make the experience great for all our visitors.  Rick Cherico, a senior, stated, “The Thanksgiving Feast is one of the many things we can do to help out our greater Danbury community.”  And he’s right.  Another thing ACE does to help out the community and to give back to it is the Breakfast with Santa which was held this year on Saturday, December 12.  Jesenia Rios, a senior, said, “The thanksgiving feast was great because our community gathered our friends and family”.

The Breakfast with Santa happens every year and has been going on for almost as many years as the Thanksgiving Feast.  It’s these traditions that ACE carries on that help make ACE such a great school for the community and for the kids attending.