Local resident gives back through annual holiday gift card drive for teens
This Giving Tuesday, local resident Sara Steinweiss was doing what she does best – collecting for those in need.
Steinweiss, a former New Utrecht High School teacher and longtime community activist, is in the midst of her seventh annual gift card drive for teenagers in foster care, for which she started collecting donations around Thanksgiving.
“I started the event seven years ago,” Steinweiss told this paper. “It was around the time that I had retired from teaching, and I’d been working with teenagers for so many years that I just knew, on that level, what happens around the holidays.”