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Family's Thanksgiving Charity Enters Fifth Year

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Published: November 23, 2008

A local family inspired by a fable and the memory of their matriarch will donate on Monday the ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal to 80 Tampa Bay area recipients.

Mary Noyes' children and grandchildren packaged the 80 Thanksgiving care packages on Sunday. The families receiving the packages will pick them up at noon and 5:30 p.m. Monday at the law offices of Perenich, Carroll, Perenich, Avril, Caulfield and Noyes, 1875 N. Belcher Road, Clearwater.

Noyes died in 2003 after a long battle with cancer. She was a music teacher at St. Cecelia Catholic School in Clearwater for 26 years, her son, Matthew Noyes, said in a statement.

Mary Noyes would have turned 80 years old this year, her son said, and this is the fifth year her children have given away the care packages as a tribute to their mother.

The goodwill project is based on the fable of "Stone Soup," which is the story of a town that ends a famine when townspeople contributed their own stockpiles of ingredients into a "magical" stew, Matthew Noyes said. The stew had originally been made of only water and stone.

The project echoes the values that Mary Noyes instilled in her family and students to engage in community service, her son said.

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