Teens Spur Volunteer Effort at Lazarus House

On a Saturday night days before Christmas, Lazarus House volunteer Paula McKenna is standing in the kitchen of a North Andover home effortlessly managing a group of animated teens who are cracking eggs, shredding loaves of bread and full of questions about the recipe they are trying to follow. Less than an hour later, the result is French Toast that will provide breakfast for more than 100 guests in the Lazarus House Soup Kitchen in Lawrence. But McKenna knows the evening will also nourish the moral and ethical growth of the boys who have all voluntarily chosen to give up a weekend night. “I wanted to bring good people tog

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Teens Spur Volunteer Effort at Lazarus House

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