The latest news about Wellesley people being nice:

Thanksgiving dinners for cancer patients

Wellesley Service League members partnered with the Ellie Fund to deliver Thanksgiving meals on Tuesday, Nov. 26 to the homes of 24 cancer patients and families. The Professional Ladies Association of Boston and Lambert’s Fruit of Westwood provided the ingredients.

The kindness—dinners plus a bouquet of flowers—came at a time that can be especially challenging for those being treated for breast cancer patients who may be unable to be around large groups for health reasons or may be feeling the financial burdens of treatment.

Turkey dinners via Ellie Fund and partners — Courtesy photo

Bears for good causes

A group of ambitious volunteers from Wellesley for years has been meeting on Wednesdays at the Council on Aging to sew bears that are then constructed and stuffed before being donated to various organizations in need. The effort was initiated by former COA director Greta Crisley in 1996.

Community Service Bears have gone to such organizations as the Wellesley Fire Department, to comfort kids at the scenes of emergencies, and to the Salvation Army and Wellesley Kiwanis. Local students have sometimes joined the regular members of the sewing group.

Thanks to Priscilla Messing for sharing photos and information on this.