Baby clothes find new life

About 2,500 pieces of new and gently used baby clothes were given away for a good cause at Tuesday’s Modesto City Council meeting as part of Second Chance Week, a national grass-roots effort that encourages recycling.

The donations were collected Oct. 17-24 at Modesto fire stations, library branches throughout Stanislaus County, Vintage Faire Mall and Tenth Street Place, the city-county administration center.

The baby clothes were given at the council meeting to the Center for Human Services, the Modesto Pregnancy Center, the Salvation Army, the Modesto Gospel Mission and Cal SAFE, a Modesto City Schools program for teen mothers.

This is the fourth year that the city and county have worked together on Second Chance Week, and the focus is on recycling items, such as blankets in a previous campaign, that help those in need.

“We look at the need and what has not been done in our area,” said Vicki Rice, Modesto’s recycling program coordinator. “That’s why we added the Gospel Mission this year because of the moms and kids using it.”

This story was originally published November 3, 2016 at 3:25 PM with the headline "Baby clothes find new life."