Buy A Bag, Help Marblehead's Abandoned Animals

MARBLEHEAD, MA —North Shore residents can help out the environment at the same time they help some pets in need of a forever home this month through the Stop & Shop Community Bag and Giving Tag Program.

Every time someone purchases one of the $2.50 reusable community bags at the 450 Paradise Road location in Swampscott, $1 will be donated to Friends of Marblehead's Friends of Abandoned Animals.

Each month, each Stop & Shop chooses one nonprofit beneficiary from the program with this month's sales going to benefit the volunteer organization that provides food, shelter, medical care and good homes to dozens of abandoned North Shore pets each year.

Friends of Marblehead's Abandoned Animals is a completely volunteer no-kill shelter supported by donations and adoption fees. It also subsidizes the placement of pets into assisted living and low-income homes and runs spaying, neutering and release programs.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)