Patrick Little, left, and Presley Davies, students at Holy Innocents’ Alan A. Lewis Primary School, gather around a “mitten tree,” part of the school’s efforts to collect warm gloves to send to Northeastern residents still recovering from Hurricane Sandy.

Joe Earle is a former Editor-at-Large for Rough Draft. He has more than 30-years of experience at newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was Managing Editor of Reporter Newspapers.