The annual Toys for Tots campaign held their first gift wrapping with seniors, Crookston High School Leo Club members, Fire Department Auxiliary members and other members of the community.
The volunteers wrapped hundreds of presents on the first of three gift-wrapping days explained Patty Dillabough. “We wrapped 240 presents in about 2 and 1/2 hours,” said Dillabough. “We had seniors and Leo Club having a blast and hope next Monday we’ll have more people come down and help.”
The gift wrapping is the third step in the Toys for Tots program process, “the Water Department collects the money, they send it to the fire department auxiliary who gets a list of who is in need for Social Services and other departments,” explained Dillabough. “On Saturday’s the fire department auxiliary shops for the toys and brings them to the Golden Link, volunteers wrap the gifts on Monday and then the firefighters dress up like Santa and deliver the gifts around town on Christmas Eve.”
If you’d like to volunteer to wrap gifts with other members of the community there are two more Mondays of gift wrapping at 1:00 p.m. on December 10 and 17.
