In addition to producing more than 300 baskets for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the all volunteer Windham Human Services Committee hosts a Toy Workshop each year.
This is an opportunity for parents and caregivers who might find Christmas a financial challenge, to select something special for a child or children in their family. Last year, between 100 and 125 children received gifts selected at the Toy Workshop.
This year the Toy Workshop will be held on Saturday, Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Human Services building, right where the Food Pantry is, across from Friends Church and adjacent to the Public Safety Building on Route 202. Toys and gift items are available for infants through teenagers.
Some of us, whose children have grown, can’t resist looking at the toy selection in the stores and it would be a wonderful thing to actually purchase one of those toys and donate it to the Toy Workshop. If you have barely worn, clean, working order toys or games (with all the parts) you can donate them. Think about teenagers, too and items for them. Some examples are gift certificates, hats, mittens and/or gloves, scarves, socks, wallets, personal care items like shampoo, hair brushes, cologne, etc.
Donations for the Toy Workshop can be left at the Human Services Building on Mondays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. or Thursdays from 9 to 11 a.m. For more information on the Toy Workshop and how to donate either financial or actual items, call Madeline at 892-1931 or 892-3653. And get out your knitting needles and start making those mittens! Create some tree decorations!
-Kay Soldier
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