Final Week for the Meeker County Holiday Project

The Meeker County Holiday Project is into its final week. Toys and monetary donations need to be dropped off at Center Bank in Litchfield by December 11th, and donations can also be dropped off at the Threads of Hope store at 120 North Sibley Avenue in downtown Litchfield.

Rochelle Brummond from UCAP says her office is in the back of the Threads of Hope store and families that need help can get a referral sheet there and be part of the store that they will set up December 12th and 13th in the basement of First Lutheran Church in Litchfield. She says she uses the cash they receive to purchase gifts for teenagers.

Brummond says the cash is also used for food vouchers for families in the Holiday Project and to purchase food baskets for elderly residents around Meeker County. She says checks for the Meeker County Holiday Project may be dropped off or mailed to 120 North Sibley Avenue in Litchfield and if anyone has questions, they may call her at 693-7911, extension 1401.

Loree Schultz from Center Bank says this is the 35th year that the bank has collected toys and cash for the Holiday Project and they are down a little this year, probably because Thanksgiving was so late this year. She says all of the donations help people right in Meeker County.

Schultz says no donation is too small as they collect new, unwrapped toys for children from infants to age 16, and cash. She says they can use anything as small as crayons or as large as a tent or bicycle, and anything in between, like board games and books.