Meeker County Holiday Project is Underway

The Meeker County Holiday Project is underway. This is the 48th year of the campaign which started out humbly in a church basement, and is now overseen by United Community Action Partnership – helping over 500 children each year receive toys for Christmas.

Rochelle Brummond says they collect cash which is used to purchase toys and gifts for children and they also use the money to provide a holiday meal to families in the program and to provide food baskets to 50 elderly residents in the area each year. She says they serve mostly working families who are struggling to get by and just don’t have enough to get toys for their children.

Brummond says the Litchfield Fire Dept. collects toys, and Center Bank and others also collect toys that are donated to the Holiday Project and checks for the Holiday Project may be sent to UCAP at 120 North Sibley Avenue in Litchfield, and then they set up a store for their clients a couple of days in December in the basement of First Lutheran Church. She says families and elderly residents who are struggling and want to be part of the Holiday Project may visit her office at the back of the Threads of Hope store in downtown Litchfield. For more information, call Rochelle at 693-7911.