Toy Time Giveaway Benefits Community During Holiday Season
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
When economic circumstances prohibit that, a group of community volunteers step forward.
For 19 years, area community organizations have come together to assist the need of providing Christmas toys for area children who might go without.
By working together, these organizations meet a goal of providing a new toy and some quality used toys for each one of more than 1,700 local children, according to Ami Pitt, Toy Time organizer.
This year's CCS toy giveaway will be Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or until there are no more toys.
The giveaway will be at the Home and Family Arts Building at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
American Bikers Aimed Toward Education local chapter has partnered for 15 years by donating new toys for infants through teenagers.
ABATE members donate new baby items, games, puzzles, bicycles and other toys to be passed out during the toy giveaway.
Toys For Tots and Warsaw Police Dept. Sgt. Dave Morales bring in an allotment of new toys, games, puzzles and balls to be given away.
Toys For Tots collects in various ways in Kosciusko County and are always in need of more donations.
Kosciusko Toys For Tots donations are extremely low this year, Pitt said.
Salvation Army, under the direction of Ken Locke, donates any used toys that they have to be added to the giveaway.
Combined Community Services and Peggy Lisenbee-Wright, along with their adopt-a-family program, collect funds designated for Toy Time throughout the year to be used in the purchasing of brand new toys that are given away at the CCS toy giveaway.
All funds given to CCS and designated Toy Time in the memo line are tax deductible.
Toy Time, with Ami Pitt, Tena Boswell and a group of volunteers, recycle quality used toys brought in by local individuals.
These toys will be sold on consignment.
The 2012 sale will be Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Home and Family Arts Building at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
The proceeds of the sale will be used to purchase brand-new toys to be given away.
Area businesses and individuals give monetary donations and the donations of brand new toys to be passed out.
Also this year, Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy members Ashley Helfers and Katy Ashpole made Toy Time their community project by “Let Your Used Toys Live On” at Wawasee High School and North Webster Elementary School.
Monetary donations can be taken to CCS, marked Toy Time, or dropped off at the Home and Family Arts Building at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
The opportunity of providing at least one new toy to more than 1,700 area children can only be met by organizations and individuals coming together to reach this goal, Pitt said.
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When economic circumstances prohibit that, a group of community volunteers step forward.
For 19 years, area community organizations have come together to assist the need of providing Christmas toys for area children who might go without.
By working together, these organizations meet a goal of providing a new toy and some quality used toys for each one of more than 1,700 local children, according to Ami Pitt, Toy Time organizer.
This year's CCS toy giveaway will be Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or until there are no more toys.
The giveaway will be at the Home and Family Arts Building at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
American Bikers Aimed Toward Education local chapter has partnered for 15 years by donating new toys for infants through teenagers.
ABATE members donate new baby items, games, puzzles, bicycles and other toys to be passed out during the toy giveaway.
Toys For Tots and Warsaw Police Dept. Sgt. Dave Morales bring in an allotment of new toys, games, puzzles and balls to be given away.
Toys For Tots collects in various ways in Kosciusko County and are always in need of more donations.
Kosciusko Toys For Tots donations are extremely low this year, Pitt said.
Salvation Army, under the direction of Ken Locke, donates any used toys that they have to be added to the giveaway.
Combined Community Services and Peggy Lisenbee-Wright, along with their adopt-a-family program, collect funds designated for Toy Time throughout the year to be used in the purchasing of brand new toys that are given away at the CCS toy giveaway.
All funds given to CCS and designated Toy Time in the memo line are tax deductible.
Toy Time, with Ami Pitt, Tena Boswell and a group of volunteers, recycle quality used toys brought in by local individuals.
These toys will be sold on consignment.
The 2012 sale will be Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Home and Family Arts Building at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
The proceeds of the sale will be used to purchase brand-new toys to be given away.
Area businesses and individuals give monetary donations and the donations of brand new toys to be passed out.
Also this year, Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy members Ashley Helfers and Katy Ashpole made Toy Time their community project by “Let Your Used Toys Live On” at Wawasee High School and North Webster Elementary School.
Monetary donations can be taken to CCS, marked Toy Time, or dropped off at the Home and Family Arts Building at the Kosciusko Community Fairgrounds.
The opportunity of providing at least one new toy to more than 1,700 area children can only be met by organizations and individuals coming together to reach this goal, Pitt said.
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