Verona bottle drive for Christmas for Kids

Dec 10, 2014

On November 29, four student volunteers collected copious amounts of empty liquor and beer bottles at the LCBO in Verona for the Verona Community Association's annual Christmas for Kids program. This year the program will offer Christmas gifts to 63 children in the local community. Each child will receive a gift of hand-made pajamas, socks, underwear, toques, and mittens plus art and crafts supplies, books, puzzles and new toys. Mary Jo Dowker, who is heading up the Christmas for Kids Committee, said that new unwrapped toys can be dropped off at the Asselstine Hardware and Verona Hardware stores in Verona until Sunday December 14. Any gifts dropped off after that date will be used for next year's drive. Volunteers will be wrapping the gifts, which will be delivered to local area schools where they will be picked up by parents in time to be handed out to the children on Christmas morning. For those who missed the bottle drive, a number of donation jars are also located throughout the community where cash donations can still be made. Thanks to these young volunteers and to the members of the VCA Christmas for Kids committee, many local youngsters will be receiving gifts that they otherwise may have gone without this holiday season.