Several local schools are doing charity drives this month and next.
Today, Friday, Nov. 30, is the last day for the food drive sponsored by Cedar Wood Elementary’s PTA.
Silver Lake Elementary has a “Giving Tree” where tags are placed with gift ideas for a student in need who is identified by a parent, but kept anonymous. Younger siblings who are not yet in school are also eligible to receive gifts.
Information is gathered and placed on tags. Then staff, families and others in the community take the tags and buy the suggested gift or something else they think a child of that age would like. The new, unopened gifts are distributed anonymously to the recipients.
Last year the school was able to support 30 families with 125 gifts given by staff, parents, and community members.
At Woodside Elementary, a “Giving Snowman” is in office with tags for gift cards for children in need. All donated presents must be in the office by Dec. 10.
The week of Dec. 3, Gateway Middle School is partnering with Forest View Elementary in a gift drive for “Star Light Star Bright,” which gives Christmas gifts to children 18 and under who have cancer and are in the hospital over the holiday.
Heatherwood Middle School is collecting items for its Toy Drive.
The Jackson High School Annual Food Drive runs through Dec. 11. Its community partners, the Mill Creek Safeway, Albertsons, Central Market and QFC are working with the Jackson ASB. All food, which will be picked up Dec. 12, will be donated to the Salvation Army.
Henry the Giving Snowman (Jackson’s rendition of a giving tree) also runs through Dec. 11. All gifts are donated to Jackson and Hawthorne elementary schools in north Everett. Jackson leadership students will travel to those schools Dec. 12 to deliver the hundreds of gifts that Jackson High School students bring in. They will work during the day with the counselors at Jackson and Hawthorne and shop for the families.
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