By MATT PIKE
The 25th annual Christmas for Kids Toy drive hosted by JoeTown 107.5’s Gregg Lynn begins Saturday
Lynn says each Christmas children in need from places such as the Noyes Home or the YWCA submit lists of what they want for Christmas, and listeners help purchase those gifts
“Each kid is allowed three, and a lot of people ask me why don’t you just make it any toy, just make it all generic, well it’s just not the same,” Lynn says on the KFEQmnunnity show. “If you’re a kid who never has anything for Christmas, you want what you want, and we get them what they want, so all of the organizations and all the caregivers will send me these lists, we’ll post them online, and then the listeners will go and start buying gifts for all these kids.”
Lists are going up on the Gregg Lynn Radio Show Facebook page. You can also donate online by clicking HERE, or in various coin jars around town. A list of coin jar locations is also at the link.
Lynn says most of the kids are taken care of by listeners, but the rest is where the donations to help buy the things on the lists that don’t get purchased
“So, they make sure every kid, we’ve had as many as 150, every kid gets what they want, all three of their gifts,” Lynn explains. “Now the rest of the money is given to support the agencies and support these kids which would be the YWCA, Adopt-A-Family, Noyes Home for Children, a group called Care Portal and their mission is to take care of all the kids in foster care.”
Lynn says after you pick your list off the Facebook page, it’s a pretty simple process after that
“You go buy the toys, you bring them to me new and unwrapped, and that’s all you have to do and we take care of everything,” Lynn says. “We get them all wrapped, we get them all sorted, we get them all delivered to the kids at the Christmas party, if that’s like way to much, if that’s a lot of pressure, just go buy some toys, if you’re shopping anyway buy one or two extra toys, bring them here to the station and you can dump them in the barrel.”
The toy drive will run until Black Friday and ends with an all-day broadcast on that day from 6am to 5pm. New and unwrapped toys can be dropped off at the Eagle Radio studios at 4104 Country Ln in St. Joseph.
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