Locals work to gather holiday gifts for guys
With the annual Community Christmas Dinner on the horizon, a local duo is working to make the event a bit more special for the men who will be in attendance.
For a number of years, Coun. Charlene Miller has championed a program where she collects necessities such as winter wear, toiletries and chocolate, packs them into purses and gifts them to women at the event.
Noticing a lack of such a program for the men, Coun. Evert Botha and regular volunteer Conrad Burns eagerly jumped at the opportunity to replicate the endeavour.
“We did not realize that men in our community have not been stepping up and supporting our own men,” Burns said Friday at the Salvation Army where a generous donation of socks, toques and candy canes was handed over to help the two reach their goal.