By: Mikayla Eberly, Hilltop School
This year, the Christmas For Kids Drive at Hilltop School on Tuesday, November 25th, is even bigger than last year. The thing about this event is that it grows larger every year. This is their seventh year, first starting in 2008.
The cadets collected over $1200 just in money donations. They also collected seven big boxes of food items for the food pantry in West Unity, six boxes of toys, along with seven trash bags of toys, and a few wooden handmade toys from the FFA. Some of the popular toys donated were board games, hot wheels, Barbies, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Each year, certain grades have a competition to see which class can collect the most, usually for a prize of some sort. This year, the sophomores appear to have collected the most. Congratulations!
After everything is collected and accounted for, all the toys are shipped to The Bryan Moose in Bryan. Families can go there and shop for what they might want for Christmas. All the money that it makes is then used to buy other things such as baby toys.
Lastly, the cadets would like to thank Rick Small for taking part in this wonderful event and everyone who donated and helped to make this event possible and so successful for all the less fortunate families who are in need of holiday cheer. It wouldn’t have been possible without all of you.