Santa’s Helpers
Over the last four years, a small group of Santa’s elves has helped fill Christmas stockings for Family Promise of Union County. The organization serves low income families and families experiencing homelessness.
Students and staff at the Academy for Performing Arts at the Magnet School in Scotch Plains participated this year also. Kaitlyn Landaverde, a Junior from Clark, organized the drive at the high school.
Patricia Novy of Clark, who started the project four years ago, shared the fact that the group filled 36 stockings the first year, 67 stockings last year and 91 Christmas Stockings for children ages 4 to 12 this year.
“The need is greater than ever,” Novy said. “In speaking with Family Promise, the children often receive donated gifts, but stockings are not considered. Our little group of friends, family and former colleagues help fill that void.”
We are inspired each year by this quote from a nine-year-old boy, “When you give something; someone else gets.”
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