Help us provide holiday cheer to area seniors who are lonely, in financial need, and unlikely to receive any gifts this holiday season.

You can find tags for these seniors on the giving tree in the lobby of the Eastside YMCA. These tags include first name of the participating senior, gift preferences and sizes, if applicable. Return the unwrapped gift(s) and bulb by December 13th. (Please take gift cards to the Front Desk so they may be kept in a locked office until picked up by Home Instead.) Gifts will be wrapped by volunteers before giving to recipients.

NOTES:

• When buying gift cards, any store or restaurant with a local location is fine.
• Gift baskets – if not specified, use your discretion. Can be snacks, cookies, coffee, personal care items, whatever you’d like.

In honor of Welcoming Week in September, the YMCA is partnering with the Multicultural Community Resource Center, Catholic Charities, and US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants – Erie to help them welcome new families to our area and serve the children in these communities with snacks for their after school programs. Thank you for your generosity!

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