BrightStone Shop at BrightStone for unique ceramic nativity scenes, yummy fudge and tea mixes, beautiful stoneware platters and bowls, a variety of holiday painted gift pots and much, much more! This is a wonderful opportunity to purchase Christmas gifts for your friends, family members and co-workers. All sales benefit BrightStone adults, who seek to work and live a productive life. BrightStone is located at 140 Southeast Parkway Court in Franklin, and general hours of operation are Monday –Friday from 8:00am-4:30pm. For more information go to www.brightstone.org.
Firefighters Toy and Clothing Drive The Franklin Firefighters kicked-off their 5th Annual Toy and Clothing Drive on Monday, November 19th with a party at Avenue Bank in Cool Springs. Firefighters encouraged community members to select gift request cards from local children identified by the Williamson County Chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee. New, unwrapped gifts were collected at the stations, and firefighters and volunteers will wrap the gifts and prepare them for distribution at two Christmas parties, which will take place on December 21st. For more information please contact the Franklin Fire Department at (615) 7913270 or visit www.FranklinFirefightersCharities.org.
Additional Christmas assistance programs include: Forgotten Angel Tree: The Salvation Army Nashville Area Command has partnered with Daily’s Convenience Stores to add to our Christmas Angel Tree Assistance program a Forgotten Angels Shop. Of all the angels expected to register for Angel Tree, thousands may end up unadopted. To ensure that each special angel receives Christmas assistance, we have created a forgotten angels shop. Look for our ‘Forgotten Angel’ trees in all Daily’s and Twicedaily Markets. Kroger Food Angels: Kroger and WSMV - Channel 4 have partnered to provide The Salvation Army Food Angel program. This holiday season while you are shopping in Kroger, be sure to pick up a Kroger Food Angel off the tree, located in front of the stores. You can provide a holiday dinner for an Angel Tree Family by simply taking a Food Angel tag to the cash register; the cashier will scan it and $25.00 will be added to your grocery bill. Know that your donation goes to a family in the form of a direct Kroger Gift card valued at $25.00 which can help provide several meals for a family this holiday. Angels on the Air: Mix 92.9 and Waller Law present “Angels on the Air” this holiday season. While listening to Mix 92.9 FM folks will have the opportunity to call in and adopt angels. The morning crew - Anna, Kim and Clint- in addition to their other around-the-clock DJ’s - will daily read several specific angels’ needs on air so that loyal listeners will have opportunity to adopt 400 angels this year. U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program: The mission of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive, patriotic citizens.The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help less fortunate children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of one of our nation’s most valuable resources – our children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the future.The principal Toys for Tots activity which takes place each year is the collection and distribution of toys in the communities in which a Marine Corps Reserve Unit is located. In communities without a Reserve Unit, the campaign can be conducted by a Marine Corps League Detachment or group of men and women, generally veteran Marines, authorized by Marine Toys for Tots Foundation to conduct a local Toys for Tots campaign. Local Toys for Tots Campaign Coordinators conduct an array of activities throughout the year, which include golf tournaments, foot races, bicycle races and other voluntary events designed to increase interest in Toys for Tots, and concurrently generate toys and monetary donations. December 2012 YOURWILLIAMSON.COM
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