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Pack toys, school supplies and personal care items for the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child and drop-off locally by Nov. 25.
In addition to packing individual boxes, residents seeking to donate to the program can also construct a box using the Operation Christmas Child website. Locations for box drop-offs this year include:
Shoe boxes are filled with toys, hygiene items and school supplies may be dropped off during National Collection Week, Nov. 14-21.
Operation Christmas Child was created in 1990 by Dave Cooke and his wife Gill for children in Romania. [9]: 332 [10]: 149 [11]: 254 Each November thousands of churches, schools, groups, and individual donors prepare and collect shoeboxes filled with toys, school supplies, personal items, and other small gifts. A booklet of Bible stories is ...
Ray Stanton Avery (January 13, 1907 – December 12, 1997) was an American inventor, [1] most known for creating self-adhesive labels (modern stickers).Using a $100 loan from his then-fiancé Dorothy Durfee, and combining used machine parts with a saber saw, he created and patented the world's first self-adhesive (also called pressure sensitive) die-cut labeling machine.
Christmas seals are adhesive labels that are similar in appearance to postage stamps that are sold then affixed to mail during the Christmas season to raise funds and awareness for charitable programs. Christmas seals have become particularly associated with lung diseases such as tuberculosis, and with child welfare in general. They were first ...
Oct. 14—Volunteers are preparing to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 18-25. More than 4,700 drop-off locations will open across the country ...
In 2020, Dana Nachman directed the documentary Dear Santa, which focused on the USPS Operation Santa program and the children who write letters to Santa. [8] In 2022, Localish produced Dear Santa, the Series, a six-episode documentary about USPS Operation Santa's history, highlighting stories from letter writers and Postal Service employees. [9]