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Community's help needed to fill Xmas stockings

Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall's Stockings For Kids program to brighten holidays for 300 local children

Thanks to the cosponsorship of the Delta Optimist, the merchants of Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall, Century Group and the Tsawwassen community, 300 kids supported by Deltassist will benefit from the 17th annual Stockings For Kids program this Christmas.

The program was launched in 1996 and with overwhelming community generosity, has steadily grown from 150 to the current 300 stockings. Stockings For Kids makes an appeal to community members to sponsor a stocking with a designated gender and age, fill it with appropriate new gifts, and return it to the Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall for distribution by Deltassist Family and Community Services.

A varied assortment of groups, businesses and individuals respond to the needs of kids less fortunate each year. Sponsoring a stocking is perhaps one of the truest gestures of giving, as it is done anonymously, with each recipient having no way of thanking the donor. Everyone simply takes the opportunity to give something back to the community and enhance a child's Christmas morning.

Stockings can be picked up during Adopt A Stocking Day on Saturday, Nov. 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the mall, near Centre Stage Accessories. Participants will be asked to choose what age and gender they would like to fill a stocking for and to return the filled stocking to The Smoke & Pop Shop by Friday, Nov. 29.

Those wishing to participate but unable to attend Adopt A Stocking Day are invited to call the mall (after Nov. 9) at 604-943- 1735 to make alternative pick up arrangements.

Families wishing to register for Toy Depot assistance are asked to call Deltassist at 604-594-3455 or 604-946-9526.