Items are being accepted through Dec. 5 at Linden Presbyterian Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Friday for the 61st Community Wrap-In in Memory of Nancy Stockham.
Many local children and seniors will have a gift on Christmas morning, courtesy of the 61st Community Wrap-In in Memory of Nancy Stockham. The event organizers, in honor of the late social worker from Fenton, are seeking donations and volunteers. It will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 6, at the Tyrone Covenant Presbyterian Church, 10235 White Lake Road, Fenton. New item drop offs will be today through Dec. 5, at the Linden Presbyterian Church, 119 W. Broad St., Linden. The Linden Presbyterian Church is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gifts are distributed locally, and donations can include items or funding. Cash donations are tax deductible, and checks should be payable to Wrap In. The Wrap In also will feature a baked …
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61st Community Wrap-In, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6
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Late social worker, Nancy Stockham, of Fenton, began the program for families in need. The community gathered at Fenton United Methodist Church Tuesday.
Many hands made 95 Thanksgiving baskets fill quickly at the Fenton United Methodist Church’s Family Life Center on Tuesday. Volunteers from the Fenton High School National Honor Society, Fenton Educational Support Personnel, City of Fenton Fire Department, Fenton United Methodist Church, Loose Senior Center Community Angels and the community helped unload food and other necessities and fill boxes for people in need. Later in the day, families visited to collect their baskets, which contained a turkey, potatoes, milk, stuffing, fruit and other trimmings for Thanksgiving dinner, as well as other food and necessities for them. A Fenton Area Public Schools bus drove up to the church, carrying a full load of donated items for the baskets. …
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Volunteers help fill Thanksgiving baskets for families who need them. The families picked up their baskets on Tuesday.
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Nancy would be proud as well as happy to know this program is still being carried on. What a wonderful legacy, more enduring than a plaque or proclamation, those helped will carry her kindness as well as the kindness of thee volunteers in their hearts always. more ›