So
many G.S.A. members had a part in making the Christmas Dinner for Low-Income
Families a great success!
Thank you to our Sunday school children for wanting to help in the first
place and for doing so much of the fundraising. A special thank you to the kids
who helped with preparations & gift-wrapping on Sunday afternoon.
Thanks also to their energetic teachers who listened, planned and
prepared, shopped, cooked, helped wrap, added special “touches”,
entertained, and cleaned-up.
Thanks to all of you who donated financially and made the shopping for
gifts and groceries possible.
Thanks to Meg, for supporting the idea and helping out in so many ways!
Thanks
to the UCW, the CEC was looking pretty festive from the get-go.
The Christmas tree was beautiful, especially after we put 63 wrapped
gifts under it!
Marjorie Manion set the tables with the help of early guests and gave the
place the perfect finishing touches.
Thanks to Betty Bradford, Judith Sandles, and Dianne Shane who kept the
children happily entertained with craft making and cookie decorating.
Clowns welcomed and played with children; the kids were never bored at
this event. After
dinner, Santa passed out the gifts and we finished off with a piñata full of
candy.
The
Sunday School leaders had a hand in the cooking and cleaning up.
They did an amazing job. (special thanks to Rick Malloch & Lynn
Guillmette, Bob & Linda Fong, Jill and Mike Reid, Dianne Shane, Nancy Illman
and Doug Griffith who were on the scene from start to finish, to Ron and Lisa
Racine who helped wrap, set up and “go for” and Cathy Brooks and Christine
Caldwell who provided a fresh pair of hands for clean up!)
The dinner was wonderful --- couldn’t have been better!
There was plenty of food and many of the 120 guests took home some of the delicious
leftovers. Thanks
to all of you who donated food for the event.
The dessert selection was a dream! A special thank you to Rick Malloch
who really did the bulk of the organizing and made it easy for the rest of us.
Great work, Rick!