Operation Christmas: Mission
Accomplished
by M.C. Kauffman
December 25, 2004
Saturday
Ketchikan, Alaska - The Ketchikan Indian Community and the Boys
and Girls Club of Ketchikan can say their mission to spread the
joy of Christmas with at least 50 girls and boys has been successfully
accomplished. Through the combined and dedicated efforts of these
two organizations and through the generosity of community members,
over 200 gifts were under the Giving Trees and ready to wrap
by December 20th.
John Blackwell, Jeremy
Zamora, Tyla Williams, Joel Azure, Sharyl Whitesides, Vivian
Aldrich, Glen Fazakerley, Don Swink, Sean Faltz, Christy Miller,
Eric Olsen, Jackson Landis, Craig DeBoar, Trevor Shaw, Ramzy
Barker -- Ketchikan Indian Community Tyla Williams (IT, Media
Content Specialist) Joel Azure (Housing dept., Operations Manager)
Sharyl Whitesides (Social Services, Admin.Assistant) Glen Fazakerley
(Social Services, Batterer's Intervention Program Facilitator)
--- Boys and Girls Club John Blackwell, Jeremy Zamora, Christy
Miller --- Other Volunteers Vivian Aldrich and Don Swink
Photo by Dick Kauffman
The sponsors of Operation Christmas decorated Giving Trees at
various community locations with ornaments with the age and gender
of underprivileged children in our community. To share the joy
and love of the season with a child in need, community members
selected an ornament from one of the Giving Trees and would then
select a gift appropriate to the age and gender noted on the
ornament. The gift was returned to one of the Giving Tree locations
for "light up their eyes" distribution.
Ketchikan and Saxman are never
short of people who are willing to help out one another. Among
those volunteers helping with gift wrapping on Monday, December
20th, were the Boy Scouts of Pack 3, Webelos 1 &2. Dennis
Olsen is the Cub Scout Master of this pack. In addition to experiencing
the joy of helping others, the scouts will also receive credit
towards their Citizen's Badges. The wrapping Webelos were Craig
DeBoer, Trevor Shaw, Ramzy Barker, Jackson Landis and Eric Olsen.
Volunteers from the Ketchikan Indian Community were Glen Fazakerley,
Tyla Williams Sharyl Whitesides, Vivian Aldrich and Don Swink
and members of the Boys and Girls Club helping out with wrapping
included the Project Leader Christy Miller, John Blackwell and
Jeremy Zamora.
These special people working
together have shared the joy of giving and the joy of helping
others in need. Yes, Operation Christmas has been accomplished.
Related Story:
Operation Christmas: Share the joy
of giving
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