In case you didn’t see our Facebook post, we’re starting the New Year with a New Challenge! The gifts we pack for the kids are put into a brown paper grocery bag for privacy and that bag is then placed into a white plastic “gift” bag (some may think it looks like a trash bag but they are white drawstring bags that we purchase for our events). Area grocery stores have all been very generous with donating thousands of brown grocery bags…until now. It is getting harder for us to get the bags in the quantities we need -- approximately 5,000 each year. This is the challenge! Can you help us collect brown grocery bags? When you shop, please ask for paper instead of the usual plastic and before long, those bags will start accumulating. Tell your friends and neighbors, too. The tall bags are ideal for our use but we’ll be happy to take the smaller ones, too. Our goal for the months of January & February is 1,000 bags – let’s do it!! ❤❤❤

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