No. 16 Vol. 1
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January 2018
Caring Kids Puts Wraps On Most Successful Holiday Gift Drive Ever
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By Julie Ross he Millburn Township Public Schools’ Caring Kids organization held its most successful holiday gift drive ever this past holiday season, collecting more than 1,000 gifts for 192 special needs students at the New Jersey Regional Day School in Newark. Among gifts donated by members of the Millburn Schools community for the drive—Caring Kids’ seventh annual event of this kind—were 88 basketballs, 66 remote-control cars, 49 vet sets, and 30 boom boxes. Also collected were winter coats for 103 children, along with just more than $3,700 in ShopRite and Walmart gift cards to provide food and necessities to the youngsters’ families. Many families who received the gift cards face significant Pictured left to right, Julie and Kim.
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financial hardships and are grappling with food insecurity. Millburn Schools Community members helped to wrap the gifts during the Caring Kids annual holiday party at Hartshorn Elementary School in Millburn on Saturday, Dec. 16. Holiday gift drive Co-chairs Sharon Cohen and Kim Moore, both Short Hills residents, delivered most of the gifts to New Jersey Regional Day School on Mon-
day, Dec. 18 in a rented U-Haul truck. The remaining gifts were transported to the school by current Caring Kids Chairperson Dorothy Kelly in her own car. Caring Kids is a district wide, parent-run organization, whose mission is to help children grow into compassionate, positive, and empowered members of society through character education programs in continued on page 2
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