Gilroy
Advent Group Ministries
• 90 Great Oaks BLVD, #108, San Jose, 95119, a drug
rehabilitation home for teenagers in the South Valley, is looking
for dollar donations or toys during the holiday season. For more
information call John Hungerford at 281-0708.
Gilroy
Advent Group Ministries
• 90 Great Oaks BLVD, #108, San Jose, 95119, a drug rehabilitation home for teenagers in the South Valley, is looking for dollar donations or toys during the holiday season. For more information call John Hungerford at 281-0708.
Good Shepherd Lutheran
• 1735 Hecker Pass Highway, is in need of food for its Second Harvest Food Bank Program and it Adopt-a-family food program. Monetary donations to the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund can be made by sending checks to the Church with “Pastor’s Discretionary Fund” written on the memo line of the check. Money will be used to anonymously help needy families.
First Baptist Church
• 8455 Wren Ave., Gilroy, needs food donations for its homeless program. For more information call 847-6000.
Mujeres Pueden Program
• 40 Hornlein Ct., Suite A, Gilroy, needs childrens gifts and monetary donations. For more information call Elena Grover at 846-8179.
St. Vincent DePaul
• 7680 Monterey Highway in Gilroy, north of downtown, is searching for dishes, pots and silverware. For more information call 842-4524.
St. Joseph’s Family Center
• 7950 Church St., Gilroy, needs turkeys, fresh or canned fruit and vegetables and other non-perishable goods. The center’s housing program begins Dec. 2, so it also is looking for cooking utensils, bed sheets, and other home furnishings for the low income families who will be housed for the winter months. For more information call 842-6662.
Morgan Hill
Toys for Tots
• Toys for Tots always needs help during the holidays. Call the Morgan Hill Community Action Group at 776-1808.
Future business leaders of America
• FBLA is collecting donations of household necessities, food, water, rakes, shovels, PDC pipes or monetary contributions so that gift certificates for items may be purchased for Croy Road fire victims and will again perform Thanksgiving miracles by collecting and distributing boxes of food and fixings for needy families.Please call the FBLA adviser at 202-6144 for further information or questions.
Kiwanis
• The Kiwanis needs help decorating downtown for the holidays. The fun is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 7. Volunteers will install lights in trees and organize the center median display. Call Barbara 776-7818 for more information.
• Kiwanis Holiday Parade, Dec. 14, needs 30 parade marshals to work from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Training, vests and flashlights will be provided. Call Barbara at 776-7818.
Community Service Officers Association
• The “Acts of Kindness” Drive will run through the end of November. New and used coats and gloves will be accepted at the Morgan Hill Police Department, 17605 Monterey Road. The coats will be made to benefit day laborers, so sizes medium to extra large are preferred. Donors dropping off items after 5 p.m. will need to press the intercom on the right-hand side of the front doors.
The St. Catherine’s Day Worker Committee will be responsible for distributing the coats.
As a service during the holiday season, The Dispatch will print a list of places in need of donations throughout the holidays. If you would like to add the needs or your organization to the list, published each Friday, The Dispatch would like to include it. Please fax the information to 842-2206, e-mail it to ed****@****ic.com or mail it to the Dispatch, Charity Digest, P.O. Box 22365, Gilroy, CA 95021. Have items to our office no later than noon on Monday for that Friday’s paper.
