The Toys for Joy program is closing shop for the 2018 holiday season after another successful campaign to help our community.
Because of the generosity of local businesses and community members, we collected over 5,000 toys for local children. Those toys were delivered yesterday morning to the Kent Food Bank.
A new part of our giving program is the addition of the Holiday Engine. The Holiday Engine (www.holidayengine.org) has been a part of Maple Valley for years, but now works with the Toys for Joy program due to the contract for services between Puget Sound Fire and KCFD43.
The Holiday Engine program has collected over $21,700 and 32,000 pounds of food for Maple Valley area families this holiday season, with one more weekend to go. Distribution of the donations is through the Maple Valley Food Bank.
Again, these programs can only be successful when we have the support of the community, and both would like to thank everyone for their donations, especially:
PODS
Reddaway Trucking
Fred Meyer
Walmart
Grocery Outlet
Starbucks
Toys for Joy and the Holiday Engine will be back in 2019!
