Meals Metropolis and the Berry household are inviting the neighborhood to hitch their efforts to make Christmas a bit of brighter for needy kids by donating to the Johnia Berry Toy Drive.
The drive, now in its seventeenth 12 months, continues by means of Dec. 3. Specifically marked assortment containers are situated at space Meals Metropolis areas all through the Tri-Cities.
“Johnia was extraordinarily captivated with serving to kids and Meals Metropolis is proud to be a part of the annual Johnia Berry Toy Drive, which donates 1000’s of toys to needy kids in our space every year,” stated Steven C. Smith, Meals Metropolis president and chief govt officer.
New, unwrapped toys for kids ages toddler to 14 will be dropped off at collaborating shops. The toys will likely be distributed on Dec. 6, the anniversary of Johnia’s loss of life.
The Berry household has chosen quite a lot of native companies to obtain the toys, together with Tri-State Kids’s Residence, Highlands Group Companies — IDD Division, Secure Passage Ladies’s Shelter, Group Assist Middle of Northeast TN, Cumberland Mountain Group Companies (of Cedar Bluff, Virginia) and HOPE Middle of Greeneville, in addition to native colleges in Virginia and Tennessee.
Joan Berry began the toy drive in reminiscence of her daughter Johnia, a younger girl from the Tri-Cities, who was murdered in her Knoxville condominium in 2004. Johnia’s love for kids prompted her household to honor her reminiscence with the annual toy drive.
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