Niverville Service to Seniors and the local Girl Guides teamed up this year to give a few local seniors an early visit from Santa.
Throughout November and the beginning of December, Justina Penner, Community Resource Coordinator for Service to Seniors, put a call out to the community for gift donations. Over the course of the month, she received enough gifts for 25 seniors. The donated items have included Christmas candies, baking, socks, toiletries, and puzzle books.
“We distributed gifts collected by the community via Facebook to the residents of Pleasant Plaza,” explains Penner. “Eleven were delivered [on December 11], and the rest will be distributed in our community to seniors who live alone and or have recently lost their spouse, by myself and Eddie Walker who did the collecting and packaging.”
This is the second year that this event has taken place, and in addition to the gifts it included the Girl Guides and their parents serving cookies they had baked to the seniors. The girls also sang carols for the seniors. Chicken Chef also donated twenty-five $15 gift cards that were distributed to each senior receiving a gift.
“It was very well received, a blessing to the seniors,” Penner says.