Thursday, November 8, 2007

DACA Seeking Sponsors For Christmas Gift Giving

The Dorchester Area Community Association (DACA) is again teaming with Blue Valley Community Action's holiday gift giving program.

For the past several years, DACA has created a brighter holiday season for less fortunate children and families in our area. Through the gift giving program, local citizens and groups adopt needy local residents and spread the warmth of giving during the holidays. DACA members have worked with the Blue Valley Community Action group in Crete on identifying needy participants. Recipients and donors remain anonymous.

Recipients' qualifications depend on income, job loss, unforeseen illness or disaster, etc. According to DACA leaders, Blue Valley Community Action does a great job identifying those in need. Last year, donors participating in the Blue Valley program supplied gifts to approximately 400 children in Saline County.

If you are interested in participating in the program and helping a local family this Christmas, contact or e-mail Dale Hayek at 402-641-4075 or dhayek@farmersco-operative.com by Tuesday, Nov. 13 -- the date of the next monthly DACA meeting. The collection location for the gifts will be the Farmers Cooperative office in Dorchester.

3 comments:

  1. This sounds like a worthy cause..... is there any way we can tell that our donations go to families in the immediate Dorchester area?????

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  2. The only way we know if the gifts go to immediate Dorchester families is if they are identified with Blue Valley Action. We have specified local Dorchester needy families in the past, but as a rule, Blue Valley Community Action compiles Saline County families. Most wish to remain anonymous.

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  3. Thanks Dale........

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