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DeWitt County Angel Tree Sees Every Child Adopted This Year

The DeWitt County Angel Tree Program's distribution is this evening.

This year, Angel Tree saw almost six hundred children registered for the program, and all the kids this year will be adopted. Director of the DeWitt County Angel Tree Program Sue Calvert is extremely pleased with this. She says the boxes the kids receive are nearly full but some last minute shopping is needed, which is not unusual.

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Something Calvert has wanted to do for some time now but has run into some minor conflicts, is for the youth to get involved and help the elderly. She says this will be something special because the youth want to get involved and be a part of it. Calvert explains the 5th graders at Webster school will be making stockings and distributing them with items the elderly throughout the community.

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Angel Tree is a part of a year long program called Samaritan Room, which is involved in several different ways and is run on volunteer support alone. Calvert says there are so many organizations throughout the community that step up throughout the year to provide help. She thanks those from high school students to girl scouts and cub scouts and various clubs as well.

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Calvert feels having the youth involved is teaching them good lessons and habits.

She adds they will be taking adoptions until Christmas. For those wanting to learn more about how to be adopted, contact your local Community Action. First time applicants are the only ones going to be accepted at this point, Calvert says it is because those who been a part of the program in the past have missed the deadline.

The program continues to accept donations, and while Calvert says they do not need volunteers at this time, there are other ways to get involved. To find out more you can contact Sue Calvert at suecalvert@gobbx.com. Angel Tree of DeWitt County is also on Facebook, you can find them by searching DeWitt County Samaritan Room and Angel Tree.

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