Unionville High students give back, make Toys For Tots

Tech Ed. department continues multi-year tradition of building toys for the holidays The 3-D Autodesk Inventor file of the toy chicken, as created by Paige Harlan. EAST MARLBOROUGH — Although this is the season for giving, few things are as precious as items that are handcrafted and built with love for those less fortunate. Once again, the Tech Education classes at Unionville High School are producing...

AAA to host Toys For Tots drop off sites

As shoppers head to the stores and take to cyberspace to do their holiday shopping this Friday, AAA Mid-Atlantic hopes they’ll consider adding a gift to donate to Toys for Tots. AAA Mid-Atlantic is pleased to serve as a public donation site to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots gift drive to benefit local children in need. AAA members, our associates and the general public may bring a new, unwrapped...

Unionville students build holiday cheer for needy kids

Hand-made toy crickets are stored on a rack in the Unionville High School Tech Ed. Department. The toys — which will be given to area boys and girls in need through the U.S. Marines’ Toys For Tots program — are entirely built and designed by the school’s students, a tradition now dating back a decade. EAST MARLBOROUGH — While Santa’s Workshop is justifiably well-known for making...

Reps. Corbin, Truitt ‘battle’ to help Toys For Tots

Each year, the United States Marine Corps Reserves oversees “Toys for Tots,” a holiday toy drive to benefit children in need, with a number of Chester County municipalities and government agencies participating as drop-box locations.  Two area lawmakers whose offices have served as drop-off sites decided to take things to a new level this year. Rep. Becky Corbin (R-155, which represents part...

Making holiday dreams come true

UHS Tech Ed students make wooden helicopters for Toys for Tots By Karen Cresta, Correspondent, The Times A rendering of the final product: a hand-made wooden helicopter, 100 of which Unionville High School students produced as their annual donation to the Toys For Tots program. EAST MARLBOROUGH – With little more than two weeks before Christmas, children across Chester County are dreaming of the...

People of Chester County doing ‘good stuff’ in a fun, easy-to-read format.

Got ‘good stuff’ to share?…Like what you see? Contact kim@chescotimes.com and “like”us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheTimesOfChesterCounty  (Submissions are due by the 15th and 30th monthly; subject to editorial review.) Giddyap…WHOAH!…Lauren Evans, Westtown Friends 9th grader & member, Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds Pony Club (and her horse, ‘Bada-Bling’)...

60 years of giving: KACS kicks off holiday campaign

Support needed for local 2014 holiday food, coat & toy campaign  By Kim Chiomento, Staff Writer, The Times The KACS 2014 Toys for Tots Co-Chairs: Mike & Debbi Sears with their children Ben & Maddi. KENNETT — This year, Kennett Area Community Service (KACS) proudly celebrates its 60th anniversary of helping the lesser fortunate within our communities.  Founded in 1954 by the simple,...

UHS Tech Ed collecting Toys For Tots

EAST MARLBOROUGH — The Unionville High School Technology Education Department, with support from the UHS PTO, has a long history of making roughly 100 wooden toys during the holiday season and donating them to Toys for Tots. This year The UHS Technology Education Department is also a toy collection location. Please consider dropping off new, unwrapped toys to any UHS Tech Ed classroom or to the collection...