Community Corner
RAINE Seeks to Give Gifts to Those in Need This Holiday Season
The Hazlet based charity provides assistance to Bayshore area residents.
With just a few days left, Patti Dickens of Reaching All in Need Everyday, is hoping one last push for donations will but RAINE over the top.
The group is collecting toys for 2,600 children age 0 to 18 and plans on delivering many of them Wednesday, with a little help from Santa Claus himself.
“All of the families are in need,” said Dickens. “A very big percentage of them are Sandy victims…We definitely still need toys and we still families coming in.”
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Dickens says the RAINE is in need of toys for all ages, but donations for teenagers are often hard to come by.
“The age group we never seem to have enough for is 14 and up,” she said. We need gift cards, or make up or wallets and we really don’t get much of that.”
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Based in Hazlet, RAINE serves the Bayshore community by providing food, clothing and assistance during the holidays, and various other necessities for families in crisis. Donations for this year’s toy drive will continue until Tuesday.
Donations can be brought to the old Shop Rite building, 1030 Route 36, in Hazlet, from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Monday and Tuesday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m Saturday. If you’re in the area, volunteers are also needed to help sort and wrap the gifts, and come Wednesday, the packages will be picked up by Santa Claus and hand delivered to families in the area.
Other donations sites include:
Ihop of Keyport
Hazlet Township School
Hazlet Township Offices
Hazlet Township Police
Hazlet Recreation
Perkins of Hazlet
Union Beach Boro Hall
Jakeabobs Of Union Beach
Buhler Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ram of Hazlet
Tom's Ford in Hazlet
Power Center (Red Bank and Ocean)
Comrise Inc
Mater Dei High School
Mulberry Market
Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck
Weight Watchers Middletown
Red Bank YMCA Swim Team
Holmdel Theatre Company
Park East of Hazlet
Octane Strength and Conditioning
Tischler Realty
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