The Christmas Angels program provides moderately-priced gifts to low-income, disadvantaged youth in South Pacific County, Washington. Local banks put up Christmas trees each season which are adorned with angels that have the name of a child in need and his/her Christmas wish on them. Visitors select angels, purchase the gifts, and put them beneath the tree, wrapped and labeled for the child.

Unfortunately, not all the angels are chosen from the tree, so, with your help, the Rotary Club raises funds to purchase those gifts so that no child will go without on Christmas morning. In addition to fund raising, the club advertises and then puts together a call center for those wishes to be phoned in. We wrap the presents that we purchase and those that come to the banks unwrapped.

This outstanding program was created and run by the Long Beach Grange for many years. When the Grange had to let go of the program, Rotary stepped in to fill the void with their volunteers’ help.

More help is needed to make sure each angel’s wish is fulfilled. Can you imagine what it’s like to be a child who receives no gift on Christmas morning? You could be the person who makes sure that doesn’t happen, for at least one child. As you shop for your loved ones this year, why not add to your list a little something for an angel or two? Better yet, let the children in your family help you shop and wrap a gift or two for children who are less fortunate – spread the spirit of the season! And make a little angel smile on Christmas morning.

Cash donations may be dropped off here at beachdog.com (1517 Pacific Ave N in Long Beach, WA) or mailed to Rotary Christmas Angels, PO Box 606, Seaview, WA 98644.  For more information, contact Rotary Christmas Angels Chair Shirley Pryor-Pyne: 360-642-2789