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phone cards, games, socks and
stamps. A list of recommended items
is available. Persons who would like
to participate in the project should
contact the project information line
at 425-284-2240 by early December.
For further information about
CCS holiday programs in the King
County area, contact Josephine
Tamayo Murray, CCS King County
agency director, at 206-328-5701 or
josephinetm@ccsww.org.
CCS Northwest
The annual Holiday Giving
Project and Community Dinner,
a project of the Snohomish Family
Center in Everett, provides lowincome
families with gifts, food
certificates and food baskets during
the holiday season. Families submit
a wish list of clothes and toys;
donors select items from the list,
purchase and wrap the items, and
take them to the family center. For
the community dinner, CCS invites
all persons who are hungry to enjoy
a home-cooked hot meal, prepared
by volunteers. Further information
is available from Sharon Paskewitz
at the Snohomish Family Center,
425-257-2111.
The CCS Hope House Christmas
Project adopts 50 to 60 families in
the Whatcom County area. These
families each receive three toys, one
outfit, and one stocking per child,
as well as a gift for each parent.
Members of Assumption parish in
Bellingham who take tags from the
parish “Angel Tree” provide the gifts,
and classes at Assumption School
adopt one or two families. Individual
families and community groups
also adopt families. The families
pick up the gifts at Hope House a
few days before Christmas. Further
information is available from Cheri
Woolsey, at Hope House, 360-223-
6141.
The Giving Tree is organized by
volunteers from Sacred Heart Parish
in Bellingham, in collaboration with
the CCS Whatcom Family Center in
Bellingham. The program provides
gifts for families and children in
need. Each recipient usually has one
“wish” and one “need” fulfilled. Gift
tags can be chosen from the Giving
Tree during Masses at Sacred Heart
Church, beginning November 20.
CCS staff will pick up their clients’
gifts in the parish hall December 8
and 9, and distribute them as clients
come in for services.
Further information is available
from Ellen Fryxell at the Whatcom
Family Center, 360-676-2164.
Carefully wrapped and filled “Shoeboxes of
Joy” await delivery to low-income elders and
persons with disabilities.
CCS Southwest
The Tacoma Community
Christmas Dinner will take place
on Christmas Day, December
25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the
Tahoma Family Center. The event
provides a holiday meal for families
and individuals in need. In addition,
hot meals are delivered to some 200
homebound elderly and disabled
persons in the Pierce County area.
CCS assumed sponsorship of the
dinner when the Red Cross ended
its contract with Pierce County to
provide senior nutrition services. Toy
donations for children are accepted,
but must be new, and in their original
wrapping, for ages newborn through
16. Gifts for children ages 5-13 are
most needed. Further information
about toy donations is available
from Pam Conn at 253-921-4668
or connpamela@yahoo.com. For
other information, and to volunteer,
contact Susan Schoberl at 253-474-
1200 or susansc@ccsww.org.
The Tahoma Family Center and
Volunteer Chore Services of Pierce
County collaborate on an “Adopt
a Family” project, which provides
food for Thanksgiving and gifts for
Christmas. Further information is
available from Linda Dombrowski at
253-502-2741 orlindad@ccsww.org.
The CCS Clark/Skamania Family
Center in Vancouver coordinates a
Family Assistance program during the
holidays. Family center staff work with
CCS Family Preservation Services
(FPS) and the local Salvation Army to
assist families in need, many of whom
are FPS clients. Further information
is available from Tami Kuzmovich at
360-567-2211 or 800-316-6454.
Archdiocesan Housing
Authority
During the holiday season, the
Archdiocesan Housing Authority
(AHA) invites friends, donors and
staff to “Shop AHA.” The Giving
Tree program has 10 locations
where handcrafted wooden toys can
be purchased, as well as at www.
ccsww.org/givingtreetoys/catalog.
php. The workshop is located at 2008
Westlake Ave. in Seattle. Further
information is available from Steve
Sterling at 206-340-1575.
AHA’s Noel House sells holiday
cards and CDs to benefit the
program for homeless women.
Further information is available at
www.noelhouse.org/index_holiday.
html, and from Gillian Parke at 206-
441-3210.
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