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Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores spoke to the media on Saturday, addressing a nonprofit groups push to have him sell the team.

It’s a holiday collective effort by the Pocono Record’s Toys for Joy program.  In 2019, thanks to our readers, the campaign raised $17,166. The money was distributed earlier this year to the Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network, the Salvation Army, and Pocono Services for Families and Children.  The gift of giving  Residents of Monroe County have been struggling to provide for their loved ones because of the pandemic. And for many, it came down to a difficult choice: Pay the rent and bi...

Share this article HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --  Confie, the nations leading personal lines insurance agency and parent to Freeway Insurance, is in its fourth year as a national 5-star sponsor for Toys for Tots. This holiday season, Confie employees and customers donated more than 4,500 toys for children throughout the United States, topping last years contributions by almost 40%. In addition to the donations collected in the field, Confie contributed over $2.6 mill...

Hundreds of toys given to families in Cape Girardeau County Hundreds of toys given to families in Cape Girardeau County By Mike Mohundro | December 20, 2020 at 5:15 PM CST - Updated December 20 at 11:17 PM CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) -Hundreds of toys were given out to families of Cape Girardeau County on Sunday. It’s part of the Toys for Tots Program ran by the Marine Corps League. People were able to come by and get their bag full of toys for their children this Christmas. People we ta...

Volunteer spotlight: Support for Toys for Tots keeps coming, even in the pandemic economy Modified: 12/19/2020 10:03:23 PM At first, Steve Smith was a little worried about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on his radio station’s annual Toys for Tots toy drive. “I had no idea what to expect,” said Smith, general manager at WCNL Country in Newport, citing the downturn in the economy and more people being out of work. At the end of the three-day drive, which took place in early Dec...

Pharmacy Discount Card givebackRx chooses Toys For Tots as December’s Charity Of The Month Share Article WASHINGTON (PRWEB) December 19, 2020 givebackRx, America’s newest pharmacy discount card that offers up to 80% savings on prescription medications, has partnered with the Marine Toys For Tots Foundation, which facilitates a program to collect new unwrapped toys and distribute them to less fortunate children at Christmas. "W...

By Web Desk Dec 17, 2020 9:44 PM PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) -- Vincennes University may not be Santa’s workshop, but it is a partner with the Marine Corps Reserve and keeps gifts for the Marines annual Toys for Tot program safe all year long at VU’s Logistics Training and Education Center (LTEC) in Plainfield. The 30,000-square-foot warehouse facility houses toys, books, and many other gifts that are safely tucked away until Santa’s big day, when more than 40,000 children in 13 ...

Marines collect toys and donations for the Toys for Tots campaign in 2013. (Mark Duncan/Associated Press) A Pittsburgh breakfast restaurant had planned to hold a Toys for Tots event alongside the far-right extremist group Proud Boys this week. But the event, scheduled to be held at the Crack’d Egg restaurant in the Brentwood borough, was without permission of the Marine Corps-affiliated charity. When Toys for Tots, started by a Marine reservist in 1947, found out about the unsanctioned e...

Toys for Tots volunteers ready gifts for families Toys for Tots volunteers ready gifts for families By Mike Mohundro | December 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM CST - Updated December 12 at 6:16 PM CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Thousands of toys were being sorted in bags for thousands of families on Saturday in Cape Girardeau. Volunteers met at the old Toys R Us building where they sorted and packed up bags of toys for children in Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott and Stoddard Counties. Volunteers said t...