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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: December 23, 2020
Editor:
Every year the Rotary Club of Edmonds provides gift giving trees to support the Snohomish County CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates for Children) and the Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Programs (VGAL). These programs provide court-appointed special advocates for children who are victims or alleged victims of sexual abuse, physical abuse, or neglect. This year, we had a herculean 285 requests to fulfill. Miraculously, we filled all requests!
With COVID, our main tree always situated at Harbor Square Athletic Club, but since it was in lockdown, we had to rely on many new elves to help us: Chris Dufore and Jesse LaCasse and their crew and patrons of Gallaghers’ Where U-Brew; Dick Mergens and Shawn Dowling and their crew and patrons of Crucible Brewing in Everett; David Doane and his pharmaceutical crew and clients of Axis Pharmacy of Mountlake Terrace, and my fellow Rotarians, who greeted patrons at the Perrinville Sunday M