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Public’s generosity helps Toy for Joy surpass goal
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
Posted Jan 03, 2021
Don Alexander, a volunteer from Veterans Inc., carries a box to a waiting car as distribution of Toy for Joy gift boxes begins at the Salvation Army Springfield Citadel last month. (Don Treeger / The Republican file photo)
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SPRINGFIELD Children throughout three counties had a merry Christmas because the public showed its generosity at the end of an especially difficult year.
Are good people out there? There are many, many such people and they made the 2020 Toy for Joy campaign a success.
Toy for Joy is a cooperative effort by the Salvation Army with The Republican, El Pueblo Latino and MassLive to distribute gifts to families in need in Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties. ....

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