Help provide Holiday gift cards for Shoreline Schools teens and tweens

 

For more than 30 years the Shoreline PTA Council and the Shoreline Fire Department have worked together to provide food and gifts to those families within the Shoreline School District needing assistance during the holiday season.

The fire department solicits toys from our community while The Shoreline PTA Council organizes the collection of non-perishable foods and teen gift cards.

On December 12, all donations are distributed to families in a one-day, collaborative community event at Kellogg Middle School.

As needs have grown, so has the event, and for the last few years, Hopelink, the Rotary of Lake Forest Park, the City of Shoreline, and Dale Turner Family YMCA have joined our efforts to provide every child with quality food and gifts during the holiday season.  

Our goal is one gift card for every teen and “tween” ages 10-18. The greatest challenge of the Holiday Baskets drive is matching the number of teen gift items to the number of recipients expected to top 600 kids this year.

Donate gift cards ($15-25 or more from retailers such as Target, Fred Meyer, Amazon, Sports Authority, Best Buy, etc.) or make monetary contributions of any amount. The two ways to do this are by checks made payable to Shoreline PTA Council, note “Holiday Baskets – Teen Gifts” and mailed to Shoreline PTA Council 6.12, PO Box 55832, Shoreline, WA  98155 or to PayPal on the PTA website.

Teen gift cards can be taken to the office at your local school, dropped off at “The WORKS”, located at the North City Elementary portables, 816 NE 190th St, Shoreline, WA 98155  on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 pm between now and December 10, or delivered to Kellogg MS after 3:30pm on Friday, December 12.

Any way that someone chooses to help is most gratefully accepted.