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Season's Greetings '90
Gift trees make a difference for Eugene, Springfield’s children
Chris wants a Nin|a Turtle calcula
tor and cash Latrice wants a
Barbie doll at Shopco." Nikki
wants a big. big. big skateboard.' and
Arron wants a video game because he
never getted one of those before
These four and five year-old pre
schoolers from the Pearl Buck Center
are just one group of many to have a
gift giving tree set up for their benefit
The Pearl Buck Giving Tree is for stu
dents and their siblings from low in
come families whose parents are devel
opmentalfy disabled Pearl Buck s tree
is located in the 5th Street Market
The Voluntary Action Center of the
YMCA has two trees in Eugene The
Tree of Joy is in its 11th year al the Val
ley River Center and a back up tree is
located in Payless Drug Store on 29th
Avenue and Willamette Street
These trees benefit people from
Adult and Family Services. Children's
Services Division. Lane County Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Disabilities Services Office, and Lane
Council ol Government's Senior Ser
vices Division
Lane County Relief Nursery has four
trees Its main Tree For Children is in
Oakway Mall, and Security Pacific Bank
set up three additional trees in their
branch offices for the Reliel Nursery
The Relief Nursery trees benefit their
clients who are low income, develop
mentally delayed, abused and neglect
ed children Their siblings also receive
gifts
The Springfield Jaycees have two
giving trees for low-income children
from Springfield schools and the Breth
ren Housing complex The trees are lo
cated in Fred Meyer on Q Street in
Springfield and in the Springfield Mall
off Mohawk Boulevard
Costco's Have A Heart Christmas
Tree is set up in their store off Coburg
Road to benefit homeless people from
the three main shelters in town
All 10 trees work the same way Felt
ornaments are cut out by volunteers
ranging from preschoolers to senior cit
izens First names, ages, and requested
gifts are written on paper and attached
to the ornaments (the Jaycees. howev
er. leave the gift choice up to the do
nor)
The person wishing to donate a gift
chooses an ornament, buys the gift,
wraps it and returns it to the tree with
the ornament attached, preferably by
the second week of December
The presents are routinely collected,
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and recipients are called to pick them
up Sometimes volunteers deliver the
gifts to those who are unable to pick
them up
The YMCA has the largest number of
recipients. Last year, the agency col
lected 4,300 gifts and distributed them
with volunteer help from Beta Sigma
Phi and the Eugene Rotary Kathy Ask,
Director of the Department of Human
Resources Volunteer Program, said so
far "we re pretty much batting a thou
sand."
The Pearl Buck Giving Tree program
began last year and was quite a suc
cess, said preschool teacher Ann Stu
art
Pearl Buck teachers write suggested
presents on the ornaments. These are
usually necessity items such as coats,
shoes and hats, but Stuart said they try
to give one toy to each child
The Lane County Relief Nursery
needs 250 gifts for its children ages six
weeks and up and the children's sib
lings
It's an absolutely wonderful out
pouring of the community," said Carol
Berkman, the agency’s director of de
velopment.
Both Costco and the Jaycees tree
programs differ from the other three
programs.
Three donated buses will bring 150
homeless people to a huge party at
Costco Layla McClellan, who helped
start the program, said Costco will pro
vide food and activities as they hand
out the gifts. The activities include
making cards, cookies and T-shirt deco
rations.
The Jaycees not only find gifts for
their 220 low income children, but they
take the children on a shopping spree
to buy gifts for their siblings and par
ents
The only problems the organizations
complained of were people bringing
back presents past the second week of
December and people taking tags and
not returning gifts
The YMCA seems to have the most
problems in these areas as a result of
their huge number of recipients
Ask said the problem with late gift
returns is it makes distribution difficult
and rushed If the gifts are not received
by the organization early enough, the
recipients may not receive them by
Christmas. Ask said
Problems aside, the five programs
combined give a little joy to at least
5,000 needy, disabled and elderly peo
pie —Wendy Fisher
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