FVCC to host CASA giving trees

The Flathead Valley Community College Service Learning and Campus Corps Office are hosting two holiday giving trees to bring some holiday cheer to abused, neglected, and abandoned children.

The trees will provide the children represented by Court Appointed Special Advocates with the opportunity to receive gifts they may not otherwise have received this holiday season.

CASA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to speak for the best interests of abused, neglected and abandoned children in the courts in order to provide those children with safe, permanent and nurturing homes.

This year, there has been a steady increase in children entering foster care, and a gift card or a new, unwrapped toy, book, clothing item or other gift could make this holiday season just a little brighter for a child in foster care.

College students and employees and the general public are invited to donate gifts for those children in need. Their ages range from infant to 18 years old.

The trees will be located in the Blake Hall foyer and in the Arts and Technology Building foyer on the FVCC campus through Dec. 7.

To make a donation, remove an ornament from one of the trees, and purchase an appropriate gift for the gender and age specified on the ornament. Attach the ornament to your unwrapped gift and return the gift to the Service Learning Office inside Blake Hall by Dec. 7.

For more information on the holiday giving trees, contact Wendy Jeschke at 756-3372. For more information about CASA, call 755-7208.