Students collect for people in need

Various Flathead Valley Community College student organizations will collect clothing, food, toys and other items for local people in need this holiday season.

The organizations will each be collecting different items including non-perishable food items, new and gently used coats of all sizes, unwrapped toys, hygiene products, socks and gloves.

Participating organizations include student government, Phi Theta Kappa, the Veterans’ Association, the Gay/Straight Alliance, TRIO and Appreciating Individuality, Challenges and Excellence.

Staff and students from each will donate the collected items to One Warm Coat, Toys for Tots and other nonprofit organizations for distribution.

Donations can be dropped off in the lobby of Blake Hall through Dec. 15.

The college’s student engagement office will also be collecting gifts for children beginning Nov. 27 through “giving trees.”

The donation stations, will be located in the lobbies of the Rebecca Chaney Broussard Center for Nursing and Health Science, Blake Hall and the Arts and Technology buildings on campus.

Those interested in donating can 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 the unwrapped gift, and return the gift to the Service Learning office in Blake Hall by Dec. 12.

For more information, contact Jill Seigmund at (406) 756-3834.

Reporter Mary Cloud Taylor can be reached at 758-4459 or mtaylor@dailyinterlake.com.