Community Corner

The Holiday Toy Store Needs Your Help

Find out where you can drop off toy donations to make the holidays brighter for local families.

The Holiday Toy Store is in its 25th year of serving families with financial need from Brookline, Mont Vernon, Milford, and Amherst.  

This special event will be held on December 11th and 12th at the Veterans’ of Foreign Wars Hall – Harley Sanford Post, 14 Perkins Street in Milford.

At the Holiday Toy Store, families in need will have the opportunity to choose holiday gifts, free of charge, for their children ages newborn through fifteen years old.  

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This is a community effort, which brings non-profit organizations, businesses, churches and individuals together to enrich the lives of others less fortunate.  In the spirit of the season, we are asking for your generosity in supporting this effort with either a monetary donation or by dropping of a new, unwrapped toy.

We appreciate your tax-deductible monetary donation be made by December 3rd. Checks should be made out to “Holiday Toy Store” and can be mailed to P. O. Box 6, Amherst, NH 03031.

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New toy donations are collected at the community locations listed below.

Drop off locations:

AMHERST:

Black Forest Café

Amherst Library

Wal-MartMoultons

Amherst Middle School

Clark and Wilkins Schools

Spinal Corrective Center

Drs. Clark, Leighton and Thomas Dental Office

BROOKLINE:

Brookline Library

Brookline Sunoco

Richard Maghakian Memorial School

Capt. Samuel Douglas Academy

MONT VERNON:

Mont Vernon Village School

MILFORD:

Milford Town Hall

Wadleigh Memorial Library

Stop n Shop

People’s United Bank, Lorden Plaza

People’s United Bank, Rt101/Elm St.

Hampshire Hills

SHARE

St. Mary’s Bank

Shaw’s

Milford Middle School

Heron Pond Elementary School

Jacques Memorial Elementary School

Foodee’s

Power of One Chiropractic Center

For further questions about the Holiday Toy Store or for information regarding eligibility and registration to participate in receiving gifts, you can contact Lisa Emerson at 930-3565.


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