Kingston family turns bottles into toys for holiday giving

With the vacation play accelerated approaching, 1 Kingston household is erstwhile again moving to guarantee children successful request person toys nether the tree.

For the 3rd consecutive year, the Venus household is collecting bare bottles and selling wristbands arsenic portion of their Venus Family Toy Box Initiative.

“I emotion knowing that we’re helping radical that wouldn’t cognize what we’ve done to help,” Mike Venus said.

The inaugural began with the household collecting bottles, raising conscionable implicit $2,500 successful its archetypal twelvemonth to acquisition toys for donation. Now successful its 3rd year, the effort has grown to see selling wristbands to scope adjacent much donors.

“It’s progressed implicit the years that we’ve incorporated much stuff, similar we merchantability our fancy bracelets now,” Mike said.

The wristbands person besides provided a mode for individuals who don’t portion oregon are successful betterment to participate.

“Especially for those who are recovering oregon don’t drink, that was our affirmative solution,” Sarah Venus added.

With little than 2 weeks near successful November, the household is making a last propulsion to cod arsenic galore empties and merchantability arsenic galore bracelets arsenic possible.

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“The boys wanted to merchantability 100 bracelets successful their past period earlier announcing their goal, and that was benignant of the main idea,” Sarah said.

The household plans to denote their full fundraising efforts connected Dec. 1, followed by a artifact buying spree. The culmination of their enactment volition instrumentality spot connected Dec. 12, erstwhile they present the toys to the Cataraqui Mall’s Toy Box.

“December 12th, we’re going to caput down to the Cataraqui Mall and donate each the toys to the Toy Box that’s there,” Sarah said.

The Venus household is anxious to spot however their inaugural continues to grow, with hopes of inspiring much assemblage engagement successful the Greater Kingston area.