Sydney Rossman
Donations can be placed in the box in the front office.
From April 3 until April 13, Erin Lafferty will be collecting new stuffed animals, coloring books, crayons and reading books. The items will be donated to the New Market Volunteer Fire Department.
The Fire Department will then give the items to children who are:
Accident victims
Crime victims
Witnesses to a crime
Experiencing traumatic event
Coping with loss
Sick and/or injured
Erin Lafferty said, “The inspiration for my project came from a great non-profit organization called Project Smile based in New England.
Project Smile is a federally tax exempt non-profit organization. There goal is to provide all emergency respondents with comfort items to help ease the pain and fear of traumatized children.
There are donation boxes at the following places:
Linganore High School in the front office
New Market Elementary School
New Market Chiropractic
Bethesda Game Studios
York’s Automotive
The boxes at businesses will be collecting until April 25th.