The Kent Island High School field hockey team volunteered with Adopt-A-Bear. Members filled out tags for the “bears†to go on trees.
Megan Harper of Stevensville donates gifts for two needy children in the county as part of the Queen Anne’s County Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Adopt-A-Bear program, available at the Kent Island branch of BankAnnapolis.
CHESTER Queen Anne's County citizens and businesses will provide Christmas for 1,200 of its youth this year through the Adopt-A-Bear program.
The last day to drop gifts at area locations was Dec. 6, but the program is still in need of unwrapped presents and monetary donations to cover children not adopted.
Volunteers shopped and wrapped gifts for the remaining children, who weren't adopted, nearly 600 in the four-county program last year.
It takes at least $50 to $75 per child to provide just the basics such as coat, warm clothes and a toy or two.
Last year, some was covered by monetary donations, the rest was charged. The program just recently paid off the bill from last year, said coordinator Heather Tinelli.
With an even slower economy this year, she and other coordinators anticipated an even more unmanageable number of unadopted children in Caroline, Talbot, Kent and Queen Anne's counties.
In an effort to save the program, which originated in Queen Anne's, they decided to return to its roots.
"We were faced with the decision of no program or a smaller program," said Tinelli. "We decided to just handle Queen Anne's this year, where it started."
The program is coordinated through the Queen Anne's County Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Foundation for Community Partnerships. Even as the program grew to the other counties, coordination remained in Queen Anne's, so there will be no change in management, Tinelli said.
Families are invited to participate in the program if they qualify for the free and reduced lunch program through the county's public school system. The number of respondents is up 50 percent in Queen Anne's County, from 800 last year.
The entire number served in four counties last year was 2,000.
Unwrapped gifts may be dropped off at the Chamber of Commerce on Postal Road in Chester by Dec. 8.
Monetary donations are accepted all year long, but the sooner the better, said Tinelli. They may be mailed to P.O. Box 553, Stevensville, MD 21666. Because of the association with Foundation for Community Partnerships, all donations are tax-deductible.
Call 410-643-8530 or email for more information.
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