Red Cross Holiday Gift Run On Saturday, December 17th, Santa and his Elves set out from Princeton with an emergency services vehicle filled with toys and gifts. The Holiday Gift Run, a special day coordinated by Red Cross volunteers, brings holiday joy to children in area families who have recently experienced a home fire. Santa and a group of his Elves bearing gifts visited many of these families. One only needs to look at these children’s faces to experience a portion of the sheer glee witnessed throughout the day. This year’s Holiday Gift program helped bring gifts to 60 children in 27 families. ******************** We are sincerely grateful to those who helped fulfill the children's holiday wishes: Employees at Wilkin & Guttenplan, P.C. in East Brunswick The New Jersey Physician Assistants Foundation, Employees at Hase/Schannen Research Associates in Hamilton, Employees at Purdue Pharma L.P. in Cranbury, Red Cross Volunteers and thanks to: Rutgers Recreation for the donation of toys and stuffed animals from the Big Chill 5K Race, Employees at BlackRock who helped wrap gifts, Volunteer Photographer Julie Daigle for great pictures, and our wonderful Red Cross Volunteers for making it all happen! ******************** Every little good thing you do can make a big difference in someone’s life…
Special Thanks to our Sponsors! Thanks to our many wonderful volunteers who helped arrange, sort, wrap and deliver the many gifts for the Holiday Gift Run.
Employees at Wilkin & Guttenplan PC in East Brunswick have been generous supporters of the Red Cross Holiday Gift Run for years. Thousands participated in Rutgers’ The Big Chill 5K Race, held 12/10/11 in New Brunswick. In lieu of registration fees, race participants are asked to donate a new toy for charity. The Red Cross Holiday Gift Run is one of the charities. Thank you to Rutgers and all the runners! Red Crosser Kathleen Pearson helped with all the toys!	Happy Holidays! An Elf's Note to Holiday Gift Run Sponsors...	Employees from BlackRock volunteered and spent an afternoon helping Red Cross volunteers wrap gifts and toys generously donated for the Holiday Gift Run. The NJ Physician Assistant Foundation fulfilled many children’s gift wishes for this year’s Holiday Gift Run. Pictured are PA Foundation President Beth Hellstern PA-C loading gifts into the Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle with the help of Red Cross volunteer Ted Saunders.
	Employees at Hase/Shannen Research Associates in Hamilton fulfilled wishes and spent an afternoon at the chapter wrapping the gifts. Employees at Purdue Pharma L.P. in Cranbury supplied gifts for each child!