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We’ve finished our second wonderful summer camp session and are now continuing our educational efforts with our long-standing Tutoring program. We are keeping our community fed with Thanksgiving Dinners to supplement the staples provided by Peas & Grace and other local food pantries. When the holidays roll around, we’ll invite you to join us at the Community House for a festive time. Last year, dozens of children unwrapped gifts, the beautiful draft horses of the Shenandoah Carriage Company gave wagon rides around town, and picture opportunities with Santa gave everyone a chance to capture the memories. I will offer a Parent’s Day Out again, with kids enjoying a few hours doing crafts, watching holiday movies, and eating yummy snacks while parents get the shopping or wrapping done (or maybe sneak in a nap!)

 

I’m planning for next summer already, with repairs to the Community House high on the work list. It’s hard on an old building when hundreds of people come and go each year! The Jessie and Rose Loeb Memorial Foundation has granted TPCL $20,000 to replace the old, leaky, creaky windows. Even with this generous grant, we’ll need a bit more than that, as the repair list grows each season we occupy the House.

 

I enjoy working with the generous businesses and individuals in The Plains to ensure that there are funds to support these important programs. It is truly the gifts from individuals that make the biggest difference. It is amazing how much we can do with even the smallest of donations. Won’t you please consider sending us something so that you and your neighbors, big and small, children and adults, can continue to enjoy the special times TPCL creates here in our beloved town? I look forward to hearing from you!

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Erica Young