photograph by: Picture by Joselyn King
Jessica Rine, left, govt director of the United Method of the Higher Ohio Valley; Maddi Seavy, affiliate director; and Lt. Josh Stowers of the Wheeling Police Division look by way of a field of toys delivered to WVU Drugs-Wheeling Hospital on Thursday.
WVU Drugs Wheeling Hospital acquired a supply of toys Thursday, and the hospital goes to share them.
Members of the Wheeling Police Division and representatives of the United Method of the Higher Ohio Valley made a particular drop-off of toys for kids on the hospital Thursday morning. There have been dolls, vehicles and different objects left over following the latest distribution of things collected throughout “Operation Toylift.”
The toys got here in a big crate that was set subsequent to the Christmas tree within the hospital’s primary foyer. From there, many are set to go upstairs to the pediatrics division, stated Thea Gompers, director of promoting and public relations for WVU Drugs Wheeling Hospital.
What’s left over might be despatched to WVU Drugs Kids’s Hospital in Morgantown, she added.
Maxxis, McKenzie and Marie Rossini had been three younger guests to the hospital’s foyer on Thursday, and every was instructed choose a present.
Maxxis took a dinosaur; McKenzie, a pink doll and sister Marie additionally acquired a doll.
“Operation Toylift,” a joint charitable occasion between the Wheeling Police Division and the Belmont County Sheriff’s Division, passed off Dec. 10 on the Ohio Valley Mall.
The United Method of the Higher Ohio Valley dealt with distribution of the toys and {dollars} collected that day. Government Director Jessica Rine stated $7,000 in money was collected this yr by way of the drive, and that it was offered to these in want.
Help was offered to the general public by way of a lot of native businesses, together with the Women Scouts Black Diamond Council, the Tri-County Assist Middle in St. Clairsville, Wheeling Well being Proper, the Belmont County Little one Advocate Middle, the Wheeling YWCA, and the Wetzel County Household Useful resource Community.
Wheeling Police Lt. Josh Stowers defined the toy drive was the concept of Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, who approached Belmont County Sheriff Dave Lucas with having an occasion involving regulation enforcement on each side of the river.
“It’s what regulation enforcement does,” Stowers defined. “We love giving again, and that’s a technique we do it on the police division. It’s undoubtedly one thing that may proceed.”