BE A SANTA

Everyone deserves to enjoy the warmth of the holiday season, and this year, area seniors who are alone or impoverished will be able to do just that.

Sponsored by the Home Instead Senior Care® office serving Lehigh County, the Be a Santa to a Senior® program provides gifts and companionship for lonely and isolated seniors.

“There are so many seniors, right here in the Lehigh County area, that have nothing and no one,” said Kim D’Amico, owner of the local Home Instead Senior Care office. “Through this program, we are able to show them that they are valuable members of our community and that people still care.”

Home Instead Senior Care has partnered with Boscov’s in Lehigh Valley Mall to help with the gift collection and distribution.

Participating retail locations will display Be a Santa to a Senior Christmas trees Nov. 6 to Dec. 11 that feature ornaments with seniors’ first names and their gift requests. Holiday shoppers can pick ornaments from the trees, buy the items listed and return them unwrapped (and with the ornament attached) to the store.

Program partners and volunteers will take care of wrapping and distributing the gifts to local seniors who might otherwise spend the holiday alone.

You can find a Be A Santa To a Senior tree at Boscov’s in Lehigh Valley Mall near the second-floor mall entrance.

For more information about the program, visit BeaSantatoaSenior.com or call 610-770-7773.