Dear Editor,
For the first time in many many years, Richmond Centre has not given the Richmond Christmas Fund a booth for wrapping gifts for shoppers.
The only place that Richmond Christmas Fund can be found is Landsdowne Centre.
With a change in management at Richmond Centre, they decided to give the space to another charity.
Did you know that the Richmond Christmas Fund supplied gifts for over 500 needy kids?
Did you know that many more families were helped at this time of year with food vouchers for their Christmas dinners?
Did you know that the Richmond Christmas Fund raised more than $14,000 from gift-wrapping at Richmond Centre and Landsdowne Centre (the majority of that from Richmond Centre).
Every charity has value in its work and their recipients are all deserving.
However, I ask each and everyone of you to take some time, drive over to Landsdowne Centre to get your gifts wrapped.
Many people, retirees, working people on their days off and high school students have devoted time to staff the booth to wrap your gifts, may they be Christmas gifts or birthday gifts. There is paper for that, too!
A final note, of the four ladies in the booth today, two of them do not celebrate Christmas.
Esther Caldes
Richmond
Volunteer gift-wrapper for Richmond Christmas Fund
