
All of the kids at the Noyes Home for Children have been fully adopted this Christmas through the Toyland Express, A Toy Drive held by K-Jo 105.5 and Olive Garden.
“We thought we had everybody adopted,” said Aaryn Sommers with K-JO. “I kept up with the Noyes Home and they just get kids in and out a lot it’s just kind of how it works and yesterday I got an email and I had six new kids.”
All 31 kids staying at the Noyes Home have been adopted according to Sommers, but it was close.
“They’re teenagers so they’re a little more expensive gifts and I didn’t know what to do and I’m like I’m going to have to figure out how to get money,” she said. “We had people bring in money and we were able to go shopping for these six new kids that needed five presents each.”
More than 100 community members took part in this year’s drive dropping off monetary donations and gifts to benefit the Noyes Home for Children and the Adopt-A-Family program.
“We did a lot here but It was our listeners and people who came in and donated and gave,” said Sommers. “We wouldn’t have been able to do this without them, there’s no way.”
All of the presents for the Noyes Home have been wrapped and are ready for delivery. A parade from the station located at 4104 Country Lane to the Noyes Home will take place tonight at 5 p.m.
“We’re going to eat and watch the kids open toys,” said Sommers.
The extra toys collected from the drive will go to AFL-CIO Community Services for the agency’s Adopt-A-Family Christmas program.