HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Home Instead Senior Care office serving Hutchinson is participating in the Be a Santa to a Senior® program again this year.
The program provides gifts and companionship for lonely and isolated seniors. The program is made possible by the generous support of area nonprofit organizations, retailers, numerous volunteers and members of the community.
“There are so many seniors, right here in the Hutchinson area, who have nothing and no one,” said Cindy Miller, 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 has partnered with First Bank Kansas, Boy Scout troop 306, Boys and Girls Club of Hutchinson and The Medicine Shoppe to help with the gift collection and distribution.
Participating retail locations will display the Be a Santa to a Senior Christmas trees 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.
“We have seen, firsthand, how much this program means to local seniors,” said Miller. “Without it, there would be seniors for whom the holidays would pass without even a visit.”
You can find a Be A Santa To a Senior tree at First Bank Kansas at 1600 E. 17th and at The Medicine Shoppe at 1401 N. Main in Hutchinson.
For more information about the program, visit BeaSantatoaSenior.com or call 620-662-5556.
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