Bringing Christmas to Whatcom County children since 1979!
December 1st at 5:30pm there will be a Project Santa planning meeting held at 311 Grand Avenue in the Sheriff’s Office conference room. Please use the entrance on Lottie St when entering the building.
Remember the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office is still collecting new unwrapped toys for the Project Santa Toy Shop. Toys maybe dropped by the Sheriff’s office during business hours.
Sunday, November 13th the 4th Corner Elites Car Club had their annual Project Santa Car Cruise and it was a huge success. The cars met by Starbucks in the Meridian/Cordata Shopping Center and headed to the courthouse rotunda under Whatcom County Sheriff Deputy escort to deliver their donated toys. Many of the cars where decorated in festive Christmas decorations.
If you have not heard of the 4th Corner Elite’s Car Club they are a wonderful group of car enthusiasts who love to drive and show their collector cars and trucks ranging from early 1900 classics to the Muscle Cars of the 1960′s and 1970′s. The non-profit club sponsors four car shows a year and raised money for local charities like Project Santa Claus and scholarship funds for students in the automobile field of study at both Western Washington University and Bellingham Technical College.
November 18th was the Whatcom County Project Santa toy sorting day at the storage unit in Sunset Storage. We had a great turn out of voluteers to help sort toys for the Whatcom County Project Santa Toy Shop. Project Santa is only able to help 125 children so in order to reach more children in the community the Whatcom County Project Santa Toy Shop was added to the Project Santa program. Organized by a Squalicum High School student Michael Reid, the toy shop is for those children who are not chosen to “shop at K-Mart” it allows for children to come and picks a special toy of their liking from the toy shop. Coupons for the Toy Shop are handed out by Whatcom County Sheriff’s Deputies, social/civic organizations and Whatcom County schools.
A huge thank you to our biggest toy donator the 4th Corner Elites Car Club, Whatcom County Fire Distric 4 and Saturna Capital. If you would like to donate to the Whatcom County Project Santa Toy Shop new and unwrapped toys can also be dropped off at the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office located at 311 Grand Ave in Bellingham.
A huge thank you to the Whatcom Hills Waldorf School for graciously volunteering to collect toys for the Project Santa Top Shop at their Holiday Faire. The Holidays Fare will be held December 3rd from 10am to 4pm at the Whatcom Hills Waldorf School located at 814 Austin St in Bellingham.
The Holiday Faire will include the Wooden Spoon Cafe with homemade soups and treats of all kinds, crafts workshops, and childrens activites.
