Mahanoy Staff Serve as Santas for Seniors

Between Toys for Tots, the Holiday Sharing Tree and other holiday gift drives, people have plenty of options to donate during this season of giving.

An additional program aims to supply gifts to a sometimes-forgotten population.

Santas for Seniors is in its third year at SCI Mahanoy, headed by Jackie Yanchulis and Janet Gronski. This program aims to help the residents at a nursing home receive gifts that they would not receive because of families being absent from their lives. With the gracious help of the employees at Mahanoy, a large variety of items have been donated, from blankets to socks to handmade hats, men's and women's toiletries, crossword puzzle books, word searches and much more.

Each year a new nursing home is randomly chosen, and these items are delivered in time for that nursing home's Christmas party. This year the Broad Mountain Health and Rehabilitation Center located in Frackville was chosen, and gifts were delivered on December 14, 2018.