The Anderson County Review has partnered with the United States Marine Corps Reserve as a Toys-4-Tots drop location in Anderson County. Donations will be accepted from 8:00 to noon and 1:00 to 5:00, Monday through Friday until the end of the day Tuesday, December 5th. Only new, unwrapped toys will be accepted.
Toys-4-Tots has been a Marine Corps tradition since 1947, when Diane Hendricks, wife of Marine Reserve Major Bill Hendricks of Los Angeles, was looking for a way to donate homemade Raggedy Ann dolls to needy kids in the LA area, but couldn’t find an organization that collected toys for that purpose. Major Hendricks and a group of Marine Corps Reserve Officers organized the first effort and collected 5,000 toys that Christmas, through the placement of collection bins at Warner Brothers Movie theaters. Recently, the program expanded its mission to adopt a year-round literacy mission among needy kids and provides toys and books to Native American children as well.
