The Beacon, a local helping agency in Bourbon County, is still in need of people to adopt a family for Christmas buying.
“We had 112 families needing to be adopted this year and have 31 remaining,”Ashley Heathman, assistant director of the Beacon said. “These are all Beacon clients with children still in school.”
“The families I have remaining are three families with four children,
four families with three children, seven families with two children, and seventeen families with one child,”she said.
“A majority of the remaining children to be adopted are teenagers mixed in with a couple of younger children,” she said. “Those who would like to adopt would need to come into The Beacon between 9 am and 1 pm this week by Friday at close to adopt the families. The presents drop-off is on Dec. 18th and 19th at Community Christian Church between 9 am and 1 pm. The minimum spending limit per child is $40.00. Gifts need to be wrapped and tagged with the child’s name and family number provided on the papers given during the adoption process.”
“The Adopt-A-Family program is a project that The Beacon takes great pride in,” said Heathman in a prior interview. “We help local Bourbon County families bring Christmas to their homes. After the application is filled out, we make the families available for the public and organizations to come in and ‘adopt’. They then purchase gifts for the children and The Beacon puts together a rather large holiday meal package for the family. The children’s Christmas gifts are purchased, wrapped, and tagged with the family number and dropped off at Community Christian Church, where we sort into the proper family group.”
Those who want to adopt a family can come to The Beacon, 525 E. Sixth, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to pick the family they want to adopt or call 620-223-6869.
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