STILL TIME TO PROVIDE GIFTS FOR CHILDREN

It's not too late to give: Toybox is extending its toy collection into this week in an effort to collect enough toys for all the boys and girls on the Toybox list.

Toybox gifts will be delivered by a team of Jaycee Santas Thursday.

While collection of gifts began to pick up at the end of last week, the Toybox is not yet full.

Volunteers are working frantically to make sure each little child who is hoping for a Christmas present this year will receive one. But it has been a struggle.

If anyone has been thinking of donating a toy, now is the time. One toy given by you means one more child will receive a holiday gift.

The campaign is successful each year because of the individual efforts of hundreds of people each giving a toy. Some people do give more. In fact, some people give very generously to help provide a Merry Christmas for the city's needy children.

Toybox is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Jaycees and the Southeast Missourian newspaper.

Donations of new, unwrapped toys are requested. Also donations of new coats, mittens, hats and warm clothes are needed.

Gifts may be dropped off at the Southeast Missourian, 301 Broadway, West Park Mall, Capital Bank, AmeriFirst Bank, Farm and Home Savings Association, Gulliver's Travel Agency and Perry Travel Center.

Cash gifts may be sent to Toybox, P.O. Box 699, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 63701.

For more information, call Kim McDowell at 335-6611.