{"id":7719,"date":"2021-12-17T05:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:10:27","slug":"holiday-gifts-for-low-income-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/2021\/12\/17\/holiday-gifts-for-low-income-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Gifts for Low-income Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps no one outgrows \u201cstockings hung by the chimney with care\u201d and \u201cvisions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads.\u201d Assistance League\u00ae<\/sup> of Bend volunteers ensure that the holiday wishes of local seniors are fulfilled through their annual Secret Santa program.<\/p>\n

Seniors at 17 long-term care facilities in Bend, La Pine, Redmond and Sisters will receive special holiday gifts, handpicked for them by their Secret Santa. Facility representatives speak with residents and obtain personalized gift requests, including size, color and interests. Many of the requests are touchingly simple \u2014 a plump pillow, a cozy blanket, warm socks in a favorite color, towels and underclothes. Others reflect long-held interests such as a book on military history, crossword puzzle books, love of animals \u2014 or a sweet tooth \u2014 chocolates and caramel corn. The volunteers enjoy hunting for the perfect gifts to brighten the holidays for the often-forgotten seniors. With the pandemic, some items, like sweat shirts and sweat pants, were hard to find last year as the country hunkered down at home. One volunteer shopper shared that \u201cEven Amazon was out of all but a few small sizes in neon colors. This year, I\u2019m doing my Secret Santa shopping early!\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cSecret Santa Squad\u201d, dressed in holiday colors and festive Santa hats, loaded up their \u201csleighs\u201d yesterday and delivered the beautifully decorated packages to 341 seniors; just in time for Christmas. \u201cThe enthusiasm from both Assistance League of Bend members and our community volunteers will make a happy difference in the lives of seniors this year,\u201d says Meredith Kellogg, Secret Santa program chair. \u201cTo be able to fulfill a request for something as simple as a pair of fuzzy slippers, new pajamas or a \u2018really red\u2019 lipstick reminds us that kindness is easy!\u201d Click here to see the Secret Santas in action on KTVZ.<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact Secret Santa at programs@assistanceleaguebend.org<\/a>\u00a0 or 541-389-2075, to learn more about the gift program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps no one outgrows \u201cstockings hung by the chimney with care\u201d and \u201cvisions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads.\u201d Assistance League\u00ae of Bend volunteers ensure that the holiday wishes of local seniors are fulfilled through their annual Secret Santa program. Seniors at 17 long-term care facilities in Bend, La Pine, Redmond and Sisters will receive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20438,"featured_media":7725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secret-santa","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}