Community Needs

12

Nov

Wichita – It Takes a Village to Make Gingerbread Houses

View the video. It takes a village to put on Gingerbread Village, a local gingerbread house-making event that draws thousands every year. It also takes 18,000 hand-cut graham crackers (sized for walls and a rooftop), 35 5-gallon buckets of icing and 1,836 pounds of candy and cereal, according to organizers. More than 200 volunteers are […]

09

Nov

Long Beach – Opens New Children’s Center

The need was there. The money is here, and now the facility has opened. Assistance League of Long Beach has begun serving more of the city’s children at the new Miller Children’s Center with needed orthodontic care, new school uniforms and school supplies.  Assistance League has been doing both of those things for some time […]