Buy local PJs and donate your old ones to area kids in need
Spring cleaning? If you’re a parent that probably means boxing up those fleece, footy pajamas and picking up some cotton bedtime threads for your kids. Here’s a chance to turn a routine purging exercise into a community deed times two.
Step one: Buy a pair of the PJs pictured below, which are either locally made or sold at a locally-owned shop. Sorry kid, no, Spider Man or Tinker Bell here, but your mom will be much happier looking at something else for a change.
Step two: Donate your kids’ old pajamas to Centre County children in foster care. Often, when children are placed in emergency foster care, they don’t have anything but the clothes on their back. There is a real need for pajamas for these at-risk children.
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Penn State and Centre County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), a non-profit advocacy group for abused and neglected children in foster care, are joining forces to gather gently used pajamas for foster children from newborn to 18 years old. They will launder, sort and package these pajamas and give them to Centre County Children and Youth Services to distribute to foster children as necessary. There will be a PJ drop box in the parking lot entrance of the State College Presbyterian Church (132 W Beaver Ave) from May 22nd until June 6.
 Store: Tadpole Crossing (S. Allen Street), State College; Artist: Karen Askey, BabyGoinPlaces.com, Port Matilda |
 Store: Tadpole Crossing (S. Allen Street), State College; Artist: Natalia Pilato, 466-4807, Boalsburg |
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 Store: Animal Kingdom (103 S. Allen Street), State College |
 Store: Animal Kingdom (103 S. Allen Street), State College |
 Store: Animal Kingdom (103 S. Allen Street), State College |
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