AlpenFolk to play at Key Club fundraiser
November 26, 2008
By Laura Geggel
Volunteer groups in Snoqualmie Valley are asking people to volunteer a few dollars to buy gifts for parents and grandparents who have sparse wallets this holiday season.
C.J. Williams and Amy Smith put toys into one of the collection boxes at Mount Si High School.
Mount Si High School’s Key Club and the Snoqualmie Valley Kiwanis Club are banding together for another year to encourage gift giving through the Giving Tree Foundation. Both groups have placed boxes in schools and businesses around the Valley to collect unwrapped presents for children from birth to age 17.
“Most people shop for little kids, but we do also need toys for teens,” junior and Key Club member Amy Smith said.
All of the toys will be distributed to local families, “to help other kids have a brighter Christmas,” said Tina Maloney, the chair for the Kiwanis’ Giving Tree Foundation.
Families who are in need can sign up to receive gifts at the Sterling Savings Bank from 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 146 W 2nd St., North Bend. Sign up lasts from Dec. 1-16. To learn more, contact Tina Maloney at 888-1616.
The Kiwanis Club will invite recipients to browse through gifts at the Si View Metropolitan Park District, 400 SE Orchard Drive, North Bend Dec. 18-19.
Gifts will be given points according to their cost, with more expensive gifts receiving more points. Each family will receive a number of points depending on how many children they have.
“In the past we’ve served about 140 families,” Maloney said. “It does take quite a pile to do. Kiwanis clubs are doing their best to facilitate the gift-giving process. The Key Club visited the North Bend Senior Center and decorated collection boxes they later placed at Mount Si High School, Opstad and Snoqualmie elementary schools and Snoqualmie Middle and Chief Kanim middle schools. The drive ends Dec. 12.
The Kiwanis Club has created collection places at 13 local businesses in Snoqualmie, North Bend and Fall City. Each business will have a Christmas tree with tags that list a child’s gender, age and gift suggestion for patrons to take and later return with a present.
Participating businesses include Ace Hardware, QFC, Safeway, The Ridge Supermarket, Mike’s Cascade Grill, Zoka’s, the North Bend Library and Hauglie Insurance Agency in Fall City, among others.
Presents valued at $10 or more will win people admission to the Key Club’s second annual Christmas Benefit Concert. The concert, featuring AlpenFolk and the student choir Mount Si Yuletide, will be held in the Mount Si High School auditorium at 7 p.m. Dec. 13.
Two of AlpenFolk’s members are well-known employees in Snoqualmie Valley schools. Snoqualmie Elementary Principal Cori Pflug and her husband, Mount Si Counselor Thomas Tilton, started the group in 1987.
“It’s always a pleasure to play in our own backyard,” Tilton said, adding their music would be “a Christmas program with an Alpine twist.”
AlpenFolk normally performs in Leavenworth.
Key Club members encouraged the community to attend the concert with either $10 or a $10 gift to gain admittance.
“It helps out the community,” Smith said. “One of our neighbors could be in need of toys.”
Senior and Key Club member Kayla Mclain agreed.
“It’s going to be a great holiday event,” Mclain said.
Two Rivers School toy drive
Two Rivers School is holding another Valley toy drive. Students in the school’s leadership class are asking for new or gently used toys and clothing for children from birth to 18 years old.
The school will donate the toys to Hope Link, the Operation Santa Program and other local organizations.
Donations can be dropped off at Two Rivers School or North Bend Elementary from Dec. 1-12.
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