4,000 toys, $2,000 in cash collected in Marines' Street Bikers United Toys for Tots Run
The 35th Annual Street Bikers United Toys for Tots Run this past Sunday yielded more than 4,000 toys and more than $2,000 in cash donations for the Marine Corps’ 2009 Toys for Tots Hawaii collection effort.
There are two weeks left in the collection drive, and the goal is to collect 45,000 toys, the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific said in a news release. Every toy and every dollar donated to purchase toys stays in Hawaii.
Since 1996, Toys for Tots Hawaii has collected nearly 640,000 toys and more than $350,000 to purchase toys for distribution to nearly 400,000 of Hawaii’s children
For information on toy drop-off sites, visit www.toysfortots.org/ and select Hawaii, or you can find them on the Toys for Tots Hawaii Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toys-for-Tots-Hawaii/92191513370.
For more information on upcoming Toys for Tots events, call 257-7125.