Please help these local kids have a Happy Holiday!

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“I can’t tell you how thankful our families are – it really means a lot!!”

The 2018 River’s Cares for Kids program works with Big Brothers, Big Sisters agencies in Brattleboro, Greenfield and Amherst to help provide Christmas gifts to 177 local kids. Won’t you help a local kid have a merrier Christmas this year?

Please visit our gift list right here. Pick a kid (or kids) to give a gift to. Follow the simple instructions on our site and bring the unwrapped, labeled gift to one of our drop-off locations by Sunday, December 9th :

– Amherst, Amherst Visitors Information Center, 35 South Pleasant St.
– Brattleboro, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Windham County, 83 Main St.
– Easthampton, Galaxy Restaurant, 60 Main Street.
– Greenfield, Magical Child and World Eye Bookshop, 134 Main Street.
– Northampton, Northampton Brewery, 11 Brewster Ct.
– Northampton, The River studios, 15 Hampton Ave.

Thank you to our sponsors, who help make this possible:  Alternative Recycling, Northampton Brewery, Fitness Together, Freedom Credit Union,  Galaxy, Renaissance Builders  and Tommy Car Auto: Country Hyundai, Country Nissan, Northampton Volkswagen, Volvo Cars Pioneer Valley

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