Firefighters from Collier Township’s three departments collected Toys for Tots at Great Southern Shopping Center over the past two weekends.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Mike Jones
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Firefighters from Collier Township’s three departments spent the past two weekends collecting Toys for Tots. The firefighters collected toys all day Saturday and Sunday next to the Texas Roadhouse at Great Southern Shopping Center. They collected boxes and boxes of toys that filled a Kirwan Heights ambulance. They also received two bicycles for kids. Tiffini Marucci and her two sons, Jake and Nico dropped off toys and got to meet the firefighters and look at their trucks on Saturday afternoon. Firefighters from Kirwan Heights, Presto and Rennerdale also collected toys toys for the organization last weekend. Do you have photos of the Toys for Tots drive? Upload them to this story! Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for…
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Great Southern Shopping Center
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The family of 2-year-old Maddox Derkosh is asking people to donate toy construction trucks to a children's charity in memory of their son, who died tragically at the Pittsburgh Zoo on Sunday. Trucks can be donated at Slater Funeral Service in Scott.
The Derkosh family of Whitehall is asking that interested parties, in lieu of flowers, donate toy construction trucks to a children's Christmas charity in memory of 2-year old Maddox Derkosh, who died tragically at the Pittsburgh Zoo on Sunday. The trucks are being accepted right now at William Slater II Funeral Service on Greentree Road in Scott Township. They will also be accepted at Derkosh's funeral Mass at St. Bernard Church in Mt. Lebanon at 10 a.m. on Friday. Friends will be welcomed for a viewing of Maddox at Slater Funeral Service from 2 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, according to Maddox's obituary on the funeral service's website. Maddox was visiting the Pittsburgh Zoo with his mother when he fell from the top of a platform railing to …
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Daughter of a Kirwan Heights Fire Department EMT helped to organize a toy drive for other kids.
- HOLIDAY GUIDE
- Mike Jones
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Little Madison Podurgiel was watching television with her family when she came upon a disheartening realization during the holiday season. A commercial from the Marine’s Toys for Tots campaign showed the need for donations so less fortunate children could have a nice Christmas. “You mean there’s kids who don’t have toys for Christmas?” Madison asked her mom. “We have to do something about that.” So 6-year-old Madison told her mother, Renee, who is also the secretary and an EMT for the Kirwan Heights Volunteer Fire Department, that she wanted to help other children. Now the entire fire department is organizing a toy donation over the next few weeks to help underprivileged kids. “We were looking at doing this next year, but (after Madison’s …
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Michael Quinlan
10:52 pm on Sunday, December 9, 2012
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