Be a Santa to a senior Home Instead Senior Care’s annual event, Be a Santa to a Senior, began Monday. Volunteers can choose from 600 names on Christmas trees at businesses in Mahoning and


Tree locations: Optiview Vision Center, 5537 Mahoning Ave., Austintown; Optiview Vision Center, 1040 Youngstown Warren Road, Niles; Walgreens at state Route 46 and Mahoning Avenue, Austintown; Walgreens at Meridian Road and Mahoning Avenue, Austintown; Walgreens, 3800 Tippecanoe Road in Cornersburg; Walmart on Millennium Boulevard off Elm Road in Bazetta; and Belle Sole De Spa, 945 Boardman- Canfield Road, Boardman.

The deadline to have gifts turned in is Dec. 10. Take your gifts to the business where you picked up your senior citizen’s name, or take it to Home Instead Senior Care at 45 N. Canfield-Niles Road.

A wrapping party will be Dec. 12 at Home Instead.

Volunteers are welcome at the wrapping party. Call 330-729-1233 for more details and to indicate you are coming.

Gifts will be delivered Dec. 16.