Be a Santa to a Senior

Staff report

The holidays are a time to celebrate the joy and warmth of the season with friends and family.

Home Instead Senior Care office, serving Mahoning and Trumbull counties, is helping to facilitate Be a Santa to a Senior, a community program that provides gifts and companionship to seniors who may be isolated from friends or family during the holiday season.

The program is made possible through the support of local businesses, nonprofit organizations, retailers, numerous volunteers and members of the community.

The local Home Instead Senior Care office has partnered with Guardian Angels Trumbull County Probate Court, Catholic Charities, Ahepa, Warren Scope and various local nursing homes to help with gift collection and distribution.

Holiday shoppers are invited to participate in Be a Santa to a Senior by picking up a paper ornament at a participating location, which will display Be a Santa to a Senior trees now through Dec. 9.

The trees will display ornaments featuring seniors’ first names and their desired gifts.

Holiday shoppers can choose an ornament, buy the requested gift and return it to the store with the ornament attached.

There’s no need to worry about wrapping – community volunteers and program partners will wrap and deliver the gifts to local seniors in time for the holidays.

Be a Santa to a Senior trees can be found at the following locations:

Belle Sole Salon, 8414 Market St. No. 5, Boardman

Classroom Aerobics & Training Studio, 84 Westchester Drive, Austintown

Classroom Yoga & Pilates, 169 W. Market St., Warren

Curves, 812 N. State St., Girard, or 7050 Market St., No. 102, Boardman

Daily Grind, 824 N. State St., Girard

Flynn’s Tire, 4985 Mahoning Ave., Austintown

Golf Dome, 1300 N. State St., Girard

Optical Solutions, 6006 Mahoning Ave., Austintown, or 2658 Niles-Cortland Road, Warren

Super Kmart, 2100 Niles-Cortland Road SE, Warren.

For information about the program, visit BeaSantatoaSenior.com or call 330-729-1233.