Collects Toys of Community’s Children
Contact: Cindy Uken
Communications Director
City of Palm Springs
760.323.8250
December 17, 2007
Hoping to help ensure every child has a gift to open on Christmas morning,
residents of the Vista Las Palmas Neighborhood Organization combined their
first Holiday Home Tour with a toy drive designed specifically to help Palm
Springs youth.
The Holiday Home Tour, already destined to become an annual event, featured
seven holiday-decorated homes in the Vista Las Palmas Neighborhood, said
Sheila Cobrin, President of the Neighborhood Organization.
“I was an opportunity to see how some of the neighbors decorated for the
holidays, enjoy good food and socialize with our neighbors,” Cobrin said. The
tour was a huge success. There were seven great homes, and seven great
hosts and hostesses. At the last home there was a Santa Claus. We will
definitely do this again next year.”
But the three-hour tour on Sunday evening was about so much more than
socializing. The price of entry was a toy valued at $10 or more for distribution to
children in need.
“In the true holiday spirit, it was a charity even to benefit children in the Palm
Springs Community,” Cobrin said. “No child should go without something for
Christmas, and of course children like toys so that was the thrust of our
decision. We wanted to work with an agency that is very important to our wellbeing
in the City, and to be sure children in Palm Springs received them, so we
worked with the Palm Springs Fire Department to help collect and distribute
them.”
Palm Springs residents who are interested in organizing their neighborhoods
should call Lee Husfeldt, Director of Neighborhood and Community Relations,
at 323-8255.
