The staff at the Anderson County Detention Facility has volunteered to let the facility be used as a Toys For Tots drop-off center for Christmas 2014.
Gifts for children that are new or unopened will be accepted in the drop-off box located in the Detention Facility lobby at 308 Public Safety Lane in Clinton. The box will be available to the public from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day until Monday, December 15.
Toys For Tots is an official activity of the United States Marine Corps and a mission of the Marine Corps Reserve, a press release said. First founded in 1947, the U.S. Marine Corps adopted Toys For Tots and expanded it into a nationwide community action project.
Now an international project, in 2012 Toys For Tots distributed almost 17 million toys to more than seven million children across the world, the release said.
The local Toys For Tots program is sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Company D, 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 2101 Alcoa Highway in Knoxville.
The release said Anderson County Sheriff Paul White and the jail staff are proud to help provide toys and gifts to the children of Anderson County.
For more information, you can call the Detention Facility at (865) 457-7100, extension 117, or visit the Toys For Tots website at www.toysfortots.com.
For local information, contact Staff Sergeant Sergio Nunez of the USMC at sergio.l.nunez@usmc.mil.
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