Tag: postholiday

Post-holiday Toy Fund donations roll in

May 14—Every charity should have friends like the Drummond family. Josiah H. Drummond and Anne (Strahan) Drummond were a young married couple in Portland in 1949 when they made a donation to a new charity that set out to buy Christmas gifts for a thousand children whose parents could not afford them. As the charity […]

Post-holiday batteries ripe for recharge

The electronic gifts you gave in December may have drained batteries by now. Some electronics come with low-quality, single-use batteries, ensuring a toy or device works long enough to make it unreturnable to a store. Perfectly good toys end up in thrift stores or garbage carts because parents get tired of replacing single-use batteries. But […]