Parade Follow-up
(This is the follow-article to the post below.)
Jennie Jones Giles
Times-News Staff Writer
The rain that fell on a cold day Saturday in Brevard could not dampen the spirits and goodwill of the residents and visitors who came to enjoy the Christmas parade and participate in the town's holiday Twilight Tour.
The mayor of Ellisville, Miss., Tim Waldrup, was nearly as popular as Santa Claus.
The city of Brevard "adopted" the town in Mississippi after a local Red Cross volunteer brought back reports of the devastation caused in the town from Hurricane Katrina.
Brevard Mayor Jimmy Harris, Tracey Love of the Rotary Club of Brevard, other club members and businesses in the community decided to use the Christmas parade to collect toys and deliver them to the children of Ellisville.
Mayors Harris and Waldrup rode on a float with 40 to 50 elves walking alongside with large Santa bags to collect the toys.
"There would have been no Christmas for the children of Ellisville," Waldrup said. "But now, thanks to the residents of the city of Brevard and all of Transylvania County, Christmas in Ellisville will happen and with an even more special meaning because it came as a true gift from a small city in North Carolina that cares about others."
More than 2,500 gifts and monetary donations have been received, Love said.
"So much, in fact, that the mayor of Ellisville has said that any overflow would go to the surrounding towns," she said as tears streamed down her face. "Here at Love's Jewelry, we have a steady line of people bringing in gifts. This has really renewed my faith in people as a whole."
All the town's gifts will be loaded on a truck and driven by Harris and several Brevard Rotarians to the town in Mississippi in about a week and a half, Love said.
Toys will be collected for at least another week. The locations are: Brevard City Hall, Love's Jewelry on East Main Street, State Farm Insurance at Water Oak Suites and the Brevard Chapter of the American Red Cross at College Plaza. Monetary donations should be made payable to the Rotary Club of Brevard, P.O. Box 375, Brevard, N.C. 28712.
Jennie Jones Giles
Times-News Staff Writer
The rain that fell on a cold day Saturday in Brevard could not dampen the spirits and goodwill of the residents and visitors who came to enjoy the Christmas parade and participate in the town's holiday Twilight Tour.
The mayor of Ellisville, Miss., Tim Waldrup, was nearly as popular as Santa Claus.
The city of Brevard "adopted" the town in Mississippi after a local Red Cross volunteer brought back reports of the devastation caused in the town from Hurricane Katrina.
Brevard Mayor Jimmy Harris, Tracey Love of the Rotary Club of Brevard, other club members and businesses in the community decided to use the Christmas parade to collect toys and deliver them to the children of Ellisville.
Mayors Harris and Waldrup rode on a float with 40 to 50 elves walking alongside with large Santa bags to collect the toys.
"There would have been no Christmas for the children of Ellisville," Waldrup said. "But now, thanks to the residents of the city of Brevard and all of Transylvania County, Christmas in Ellisville will happen and with an even more special meaning because it came as a true gift from a small city in North Carolina that cares about others."
More than 2,500 gifts and monetary donations have been received, Love said.
"So much, in fact, that the mayor of Ellisville has said that any overflow would go to the surrounding towns," she said as tears streamed down her face. "Here at Love's Jewelry, we have a steady line of people bringing in gifts. This has really renewed my faith in people as a whole."
All the town's gifts will be loaded on a truck and driven by Harris and several Brevard Rotarians to the town in Mississippi in about a week and a half, Love said.
Toys will be collected for at least another week. The locations are: Brevard City Hall, Love's Jewelry on East Main Street, State Farm Insurance at Water Oak Suites and the Brevard Chapter of the American Red Cross at College Plaza. Monetary donations should be made payable to the Rotary Club of Brevard, P.O. Box 375, Brevard, N.C. 28712.
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