Over 40 Children on Angel Tree this Year
With the holidays in full swing, the Wessington Springs High School (WSHS) Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapters have been focusing their energy on projects that will benefit community members, one of which consists of organizing the local angel tree.
This year, the FCCLA Chapter was able to gather the names of 42 children within the community that they feel need to be on the tree. These children are recommended by teachers and carried over from lists of previous years. The children recommended for the tree are those that teachers feel may not receive many gifts for Christmas, if any at all.
“I have never really been that involved with the angel tree project, other than wrapping and delivering the gifts, because of confidentiality reasons. This year I am able to be a cochair for the project and have really enjoyed it,” said FCCLA Treasurer, Riley Roduner. “Knowing that I am helping not only children, but also their parents have a better Christmas, makes me feel really good. I think we tend to take for granted what we have even if we don’t think it's much. There is always someone, somewhere, that has it worse than us, even in our own communities and we may not even know it. I think putting on this project every year is a really good way to help those that don’t have as much as we do, have a better Christmas.”
If you are willing to join the FCCLA Chapter and help brighten a child’s Christmas within our community, please consider giving to the Angel Tree, located at Jensen’s True Value. Please bring the unwrapped gifts and the card of the child you chose to the high school by Thursday, December 15. The gifts will then be wrapped and delivered to the children the following week.
