The push to collect toys this Christmas season for the less fortunate children in our area is underway with the Marine Corps Reserve and Toys for Tots.
The annual Toys for Tots Campaign directed by the Marine Reserves kicks off with a big event Monday from 4-7 p.m. at Brookshire Brothers Gaslight location in Lufkin.
Every year in Angelina and Trinity counties, Brian Crews and his group of hard working volunteers put together the Toys for Tots Drive. Their big toy drive event is coming up this Friday and Saturday (Dec 4th and 5th) in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter in Lufkin.
If you happen to see some military troop carrier trucks with a conspicuously looking banner draped across it that reads "MARINE CORPS RESERVE...Toys For Tots", that's the place to hand over a newly unwrapped gift to be distributed to less fortunate children around East Texas.