Oak Hill residents can help out their favorite charity by enlisting the aid of fellow neighbors. We encourage you to participate in any of these initiatives or start your own collection. To start your own, please contact Rita McKinney.

Ongoing food drive (Keyport Food Pantry, Lunch Break; coordinator: Rita) Contact Rita (rdas (at) comcast.net) Old TVs and computers that still work, gently used furniture (Affordable Housing Alliance; coordinator: Rita) Contact Rita (via email) and she’ll make arrangements to pick up the items from your house for this low-income housing organization. Easy, no cost way to get rid of large items.

Hotel toiletries (Emergency Housing for homeless adults, Freehold: coordinator: Rita) Contact Rita (rdas (at) comcast.net) and she’ll make arrangements to pick up the items from your house or you can drop them off (14 Lyon Road). Computers/laptops (> 1GHZ processor), thin-style monitors, keyboards, mice.(Family Resource Associates; coordinator: Steve Miller). Helps disabled overcome reading, writing, & vision limitations; Contact stevemiller (at) comcast.net to arrange drop-off.

 

Instead of throwing away, each of us can champion our favorite charity and get the neighborhood collectively to chip in, what a difference we can make! Not to mention that this is a nice way to get our children in-volved. Let’s make this a year of giving for Oak Hill residents.