Annual Angel Tree now in place for 2018

WARWICK — There is one popular holiday mainstay of the annual celebration of Warwick's Home for the Holidays that deserves more attention than many of the other traditions. .
The Angel Tree, located on Main Street between Akin's Drug Store and Newhard's The Home Source, is now on display and will be displayed throughout the holiday season.
The annual Angel Tree benefits the Warwick Ecumenical Food Pantry.
And this year the tree was completely refurbished by volunteer Olivia Quinones.
This is how it works:
• Passers by are urged to take a tag and purchase a suggested gift or supermarket gift certificate.
• Then drop it off at Track 7 Postal Center, 3 Forester Ave., at the corner of Colonial Avenue or Keller Williams Real Estate at 1 Galloway Heights just off Galloway Road.
• Suggested gift items include books, toys, games, hats, gloves, scarves, socks and other items listed on the Angel Tree.
• And checks made out to the Warwick Ecumenical Food Pantry are also welcome.
"The mission of the Warwick Ecumenical Food Pantry," said Food Pantry Director Glenn Dickes, "is to provide food assistance to the neediest families in the Town of Warwick. We devote ourselves to this throughout the year.
"At Christmas," he added, "the Angel Tree provides an opportunity for better off members of the community to donate a toy or clothing accessory to children of pantry families.
"Susan and I are deeply grateful," Dickes concluded, "to Betsy Mitchell for mounting and decorating the Tree, and to the Newhard family for allowing the use of their fence every year."
- Roger Gavan