Essex County Sheriff’s Workplace to ship toys and coats to households in want

The Essex County Sheriff’s Workplace shall be spreading vacation cheer to much less lucky households locally on Tuesday, December 17.

For greater than 30 years, the Sheriff’s Workplace has collected toys and delivered them to youngsters whose households cannot afford items for the vacations. Along with the toys, sheriff’s officers additionally offered new and gently used coats to youngsters and their households by way of native faculties, church buildings, meals pantries and homeless shelters.

This 12 months, Essex County Sheriff Armando P. Fontoura and sheriff’s officers will depart from the sally port entrance in the back of the Veterans Court docket at 50 West Market Road in Newark at 10 a.m. to make particular deliveries. The primary cease shall be La Casa de Don Pedro, 75 Park Ave., Newark. The second cease shall be Fourteenth Avenue Elementary Faculty, 26 Speedway Ave.

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