Joan and Mike at the Carver Community Center after bringing in all the gifts collected for Carver kids by the Rowayton Fire Department. These mountains of gifts will now be wrapped by yet more volunteers. Holidays at Carver are always community events!
As they do each year, the Rowayton Fire Department collected a fire truck full of toys and other gifts for Carver kids.
The co-founders of the annual Rowayton Fire Department Toy Drive, Joan DeRegt and Mike Barbis, delivered all the donated gifts to the Carver Community Center yesterday. These mountains of joy constituted this holiday season’s veritable “plum pudding stuffed with good things.”
Rowayton’s volunteer fire department has been bringing great fun and wonder to Norwalk’s children for nearly 20 years.
Gifts include toys, sporting equipment, books and gift cards.
This is love in action, something Carver volunteers Joan and Mike are about all year long. There are many stories through the years described on Carver’s website pages and in Carver blog posts that exalt their names.
The magic of this holiday season never ends, and its greatest gifts are friends like Joan and Mike and their generous team of Rowayton volunteers. Though the world has grown weary this past year, the love these volunteers put into their giving keeps us all young and hopeful!