Saturday, December 13, 2025
2,000 Toys and $20,000 in Donations for Children
'Stocking the holiday store: Firefighters, Tarr drive donate to Cape Ann Kids for holidays' | By Stephen Hagan and Andrea Holbrook | Gloucester Daily Times
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"The shelves of the Cape Ann Kids Holiday Fund’s holiday store will be filled with toys thanks in part to the work of Gloucester firefighters and Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr’s North Shore and Merrimack Valley Holiday Toy Drive, and the community’s generosity."
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"On Thursday, Tarr and a band of volunteers spent the afternoon picking up toys and donations made at the Cape Ann stops of the North Shore and Merrimack Valley Holiday Toy Drive, and delivering them to Pathways for Children on Emerson Avenue.
About 2,000 toys and about $20,000 in donations and gift cards were collected by the drive. The drive stopped in 14 locations, each with a designated charity so that gifts stay in the community, the Gloucester Republican said.
“Our fundraising goal was $10,000 and we nearly doubled that!” Jessica Margiotta, Tarr’s director of communications, said.
Toys and gift cards donated at three stops — Woodman’s of Essex in Essex, Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce at Dock Square in Rockport and Cape Ann Savings Bank on Main Street and Gloucester — went to the Cape Ann Kids Holiday Fund.
“Once again we’re so grateful for the outpouring of support for the kids,” Tarr said. “And I continue to be impressed by and thankful for the generosity of the community.”
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