From Lebanon PA-
For nearly 60 years, a group of women from Lebanon County churches has been delivering holiday stockings filled with toiletries and other goodies to residents of nursing homes and other facilities.
But, due to dwindling participation, the project might not be around for another 60.
Church Women United on Thursday delivered nearly 1,700 holiday stockings to 18 facilities in Lebanon and Berks counties. The facilities included nursing homes, Wernersville State Hospital, the Agape Family Shelter and the Lebanon Rescue Mission
"I enjoy helping people out," said Linda Clawser of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Lebanon as she packed stockings into a box Thursday. "I just recently retired, so I'm looking for things to do."
Eva Readinger, left, and Linda Clawser, both of St. Luke s Episcopal church in Lebanon, pack stockings filled with toiletries and goodies into a box Thursday at St. James Lutheran Church in Lebanon. (Lebanon Daily News - Brad Rhen)
The items were collected by area churches and packed into the stockings. On Thursday, the stockings were brought to St. James' Lutheran Church at Second and Chestnut streets in Lebanon, where they were loaded into boxes and taken to the facilities.
Eva Readinger of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Lebanon, chairwoman, said the project started in 1951.
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