David Morales, who oversees Toys For Tots, stands alongside a small pile of gifts dropped off at the old Ace Hardware store on Center Street, which has become a staging area for the program. InkFreeNews photo by Dan Spalding.

WARSAW – Sign up for the annual Toys For Tots program began today in Kosciusko County.

Sign up hours are Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 2 and 3, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday at the old Ace Hardware Store in Warsaw, 1701 E. Center St. 

Some teddy bears are waiting for a home. InkFreeNews photo by Dan Spalding.

Parents or legal guardians need to have a picture ID; for the children, a Social Security card, or a birth certificate or Medicaid card for each child being signed up is needed. If parents are signed up with another agency already for help, then they can not sign up with Toys For Tots.

• Annual WNDU Toy Drive is Saturday, Dec. 7, at Martin’s from 7-11 a.m. with Tricia Sloma and Kimberly Newman

• The local toy drive will continue until Dec. 16. 

• Toys will be delivered on Dec. 21 from Ace Hardware starting at 8 a.m. 

• Suzie McEntire will return to Warsaw at Lakeview Middle School Dec. 14, for a benefit concert supporting the local Toys For Tots campaign, starting at 7 p.m.

• The WCHS FCCLA club will again be teaming up with Toys For Tots as they collect gifts with Trinkets for Teens. For details, contact Dena Lancaster at the high school.

• Any donations can be dropped off at Parkview Warsaw.

Drop off points

In Kosciusko County: All Dollar General stores; State Farm Offices on Market Street and North Detroit Street; McAlister’s Deli; Hacienda; Shops at Winona Lake; Home Helpers; Monteith Tire; Side House Grill; Main Street Bar and Grill, Milford; Titus Funeral Home; Maple Leaf Farms; CVS of Warsaw; Walgreens of Warsaw; Walmart; Meijer; Stock & Field (Formerly Big R); Parkview Warsaw; All county fire stations; Mutual Bank of Warsaw; Beacon Credit Union; WRSW/Willie 103 Radio Station; Menards; Martin’s and all Freedom Express Gas Stations in the county.

In Marshall County: Advance Services Inc. of Plymouth; Advance Auto of Plymouth and Advance Auto of Bremen; Freedom Express in Bourbon

The national website is: www.toysfortots.org.