Donations to Help Seniors Spread Christmas Cheer

Article presented by Horizon Connects

A campaign is underway to help shut-in senior citizens spread Christmas Greetings. 

The idea came to Gracelyn Blaney as a way of coping with the grief of having lost loved ones. 

“She recently lost two very influential seniors in her life” said Blaney’s mother, Melinda. “She lost her grandmother and another person who was just like a grandmother within just a few months.”

Gracelyn decided to spread Christmas cheer by collecting Christmas cards for seniors to share with others.

In a Facebook video, 10-year-old Gracelyn explained “My grandma lived in senior housing and she wasn’t able to afford a bunch of Christmas cards… We’d love to keep giving out her Christmas cheer.”  Blaney asks viewers to go to their local dollar store and purchase a pack of cards to be donated to seniors so they could have greeting cards to share.

Blaney even has her 4-H Club, the Junior Livestock Growers, involved.

Donations of cards are being collected at the Chillicothe-Ross County Public Library’s Main branch at 140 South Paint Street and the North Side branch at 550 Buckeye Street and American Legion Post 62 on West Main Street.

In the words of Gracelyn “Thank you and have a Merry Christmas.”