“Four days before Christmas, elementary school students came outside to find bags and boxes of toys.
There are toys for all of the roughly 300 students at Duanesburg Elementary to give some smiles in a tough year.
“This is so exciting,” said Principal Andrea Conover. “In a school year that has been tremendously hard and difficult and nothing like the kids have ever experienced, this kind of brings a little excitement and joy back here.”
The Schenectady County Sheriff’s Department organized this surprise giveaway, working with the Marines’ Toys for Tots.
“When the lieutenant reached out and said ‘Hey, is there anything we can do to help these kids this year out of the school,’ we said absolutely,” said SSgt. Patrick Lurenz, Coordinator of Capital Region Toys for Tots.”
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Channel 13 News 21 December 2020.