Carr Funeral Home, Inc.

05/07/2025

This organization is still in need of a location for toy storage this holiday season. They serves so many families throughout the Blackstone Valley every year.

01/07/2025

Resolutions. Intentions. Goals. Premortems.

“Don’t wait until the end to decide if you are proud of your life. Do it before it’s too late. Do it while you can still do something about it.”

Forget about making a New Year’s resolution. Have you tried imagining your deathbed?

01/04/2025

Thank you again to all who donated either at our Fill the Sleigh toy drive or at another local toy drive location.
The impact of the generosity of our community is great and appreciated!
💕🤶🏻🎄🎁

The Toys for Kids & Teens 2024 Campaign is officially over.
We can tell everyone that we serviced 342 families. Using that 342-family number, we can say that 816 children received toys for Christmas.

There are so many people to thank for this year's success. First, let's thank the volunteers that manned the Toy Center spending countless hours sorting, collecting, and packing toys for the families. Kathy, Christina, Sara, Sue, John, Bill, Bob, Ken, Jack D., Rebecca, Danny, Trent, Devon, Caleb, Garet, Stephen, Noah, Ashlyn, Chase, Jessica, Joel, and Eva.

The following are those that made this year's campaign a success. We are very proud of your efforts and behalf of the children. Some brought many toys, and some brought a couple of toys. We appreciate you for your contributions.

Northbridge Pools, Carr Funeral Home, Northbridge Police Department, Uxbridge Police & Fire Department, and the Grafton Police & Fire Department. Studio East of Uxbridge, Gaudette Insurance of Grafton & Whitinsville. Anonymous Friend. Planet Fast Pitch. The Richmond Group. Wal-Mart of Whitinsville, and Hannaford's Market. Omni Control Technology, Inc., of Whitinsville. Randy & Carolyn Schmidt. Helder Machado and Molly Gasperi of WS Development. Shine Construction. Amy Fragala-Dance Sensation. Bridget Curley and Struggles & Snuggles. Fire & Ice Motorcycle Club. Homefield Insurance. Schlesman Realty Group. Ace-HVAC. Jodi & David Connelly, and the Grafton Lions Club.

The Town of Northbridge for allowing us to use the facility to house our Toy Campaign.

Just a quick note to all of our Toys for Kids & Teens followers. It appears that this may have been our last campaign at our current location. The building is scheduled to be torn down. We are in talks with the Town of Northbridge to see what our options might be. At this time, we feel that we will be moving. To where, we don't know but will keep everyone notified.

Those of us at Toys for Kids & Teens would like to put a shout out to all those agencies, churches and other groups that took care of needy families and children this past Christmas season. After all, "it's all about the kids".

Finally, congratulations to the Northbridge Police Department for winning this year's Toys for Kids & Teens trophy for collecting the largest number of toys during the Fill the Cruiser Event.

We must apologize for not mentioning the most important aspect of the toy drive. That aspect is You!

You are the person that went out and purchased a toy or toys and donated it to our drive.

To the hundreds of people throughout the Blackstone Valley that made a great Christmas for so many kids...God Bless You.

12/21/2024

Yesterday morning I had one last climb to the top of the scaffolding just as the crew arrived to begin to dismantle it all. I sure will miss the view from the top!

12/05/2024

A SINCERE THANK YOU to our big-hearted community for helping make our 3rd annual Fill the Sleigh toy drive supporting Toys for Kids and Teens a resounding success! Almost 200 toys were donated this year! We're grateful for the opportunity to connect with familiar faces and make new friends— and we can't wait to do it all again next year! 🎄🤶🏻🎁

11/30/2024

Santa’s reindeer are here!!
10-1 today
Drive Through and Drop Off
See you soon!

11/26/2024

Reminder- this Saturday, from 10-1
We will be collecting toys to fill the sleigh as part of Shop Small Saturday.

All toys benefit Toys for Kids and Teens and Blackstone Valley families.

11/15/2024

Look up!!

Here’s a peek at what else is happening. The carpenters have been busy on the tower as well.
Where original pieces cannot be salvaged, new pieces are made.

I guess after almost 160 years some parts are sure to wear out.

11/11/2024

Look at her now! As good as new. Remarkably, there are only a couple of missing pieces and the iron work is solid. The painters were able to scrape down to bare iron. The entire top here is metal. The cylinder in the center most likely held a lightening rod.
The detail is incredible.