MCCX Deliver Over 2,000 Angel Tree Gifts

WARTBURG – Staff from the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) spent the morning delivering gifts to local school children.  Over 2,000 wrapped gifts were taken to the Morgan County School System’s Central Office to be given out to students who are enrolled in the Angel Tree program.  MCCX has partnered with the Morgan County School system for over 10 years now, taking hundreds of ‘angels’ each year.  This year MCCX officers and staff took 304 children from the Angel Tree.  Toy collections and fundraisers were held all year, collecting enough toys and articles of clothing to ensure each ‘angel’ received seven to eight presents each.

The donated and delivered gifts will be sent to children at the Petros-Joyner Elementary, Wartburg-Central Elementary and Morgan County Head-start.  “Some of the children in our school system may not receive any gifts this Christmas,” said Patricia Pace, Family Resource Director for Morgan County Schools.  “Thanks to the kindness and generosity of the officers and staff at MCCX, there will be a lot of really happy children this Christmas.  We’d like to thank the officers and everyone at MCCX for their continued support to our community and especially out children.”

“We love to do this,” said Larenda McCormick, Fiscal Director for MCCX and coordinator of MCCX’s involvement in the Angel Tree program.  “The children are the most important and valuable part of our community, and we want to make sure we do our part to look after them and provide them when we can.”