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Jessica Rine, left, enforcement manager of the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley; Maddi Seavy, subordinate director; and Lt. Josh Stowers of the Wheeling Police Department look done a container of toys brought to WVU Medicine-Wheeling Hospital connected Thursday.
WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital received a transportation of toys Thursday, and the infirmary is going to stock them.
Members of the Wheeling Police Department and representatives of the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley made a peculiar drop-off of toys for children astatine the infirmary Thursday morning. There were dolls, trucks and different items near implicit pursuing the caller organisation of items collected during “Operation Toylift.”
The toys came successful a ample crate that was acceptable adjacent to the Christmas histrion successful the hospital’s main lobby. From there, galore are acceptable to spell upstairs to the pediatrics department, said Thea Gompers, manager of selling and nationalist relations for WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital.
What is near implicit volition beryllium sent to WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital successful Morgantown, she added.
Maxxis, McKenzie and Marie Rossini were 3 young visitors to the hospital’s lobby connected Thursday, and each was told prime a gift.
Maxxis took a dinosaur; McKenzie, a pinkish doll and sister Marie besides received a doll.
“Operation Toylift,” a associated charitable lawsuit betwixt the Wheeling Police Department and the Belmont County Sheriff’s Department, took spot Dec. 10 astatine the Ohio Valley Mall.
The United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley handled organisation of the toys and dollars collected that day. Executive Director Jessica Rine said $7,000 successful currency was collected this twelvemonth done the drive, and that it was provided to those successful need.
Assistance was provided to the nationalist done a fig of section agencies, including the Girls Scouts Black Diamond Council, the Tri-County Help Center successful St. Clairsville, Wheeling Health Right, the Belmont County Child Advocate Center, the Wheeling YWCA, and the Wetzel County Family Resource Network.
Wheeling Police Lt. Josh Stowers explained the artifact thrust was the thought of Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, who approached Belmont County Sheriff Dave Lucas with having an lawsuit involving instrumentality enforcement connected some sides of the river.
“It is what instrumentality enforcement does,” Stowers explained. “We emotion giving back, and that is 1 mode we bash it astatine the constabulary department. It’s decidedly thing that volition continue.”
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