TOYBOX GIVING CAN BE DONE IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Individuals give to the Toybox campaign in different ways. Families add children on the Toybox list to their own holiday shopping lists. Businesses, clubs and schools hold Christmas parties to gather toys for needy children.

This year, customers making purchases at West Park Mall during the holiday season can use their receipts to help less fortunate children.

The mall is offering a Christmas shirt for $7 each when customers present $100 in mall receipts at the customer service center in the JCPenney wing.

All the shirt proceeds are being donated to Toybox, the annual toy drive sponsored by the Southeast Missourian newspaper and the Cape Girardeau Jaycees.

The long-sleeved T-shirt, designed by local artist Gary West, depicts the Mall's talking teddy bear waiting by the Christmas tree for Santa to arrive.

Shirts will be available through Dec. 15. The mall also has its Toybox Toy Drive display set up in the JCPenney court.

New, unwrapped toys may be delivered to the Southeast Missourian, 301 Broadway, or to the following Toybox drop-off spots: Boatmen's Bank, Capital Bank, Perry Travel Center, Gulliver's Travel Agency, AmeriFirst Bank, Commerce Bank, Farm and Home Savings Association and Mercantile Bank.

Gifts and contributions may be mailed to Toybox Trust, P.O. Box 4, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 63702-0004.

Toys will be delivered Dec. 21 by the Jaycees.

Applications are being accepted at the Salvation Army Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-noon and from 2-4 p.m. through Dec. 15.

Those filling out applications must bring with them identification, proof of current address and Social Security cards for everyone in the family.

For more information, call Kim McDowell at 335-6611.