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RICHMOND — Volunteers in Wayne County are helping hundreds of children give Christmas gifts to their loved ones.They say this time of the year can be expensive for families, and not everyone can afford to buy presents.Friends Nora and Paxton picked out Christmas gifts for their mom and dad on Tuesday.“I got my dad a tape measure,' 6-year-old Nora said. “He likes tools.'They’re doing it with the help of volunteer Chichi Sanders, who's representing IU East Women’s basketball.
“Youth from all six of our locations get an opportunity to come to our Jeffers unit and they get to shop for members in their family that they wake up with on Christmas Morning,' CEO Alicia Painter said. The annual tradition was just renamed the Carla Stidham Christmas Shop.Stidham passed away earlier this year.Painter says she hopes the new name will help keep her legacy alive.
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