Brandon Junior Women to Host Fundraising Crop Party

The Brandon Junior Woman's Club District 8 will host its annual Santa's Crop for the Kids (formerly Santa in September). 

The crop party for scrapbook enthusiasts will take place Saturday, Oct. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2923 John Moore Road in Brandon. 

The cost is $35 and includes nine hours of crop time, breakfast, lunch, snacks, raffle/door prizes, a silent auction, vendors, goodie bags and make-n-takes. 

Registrations received by Sept. 17 will earn five extra raffle tickets. 

Visit www.santascropforthekids.weebly.com for more information and a registration form. 

Proceeds will go to the Brandon Junior Woman's Club's holiday project, a program for underprivileged school children chosen by guidance counselors at 21 of the elementary schools in the Brandon area. 

The guidance counselors work with the parents to fill out a form with sizes and wants of each child and the BJWC provides these children with clothing (shirt, pants or shorts, jacket or sweats, shoes, socks, underwear and pajamas), books, three or four toys of their choice, combs, crayons and other art supplies, toiletries and other goodies.
 
The guidance counselors bring these children to a party where a magician/clown entertains them, pizza and dessert are served and Santa gives them their gifts. Many of these children would have no holiday at all without this program. If a child selected has siblings of any age up to 18, the BJWC also provides the siblings with the same items.
 
"Santa's Crop for the Kids" is one of the club's major fundraisers to make the children's holiday party possible.