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Hope for the Holidays 2020
HOPE Reimagined
The year the party could not happen, so the giving happened anyway
- When
- December 2020The club did not gather in person
- Where
- Not heldCovid restrictions were in force
- Club president
- Gina Koertner2020 to 2021 club year
About the evening
2020 was the year Hope had to be rebuilt from scratch. The artwork traded the usual holiday palette for watercolor balloons in every color, under the words hope reimagined.
Hope stands for Helping Other People Enjoy. Every December the club trades its usual meeting for a night out together, and the evening doubles as the club's holiday gift drive, with members and guests buying gift cards for area families that are given out through Giving Day and partner agencies.
There was no evening in 2020, so the giving went ahead without one. Members filled the sorting space on Lions Drive with toys and coats for four hundred families at Barrington Giving Day, and Service to Seniors, unable to hold its holiday party at the senior home, collected more than four hundred and fifty DVDs and packed them with goodie bags for residents at Alden Estates and Lake Barrington Woods.