Gloves of Love gives warmth to 18,000 kids over 7 seasons

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Wayne Township Fire Department and the George Day Memorial Foundation connected Thursday celebrated a peculiar accomplishment successful the seventh twelvemonth of their Gloves of Love event.

The outreach programme has provided thousands of lukewarm gloves and treats for kids during the vacation play since 2014.

The George Day Memorial Foundation was started successful 2013 successful representation of Chris Grady’s father, and instauration representatives joined with the Wayne Township Fire Department to commencement the program.

After 7 years of the program, they deed a peculiar milestone successful 2021. After reaching much than 1,600 kids astatine Bridgeport Elementary and Robey Elementary, the programme volition person touched each simple schoolhouse successful Wayne Township.

The occurrence department’s manager of education, Jamie Meredith described however it feels to usage this concern to springiness backmost successful this way, particularly aft taking a twelvemonth disconnected due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re ever looking for mode to springiness backmost and we privation it to beryllium a affirmative transportation with our firefighters for our children,” Meredith said. “So the information we could beryllium present connected their past days close earlier the holidays and we’re giving thing backmost to them, a lukewarm brace of gloves, a candy cane, a smile, they volition cognize that we’re determination successful our hearts that we perfectly person specified a joyous clip giving backmost to the kiddos.”

Meredith says the programme has served much than 18,000 kids successful Wayne Township.

Meridith and Grady shared what the infinitesimal means during Thursday’s “All Indiana.”