Events
Conroe ISD Toy Drive Begins Monday, November 13
CONROE, TX – The Conroe ISD Police Department will be collecting items for the 22nd annual Children in Santa’s Dreams Toy Drive beginning Monday, November 13, through Friday, December 8 at 29 Conroe ISD campus locations.
New, unwrapped toys will be collected for boys and girls of all ages. These gifts will be wrapped and given to families who, without support, may not otherwise have a wonderful Christmas. Last year, Children in Santa’s Dreams provided gifts to 1,196 children in 551 families. Since 2002, the program has helped make 15,000 children’s Christmas a little merrier with gifts and stockings.
See the list below, by feeder, which schools in your area will be collecting toys:
| Caney Creek | Conroe | Oak Ridge |
| East Transportation Center | Administration | Ford Elementary |
| Hope Elementary | Anderson Elementary | Irons Junior High |
| Moorhead Junior High | Bozman Intermediate | Oak Ridge Elementary |
| Conroe Transportation Center | Oak Ridge Transportation Center | |
| College Park | Gordon-Reed Elementary | |
| Hailey Elementary | Reaves Elementary | The Woodlands |
| Lamar Elementary | Runyan Elementary | Deretchin Elementary |
| Ride Elementary | Stewart Elementary | Galatas Elementary |
| Woodlands Transportation | Travis Intermediate | Glen Loch Elementary |
| Washington High School | McCullough Junior High | |
| Mitchell Intermediate | ||
| Grand Oaks | ||
| Clark Intermediate | ||
| Cox Intermediate | ||
| Hines Elementary |
For more information, contact Lieutenant Julie M. Thompson at (936) 709-8921 or jmthompson@conroeisd.net.
About Children in Santa’s Dreams
The Police Activities League (PAL) has founded a Christmas program dedicated to less fortunate children in the Conroe Independent School District. The need criteria for this program is based on personal references from counselors, teachers, principals, and other school staff who work with children every day. Counselors work with parents and PAL in order to maintain the anonymity of our less fortunate children.
Children in Santa’s Dreams provides gifts and stockings for our children enrolled in school and their siblings who may be too young to attend school. Citizens, service organizations, and youth organizations are invited to participate by donating new, unwrapped gifts and/or by attending an annual wrapping party where all donated toys and gifts are organized by age and gender. Each volunteer receives a family identified only by a number. The volunteer is asked to pick out gifts for each child listed and wrap the gifts selected. The number of gifts each child receives is determined by the amount of donations and number of students referred by the program. In past years, 1-3 gifts per child have been given, with the addition of one game per family.
