11/07/2025
Good morning~ 🎄 🎁
Angel tree announcement...remember our tree is different from others.
Our families are going through a temporary hardship and are required to have employment as well as not qualify for other assistance.
We usually approve 30-35 kids a year just because of our size we can't accommodate more than that. All kiddos are local.
2025 Angel Tree will be ready by Monday. We do have kids already on the tree I will post them on fb for those of you who want to adopt a child this year without stopping into my office.
Donations can be gifts, cash or food. If cash is donated I wait until the end and grab the stuff we are missing.
❤️ Items always needed: ❤️
🎁 Hygiene items - toiletries, diapers, pads
🎁 Bedding - crib size, toddler, twin, full and queen size (sheets, pillowcases, pillows, protectors, and blankets)
🎁 Toys, puzzles, board games, educational toys
🎁 Winter wear, hats, gloves, scarves, boots, snowsuits, coveralls for teens
🎁 Detergent
Dish soap
Paper products including toilet paper
🎁 Wrapping paper, bags and tape
Food~ annually we provide each family with a turkey or ham and as much of the fixings as we can. I usually need:
10 turkeys or hams total
Frozen pies
Canned veggies
Stuffing
Gravy
Instant potatoes or raw ones closer to Christmas
Any kind of food is acceptable if not expired we will donate to the families.
Often when the kiddos are home for holiday break extra stress is added financially for those meals.
NEW....We don't usually allow gift cards unless we have a family commuting for Cancer treatment or other reason but we will be allowing them this year. Gas station gift cards, food gift cards or Walmart is needed to help with family needs.
Please place them in an envelope and mark them by family letter (example family A)
We trust our process of family selection and do not worry about the need not being genuine.
Items can be wrapped but if they arrive unwrapped we will wrap them.
You are allowed a card but I always tell the families to give the gifts to the kiddos from them.
Drop off by Dec 19th:
Leave anywhere in my lobby by the tree, my desk, my staff only kitchen in the hall near my office, my massage room 1 (massage chairs in it), remember my kiddos are homeschooled so they are often around. Text or call 605-661-0685 to let me know you dropped them.
I need to know if it is a gift for a specific child or family or just a general donation.
Yankton Therapeutic Massage
231 Broadway Suite B (end of hall)
If my alley door says open...we are open.
Any gift receipts if you have I will keep. We rarely need them but when we do it is often for shoes.
Not currently accepting any more families we have a few we are waiting for the kiddos needs and wants list but will finish those as they come in.
Let's do this my Christmas Angels of Yankton!!!
😇 🙏 🎄
~Alisa Miller
