Northshore Team Wranglers Helping Hopelink

Northshore Team Wranglers has selected HopeLink to help this holiday season by organizing a toy and gift drive for the Redmond-based charity.

“It’s a way to both be out in the community raising awareness for our program while helping another charity,” said Cole Caplan, director of Team Wranglers. “It’s important for our members to get to know the needs in the community and to do something that gives them that warm feeling and sense of self you get when you help others.”

Items will be collected through Dec. 19 at the Northshore Health & Wellness Center, 10212 E Riverside Drive, Bothell, Monday – Friday, 9 am-4 pm.

There will be a special collection day on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 am to 2 pm at the store in Woodinville at 17953 NE Garden Way.

Gift ideas for the drive include toys, shoes, socks, clothing, coats, gift cards… pretty much any new and unwrapped item a child birth to age 18 would like, Caplan said.

The Northshore Wranglers group was begun in 1998 in Woodinville and is now an independent nonprofit with the Northshore Health & Wellness Center in Bothell, under the umbrella of the Northshore Senior Center. It serves people with intellectual, cognitive and developmental disabilities.

, a is nonprofit agency that serves homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in north and east King County.