Shopping the Wishlists of Children in Need
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Jonathan Mattox is co-chairman of The Christmas Store, founded in 1975. Jonathan tells us about this annual event that gives out toys to families in need during Christmas.
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| 0:49.5 | And it's Christmas season, so we're telling Christmas stories. |
| 0:53.0 | In 1975, the Christmas store was founded |
| 0:55.9 | and has been giving out presents to those in need ever since. Jonathan Maddox of the Oxford |
| 1:01.7 | Ole Miss Rotary Club is co-chairman of the Christmas store, and he's here to share this beautiful |
| 1:07.5 | annual event that happens right here in our small, beautiful town of Oxford, Mississippi, |
| 1:13.3 | about an hour south of Memphis. Here's Jonathan. The Christmas store is a community-based |
| 1:20.1 | volunteer organization that gives toys to children in our community who otherwise might not have |
| 1:27.2 | anything for Christmas. |
| 1:29.3 | In 2007, when the Rotary Club of Oxford Ole Miss was forming and looking for a signature project, |
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