The Last Thing on Her Mind

The last group of packages, ready for delivery

We've remarked before about Jill and her noble calling to spread Christmas cheer to shut-ins around the Peninsula. This year she and volunteers from the Model A and Thunderbird clubs, the Boy Scouts, and the local Episcopal church produced an all-time high of 934 "stocking-stuffer" bags.

Other volunteers made the deliveries to Meals on Wheels, the VA Hospital, the San Carlos adult day care center, and hospice and homeless organizations.

Large-scale charitable efforts during this time of the year get the publicity, but there are thousands of individual local acts of kindness that go unheralded. Of course, recognition is the last thing on their, and Jill's, mind.