Loyola Pediatric Mobile Health Unit, Santa to Help Area Children Demonstrate True Meaning of Christmas
Loyola Pediatric Mobile Health Unit, Santa to Help Area Children Demonstrate True Meaning of Christmas
WHAT: They have very little themselves, but what little they do have, the children of Sacred Heart School in Melrose Park will share with children who have even less at Our Lady of Lourdes School in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
Days before Christmas, the children of Sacred Heart will give toys they have gathered to Santa who will take them to the children at Our Lady of Lourdes. The Pediatric Mobile Health Unit of the Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood will serve as Santa’s sleigh and transport the toys to Our Lady of Lourdes.
WHO: Santa Claus, children of Melrose Park and North Lawndale, employees of Loyola University Health System
WHEN: Toy pickup takes place at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18; toy drop-off takes place at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19.
WHERE: Toy Pickup
Sacred Heart School (school courtyard), 815 N. 16th Ave., Melrose Park
Toy Drop-Off
Our Lady of Lourdes School, 1444 S. Keeler Ave., Chicago
HOW: Media who are planning to attend should call Nora Dudley at (708) 417-5014.
NEWS ARCHIVES
- May 2013 (5)
- April 2013 (4)
- March 2013 (5)
- February 2013 (3)
- January 2013 (4)
- December 2012 (7)
- November 2012 (2)
- October 2012 (3)
- September 2012 (5)
- August 2012 (3)
- July 2012 (6)
- June 2012 (5)
- May 2012 (4)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (4)
- February 2012 (1)
- January 2012 (3)
- December 2011 (3)
- November 2011 (2)
- October 2011 (8)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (4)
- July 2011 (6)
- June 2011 (7)
- May 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (3)
- February 2011 (6)
- January 2011 (4)
- December 2010 (3)
- November 2010 (3)
- October 2010 (6)
- September 2010 (1)
- July 2010 (2)
- May 2010 (1)
- April 2010 (1)
- February 2010 (1)
- November 2009 (1)
- October 2009 (1)
- August 2009 (1)
- April 2009 (1)
- October 2008 (1)
More News
MEDIA RELATIONS
Media Relations
(708) 216-6268
nplunkett@lumc.edu
Health Sciences Division
tvasilopoulos@luc.edu