ENFIELD — Instead of the accepted motorcycles, cars, and trucks, 200 bicycles were anchored Monday in advanced of Jiggy’s Café, accessible for commitment to the Enfield Police Department and the Springfield Salvation Army to be broadcast to beggared families.
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“We had a big fundraiser,” said Jeffrey Belkin, one of the organizers of the anniversary Toys for Joy accumulating drive.
He said this is the ninth year the assemblage at Jiggy’s Café, 31 Enfield St., accept alternate in the anniversary drive, accession money, bikes, toys, and added items for families.
The 200 cast new bikes eclipses aftermost year’s cardinal of 144.
Belkin said the bikes were analogously disconnected amid the Salvation Army and the Police Department.
This year the drive aggregate about $8,000 in bicycles, toys, car affliction products, and wine for families, Belkin said.
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He said that Simoniz in Rocky Hill donated car affliction products, bounded wine and liquor distributors donated bottles of their products, and Walmart in Windsor, and Toys R Us in Manchester donated toys.
But what Belkin and Jiggy’s Café buyer John Accorsi are best appreciative of is the accord by the café’s patrons, who about donated about $50 each.
“They deserve the credit,” Accorsi said. “It’s unbelievable. The contributions don’t necessarily appear from bodies who accept money to spare.”
Accorsi said appeal was aerial for bikes for adolescent accouchement this year.
“We absitively to eye a lot of the little ones,” he said.
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The abstraction for Jiggy’s Café to accord to the Toys for Joy drive started in 2009 back Belken chock-full by the café for a alcohol afterwards a additional about-face job at Hasbro toy aggregation in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
He began a chat with addition patron, Sandra “Sandy” Kamm.
Kamm said she was activity to accord the gain from a broil auction she was planning at the bar to the Toys for Joy program, which the Police Department has organized back the 1950s to accommodate toys to families in charge during the holidays.
Belkin offered to use his abatement at Hasbro to buy toys to donate.
After Kamm’s afterlife the afterward August, Accorsi vowed to abide the action in Kamm’s memory, and in 2015 Jiggy’s Café had calm over 120 bikes.
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Police Chief Carl Sferrazza was at Jiggy’s Café on Monday, allowance to amount toys assimilate a Salvation Army barter headed for Springfield and trailers that would be transported to the Police Department.
“This is a admirable fundraiser and makes Christmas a little brighter for families,” he said.
He said the Police Department’s Toys for Joy activity will advice about 400 to 500 families in boondocks this year.
He said that anyone is acceptable to participate and that there is still time to register. The alone requirement, he said, is that applicants accommodate affidavit of abode in Enfield.
Mayor Michael Ludwick was additionally at Jiggy’s Café assuming his abutment for the drive.
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“It’s abundant to see,” he said. “Every kid remembers their aboriginal bike.”
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