Cottonwood Heights MOMS Club Holiday Gift Boutique and Fundraiser
On Saturday, Nov. 14th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Cottonwood Heights MOMS Club will be hosting a Holiday Gift Boutique, a gift basket drawing and bake sale. The Boutique will be held in the upstairs banquet room of Pistol Pete’s Mexican Grill, located at 2477 E. Ft. Union Blvd. in Cottonwood Heights.
There will be over 20 vendors including Discovery Toys, Tastefully Simple, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Scentsy, and other small business vendors and artisans offering fine homemade gifts.
Come and do some of your holiday shopping and support a local cause as well – booth rental fees and gift basket drawing proceeds will be donated to the P.J.’s Forgotten Children.
For more information on the Cottonwood Heights MOMS Club please visit their website at: http://chmomsclub.wordpress.com or email chmomsclub@yahoo.com.
More information about P.J.s Forgotten Children:
P.J.’s Forgotten Children began in 1986 when the Utah Alliance for the Mentally Ill (UAMI) became alarmed at the number of attempted suicides among the mentally ill because they could not provide Christmas for their children. The idea of providing gifts for parents to wrap proved to be very therapeutic and helped to alleviate the increased holiday depression. In 1995, when UAMI could no longer administer this program, P.J.’s was established as an independent, nonprofit organization in memory of Patrick John Smith, who died while suffering a severe mental illness.
The term “forgotten” refers to those children who are often overlooked because many of their parents are suffering mental illness as well, and are less likely to seek traditional means of help for themselves and their families.
P.J.’s Forgotten Children is run entirely by volunteers. Each year the number of needy children increases and volunteer hours increase to meet that need. In 2005 we helped a total of 2173 children. At Christmas we served 1,422 children. The 2005 Back-to-School Project served 751 children and volunteer hours increased to over 8,800. With this increase, our expenses were still kept to less than 3% of total donations.
For more information visit their website: www.pjsforgottenchildren.com
