According to a Facebook post today, North Aurora Police Department, 200 S. Airport Road in North Aurora, will be host to a Winter-gear giveaway of coats, hats, and gloves, outside the police station from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3.
People in need are invited.
Maddie’s Mitten March (MMM), a North Aurora-based non-profit, will distribute gear from a converted passenger bus. MMM. The mission of MMM is to collect clothing and monetary donations to provide winter clothing to needy Kane County residents.
Madeline Bozik of North Aurora, MMM founder and 2017 West Aurora High School graduate, is a mechanical engineering student at Bradley University in Peoria. She uses two buses to collect, hold and distribute donated coats, gloves, mittens, scarves, hats and boots.
Go to www.mittenmobile.com/donate for more information.
—Al Benson