Giving Tree Program Helps Local Families in Need

Mercer Island’s Youth and Family Services and the Mercer Island Community and Event Center are asking the community to help in providing some of life’s necessities to low income Island families this holiday season.

 The Giving Tree is located at the MICEC.  Hanging on the tree are tags for grocery gift cards, health care items and family products. Participants will remove a Giving Tree tag and return these new (unopened) items by December 16th, 2011 to the Youth and Family Service Office or they can drop them off in the MICEC’s Giving Tree Collection Box. 

Mercer Island Youth and Family Services will make these products available at the food pantry to families in need during the holidays and throughout the year. 

For more information about YFS Services, please visit www.miyfs.org.

The Mercer Island Community and Event Center, also known as “The MICEC”, is located at 8236 SE 24th Street on Mercer Island, Washington with standard operating hours Monday-Friday from 6:30am to 9:00pm, Saturday from 8:00am to 10:00pm, and Sunday from 11:00am to 6:00pm.  The MICEC is a state of the art facility that features the Mercer Room - a 3,300 square foot banquet room, five individual meeting rooms that each accommodate approximately fifty guests, a full-size  gymnasium, dance room and fitness center.  Visit www.mercergov.org/ccmv or call 206.275.7609 for more information on the MICEC.