The Red Oak Police Department and the Red Oak Volunteer Firefighters Assn., with the support and assistance of the following Dept. of public safety agencies, local businesses and organizations in Montgomery County, are once again going to be a distribution point for the Marine Toys for Tots program for Montgomery County. Those agencies involved include: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency, Stanton Fire & Rescue, Villisca EMS Association, Villisca Fire Department, Grant Fire Department & First Responders, and Elliott Fire First Responders, Fareway, Montgomery County YMCA, Eagle’s Aerie #2715, Bucksnort Restaurant, SWIA Squadron of Heroes, Red Oak Community Schools, Cubby’s, HyVee, Orscheln’s, Hardware Hank. The goal, is to see to it that every child, which is registered in Montgomery County, is able to have at least one new toy for Christmas this year.

Registration dates: Now until Dec. 1st.

• A toy drop off/pre-registration day is set for November 30th, 2020 at Fareway parking lot in Red Oak, from 5PM-7PM with Santa and the Gammell lighted fire truck!
• December 1st, 2020 is the main sign up day. It will be held at the Bucksnort Restaurant, 322 E. Coolbaugh in Red Oak – from 2 until 4 P.M. BOTH EVENTS WILL BE MANDATORY MASK EVENTS.
• At Fareway for the toy drop off, you may drive thru; to see Santa on the fire truck please practice social distancing rules and sign ups need to be contactless so please have child’s birth certificate or medical card ready to display to the officers in charge.
• The main sign-up at Bucksnort will be 1 individual per time, NO Groups or multiples registering together, this will be contactless also – please have documents ready to show. If you are unable to make it on the listed dates, contact ROPD Chief Justin Rhamy and he will assist you in figuring out other means of getting you signed up.
• No matter how you register, whether online, or in person, the necessary information will need to be provided for each child you want to register, and then go through the screening process. After Dec 1st it will have to be done online, through the website. However, delivery of the toys, cannot be guaranteed after that time. This is because of time needed to confirm the details of the necessary registration process, and time available to the person at the local distribution site to follow up.
• The projected toy delivery date will be set for December 21st, 2020.

A parent, guardian, or grandparents are the only ones allowed to sign up a child. There is some information that needs to be brought in with the person registering the child when they come to register. If they can bring a copy of the child’s birth certificate, that works the best. Child’s full name as it appears on the birth certificate, Date of Birth, parent’s names and a telephone number of the person registering the child.

Toys are divided into three age groups with a maximum age of 14.

0-3 Non gender specific

4-8 Male/Female

9-14 Male/Female

DONATIONS: Fareway, Montgomery County YMCA, Cubby’s, The Bucksnort, Hardware Hank, Orscheln’s, HyVee and the Red Oak Police Department, are also a local drop off point for toys, and the toys must be a new unwrapped toy. Any person having questions in regards to the Toys for Tots program are encouraged to contact Chief Justin Rhamy of the Red Oak Police Department at 712-623-6500.