The Holiday Train will come to the area on Monday to help local food pantries.
Launched by Canadian Pacific Rail, the annual Holiday Train tours the U.S. and Canada as Christmas approaches, encouraging people at each stop to donate as much as they can to their local food pantries.
The train will make stops from Saratoga Springs to Plattsburgh.
The train will be at the Saratoga Springs Amtrak station from noon to 12:30 p.m.; the Fort Edward station from 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.; in Whitehall from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m.; at the Amtrak waiting area on Route 74 in Ticonderoga from 5 to 5:30 p.m.; Port Henry from 6:30 to 7 p.m.; and Plattsburgh from 9:15 to 9:45 p.m.
Times are subject to change, and the railroad suggests arriving at a stop 15 minutes early.
To date, the Holiday Train has raised more than $3 million and contributed 1.6 million pounds of food to pantries across the U.S. and Canada, according to Canadian Pacific.
Also this year, Fort Edward resident and food pantry volunteer Mary Ellen Barlow plans to put a box out for children's letters to Santa Claus.
She was inspired by Justice White Sloan, a 9-year-old Greenwich girl who has Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a disorder that effects her lungs and liver. She is trying to collect letters to Santa and send them to Macy's.
In turn, the department store will give the Make-A-Wish Foundation $1 for every letter to Santa sent from the store.
Her goal is to collect 1,000 letters.
"We have to make sure kids need to write a letter," Barlow said. "You have a sick little girl in Greenwich trying to do something for other people. I thought this could have been a good way to do it."
Posted in Local on Friday, November 27, 2009 6:05 pm Updated: 6:06 pm.
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