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On Friday, 2,000 local kids received bags of joy from the Salvation Army of Tyler for their annual Angel Tree program according to our news partners at KETK. On Wednesday, 350 senior citizens received their presents. The Salvation Army\u2019s Angel Tree program has been providing gifts to local children and seniors for more than 40 years. Families write their wish lists and needs on cards which are then placed in grocery stores and malls for local donors to pick up. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing because they get to wake up to multiple gifts, not just one gift and they also get to have clothing items, shoes, as well as blankets,\u201d angel mother Yulisa Pena said. \u201cOn our wishlist we asked for cars, building blocks and baby dolls.\u201d <\/p>\n
Distribution began at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and the line for Angels to get their bags wrapped around the parking lot. \u201cIt\u2019s a powerful statement of just a community that loves each other,\u201d Salvation Army Captain Robert Coristo said.<\/p>\n
Coristo said that through the Angel Tree he\u2019s getting the chance to give back to the very organization that changed his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found out years down the road that my parents would get our Christmas presents from Angel Tree, and for that feeling of them knowing, \u2018man, it\u2019s been a tough year, but today it does not matter.\u2019 They got joy in their eyes and excitement,\u201d Coristo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2013 On Friday, 2,000 local kids received bags of joy from the Salvation Army of Tyler for their annual Angel Tree program according to our news partners at KETK. On Wednesday, 350 senior citizens received their presents. The Salvation Army\u2019s Angel Tree program has been providing gifts to local children and seniors for more … Continue reading Tyler children get Angel Tree gifts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1465088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/salvationarmy-e1765631245810-197x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 03:54:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/salvationarmy-e1765631245810-197x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1464684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465103,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464684\/revisions\/1465103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}