CHP Provides Gifts to Local Shelters Through CV Rotary Club

Rotary Club of Castro Valley member (and Santa’s Helper) Ceta Dochterman with three of Castro Valley’s finest

Photo by CV Rotarian Bruce D. Johnson

Children and Parents from Ruby’s Place and FESCO (Family Emergency Shelter Coalition) will be blessed again this year by the generosity of our community as they contributed toys and other gifts to the Castro Valley’s CHP (California Highway Patrol) office again this year to ensure that children in the shelters know that they are remembered.  

The Rotary Club of Castro Valley has provided a Children’s Christmas Party for children from Ruby’s Place and FESCO for more than two decades, except for 2020 and 2021 due to Covid concerns.  

This year the need was the greatest ever with more than 200 toys and gifts on our “wish list” and the local community has come through for the children through the CV CHP and Sutter Health.  

CV Rotary will be delivering the packages along with wrapping paper and tape in time for the parents to be able to choose which gift(s) they would like to give their children.  The Castro Valley CHP, led by Commander Jeremy Holeman, Officer Gabe Walters, and Officer Daniel Jacowitz continues to partner with many local organizations in ways that often are not recognized as they seek no recognition.  We are so blessed by the Castro Valley California Highway Patrol.