Papa’s Legacy Toy Drive

08/03/2026

Happy August friends! 😌

With the return of August comes the annual Lamphere family reunion! Last year Doug Brown sponsored a fire pit raffle to be held at the reunion in memory of Shane with all proceeds coming to our toy drive. This raffle raised $505 which was used to purchase eleven Smasher Horror House Surprise toys, one Hot Wheels City Tower, three 4ft Wooden Dollhouses by Kidkraft, three Imaginext Batman Batcaves, and one Mr Beast Mystery Labs figure. We even raised our 1,000th toy (Imaginext Batman Batcave) with these funds! 🎁

This year Doug sponsored a second fire pit to be raffled with $550 donated to us in memory of Shane! The lucky winner was none other than Gary Lamphere himself! 🎉

A HUGE thank you to Doug Brown for sponsoring and organizing another fire pit raffle in memory of Shane. We are profoundly grateful that you’ve gone out of your way to sponsor this raffle again for us, expecting nothing in return. You are a phenomenal cousin and friend. THANK YOU!❤️

Thank you also to the entire Lamphere family for hosting and participating in the raffle again this year! These funds help our toy drive immensely, and we cannot thank you enough! Shane deeply cherished all of you and eagerly awaited the family reunion to be with all of his family again. ❤️

As always these funds will be used to purchase toys and needed items for our local kiddos in BAYADA Pediatrics, Towanda, PA or the Towanda Salvation Army Angel Tree program! 🎁

12/25/2025

Tonight, many parents and guardians will quietly sit down to wrap gifts and stuff stockings, with the aim of sneaking them under the tree without waking the hopeful, excited, sleeping children in their homes. With cookies and milk set out for Santa, the expectations and excitement are high, with many wondering if they were good enough for Santa to stop by at all. With the help of you all, Santa will be making a stop to all of these children’s houses with toys and gifts aplenty. 🎁

This year we helped over 150 kids, with 429 toys donated to our local families in need! This is the most we’ve ever donated in a single Christmas season! We also raised our 1,000th toy this year, and next year will be our 5th year operating! All of this was accomplished because of those of you who support us and donate to these children. Our community is stronger because of all of you. ❤️

Whether you donate in Shane’s memory, in memory of your loved ones or just because you care, thank you. When Shane passed just a few days shy of Christmas in 2020, we weren’t sure how our future Christmases would look. One thing was for certain, it would never be the same. We started this toy drive hoping to relieve some of our sadness while also helping our community in one of Shane’s favorite ways. While Christmas isn’t the same as before, it’s become just as meaningful. Now we help the children in our community have the Christmases we had as children. ❤️

Tomorrow morning, the children in Bradford county will awaken to see Santa has come after a long year of waiting for his arrival. As wrapping paper, boxes, and candy are torn through with exhilaration, no magic will be lost, no hearts broken, and no disappointment will be felt because of YOU. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!❤️

Most of all, Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄

12/19/2025

Hello Everyone!☺️

This year we had lots of incredible donors!🎉

Thank you to Tractor Supply Co. and Robert Packer Hospital, Towanda Campus Personal Care Home for allowing us a space to collect toys. Your dedication to our kiddos and our toy drive has been a significant help to us! Having a physical location to collect helps the community donate in person, and is extremely valuable to those who want to purchase toys on their own. THANK YOU!❤️

Thank you to the two wonderful Girl Scout troops who donated to our boxes at the Personal Care Home. We are incredibly proud and overjoyed to know that these young ladies are selflessly supporting their peers. The future will be exceptionally bright from the influence of these young ladies! THANK YOU!❤️

Thank you to our friends at GTP for arranging to donate to our toy drive again. Shane loved so many of you, and we appreciate you keeping his memory alive. THANK YOU!❤️

Thank you to all who ordered off of our registries or donated in store! We appreciate you taking your time to brave the ferocity of in store holiday shopping, combing through our endless list of toys and donating what’s on our lists. THANK YOU!❤️

All of our donated toys are extremely important and integral to filling bags for Salvation Army. When some children get less or don’t have enough items in their Angel Tree bags, we are able to use toys and items donated to us to fill in where more is needed! We try our best to make everything even, and our donated items are a blessing to have to fill last minute needs!❤️

Thank you to our friends and family, including the Lamphere Family Reunion, Towanda Amvets Post and Root's Appliances & Sharpening, who gifted money to us to purchase more needed toys. All of the money we received was used to purchase items for both Bayada and Salvation Army. We purchased almost all of the items needed for Bayada on our registries, along with extras, and over 100 last-minute items needed for Salvation Army. The money given to us carried our toy drive this year, with two-thirds of our donated items being bought with those funds. THANK YOU! ❤️

12/06/2025

Hello friends!☺️

‼️Both our Amazon and Target Registries are now closed‼️

There is now only ONE week left to donate to our two drop box locations at Personal Care Home at Guthrie RPH Towanda Campus and Tractor Supply Co.. We will be collecting both drop boxes next Friday, December 12th, to give us time to count and separate items for Towanda Salvation Army and BAYADA Pediatrics, Towanda, PA.🎁

Thank you to those who have kindly supported our toy drive; whether you’ve spread the word, hosted boxes for us or donated items and toys! We are incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to run this toy drive these past 4 Christmases and hope to continue on next year for our 5th Christmas! None of this would be possible without all of you. THANK YOU ALL! ❤️

11/28/2025

Hello, friends! ☺️

With today being Black Friday, and Cyber Monday following shortly, we wanted to mention that we are only accepting online donations for one more week! We are still in need of items and are now helping both Bradford and Sullivan county children. Our most needed items are for ages 6-10, in both Boys and Girls, along with items for Boys, ages 12-16. Some examples of items we need are Nerf, XShots, Squishmallows, Lego, Barbies, Rainbow High Dolls, Mini Brands, Make It Mini Mystery toys, Hot Wheels, Mr Beast Labs Mystery Figures, any type of crafting kits, markers and coloring books. 🎁

Thank you to those who have donated already! We appreciate your donations and willingness to help provide a Christmas for our local children in need. Knowing that with your donation, a child will wake Christmas morning to see that Santa didn’t forget them, is the most phenomenal feeling in the world.❤️

While Santa may just be a tale of magic and mystery to us now as adults, we all remember that enchanting feeling that Christmas Eve and morning brings. That magic came from the adults in our lives who made it happen. Whether they braved the chaos of in-store Black Friday sales or meticulously combed through the newest holiday catalogs; they crafted that magic. Now we have the opportunity to make that same magic for the little ones in our lives and in the lives of the little ones in our community whose families are struggling this holiday season. ❤️

11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🎉🦃

We hope you all had a Thanksgiving full of your favorite foods, lots of love, happiness and the opportunity to make new memories while fondly recounting old ones. 🧡

This year, and every year, we are most thankful for all of those who have supported this toy drive whether through donations, spreading the word, or sharing and liking our post! THANK YOU ALL! 🧡

11/21/2025

Hello! ☺️

We are still in need of toys! There are currently TONS of incredible deals on Target and Amazon. Our online registries close on December 5th to give the mail carriers time to deliver to us before we take toys to Towanda Salvation Army. We will continue to post when we see good deals to give folks the opportunity to donate while also saving money! Thank you to all who have donated already or plan to. We appreciate you all greatly! ❤️

Registries available down below!🎁

11/17/2025

11/17/2025

Hello, everyone! ☺️

We have exciting news to share! ❤️

In November of 2022, we opened this toy drive with optimism and trepidation in our hearts. We hoped that our mission to honor Shane’s memory resonated with enough family and friends to raise at least 30 toys for our local children in need. Simultaneously, we worried that we couldn’t pull it off; that we didn’t know enough about how to run a toy drive, that folks wouldn’t want to donate or wouldn’t like who the toys are donated to, that we wouldn’t find businesses to hold collections for us, but most of all that we would ultimately fail and raise nothing. Forgoing our fear, we started this toy drive and you all stepped up, supported us, and raised 406 toys that year; 13.5 times more than our goal. We were shocked, thankful and humbled by the generosity of you all. And once again, just like the end of every toy drive season, we find ourselves with those same feelings.❤️

We are so happy to announce that with the love and generosity shown to us by your donations, we have officially raised our 1,000TH TOY; a goal we never thought possible! 🎁🎉

This goal has been accomplished because of all of you. Our toy drive doesn’t function, thrive, or more importantly exist without YOU. This is not “our” toy drive, this is everyone’s toy drive. We can post all we want, put out hundreds of boxes, share as many registries as we want and none of it is successful without each of you taking the time and money to donate. We cannot thank you all enough for the kindness, love, support and donations you have given us over the previous 3 and current Christmases. You all should be incredibly proud to have collected and donated 1,000 toys for the children in Bradford and Sullivan Counties. We want to say thank you and congratulations to you all. You made this happen! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! ❤️

For those who are curious, our 1,000th toy raised was a Batman Imaginext Playset purchased with donations given to us from the Lamphere Family Reunion. THANK YOU!❤️