‘Merry & Joy’: Helping lift spirits of Jacksonville mom of 7

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – We are continuing our Positively Jax bid “Merry & Joy” successful the hopes of inspiring you to wage it guardant this vacation season.

Mary Baer and Joy Purdy are making astonishment deliveries astir municipality to assistance spirits, proving immoderate motion tin spell a agelong way. It each started with an anonymous donor wanting to share his homegrown fruits and vegetables with those successful need. But those nutrient donations grew to see turkeys and gifts from section instrumentality enforcement and firefighters, too.

Thursday, we showed you our delivery to Stacey Williams-Brown – a parent of 3 surviving astatine the Vista Landing Apartments adjacent Jacksonville’s Grand Park community. She was truthful thankful to person that acquisition of nutrient and past was astir successful tears erstwhile the Jacksonville Firefighters Union gave her hundreds of dollars successful acquisition cards.

While we were there, we met different families, including Dominique Mitchell. She’s a ma to 7 children and was amazed with her acquisition of food. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department firefighters besides gave Mitchell caller furniture sheets from their nonprofit JW3 Missions and acquisition cards from the section firefighters’ union.

We didn’t recognize conscionable however peculiar Mitchell is to her neighbors -- peculiarly to each the children successful her flat analyzable -- until we spoke to her friend.

“She did a truly great, large lawsuit retired present successful October for the kids, for Halloween. It was huge!” exclaimed Mitchell’s friend, Unique Rouse. “She’s going to schoolhouse and she’s halfway determination and I’m truthful arrogant of her, ‘cause it’s pushed me. I started school, truthful it’s similar she’s going to pb america there.”

Stay tuned to News4JAX arsenic we proceed to stock much astonishment deliveries to section families. And arsenic you ticker “Merry & Joy,” we anticipation you are inspired to wage it forward.