Colfax Toy Box Drive helps local families

COLFAX — The Colfax Volunteer Firemen are hosting their annual Firefighters’ Christmas Toy Box Drive and collecting donations.

Colfax local Sherry Brackett has donated 150 hats to the yearly cause to provide for children in the area.

Brackett said she uses a round loom she learned to make hats on 20 years ago. “I’m not a crafty person, but this has been really fun to do, and so I’ve been making hats ever since, and I donate them to different organizations,” Brackett said, noting that it’s just something she enjoys doing.

Brackett said that while she has donated to many organizations, including...