Operation Christmas is a go!

Good works, 1; pandemic, zip.

Or if you prefer, you can’t keep a good elf down.

Peggy Christian, the aforementioned good elf, announced Monday that Operation Christmas is a go in 2020.

“We’re going to do it,” she said. “We’re not quite sure how yet, (but) we think we can make a go of it.”

Christian is working on the application forms and hopes to have them available in the next week or two.

Those forms will be available at the Delta Community Action office at 122 W. Main in Purcell.

She is contacting schools, asking if they will participate in food drives.

Gail Wilson has volunteered to handle the food side while Christian will have charge of the toy side.

Immediate needs are financial donations and more volunteers.

Monetary donations should be mailed to Darrell Ford, McClain County Operation Christmas chairman, at P.O. Box 756, Purcell, Okla., 73080.

Organizing the gift baskets will be done at the Multi-Purpose Building on Chandler Road on December 7-10.

Recipients will pick up their gifts and food there from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. December 11.

Anyone interesting in helping McClain County Operation Christmas is asked to call Christian at 405-990-4001.