Annual Coats for Kids Program Sponsored by the East Hartford Rotary
East Hartford, CT—Early Sunday morning on October 20th, participants in the East Hartford Rotary Club’s Annual Coats for Kids Program lined up outside of the chilly Burlington Store on Silver Lane.
Working in partnership with the Town’s Social Services Department, the Rotary provides the funding for prescreened participants between the ages of 5-12 to select a new winter coat at the Burlington Store every fall.
We have a great partnership with the East Hartford Rotary and Burlington Stores, which opens an hour early for this event, so the participants and their parents can come in and select a new winter coat. This year over 100 children were selected to participate.
If the cool temperatures on Sunday are any indication of the season to come, these coats will get a lot of wear. Once their coat selections were completed, the children were treated to donut holes, compliments of Burlington Stores.