Fort Belknap Toys for Tots sees successful first day of delivery

Toys for Tots began for Fort Belknap Thursday with the delivery of hundreds of gifts to communities on the reservation with the most in-need children and families.

Volunteers received the gifts Thursday morning, which will be distributed to eight schools in the area including Hays-Lodge Pole Elementary School, which held its Christmas Program that night, complete with an appearance by Santa, said Toys for Tots volunteer Robert Fox.

Fox said more than 250 gifts were scheduled to be given out that day.

He said said things went smoothly Thursday morning, the program having more than doubled...