Update: Donations can be delivered to the Sun Colony apartment office, 10075 Royal Lane, during regular office hours, M-F 8:30-5, Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5. In addition to the Ford family, whose kids are 13 and 15 years old, the Hunters have children aged 2, 12 and 16 and the Joshuas have no kids but lost everything in the fire. You can specify who should receive your gifts or let the Sun Colony folks sort that out.
Or, you can make a gift to the LHJH PTA which will go directly to the LHJH family. Email PTA President Cheryl Price here or mail your check or giftcards to her at 9216 Clearhurst, 75238.
When a fire broke out in the Sun Colony Apartments Tuesday afternoon, one Lake Highlands family lost everything. They could only stand by helplessly while the building on Royal Lane between Skillman and LBJ burned with all their belongings inside. Investigators say the fire likely started in another unit when a candle lit a potted plant ablaze.
Today, teachers and parents at LHJH are scrambling to help their male student and his LHHS brother before school lets out for the holidays. Though the apartment complex relocated them to another unit, the boys and their mom need clothes and simple household necessities to make it through the Christmas break and begin the new school semester.
If you’d like to help, these items can be delivered to the school before classes let out at 12:30pm today (Friday):
- Gift cards from Tom Thumb, Target, Walmart, etc.
- Shirts, men’s size large and XL
- Shoes, men’s size 9 and 15
- Pants, men’s size 32 and 42×36
- Underwear, men’s size L/XL, women’s size L
- Socks, men’s size L
- Pots/pans
- Towels
- Toiletries: soap, tissue, deodorant, lotion.
