GIVING: The Christmas People hope for thousands of home-baked cookies again this year

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(Reader photo, 2024: Some of the cookies Andrea & kids baked)

If you love to bake, The Christmas People‘s annual cookie-donation drive is your time to shine, and it’ll happen again this year. Here’s the announcemnt we received from The Christmas People:

Home-baked cookies are needed this year for the 18 shelters, centers, camps we serve during Christmas Week. West Seattle Coworking, 9030 35th Avenue SW, will again accept cookies, Monday, Dec. 22, Tuesday, Dec. 23 and Wednesday, Dec. 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. No special packaging is necessary. Cookies may also be dropped off at Artisan Community Kitchen, 10836 E. Marginal Way S., Tukwila, Monday through Thursday, Dec. 22-25.

Please label any cookies with nuts, peanut butter, gluten-free, etc. Cookies may be frozen. Contact Fred Hutchinson, co-founder, at 206-719-4979 or pialley@jps.net

We’ll of course remind you when this gets closer, too.

KT November 24, 2025 (5:41 pm)

Thanks. Will get started on these soon to pop in the freezer, especially now that the stores have butter on sale.

Ron Thompson November 25, 2025 (12:42 pm)

I remember asking Kathleen Sweeney what I could give her for Christmas she asked that I volunteer.So I did.Ruth and Fred Hutchinson are amazing people and they got there name delivering to a woman’s shelter.A woman exclaimed ” The Christmas People are here”

Ron Thompson November 25, 2025 (12:46 pm)

I remember asking Kathleen Sweeney what I could give her for Christma. She asked that I volunteer So I did.Ruth and Fred Hutchinson are amazing individuals.They got there name delivering cookies to a woman’s shelter.The woman exclaimed joyfully ” The Christmas People Are Here”Fred prides in telling the story each year.

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