Pop-Up Warminster Shop Offers Free Toys For Kids In Need

WARMINSTER, PA — In Warminster, there's a new option this weekend for the families of children who might otherwise have to go without that special gift this holiday season.

Just Be Claus, at 75 Downey Dr., will be open until 8 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. The toy shop is the brainchild of Danielle Metzler, of Perkasie, who is opening it for the fifth year.

The free shop is stocked with donations of gently used toys and other household items that Meltzer collects throughout the year. In an interview with The Intelligencer, she said the charity started as a way of honoring her father, a U.S. Marine and barber in the area for many years who died in 2016.

"My father always kept Christmas in his heart all year long," Metzler told The Intelligencer. "He always helped people and this is just to honor him."

Volunteers help run the shop while it's open, as well as donating toys and other goods that might otherwise end up in a landfill. She told the paper she's looking for volunteers to help clean up when the pop-up store closes on Saturday.

In previous years, Metzler ran the shop out of her home, then locations in Chalfont and Warrington before finding this year's spot in Warminster. She told the paper that, last year, about 750 children got toys through the effort.

Check out Just Be Claus's Facebook page here.

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