Helping those without means to give to others

WINDSOR – The excitement and buzz grew with each student entering the Westwood Middle School library on Dec. 13.

At first it was a trickle of solitary students tentatively and quietly entering the library beginning just after 11 a.m. But as the lunch bell sounded, more students swung the doors open, entering in groups of three, four and more — each scanning the room with various levels of excitement and wonder and all clutching a bright neon green slip of paper with their name on it and directions to report to the school’s Giving Store.

It was the 10th edition of the store that began at Cheney...