Home Depot adopts local family to help with Christmas

Edgewood (Map, News) - The Home Depot in Edgewood has decided to “adopt” the Pleasant family featured in the Dec. 2 issue of The Examiner.

“We hadn’t chosen our family to adopt yet, and I saw the article in the newspaper,” said Steve Allen, assistant manager of the Edgewood Home Depot. “I just said, ‘Let’s do this one.’”

The Pleasant family have seen more cancer in two years than most see in a lifetime. Three-year-old Talia Pleasant was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer that rarely afflicts children. Six months later, her father, Jerome, was diagnosed with a form of bone cancer that required the removal of part of his jaw.

Employees of The Home Depot in Edgewood try to adopt a family in need for Christmas each year. The chosen family is asked by the company to send in a wish list of things its members need or want. Then the employees work to fulfill the entire list. They donate items, money and nonperishable food to the cause.

“We set up a ‘treasure box’ and have employees bring in whatever gifts are on the list,” Allen said. “They can donate pretty much anything.”

“Then we wrap and deliver them all,” said Tina Tomlinson, an expeditor at the Edgewood store.

Adopting a family for Christmas is something that each local Home Depot decides to do among their employees.

ecampbell@baltimoreexaminer.com

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