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Arlington Heights Post – December 21, 2006

Program receives tree-mendous response
Customers of Egg Harbor Cafe enjoy a good meal and a good deed.

The restaurant at 140 E. Wing St. set up a giving tree for Wheeling Township’s Wish Tree program in mid-November. Customers were asked to pick a tag from the tree which listed the sizes and three wishes for gifts for members of needy families.

“People were incredibly generous,” said Sara O’Connor, who chaired the collection for the Arlington Heights Junior Women’s League.

Egg Harbor has hosted a giving tree for the past five or so years. Restaurant employees and customers provided presents for 175 children last year, from infant to age 16.

“We had such a good response, I asked if we could do more this year,” said Lisa Glass, the hostess at Egg Harbor. “The customers are very giving.”

Glass had to ask the Junior Women’s League to replenish the tree with tags more than once before Dec. 7, when the gifts needed to be dropped off. Ten days before the deadline, people had brought several gifts for each of the 225 children whose tags were distributed, Glass said.

“An entire class (of school children) sponsored two kids,” O’Connor said. “The Montessori School must have taken 10 or 12 names.”

The presents were stored at O’Connor’s mother-in-law’s house until last week when they were transported to the Wheeling Township office.

“You (couldn’t) even walk in the living room,” O’Connor said. “It’s unbelievable.”

The families received their gifts Monday.

“God Bless Egg Harbor and its clientele,” O’Connor said.