96.1 KISS annual Stuff-A-Bus toy drive is underway; here’s how you can help

ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The 96.1 KISS FM Stuff-A-Bus toy drive is underway.

All week long, people have been stopping by Robinson Town Center to drop off toys, games, stuffed animals, and more.

The initiative is in its 19th year collecting holiday gifts for the Marine’s Toys for Tots.

Last year, the drive filled 63 buses.

“Every year we try to do a little bit better,” said David Edgar, the senior vice president of programming for iHeart Media Pittsburgh. “We’ve grown this event from trying to fill one bus in the first year to 50 or 60 buses in the last couple of years.”

Organizers say that this year, the need is greater than ever.

“With inflation and people hitting some hard times, there’s really a desire or need for people to take care of their kids and this is just a way that they can get nice toys, and for all ages, too,” said Edgar.

On Thursday morning, Freeport Middle School teachers and student council leaders rolled up with a bus of their own to drop off hundreds of gifts collected over the last few weeks.

“We had over 700 toys donated from the parents and students at our middle school,” said teacher Jamie Mitchell, who says the school has been bringing donations to Stuff-A-Bus for more than 15 years now.

“We come from a small town, but there’s nothing like a small town that just comes together to do a good deed, and that’s what we have in Freeport, for sure,” she said.

You can donate until 9 p.m. Thursday and from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Friday. You can also click here to donate online.

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