A stuffed animal pokes out of one of the nearly 50 boxes of toys Lavon Carrier, a Vale resident, collected this year for needy children in Malheur County. (Contributed photo/Pam Barton)

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Vale resident collects over a thousand toys for needy kids this Christmas

by Steven Mitchell on December 21, 2022

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Longtime Vale resident Lavon Carrier has collected toys and teddy bears for a local nonprofit for more than a decade. This year Carrier, 81, stockpiled more than a thousand toys . . .

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