The annual Santa's Toy Box Spaghetti Dinner will be held this year at the Vallarta Yacht Club on Sunday, December 13th at 5:00 PM. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy a fine spaghetti dinner, choosing one of the three types of spaghetti sauces being served.

To donate to Santa's Toy Box, bring unwrapped childrer's gifts and/or donations to the Yacht Club until December 22nd.

These gifts and donations are for children who are missed by other charities. Santa's Toy Box has been distributing gifts on Christmas Eve to these children who now number over one thousand.

History: About 16 or more years ago Ron & Arlene Tackett started collecting and distributing toys to the kids that fall through the cracks and somehow miss the mainstream charities. Originally they and their friends brought used and new toys from the US all year to amass enough for these deserving kids, they have evolved from 200 kids to over 1000 to receive gifts on Christmas eve, they work with the little Catholic Church on the arroyo in Bucerias which organizes the distribution. Diane and Doug Campbell have been involved since 2001 and in 2003 the Vallarta Yacht Club started as a collection point for gifts, we call it Santa's Toy Box. The Club asks people to bring in unwrapped gifts and donations for this event. In 2004 the Club started a "spaghetti dinner" fund raiser to augment monies necessary for the ever increasing numbers of kids. All of the net monies from the dinner will go directly to this worth while cause. For more information contact Vallarta Yacht Club or Ron Tackett at (329) 298-1729.