Every year the House of the Good Shepherd retirement community in Hackettstown donates Christmas cookies to the town’s Kiwanis Club for distribution to children attending Hackettstown’s Annual Hometown Holiday with Santa Claus. This year’s event was on Friday Dec. 2. In all, The House donated 200 delicious sugar cookies in the shapes of a snowman, gingerbread man, and Santa Claus, each individually wrapped. In the photo here, Deborah Beards, the former Executive Director at the House of the Good Shepherd for eight years who retired in 2019 and a member of Kiwanis, accepts the cookies from Chris Voorman, Director of Dining Services at The House of the Good Shepherd. The two of them then loaded the cookies into Deborah’s car and the trip to Santa’s big event!