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Editor’s Note: If you’re looking for a new idea in gift giving this year, we have a few ideas for you. First off a Viator Travel Gift Certificate helps you put the focus on ‘doing’ instead of ‘having’, and will assist couch potatoes in your life to do something a little different on their next trip or holiday. Alternatively have a look at the Viator Charity Page, which highlights worthy causes around the globe, all of which have gifting programs for those hard-to-please or noble do-gooding people on your list. Finally you could give a helping hand to Help of Southern Nevada along with Viator’s Las Vegas team…

Viator’s Las Vegas team at the KLUC 98.5 Toy Drive

Viator’s Las Vegas office recently participated in the annual KLUC 98.5 Toy Drive. If you’re not familiar with the toy drive, each year Chet Buchanan of KLUC’s Morning Zoo camps (as in, sleeps!) on top of a 30-foot scaffolding for the entire 12 days of the toy drive. So yeah, we felt obligated to help his cause. Sporting 4 dozen hula hoops plus boxes filled to the brim with toys donated by our office staff, we were transported by the Las Vegas Double Decker Bus Of The Stars to the toy drive’s drop-off location.

We were greeted by truckloads of bikes and toys ready to make some special child of southern Nevada very happy! As we carried our share to the awaiting semi-trucks, people from all over Las Vegas stopped in to drop-off gift cards, more toys and even more bikes.

Although we were not able to show off our hula-hooping skills, we were happy to give to a needy child’s Christmas, and we were grateful to have such wonderful people in our community, including the operators of our Grand Canyon All American Helicopter Flight and Self Drive Hummer to Grand Canyon West Rim tours, joining in on our revelry.

All toys were donated to Help of Southern Nevada, assisting individuals and families in becoming self sufficient.

–Melissa Llanes Brownlee