LOVELAND, Ohio — The city is asking residents to bring toys to this year’s Christmas Tree Lighting Festival to benefit children spending the holidays at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
The Loveland Christmas Toy Drive, organized by the Alex Siegel Memorial Foundation, will run during the festival on Dec. 5 from 4 to 8 p.m. in Historic Downtown Loveland, the city said in a Facebook post. Toy donations should follow guidelines set by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Child Life Department, which are available through a QR code on the event’s promotional flyer.
The toy drive is one piece of the city’s sixth annual Christmas Tree Lighting Festival, hosted jointly by the City of Loveland and the Loveland-Symmes Firefighters Association. The festival centers on the lighting of a more than 60-foot pine tree strung with roughly 2,500 lights and 250 ornaments, set up along the Little Miami Scenic Trail near West Loveland Avenue. This year’s event also includes cookie and gingerbread baking competitions and the announcement of a holiday decorating contest, and will mark Loveland’s recognition as one of Ohio Magazine’s Best Hometowns for 2026-2027.
The Alex Siegel Memorial Foundation is a Cincinnati-based nonprofit that says its mission is to support children and families facing health challenges, create “moments of joy” for patients and advance research into rare diseases and complications following bone marrow transplants.
“Help make the holidays a little brighter for a local child,” the city said in its post announcing the drive.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the City of Loveland.