A local Christmas tradition aimed at children is back again year.

This year’s Children’s Christmas Store opened in Elliot Lake on Nov. 27 at the Gentle Shepherd Church at 3 Ottawa Ave. The store is open three days a week, Thursdays and Fridays from 3:30 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will operate until Saturday, Dec. 20.

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Darla Hennessey, one of the dozen volunteers operating the Children’s Christmas Store, says she and volunteers started the store in 1999 to give children the opportunity to buy gifts for their family members that would be a surprise under the tree on Christmas morning.

Hennessey says does this “For the kids.”

She was a little hesitant of opening it this year because of the loss of her grandson Elijah Hennessey, who died on July 31

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