Paul Roberge knows there’s a need.

As it has for more years than it can remember, La Cucina di Hampden House is again stepping up for the children of the Greater Springfield area and the Pioneer Valley.

The popular and enduring restaurant in Hampden will hold its annual Toy for Joy Night on Monday, Dec. 8.

“It will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Guests can get 50 percent off of an entree for bringing in an unwrapped toy,” said Roberge, the executive chef at the restaurant, which is located at 1 Allen Street in Hampden.

La Cucina di Hampden House has been doing this for more than 30 years — so long, in fact, that it can’t pinpoint the exact date it began supporting Toy for Joy. In these many decades, children who would otherwise have been left out of the joy of receiving Christmas gifts can be par

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