The nonprofit Basket of Hope in Louisiana is appealing for donations of adaptive toys, medical equipment and other special needs for 19 medically complex children being tended daily at A Place of Our Own, a pediatric day health care facility in Covington.

The Basket of Hope, founded by Madisonville's Ann Ollendike, is known for delivering baskets of gifts, amusements and comfort items to children (and their parents/care providers) confined in hospitals state-wide, often partnering with sports and entertainment figures to visit the young patients and deliver their baskets.

But now, Ollendike has broadened her charitable sweep to help secure Christmas gifts for the children being cared for in Covington and the supplies and equipment needed to keep getting the job done and even better meet

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