SL workers deliver Christmas cheer
These SL Tennessee employees gathered outside the Charles Seivers Towers in Clinton on Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 17) to deliver bags filled with gifts for apartment residents, all donated by SL workers. Pictured are Andrea Ellis, Pamela McCloud, George Andis, Amber Brewster, Mitchell Slover, Samantha Smith, Porshia Griffith, Christina Bergeron, Jonathan Dye, Cindy Crabtree, Nathan Luster, Jennifer Allen, Toby Young, Nicholas Edwards, Chrissy Webber and Amy Robbins. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Residents of each apartment were asked in advance to provide a list of items they would like to have for Christmas, to put on their bell.
The bells were then hung in the break area at SL’s plants on Frank L. Diggs Drive, where employees could take them and buy the items listed on each one, said SL spokesman Steven Brooks.
After the purchased items were brought to the plant, a team of five employees organized them into gift bags, and put the corresponding apartment number on each bag.
Then, beginning at 1 p.m. last Wednesday, a group of SL workers arrived at the towers with 156 gift bags, and proceeded to deliver them to the residents who had submitted lists for their individual bells.
The items included such things as snack foods, activity books, housewares, shoes and more, whatever the residents had asked for.
“We knocked on every person’s door with a wish list, delivered the items, and wished every resident a Merry Christmas,” Brooks said. “We had as much fun as the residents, I think. It made for a great day.”
There were five vehicles loaded with the gift bags for the towers on Wednesday afternoon, and 15 SL employees on hand to deliver them, he said.
Since it’s been in Clinton, SL Tennessee, an automotive parts supplier, has been involved in various charitable activities.
The company makes automotive lighting and electronic shifters for new vehicles for such automakers as General Motors, Ford, Hyundai, Kia and Stellantis, and has “just over 1,000” employees, Brooks said.