Community Christmas

Catherine Bowen Drewry, founder and co-chair of Community Christmas, accepts a donation from Jason Robertson in The Commercial Bank on Monday. Robertson works at Johnson & Johnson, which donates $5,000 annually to Community Christmas through its outreach program. (Photo/Katherine Davis)

Holiday tradition: Community Christmas continues to assist local children, families

Katherine Davis

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Community Christmas is continuing its nearly 30-year tradition of providing hundreds of local children with gifts under the tree and helping families cover essential bills. In order to do this, donations are needed.

The recently renovated Marigold Auditorium will host a Christmas concert for the first time since 2017. Strung Out Like The Lights At Christmas will start at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5. (Ansley Gavlak/The Oglethorpe Echo)

Christmas concert returns to Winterville Auditorium

Ansley Gavlak

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

An old Winterville tradition turns new this holiday season, as the city revives its annual Christmas concert — Strung Out Like The Lights At Christmas — at the newly renovated Marigold Auditorium. The Dec.

Volunteers for the Community Christmas charitable group post for a photo at an event in 2020. (Submitted Photo)

Growth of Community Christmas continues Drewry's vision, goals

Alden Lisse

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Twenty-five years ago, Catherine Drewry was looking for a way to donate toys to kids who likely wouldn’t receive any for Christmas. “I thought, well surely, some neighbors and I could get together and maybe we could sponsor a family,” Drewry said. She set out to do just that.