LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The 41st annual Bob Robbins Memorial Toy Hill weekend, in partnership with Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots, returned to Central Arkansas with a mission to spread holiday joy.
With Christmas just around the corner, the event saw many organizations rally together to donate toys for children, addressing the 23,000 requests submitted by families facing financial struggles.
The event honors Bob Robbins, a beloved DJ who, alongside Rodney Roberts, started Toy Hill with the belief that no child in Arkansas should wake up on Christmas morning without gifts. “Having grown up an orphan himself, and knowing what it was like waking up Christmas morning and not having anything but an orange and a candy cane in his stocking and going to school the next day and all the kids being like, ‘Oh, you must be a naughty.’ No, no, that’s not how this works. We want to make sure that there is not a kid in the state of Arkansas that feels like that,” said Jess Jennings, Toy Hill Ambassador…