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WKYC 'Adopts' A Family This Holiday Season

Special to the Director's Cut Blog By Jeff Reidel CLEVELAND - Now is the season of giving and family. But some are struggling to enjoy a holidays. One woman is working to meet that need head on, after facing her own hardship. Now, area children will experience a brighter holiday. WKYC employees are helping spread holiday joy. The station is working with the Adopt a Family Association, a non-profit that matches companies that want to reach out to local families facing tough times. "Either they are working a low income job, they are disabled or recently laid off and there fore they can not provide for their family due to the expense" said Madeline Medley, Executive Director of the Adopt a Family Association. Back when she worked at a local bank, Medley took it upon herself to to get fellow employees to adopt needy families during the holidays. But when she lost her job, she made giving back her full-time job. "My focus was to help the children. It wa...