GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Less than two weeks after Paul and Lisa Wane hosted their Rockin’ for Stockins’ Christmas party, the couple was back in Green Cove Springs last Saturday to spread more holiday cheer at three different events.

The couple dropped off toys, T-shirt bags and some repurposed instruments to the Green Cove Springs Police Department to be given to needy children. From there, they stopped to wish fellow musician Curt Towne a Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday before heading across the street for “An Evening with Ali” at The Corner Pocket and Around the Corner Diner. The event was a fundraiser for Alice “Ali” Schwisow, who is battling cancer, and guitars were some of the gifts that were auctioned.

Equally important, Ali’s 13-year-old son, Carson, received an instrument as part of Wane’s Rising Star Give Kids a Guitar program.

After that, they joined the police department and residents for “Caroling Around the Cove” at Spring Park. The couple gave away 50 more bags of instruments and toys from the Guitars for Kids program.
“It was a great time, especially for an 18-hour ‘off’ day,” Wane said.

Wane’s Rising Star program has distributed nearly 300 instruments to children “to give them something else to do, something positive. We need to give them their own little universe so they can do their own thing.”