Facebook post brings Christmas alive

Maureen McGladrigan Kornowa, the director of the nonprofit North Gwinnett Cooperative, unwittingly unleashed a avalanche of giving to help a woman and her son who were living in a bare apartment by posting the situation on her Facebook page.

The woman came Tuesday to the co-op for food, and two volunteers drove the woman back to her apartment. When they saw the little family was living with nothing, they came back and immediately said something had to be done.

“My first thought was I have 700 families coming in next week for Christmas meals,” Kornowa said. “But I agreed to put out a Facebook post and see what happened.”