Volunteer Courtney Yeager carefully pulls misplaced sweaters that should have gone into clothing area out from under a stack of toys while organizing donations Friday at the Capital Region Salvation Army's Christmas Castle in The Marketplace at Augusta. She was able to extract the sweaters without it all collapsing like a Jenga tower.

Volunteers organize donated toys Friday at the Capital Region Salvation Army's Christmas Castle in The Marketplace at Augusta.

Volunteer Andrew Purgil holds on to a stack of toys with his chin while unloading a trailer of donated items Friday at the Capital Region Salvation Army's Christmas Castle in The Marketplace at Augusta. The trailer of toys, bikes and other donations had been collected from Veterans Affairs facilities across the state. It's the 28th year in which staffers at the Maine VA Medical Center, at Togus, have organized a toy drive, according to Lisa Newell.

Volunteer Elizabeth Jean sorts through toys Friday at the Capital Region Salvation Army's Christmas Castle in The Marketplace at Augusta.