Two local businesses are asking the public’s help to provide cheer to the community’s financially challenged and overlooked seniors.

The Home Instead Senior Care office in Bellevue is teaming with local businesses and Meals on Wheels to sponsor “Be a Santa to a Senior.” The program runs Nov. 10 through Dec. 15, 2010.

People can grab a gift request ornament from a holiday tree at Pogacha Restaurant in Bellevue or The Gardens at Town Square Retirement. Gifts should be turned unwrapped to one of the two locations.

Briarwood Health Center, at 100 Timber Ridge Way NW, in Issaquah, will host a resident gift wrapping party Dec. 9 at 2 p.m.

Trees with ornaments are available at Pogacha Restaurant, 119 106th Ave. NE, Bellevue and The Gardens at Town Square Retirement, 933 111th Ave. NE, Bellevue.

More information is available from Bob Megargel, owner of Home Instead Senior Care, Bellevue, at 425-454-9744 or home.instead@comcast.net.