FARMINGTON – Sixty or so pairs of pajamas have been collected so far. More are coming in each day.

One-piece and two-piece sets. Some with feet coverings, others without.

An array of colors IS tucked into boxes at the Franklin County Children’s Task Force office. Among them: green and blue fleece pajamas for the boys, and pinkish “flower power” and yellow sets for the girls.

Farmington Rotary Club members have been collecting the pajamas.

Women at the Pierce House will do the wrapping, and those at Operation Santa Claus will deliver them with Christmas packages to those in need in December.

Rotarians have done the pajama project three times, taking off years in between.

The former owners of the Franklin Journal, Dan and Janet Warner, who are members of the Rotary Club, had started the project to help children keep warm during the winter months.

The Warners have sold their home in Vienna and moved to Florida just recently, Rotary President Buzz Davis said.

The group is still collecting the pajamas in sizes infant to 14. The pajamas can be dropped off at the task force office on Church Street in Farmington.

Alice Paul, a resident of the Pierce House in Farmington, said she and the other women at the home enjoy wrapping the pajamas.

“We feel like we’re doing some good,” the 87-year-old woman said. “When you get our age there are so many things we can’t do. But we can do this.”

Paul has wrapped the gifts before and said she looks forward to doing it again.

The women form an assembly line. Some will mark the girls’ pajamas and boys’ pajamas, and then they’ll be divided into sizes, she said.

Then the fun begins.