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“Those kids were pretty happy this morning,” said Sandra Plagakis from the station’s morning show, Carter and Sandra Show on KISS 105.3. “It was pretty awesome.”

The toy drive was so successful, that the station couldn’t fit all the donated toys into the van on Thursday morning. Plagakis said they’d have to make another trip in the next day or two to deliver one remaining box of toys.

The daycare was out thousands of dollars worth of toys after the fake Kijiji ad was posted offering up “free toys” as part of a daycare-closing sale over the weekend.

The problem: The daycare wasn’t closing, and the person who posted the ad wasn’t the daycare’s owner.

Stewart said she was on her way home from a cottage weekend on Sunday when she got a call from her daughter about the Kijiji ad offering up the toys at her Bells Corners address.

Stewart said she leaves the toys outside for the kids in her care, and the kids at her neighbour’s daycare to play with.

“There’s usually a good group out there,” she said.

But as of Sunday, Stewart said they were left with nothing.

“Everything was gone,” she said. “I felt angry (at first), but now I’m not angry, just hurt and disappointed.

“It affects the two children I have full-time, and the other children who come over to use the toys.”

Among the missing playthings is a large plastic play structure with slides and “crawlers” worth about $1,000. The only thing left over from the Kijiji sale carnage is a trampoline — but Stewart said it was destroyed, too.