Salvation Army Giving Tree  –

Deadline:  Friday, December 2, 2005

Boy, where did the year go?  I can’t believe it’s time for the Giving Tree already.  To all the new members and old members as well, I just want to take a minute and explain how the Salvation Army Giving Tree works. 

Every year the Salvation Army calls us to see if we can help, and for the last 20 or so years, we have been able to help.  We are given about 25 to 30 families that have been screened through the Salvation Army.  Each family member states what they need or for some, (the kids), want.

·        The three Christmas trees set up through the plant will be filled with tags. 

·        On the tags, the name, age, and gift will be listed.

·        After all the gifts are purchased with the help of our members, we deliver them to the Salvation Army for them to deliver to families.

We look forward to all your help.

Thank You to Willard Shoes

The Community Service Committee would like to say thank you to our members and Willard Shoes.  With the $500 we were able to take out of our funds, we purchased 100 dozen socks and Willard Shoes donated another 20 dozen.  That’s a total of 1440 pair of socks. 

On September 28, our committee delivered the socks to God’s Kitchen.  With our donation, they will be able to pass out socks during the fall and winter months.  We would like to extend the thank you from God’s Kitchen to all our members.

Respectfully submitted,

Karen Frens-Kennedy, Chair

Community Service Committee

Gilbert Arambula, Les Bigney, George Casarez, Daniel Kelting, Norma Martinez, Marie Ruiz, and Sharon Sanders

The Giving Tree