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Salvation Army Gives Donations

Salvation Army Gives Donations - Friday, December 21, 2007 at 6:04PM EST

Reported by: Jeff Chirico
Friday, Dec 21, 2007 @06:04pm EST
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY --Friday, hundreds lined up to accept donations that will make a merrier Christmas. At the Salvation Army Citadel hundreds of boxes filled with Christmas dinners wait to be picked up by those less fortunate. Thanks to the donations to the Red Kettle Campaign, Sophie Littleford will have a good meal when she celebrates the holiday with her daughter and grandson. "I don't get that much I only get $476 a month and its hard. This goes a long way? It has to stretch."

Besides the food, Maria Vergara picks up a few small toys, books and clothes for her daughter. Vergara says "it’s nice. She doesn't expect this. This be a surprise for her." Clients get two boxes filled with food. There’s turkey, bread, milk, potatoes, and some fruit to help make a merrier Christmas dinner.

Al says "it'll help because we had a lot of hardship this year. Just a couple months back I had to go to the emergency room that cost a few hundred dollars." Iris Adams of Wilkes-Barre says "it’s good to have churches like this cause there's not a lot of help that you can get around here." While the food may fill hungry stomachs; helping out fills the volunteers' souls.

Volunteer Herb Godfrey says “it’s great to help somebody that needs help." Volunteer Pam Roberts "I do it for the kids because a lot of kids don't have everything they want or need. I enjoy helping them." Corp officer Capt. Patty Richwine says "most people are very appreciative and really thank us because they wouldn't have Christmas without it."

650 families --1200 children benefiting your Christmas spirit. The food cost the Salvation Army 13-thousand dollars this Christmas.
 


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