Salvation Army Kettle Drive best yet
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LAKE COUNTY — From the Friday after Thanksgiving to the day before Christmas, volunteers braved the cold and sometimes inclement weather, standing in the lobbies of Ronan Harvest Foods, Pablo Quality Foods, Super One Foods, and Walmart to ring the bell for the Salvation Army Kettle Drive. Proceeds from the Kettle Drive will go to the Helping Hands Fund voucher program; Safe Harbor for lodging; and to the Polson Police Department, who writes vouchers when the Helping Hands Fund office is closed. Ninety percent of the funds raised stay in Lake County to help provide food, shelter, gas, utilities, medications, bus tickets, lodging, and meals to the needy. In addition, a small portion of the funds raised will help send 10 low- income children to Camp Gifford, a week-long resident camp operated by the Salvation Army.
This proved to be the most successful bell-ringing season yet. The 2014 Kettle Drive produced a total of $16,013. New Life Christian Center was the winner of the Polson Ministerial Association’s coveted “Bell Trophy,” raising $1,512.40. Polson Community Church raised $721, the most money collected in a single day. St. Andrews Episcopal Church logged in the most volunteer hours with 22. It should also be noted that Safe Harbor collected $637 at Ronan Harvest Foods, the largest amount of money raised by any group ringing the bell in the South Mission Valley.
Thank you to all those who so generously contributed their time to ring the bell and to the Mission Valley Community for your generosity in helping to fill the kettles. They were so full some days that an extra kettle was needed.
