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Thank you to all who helped Share the Spirit

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Editor,

Share the Spirit Holiday Assistance Program has been providing toys, clothes and Christmas gifts to Lake County children from needy families since 1998. We are fortunate enough to partner with Marine Corps League Hellroaring  Detachment 1041 and the Marine Corps Reserves Toys for Tots program that helps us manage the daunting task of providing for these children. During the 2014 Christmas season we served 1232 Lake County children. In our 17 years of operation we have served more than 14,000 children in Lake County with your help and the help of many volunteers.

On behalf of the Share the Spirit Board of Directors Nancy Hines, Cheryl Thomas, Valerie Lindstrom, Russ Jenkins, Barbara and Mauri Morin, a huge thanks to the businesses who agreed to be our tree locations and to the local churches who gave so generously. Thanks also to the school kids from St. Ignatius and Polson who adopted many of our tags and shopped carefully and wisely. We truly appreciate their help. Kim Liebenguth spearheaded the Lake County Sheriff’s program to adopt 175 of our kids. Thank you very much to all the people who so generously picked up Share the Spirit tags from our trees filled with children’s Christmas requests, with help from everyone we were able to help make their holiday brighter. 

Volunteers make this program a success; they donate hundreds of hours throughout the Christmas holiday season when most people would rather spend time with their families. I am deeply humbled and honored by their commitment to this project.

This year Share the Spirit headquarters were fortunate to have our work space donated in the old DRS building, providing our electricity and heat.

Share the Spirit is a 501(c) 3 non-profit group registered with the Internal Revenue Service. We also provide personal care bags to all of the county agencies twice each year. Donations can be mailed any time to Share the Spirit at P.O. Box 1341, Polson, MT 59860. Thank you and God bless.

Toni Krebsbach Young
Polson

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