Salvation Army Bell Ringer

Rosa Rodriguez didn’t know what she had found at first.

An anonymous donor or donors have been dropping silver and gold coins in the famous red buckets recently, as has been the case for many years in the past. In fact, it kind of blended in with the coins, and it was just heavier that the rest.

“Without this, I probably wouldn’t be able to do very much for Christmas this year”, Dorn said.

Salvation Army Maj. Charles Pinkston holds a gold coin outside Walmart Supercenter on West Morton Avenue, where the valuable coin was dropped in a red kettle.

Meanwhile, the Angel Tree program, which found itself with 1,000 gift requests unfulfilled when Wal-Mart unexpectedly announced that it wouldn’t permit the trees in their stores, managed to meet its goal.

“We are taking out the presents to the people’s vans”, said volunteer Evan Weld. “As soon as it was checked, there was lots of literal dancing and rejoicing”, he said.

“Normally we pick up the kettles around that time so he went ahead and did that just before we got there”, he said.

“If you can’t give at Christmas time, when can you?” he said.

“Get out there and ring those bells!”

A man and a woman beat a blind, 41-year-old Salvation Army Bell Ringer at a Greenburgh hamburger restaurant Saturday, injuring the man because they thought he cut in front of them in line. Byron Medlock in a news release.

Frankfort Police are investigating, but Gitau said he just wants the thief to change their ways.

Though the bell ringing and giving is down, the need is higher than ever in Denver. The families include about 1,400 children.

Monetary donations may be brought in to: The Salvation Army; 503 Lake Street; Howell, MI 48843; sent to The Salvation Army P.O. Box 647, Howell, MI 48844 or online through the link below.

And that good comes in the form of food, clothing, shelter, and job training for more than 30,000 people in Erie County.

“My best gift was a girl put on her thing “sewing machine” and when her mom came in and saw it”, Wulfing said, choking up at the memory, “I was like, it made her Christmas”.