Christmas is fast approaching -- the western cultural time of giving. And what do we do here at Weber County Forum, when Western European culturo-religious mores dictate generous giving?
We put the arm on our gentle readers, that's what!
We did the same last year, and appealed to your gentle and generous instincts, and collectively managed to donate a little more than a thousand bucks to the Marshall White Center Sub for Santa program within a short few days, when the program was in genuine crisis... on very short notice.
Thanks in large part to the generosity of our gentle readers last year, the 2005 Marshall White Sub-for-Santa Program was an overwhelming success.
This year, Marshall White is in slightly less-desperate straights. Notwithstanding Boss Godfrey's attempts to kill it off and sell it to the Salvation Army... The Marshall White Center still remains pretty much the great community resource it's been since 1968.
Nevertheless... there remain still three apparent Marshall White applicant families who need help for Christmas. The program still needs your help. Boss Godfrey isn't chipping in a dime of city or personal money for this, BTW, (Boss Godfrey wishes the Marshall White Center would just "go away.") We talked about this with Fritz Bachman... who runs the Sub for Santa program:
There remain three families in need, for whom the Marshall White Sub for Santa program lacks resources:
- A single mother with kids aged 6yrs (girl), 9 yrs (girl) and 14 yrs (boy.)
- A recently-separated mother of three. Kids: 3yrs, 5 yrs, and 10 yrs (girl)
- A stiill-intact family. Dad lost his job; but the core family is still together so far. Four kids aged: 4 (girl,) 7 (boy,) 12 (boy,) 14 (boy.)
Once again it's up to us all.
Please help these families through your generous donations to Marshall White Sub 4 Santa.
Please get on down there with cash donations, like we all did last year.
You can also call Program Director Fritz Bachman @ 598-5170 to arrange your special donation, or call the Marshall White Center @ 629-8346.
Checks cannot be accepted, BTW... due to Boss Godfrey's bureaucratic B.S.
Update 12/19/06 10:55 a.m. MT: Amy Wicks just posted an update in the lower comments section, the full text of which we incorporate below:
The Marshall White Center still needs your help- I have pasted text from an email sent today from the MWC director below:
Hello to all,
Fritz and I would like to say thank-you to all the people that have helped so far with our Christmas programs. Unfortunately we are still short on food items such as potatoes, rice, noodles, cereal, hams, and juices. We need these things to make food boxes for people in need in our community. There are plenty of canned goods but we will accept more. If you would like to help us with our food boxes please drop of items at the center by December 22nd at 5:00 pm.
Thank-you for your help,
Butch
