Our Weber County Forum readers "come through" for the MWC Sub for Santa Program
This morning's Standard-Examiner features what we believe to be an excellent editorial, examining the oft-asked question: Is there a Santa Claus?
Although we believe the question was well settled 109 years ago in the foregoing essay, we nevertheless offer further circumstantial proof.
On December 17 we issued a challenge to our Weber County Forum readership, in the form of a plea for support for The Marshall White Center Sub For Santa Program. To sweeten the pot, Ogden City homeboy Tom Owens agreed to match our readers' donations dollar for dollar. The MWC Sub For Santa Program has been a favorite of ours since the founding of this blog, just as MWC is one of our favorite Emerald City institutions.
To our great delight, we received a report yesterday that our readers responded in generous fashion, and that this year's Sub For Santa has been an unqualified success, largely due to our gentle readers' largesse.
We are pleased to report that individual Weber County Forum readers contributed a total of $1,400 to MWC this year. That sum, combined with Tom Owens's own matching grant, thus brought WCF contributions to $2,800. Adding the $700 that program director Tiffany raised from other donors, the MWC program wound up with $3,500 for Santa's Christmas shopping this holiday season.
We therefore gratefully issue our hearty thanks, on behalf of program director Tiffany, the Marshall White Center staff, Weber County Forum and yes -- especially Tom Owens -- for yet another fantastic display of Weber County Forum reader holiday generosity.
Yes, Virginia... there IS a Santa Claus, and he/she resides, at least in part, within our wonderful WCF readership.
And a belated Merry Christmas to everyone!
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6 comments:
The Marshall White Sub for Santa program was a big success this year - thanks to the denizens of the Weber County Forum.
Last week, when it first came to the attention of the WCF readers, the Sub for Santa program was floundering. The long time organizer - Fritz - has been terminated by the city in a typical stinko Godfreyite fashion. The program had been turned over to a much beleaguered part time employee - Tiffany. Tiffany is not paid to do this program but she took it on in a volunteer capacity anyway.
Tiffany had 28 needy kids to buy Christmas for and she was only able to raise $700, mostly from her family and a few other supporters of the MWC.
That is when Rudi put it up on the blog and published my challenge to raise some money for this good effort. Our goal was to raise a total of $2,800 which would allow for $100 per needy child.
The generous participants of this in your face political blog took the challenge and we raised $2,800. In combination with the $700 Tiffany had put together herself, we came up with a total of $3,500!
Any excess Tiffany has will be used in other programs for the kids of the Marshall White Center.
So a big thank you and Merry Christmas to all the Grenadiers of the Weber County Forum. Together we brought some smiles to some young Ogden faces this Christmas morning that would other wise be sad.
Way to go, Tom. TY.
Tom Owens....I love you! So do a lot of other people!!
This is one of the best things I have read in a long time.
WAY to go.
Thanks for chiming in, Loralee. We have a fine community blog here in Weber County Forum; and it's events like these that fortify me and make me feel exceedingly proud to be the blog host & Muckraker in Chief.
Somewhere, in a far corner of the universe, Detective Sergeant Marshall White has to be smiling.
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