CLEARFIELD – Our local Salvation Army is asking for your help.
“With each passing year, the need in our community grows exponentially. The local community has been a great supporter of our organization in the past. Thus, with greater need in the community to be met, The Salvation Army needs more seasonal employees and volunteers to achieve our goal,” said Major Stanley Newton of the Clearfield Salvation Army Corps in a recent letter to the community.
“Presently we are struggling to find volunteers willing to stand with kettles during our holiday campaign. It is through the holiday campaign’s charitable donations that over 25 percent of our annual budget is raised (an increase from other year’s due to some post-COVID cuts in funding from other resources). Meeting goal at this level enables the continued provision of services to our clients in the community at large and helps to promote a better well-being of the community in general.”
This year’s goal is $73,000.
There are a few ways you can help: volunteering with a local group or alone, to ring the bell at one of their established locations; host a red kettle or a mini-kettle at your business, office or elsewhere; and sponsoring or adopting a kettle, which will put your organization/business’s name on the Salvation Army’s social media and/or have your name on the kettle stand.
This year you can also make donations through a virtual kettle QR code that will be seen on all of the actual red kettles.
On Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, there is a cash match for all donations up to $5,000 from the Red Kettle, so additional locations and volunteers would be of great help on that day especially.
“I would like to reiterate that any help received is a help to those in the most need around the community, those whose faces we see every day. The greatest gift that can be given is the gift of a helping hand,” Major Newton said.
If you are interested in helping in any way, please contact Major Newton via e-mail at stanley.newton@use.salvationarmy.org or by office phone at 814-765-4981, ext. 5.