Thanks for successful light parade, toy drive
To the editor:
It was a great day for a parade! On Saturday, Dec. 7, The Salvation Army lit up the streets of Nashville when the annual Holiday Light Parade and Toy Drive motored through town. The weather was cooperative, the spectators were both delighted and generous, and the parade participants did not disappoint.
We collected 832 new and unwrapped toys that evening, with that initial number growing the following days to 1,197 toys donated to our Toy Drive mission.
We would like to thank The Artist Colony Inn and Fifth Third Bank for faithfully filling the collection boxes at their respective businesses.
An anonymous donor brought in several boxes filled to capacity with new miscellaneous small toys and gifts, estimated to total 800 pieces in all. This total is in addition to the above-mentioned total.
We would like to also thank Big Woods Pizza for their generous donation of several pizzas for everyone who returned to the corps after the parade to volunteer their time to off-load the toys collected that evening.
The following Saturday, our annual Toy Shop served 77 families representing 241 children, ages infant to 17 years old, with a total of 1,257 new toy and gift items dispersed that day.
A huge thank-you to everyone in the church family and those in the community who volunteered their time to make Toy Shop a blessed and joyous event for each person who came through our doors. Thank you, Brown County community, from the bottom of our hearts, for your faithful support to this ministry.
God bless you and may you have a blessed and prosperous New Year.
Lt. Kenneth Alip, corps officer, The Salvation Army of Brown County
