With the annual Christmas Kettle Campaign set to begin for the Salvation Army, officials with the local organization are looking for some volunteers across Chatham-Kent.
Captain Karen Holland, of the Salvation Army Chatham-Kent, told the Sydenham Current that they receive tremendous support each year.
“Every Christmas the Salvation Army nationally, the main fundraiser for the year is our Christmas Kettles and our Christmas mail outs,” she said.
“So that is the money that keeps us going throughout the whole year with our food banks and programs. It is a very important fundraising time for us.”
Holland said volunteers in the area are just starting to be filled.
“The person who is looking after it in Chatham has already been hired and already has about 35% of the positions and schedule time slots filled,” she said.
“The ones that are going to be doing that in Wallaceburg and Ridgetown, Blenheim, they start the 30th of October so those positions haven’t started to be filled yet at all. We will be in need of a lot. They are two hour time slots to stand by a kettle and we have the kettles out Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. until, in some places, 8 p.m. So that is a lot of different time slots that we need filled.”
Holland said the Kettles start in Wallaceburg on November 23 and in Chatham on November 16. Both will be going until December 23.
In Blenheim they will run from November 29 to December 8 and in Ridgetown from December 13 to December 23, excluding Sunday’s.
Anyone interested in volunteering in Wallaceburg can call Heather at 519-627-8257.
In Chatham, they can call Amy at 519-350-4599, and Jamie in the Ridgetown/Blenhiem area at 519-674-3765.
