Thank you to all who helped ‘Share the Spirit’
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Editor,
Share the Spirit Holiday Assistance Program has been providing toys, clothes and Christmas gifts to Lake County children from needy families since 1998. We are fortunate enough to partner with Hellroaring Marine Contingent and the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program which helps us manage the daunting task of providing for these children. During the 2010 Christmas season we served 1,318 children in Lake County.
In our 13 years of operation we have served more than 10,000 children with your help and the help of many volunteers.
A huge thanks to the businesses who agreed to be our tree locations and to the local churches who gave so generously. Thanks also to the school kids from St. Ignatius and Polson who adopted many of our tags and shopped carefully and wisely. We truly appreciate their help. Kim Liebenguth spearheaded the Lake County Sheriff’s program to adopt 175 of our kids and challenged Polson High School classes to collect toys for them. Thank you very much to all the people who so generously picked up Share the Spirit tags from our trees filled with children’s Christmas requests, with help from everyone we were able to help make their holiday brighter.
Volunteers make this program a success; they donate hundreds of hours throughout the season when most people would rather spend time with their families. A special thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers.
This year Share the Spirit headquarters were fortunate to have space donated in the old Tamsco/DRS building, owned by Mike Maddy, local soroptimists provided funding for food certificates, donors provided funding for electricity and propane. All of these donations add up to a very successful year for our community in spite of the economic downturn.
Share the Spirit is a 501(c) 3 non-profit group registered with the Internal Revenue Service. We also provide school supplies to Lake County Elementary schools in August and personal care bags to all of the county agencies twice each year. Donations can be mailed any time to Share the Spirit at P.O. Box 1341, Polson, Mont., 59860. Thank you and God Bless.
Toni Young
for the Share the Spirit Board of Directors
