Letter to the Editor
To the editor,
The Holiday Bureau would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for their generosity this year.
These businesses provided food for our volunteers during our Christmas toy giveout: Outback, Applebee’s, Buddy’s BBQ, Pizza Hut, Bojangles, McDonald’s on Illinois Avenue, Calhoun’s on Kingston Pike, Knoxville, and in Oak Ridge.
The following businesses and organizations collected or purchased toys for us this year: National Fitness members and staff, Cash Express, SARG, Youth Advisory Board of Oak Ridge, St. Mary’s White Elephant, and The Episcopal School of Knoxville’s first-grade class, for a large U-Haul truck of toys they collected.
Many individuals also donated new and used toys and non-perishable food to us this year, for which we are very thankful.
We would also like to thank the Girl Scouts for working on Barbies every year.
Exceptional volunteers: ORAU employees, the City of Oak Ridge Recreation Department employees, Clinton City Manager Roger Houck for allowing us to use the Community Center for our Clinton sign-ups this year, Clinton Fire Chief Jeff Little, and firefighters.
We would also like to thank the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department and county inmates, and our year-round regular volunteers who work every week.
Monetary donations were given by Food City Corp., Atkins (Isotek) Corp. and employees, Kiwanis Club of Oak Ridge, Anderson County Chapter of Knoxville Area Realtors, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Oak Ridge Area Doll Club, First Christian Church of Oak Ridge, United Church Women, Give Lively Foundation, Women of the Moose, Davenport Tree Service, and MS Technology.
Also monetary donations came from; Valdoris Alexander, Jean Bardorf (in memory of Jimmy Jackson), Martin Bauer, Tim and Janet Bigelow, R.J. and Mary Campbell, Tiffany Casey, Patricia Clark, Steve and Shirley Cates, Charles Coutant, Gina DeKamy, D.W. and P.L. Ellison, Andria and Brian Flavell, Roland and Mitzi Fredrich, Janice Frost, David Herald and Susan Harris, Cornelia and Terrel Horne, Maureen and Hal Hoyt (in honor of the H.B. Volunteers), Susan and Alden Inman, Jeffrey and Mary Johnson (in memory of Carole Krummell), William and Martha Logan, Amon McCord, Barbara Mook, Brenda Leek, Theresa McKendrick (in memory of John and Don McKendrick), Robert and Diane Mckenny, Ann Mostoller, Ted and Luther Newman Jr., Hugh and Jackie Nichols, Dante Pappano, Samuel and Karen Pelcher, Janet Robertson, Mary Sactre, Mike Saltmarsh (in memory of Sheila Saltmarsh), Orlin and Barbara Stansfield, Judith Van Winkle, and “Anonymous” (in honor of Eddy Bailiff and in memory of Don Kelsheimer) and Buzz Muchenthaler.
Thank you,
From all the volunteers at
the Holiday Bureau
Submitted by: Robert Anderson
Volunteer: Ron Langley/President
