Letter: Holiday Bureau says thank you
To the Editor:
The Holiday Bureau would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for their generosity this year.
The following businesses provided food for our volunteers during our Christmas toy give out. Outback, Buddy's BBQ, Papa John's, Dunkin Donuts, Arby’s, Pizza Hut, Bojangles, McDonald’s on the Turnpike, Chicken Salad Chick, Jimmy John’s, and Calhoun’s on Kingston Pike, Knoxville.
The following businesses and organizations collected or purchased toys for us this year. National Fitness members and staff, Cash Express, Alignment Chiropractic, SARG, Youth Advisory Board of Oak Ridge, and The Episcopal School of Knoxville, 1st 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.
Steve and Carson Payne rebuilt a deck on our storage truck with material donated by Home Depot.
We would also like to thank Anita Alcorn for dressing 100 Barbie Dolls, the Girl Scouts working with Barbies, to be given to our children this year, and Kara and Shirley of Knoxville for new toys for older children.
Exceptional Volunteers: ORAU employees, High School Key Club, the City of Oak Ridge Recreation Department employees, Home Depot employees, Clinton Fire Dept., and the County Mayor’s employees. We would also like to thank the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department.
Monetary donations were given by Food City Corp., Atkins (Isotek) Corp., First United Methodist Church of Kingston, Kiwanis Club of Oak Ridge, Anderson County Chapter of Knoxville Area Realtors, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Fidelity Charitable, Oak Ridge Area Doll Club, Schwab Charitable, Lions Club, Give Lively Foundation, and Transonic Karns.
Also monetary donations from Joe and Bobby Arrowood, Janice Baines in Memory of Mildred Taylor, Fredrich Berry, James & Nancy Bolon, Ann Burgess in Memory of Mildred Taylor, Karen Burn in Memory of Mildred Taylor, Charles & Lois Byrd Jr. in Memory of Mildred Taylor, R.J. and Mary Campbell, Jason and Katherine Cameron, Pat Clark, Phillip Cates, DC & KM
Cresci, Charles and Nancy Coutant, Morgan Defenderfer in Memory of Melicent Tapor, DW and PL Ellison, Roland & Mitzi Fredich, Gary and Claudia Gault, Nancy Hardin, Tom and Peggy Hanrahan, Harold Hartman Jr., Maureen and Hal Hoyt in honor of the Holiday Bureau volunteers, Susan and Alden Inman, Jeffrey Johnson in Memory of Glenna Derby, James and Christine Keener in Memory of Mildred Taylor, J Randal Kerchner, Brenda Leek, Monty & Shawn Lee in Memory of Mildred Taylor, Stanley & Anne Love, Joseph and Thelma McGrory, Patricia McNabb in Memory of Mildred Taylor, Theresa McKendrick in Memory of John and Don McKendrick, Robert and Diane McKinney Jr., Ann Mostoller, William Nestor & Karen Oakley in Memory of Glenna Derby, Hugh & Jackie Nichols, Samuel and Karen Pelchar, Margaret Schreiber in Memory of Mildred Taylor,, M Scott, Gregory & Sarah Schaefer, Orlin Stansfield, Jody Stetler, Sylvia Talmage, Anita Tapp in Memory of Mildred Taylor, William & Charlene Thomas in Memory of Mildred Taylor, Frank Trent, Judy Van Winkle, Dorothy Zackry, 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
Robert Anderson, volunteer
Oak Ridge
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