Angel Tree Gifts Still Need Dropped Off at Salvation Army
ZANESVILLE, Ohio – With Christmas just two weeks away, gifts are
being wrapped with haste to be placed under the tree. Volunteers at
the Salvation Army are hard at work preparing presents for the
recipients of the Angel Tree Program. While the Salvation Army has
received many angel tags and gifts from the public, there are still
hundreds of claimed angels for which gifts have not been received.
Beth Archer, with the Women’s Auxiliary, says the formal deadline
to drop off gifts for the Angel Tree is tomorrow.
“We’ve been
working since last Tuesday and we have only processed 205 angels. So,
we know that there are 550 angels yet to come in and we have only 4
days to get all of them processed. I know that the angels have been
taken and people have done a terrific job buying; they just need to
bring them in and bring them down here to the Salvation Army so that
we can get it processed.”
For those that have
gifts to be dropped off for the Angel Tree, the process is as simple
as taking the packages to the front doors of the Salvation
Army—located in Putnam.
“It would be great
if they could bring it by the 12th. If they just came to
the front entrance of the Salvation Army, pulled up there on
Putnam—its 515 Putnam—pulled up, came in the front doors; we’d
take it from there. And, it’s pretty easy really. They want to make
sure that when they bring the gifts that they also bring that tag
that has the child’s name and the number because we go by those
numbers.”
Last minute angels
are still available for pick-up at the Colony Square Mall in
Zanesville.
