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Show Community SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY MAY 29, 1996 By Dixie Brunner Hair-raisin- g fundraising Fundraising is an interesting cessful selling strategies. Small fry can charm and convince execusend Grandma and Grandpa into large corporations tives to training seminars to about anything. The sad become better versed in it. is thing that they thought that Its a delicate art form... re- theyd planned well for lieving the general public of their - retirement...little did they know d money. Its not easy that the PTA was going to be to get people to shell out the selling magazines. The most effective selling greenbacks, no matter how noble the cause. But a lot of these method is the all important entities are on the wrong obligatory buying. Your friends fundraising track. Forget the must buy from your kids, beg cause you first bought from power lunches, forgo the and expensive, persua- them. You buy two pig shaped sive perks.. .theres an easier cutting boards from the neighbor kids, and they buy an equivaway. Kids. lent number of sausage sticks d from youryoungns. This can get Send a Bambi-eyeg around the block with to be a nightmare. an order blank, and people sim- Its hard to remember how many science. Colleges offer classes, buy-ingju- st hard-earne- brown-nosin- d, eight-year-ol- Thrift store and Helping Hands work together Mary Craven of Kane County Hospital Auxiliary thrift store and LouAnn Singer of Helping Hands saw the need to help clothe and provide furniture and miscellaneous household items for those in need. They put their heads together and came up with a voucher program. Thrift shop vouchers have been distributed to the various churches, charitable organizations and human resources in Kanab and surrounding areas. The Voucher gives the Auxiliary the opportunity of helping the needy by providing the necessary cloth- LouAnn Singer (I) of Helping Hands and Mary Craven (r) from the Hospital ing, furniture or miscellaneous Auxiliary Thrift Store are teaming up with a voucher system to help those in household items as their need need in our immediate area. arises. The Auxiliary has set cer- tain restrictions and limits in the name of the needy individual. 2. The individual presents the processing of these vouchers. Procedures are as follows: voucher to the Thrift Shop 1. The organization issuing manager or shift supervisor. 3. Limits: No more than $20 the voucher fills in the information (name, address) and the on any one Voucher Only one voucher per family per month. We are asking people in Kanab flower bulbs you bought from and surrounding areas, when your sisters kids when it comes hold to nose If the you your time foryour own kids to peddle rough. grindstone peanuts. And hold it down there long Some kids rise to the chalenough. UTAH-10- 0 lenge, and go the extra mile in Years of AdvenYou'll soon forget there are order taking. They will sell to in tures Reading is the theme such things, . . everyone, and that persons third for the Kanab City Librarys cousin! One exasperated mom As brooks that babble and summer reading prograih. Mrs. birds that sing. complained that she had to deDicki Robinson will be our adliver some light bulbs to Los These three things will your venture guide with many fun world compose; Angeles, after her son had sold stories and activities for you to wares to a pen pal. Another Just you, and a stone andyour explore. darned old nose! mother told me that money colStarting June 12 and every lecting wasnt easy when you were dealing with customs officials. book-keepin- ply lay down their wallets. Most of us will buy anything from a kid, even if we have absolutely no use for the product theyre selling. Kids have fundraising in the bag. They dont even have to tactics employ the strong-arused by the big boys. All they have, to be told is that there might be a free plastic mug in it for them and just watch how speedily they course the neighborhood. Fundraising by children is an insidious form ofextortion ifyou ask me. Show me a person who can turn down an cherubic face m Summer reading program , And these kids arent dumattached to a small person sell- mies, mind you, theyll say anying a tub of cheese dip, and 111 thing to make the sale. One of show you a hard person. my sons was making more sales for Take example, the annual than the New York stock exGirl Scout cookie sale...a dreaded change, because he was telling event for us. Weve second mort- folks that his mom and dad had gaged our home over these sug- lost their job and needed food ary sensations. They unload the money. As theyve gotten older, our semi truck right in front of our sons never even leave the house house, if you get my drift. One year I bought two boxes of when theyre fundraising. They cookies from every Girl Scout who came to our door. What I didnt know was how many of our friends daughters were selling cookies. We spent a fortune, and had a store house of cookies thatd put Keebler to shame. Theres no question in my mind that somewhere I have personally paid for a 1,000 acre tract of land for a Girls Scout Camp, aptly named Camp Cookie Suckers. Kids and fundraising are just an inevitable part of parenting. It should probably be included in prenatal books, right along with the section on how your child will always volunteer you to bake or help with class projects on the day you already have a hundred things to do. - Kids employ a number ofsuc Grindstone they get rid of furniture, clothing or miscellaneous items that are still usable, please take them to the Kane County Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop. This way we can make sure we have plenty to share with others. We can have a heart and heal humanity right in our own area. sell to each other. By 6:00 a.m. recently our youngest son had sold $20.95 worth of chocolate clusters to his brothers. Every piggy bank in the house was drained by 8:00 a.m. Many fundraising companies are now discouraging kids from' r. They say to going close and relafriends on hit just tives. Better yet, have mom and dad really cheapen themselves, door-to-doo- and hawk their goodies at their work. Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. in the Kanab City Library, 533 East 300 South, for six weeks. Be sure to join us. The reading program is open to all children five years old and up. For more information call the library at 644-239- 4 or Dicki Robinson at 644-598- 9. Public Notice Town of Fredonia Revised Application Relating to Application to the State of Arizona for FY 1995 CDBG Funds Revised Application This notice is in addition to the notice published by the Town of Fredonia on June 28, 1995 in the Southern Utah News regarding its initial proposed application for FY 1995 CDBG funds, its past performance, community needs, plan and adoption of resolutions. anti-displacem- To meet identified housing and community development needs in FY 1995, the Town of Fredonia anticipates submitting the following revisions to the State ofArizona Department of Commerce, to the Regional Account. (RA) Activity No. 3, Public Works and Safety Construct a Firehouse for $295,377. To purchase the land located at 35 N. Main and construct a firehouse of approximately 3700 sq. ft. to house three bays, meetingtraining room, and rest rooms to benefit the Town, 1197 persons, about 692 (57.8) who are low to moderate income. Previously, this activity was for $295,000 to construct an appriximate 3700 sq. ft. firehouse to house three bays, meeting training room, and rest rooms to benefit the Town, 1197 persons, about 692 (57,8) who are low to moderate income to be located at 80 E. Cowboy Dr., Fredonia, AZ. But theres one single unavoidable fact that every parent knows Interested persons may review a copy of the proposed revised application between the hours and childrens fundraising-modad are going to end up buying the most. g in the Kids have bank...I mean bag.v Written comments on this proposed revised application can be submitted to Barbara Kimball, PO Box 217, Fredonia, AZ until June 6, 1996. in their heart about their m fund-raisin- of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at 130 N. Main, Fredonia, AZ which is accessible. Published in the Southern Utah News on May 29, 1996. |