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About 40 people received warm winter coats and accessories, thanks to the hard work of local volunteers, the support of local businesses and the generosity of the community.
Donations were collected throughout September and October, with the distribution held Thursday and Friday, Oct. 22-23, at Knox Presbyterian Church, Kincardine.
Organizer Wendy Cox thanked the many people who assisted with the event, as well as the Lake Academy (formerly Little Beginnings) and West Coast Clothing and Surf Shop which accepted the donations, and everyone who donated coats and warming accessories.
She also thanked Angelo Domingo, an environmental specialist, who not only organized an internal workplace coat collection at AECON, but brought his colleagues, Haley and Luke, with him Thursday to help size and sort. And to Lisa of Beckers Shoes in Kincardine who confirmed sizes of shoes and boots and labelled each one, for good measure!
Initially, the distribution was to run from 6-9 p.m., Thursday. However, Cox said there were a number of residents of 915 Huron Terrace who were forced to leave their homes earlier this month because of a fire, and needed winter coats. They were to arrive at 5 p.m., but there were a couple of early birds who came at 4 p.m., with several following around 4:30 p.m.
Everyone was made welcome and volunteers assisted with finding the right size of coats and boots, as well as hats, mitts, scarves, etc.
Cox estimated about two to three dozen people attended Thursday, with another dozen Friday.
Once the distribution ended Friday, volunteers hung up 20 coats (four in each size) in the hallway at Knox church and put a further 16 in the church balcony, to cover demand across the winter. Shoes, boots, vests, hats, scarves and a few gloves were placed in the hallway too.
Cox said the children's sizes and some items that were not heavy, winter coats, were passed along to The Clothes Hamper. That left one garbage bag of hats and scarves and eight garbage bags of coats and vests which were transported to the United Way of Bruce Grey office where a request had already been received for winter coats.
"Thanks to this generous Kincardine-area community for not only supplying the immediate neighbours but others some distance away," said Cox.
Written ByLiz Dadson is the founder and editor of the Kincardine Record and has been in the news business since 1986.
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