Mason City Noon Rotary Club & Salvation Army team up to Ring the Bells this Christmas!

Mason City Noon Rotary Helps Salvation Army Bell Ringing Exceed Goals for 2008

One of the important, long standing, community service activities of the Mason City Noon Rotary Club is helping The Salvation Army with their annual Kettle Campaign. Once again, they rang bells for the Salvation Army for 24 hours at Southbridge Mall and 48 hours at Hy-Vee East and West between the week end before Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Cold as it was during this period, Rotarians looked forward to this opportunity to serve our local community through the Salvation Army, an organization that consistently helps others in time of need. This year the Salvation Army was notable in its service during the June floods in Mason City and other disasters in North Iowa.

During the past four years, Mason City Noon Rotary bell ringers have raised:

2005	$2,307.80
2006	$2,424.95
2007	$3,385.75
2008	$4,201.26

Major Lori Wright, who along with her husband, Major Chuck, led the local Salvation Army Community Center for those campaigns, noted that the Mason City Noon Rotary has often been one of the top three highest fund raising groups for the Bell Ringing Campaign during the time they had been in Mason City, including 2006 and 2007.

Major Wright announced that in 2008 the Mason City Noon Rotary Club was FIRST in dollars raised by a group. The $4,201.26 raised was $400.00 above the second place group, and contributed to the Salvation Army raising a record amount of $209,621.00, exceeding their goal of $196,000.00.

Club President Jim Kuhlman, thanked Richard Pierson for chairing the Salvation Army Bell Ringing activity for the Mason City Noon Rotary Club during those years as well as all of the Rotarians who worked hard to make this happen.

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