Young gardeners prepare for next planting cycle. By Laine Hendricks As summer approaches, boys in The Salvation Army Adventure Corps in Yakima, Wash., are preparing for another cycle of planting and harvesting. The group’s current garden won a red ribbon at the county fair for a 73-pound giant dill squash. Throughout the spring, the Adventure Corps [...]
Spokane Salvation Army’s counseling program has a new space, new look and new name. By Heather Byrd The Salvation Army in Spokane, Wash., will open its completely revamped and renamed counseling and visitation program, The Nurturing Center for Children and Families, April 27. “This program provides us a unique ministry opportunity to help broken families come [...]
Salvation Army publications are now available in city newsstands. Deciding to try a new approach to distributing Army publications New Frontier and War Cry, Majors Premak and Charity Kramerius, corps officers in Puyallup, Wash., received permission from Pierce County Transit to install outdoor newspaper stands at Puyallup’s transit parking lot and bus stop free of [...]
The Salvation Army in the Tri-Cities partners to help keep families warm. Winter comes early to Tri-Cities, Wash., and stays late, so to keep families warm The Salvation Army partnered with Kadlec Medical Center, KNDU Channel 6, Battelle (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and the Tri-Cities School District in a Coats for Kids program, collecting thousands [...]
The Salvation Army, a local TV station and a banking chain join forces to provide winter clothing to the needy. The Salvation Army Northwest Divisional Headquarters in Seattle, Wash., joined forces with KeyBank and TV station King 5 for “The Great Winter Warm Up” drive, a program designed to help the needy and homeless withstand [...]
By Scott Sunde, SEATTLEPI.COM Best-selling romance author Debbie Macomber is giving quite a Christmas present to the Bremerton Salvation Army: $500,000. The author, a Washington native who spends part of the year in Port Orchard, wanted the gift to be anonymous. But her spokeswoman confirmed to the Kitsap Sun that Macomber had made the donation. [...]
Seattle Temple Corps member plays softball in the World Senior Games. By Joyce Johnston Sally deJong, 67, a regular at the Seattle Temple Corps’ Senior Lunch program, is a baseball/softball enthusiast who raised her own game to the next level this year when she played in the World Senior Games. DeJong played her first game [...]
Volunteers continue providing improvements to the shelter. By Tracey Schuyler Square foot by foot—the Boise (Idaho) Salvation Army Female Emergency (SAFE) Center Family Shelter is upgrading its facility with the help of community volunteers and generous businesses and individuals. The facility, originally built in 1964, provides living accommodations to families and single women in transition. [...]
Coeur d’Alene Kroc Center selected to create ornaments for the 2011 National Christmas Tree display. By Erin Johnson Twenty-four Christmas ornaments—created by youth at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—will be part of the 2011 National Christmas Tree display in Washington, D.C. The young people [...]
The Salvation Army salutes the past and looks to the future in Spokane, Wash. By Lisa R. Smith, Major Spokane Citadel celebrated 120 years of Salvation Army ministry in the community Aug. 22, along with Territorial Leaders Commissioners James and Carolyn Knaggs and newly appointed Divisional Leaders Majors Doug and Sheryl Tollerud. Opportunities [...]
