Good Works: Salvation Army gets car dealer’s help to give kids school supplies
Published 11:05 pm Friday, October 31, 2008
The Salvation Army of Everett recently provided 200 children with school supplies through the second annual Car Dealers Caring for Children program led by Pignataro Volkswagen, which in the past two years has donated more than $4,000 to the program.
Money also was received from people in the community who donated from $5 to $50 each to help fill backpacks with supplies.
The Salvation Army provides a range of community services, including housing and shelter programs, church services, a food bank and a disaster food services program, among others.
The organization was founded by William Booth in 1865 and has served Everett and Snohomish County since 1893.
According to its Web site, the Salvation Army’s “doctrine follows the mainstream of Christian belief and its articles of faith emphasize God’s saving purposes. Its objects are ‘the advancement of the Christian religion … of education, the relief of poverty and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community … as a whole.’ ”
Church services and children’s ministry: 11 a.m. Sundays.
Food bank: 9 to 11:30 a.m. Monday to Wednesday and 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday.
Social services: 1 to 3 p.m. Monday to Thursday.
Students at Christian school to honor veterans
Northshore Christian Academy invites the public to Veterans Day Chapels at 8:50 and 9 a.m. Wednesday and at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 12 to honor veterans and men and women serving in the armed forces. Chapel services will be held at 5700 23rd Drive W., Everett.
Veterans and current service men and women have been invited to attend. Those who attend also can sign up to be Military Angels and support deployed service men and women by sending them letters and packages. Cub Scout Pack No. 777 plans to distribute homemade cards to veterans and other service members during chapel services.
Lt. Cmdr. George Ebarb from the Commodore’s Staff of Destroyer Squadron 9 in Everett plans to speak at 8:50 a.m. Wednesday in the main auditorium during first- through fourth-grade chapel.
Ebarb is a veteran of Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He recently returned to Naval Station Everett from a deployment in conjunction with the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Gene Dobson, a retired schoolteacher and World War II veteran, plans to speak at 9 a.m. during the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten chapel.
Dale Esser, a teacher at Northshore, plans to speak at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 12 during fifth- through eighth-grade chapel. Esser served in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader in a helicopter company, reaching the rank of captain.
For more information, call 425-322-2301 or go to www.northshorechristianschools.org.
