Share your Christmas
It is time again for KIII-TV’s (Channel 3) Share Your Christmas campaign to collect food and raise money for the Food Bank of Corpus Christi. Some of you may have already noticed decorated boxes in your buildings that are ready for donations. Most campus buildings will have these boxes soon.
This year we are trying to do better than the great job we did last year. I know you may not be in the Christmas giving mood yet, but maybe if you make a donation, it will get you started.
Everything donated in the Share Your Christmas campaign stays in the Coastal Bend area. The Food Bank of Corpus Christi distributes food to an 11-county area that includes Kleberg and all the surrounding counties. Our donations may provide a meal for a relative of a student or a neighbor who has been down on his luck.
We will be collecting in two different ways this year.
First, non-perishable food items may be placed in the boxes and the persons designated to collect in your building will pick up the items as the boxes get full. Let’s fill those boxes with assorted canned goods, tuna, beans, rice, soups, peanut butter, baby formula, baby food, diapers, toothpaste, shampoo, bath soap and non-perishable packaged dinners. The Food Bank asks that we think in terms of a complete dinner. They will prepare gift baskets from the items that are donated.
Second, those persons who were assigned your building will visit door-to-door collecting money. Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 28-29, were designated at days to collect money. Be sure to note that most of the academic buildings were “adopted” by student organizations, so some of your own students may come calling.
With each $1 we collect, the Food Bank is able to purchase 16 pounds worth of food. Don’t you wish you could get a deal like that? The deeper you dig in your pockets, the more of our neighbors we can help. Checks should be made payable to the Food Bank of Corpus Christi. The deadline for collecting both food and money is Wednesday, Nov. 30. Representatives from the university will present our donation on live television from the Kingsville HEB store early Friday, Dec. 2.
There are too many people and organizations to name here, but if you would like to know who is responsible for your building, call me at extension 2590. There are a few academic buildings that have not yet been adopted. If you don’t see a box in your building and you or your group would like to help give me a call.
There are some instances, however, where buildings with only a few employees may be combined with another. If you don’t see a decorated box in your building in the next few days, contact me for your nearest collection location.
Please open your hearts to your neighbors. Bring in those non-perishable items and give generously when the Share Your Christmas representatives come to call. Thanks for everything.
Julie Navejar
communications specialist
Office of Public Relations
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