Fundraising for the 112th annual Cheer Certificate campaign has picked up.
As of Friday, the fundraising drive reached $10,428.57. The campaign received a significant boost from the staff, students and families of Dance By Deborah. The local studio donated more than $5,000.
This year’s campaign goal is to raise $20,000 to help local families in need during the holiday season.
The Cheer Certificate program is a collaboration between the Crawfordsville High School Sunshine Society and the local chapter of Tri Kappa sorority. The groups solicit financial donations from community members and then award those funds to local families in the form of cheer certificates.
These certificates may be redeemed for grocery items at Kroger in Crawfordsville. Certificates range in value according to family size.
Sunshine Society co-sponsor Krystal Rogers said the group mailed 168 certificates last week and expects to mail more this week. The group hopes to assist more than 500 individuals in the community, however, donations are needed.
Anyone wishing to donate to the Cheer Certificate fund should complete a donation form, which is published regularly in the Journal Review and also can be found online at www.journalreview.com. Donations may be made in honor of or in memory of family or friends, or donations may be made anonymously. Donor names will be printed regularly in the newspaper.
Donations should be mailed to the Sunshine Society, P.O. Box 243, Crawfordsville, IN 47933. Be sure to write “CHS” in the “Pay to the Order Of” line on the check.
All donations remain in the community. Donations are accepted through mid-January and the final day to redeem the certificates is Jan. 31.
Recent donations to the Sunshine Society include: $50 Jan Austin in memory of John; $200 Tony and Janet Johnson in memory of Cecil and Phyllis Dunlap; $75 anonymous in memory of Johnson and Tebbe Family; $50 Roger and Becky Dice in memory of our loved ones; $100 Scott and Sharon Parker; $50 anonymous; $100 Greg and Martha Bell in memory of our parents; $100 anonymous; $100 anonymous; $50 the Allens in memory Curt and Debbie Allen; $25 Terri Fyffe in memory of Ruth Fyffe Gentry; $50 Greg and Sarah Woodsmall in memory of Jim and Trudy Richards;
Also, $50 Sue Rickett in memory of Pauline Lyon; $100 Cook and Dubber families in memory of Barbara and DeLynn; $100 Nellie Matthews in memory of Tom Matthews; $5,080 Dance by Deborah staff, students and families in memory of Grace Kochert and Connie L. Meek; $750 American Legion Byron Cox Post 72; $26 Stu and Carolyn Weliever in memory of Don and Emma Lou Weliever; $50 anonymous; $50 anonymous; and $300 First Baptist Church Fellowship Fund.
