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Volume 137 Issue 41 Friday, December 20, 2019 www.minnedosatribune.com 90 cents plus tax

INSIDE
this week
Spreading Joy At Christmas
By KAREN MITCHELL

T he small group of local

volunteers are back in
action this holiday season,
filling over 70 boxes with
amazing Christmas items
for area families. The past
few weeks have been filled
Hall of Fame with collecting items, gath-
ering applications, getting

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For Ken organized and packing up
boxes. Countless hours,

Sharpe
graciously donated by lo-
cal community members
are given year after year to
make this a reality.
Again this year, the
Minnedosa Christmas
Cheer Board was located at
11-6th Avenue N.E. in the
Dari Isle Drive In. Applica-
tions for Christmas ham-
pers were due this past
Monday and drop offs for
the hampers is scheduled
Smiths for today, Friday Decem-
ber 20th between 10:00
Receive a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The

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Christmas Cheer Board
Award and the Minnedosa Area
Food Bank, work hand-in-
hand to make sure every-
one has food during the Photo by Karen Mitchell
holidays.
Recipient families Minnedosa Christmas Cheer Board elves Colleen Nelson,
will receive a hamper that Chris Fisher and Carole Dalrymple display some of the generous children’s gifts
Council Torn includes the staples of
a traditional Christmas
that have been donated for local Christmas hampers this season.

on Recycling meal, including; turkey/

chicken or ham, potatoes,
the stock. Families with
children from newborn
Christmas Cheer Board
has once again been over-
ing each year. Several local
organizations have either
Gift Service where there
were non-perishable food

Quotes carrots, margarine, milk,

bread/buns and if they
to age 12 will receive an
unwrapped gift and teens
whelmed with the com-
munity’s generosity and
donated or held an event to
contribute to the stock, in-
items collected along with
monetary donations and

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choose, can add a Christ-
mas cake to their ham-
per. All canned goods are
divided up between the
hampers, depending on
ages 13 to 17 will receive a
gift of Minnedosa Money
to spend at any local busi-
ness.
The Minnedosa
cannot express enough cluding; The Bargain Shop TCS H.O.P.E for holding a
how much it means to the holding a toy/pj drive with toy drive to collect toys for
organization to have the a percentage of sales being the hampers.
support of the community donated, Minnedosa Unit-
to keep these hampers go- ed Church holding a White Continued on Page 5

The Minnedosa Tribune office will close for Christmas holidays at 12 noon on
Friday, December 20th and remain closed until 9 a.m. Monday, January 6th.
There will be no paper published December 27th and January 3rd.
Our first edition of the new year will be Friday, January 10th, 2020