The Online Kettle: a first in Atlantic Canada

Turn up your speakers and click on play below to hear this podcast report.

The partnership between The Halifax Daily News and The Salvation Army to "adopt families" this Christmas has opened the hearts and sparked the imagination of donors across Halifax. Click on the photo below to donate to the Online Kettle.

Diane van der Horden and Marie Manton of The Daily News logon to the Online Kettle.

The partnership now moves online in the last few weeks to Christmas. A working mom of five teenagers talks about what that support truly means.


  
-Ron
Ron Zima ADpPR
Fund Development & Public Relations
Salvation Army, Maritimes Division
ron_zima@can.salvationarmy.org

For more details on the Salvation Army, visit:
Salvation Army, Maritimes Division

The Army remembers

“Could we have the children at the back of the church come to the front please?” Up the aisle they bounded, about six toddlers settling in front of Captain Carson Decker. Capt. Decker was leading the annual Remembrance Day celebration at the Sackville Church.

The Salvation Army pastor gestured to some 60 veterans in the church, asking, “Kids, do you know why these people are so special?”

I felt a lump in my throat and tears well up in my eyes. It was an emotional scene; a gathering of three generations celebrating Canada’s veterans in a Salvation Army church.

The bond between the Canadian Forces and the Salvation Army is as strong as it is long. To appreciate the scope of this special relationship, visit http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/salvationarmy/index_e.html

I was in awe in the presence of these special Canadians. Several World War Two vets talked about their experiences and their introduction to the Salvation Army on the battlefront as if it happened last week.

Watch and listen as one of them describes his recruitment into the war, and the unique role that the Salvation Army played.

-Ron
Ron Zima ADpPR
Fund Development & Public Relations
Salvation Army, Maritimes Division
ron_zima@can.salvationarmy.org

For more details on the Salvation Army, visit:
Salvation Army, Maritimes Division

Breakfast at the Block, revisited

Slowly but surely, the Army’s presence continues to grow at 500 Block on Herring Cove Road in Spryfield. It’s an area of high poverty and has one of the highest concentrations of single-parent families in Nova Scotia.

I visited Breakfast at the Block back in August and was taken by George Hillier and his merry band of Army volunteers manning the Community Response Unit. That visit has always been in the back of my mind…and I needed to get back for more of the story.

Here’s what I found, in the following video.

-Ron
Ron Zima ADpPR
Major Gifts Representative
Salvation Army, Maritimes Division
ron_zima@can.salvationarmy.org

For more details on the Salvation Army, visit:
Salvation Army, Maritimes Division