Former Ohio State running back now Dallas Cowboy, Ezekiel Elliott, celebrated his touchdown in a giant red kettle in the end zone.
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“I didn’t know that you would come creeping out like that”, Prescott said.
It’s been a tough money-raising year for the local Salvation Army chapter. Our bell ringers just can not risk being out in the severe cold. Beckham Said later ” If that would have been me that would have been it. I know that a lot of you have seen it already But I will go ahead and put it up for you to see today.
He might be dancing for a while, because this year those red kettle pots are low on donations.
“We’re a little down in our kettles this year”, Maj. The Salvation Army needs $1.9 million for the coming year. People can donate to the red kettle, take a selfie using #rkr747 or #redkettlereason757 and post it to social media.
“I would say the majority from the campaign really comes in the last ten days”, explains Anne Bashaw-Meyer, Director of Community Engagement with the Rochester Salvation Army. “And so we want to make sure that they learn from a very early age that they have to share their time and talents and gifts with others and to be apart of a community that helps everybody”.
The Salvation Army usually gives away 30 gifts in their angel tree program, but this year they more than doubled the amount of Christmas gifts they usually give out.
“Headquarters had been calling us up, telling us they were concerned that we were behind last year’s kettle output”, he said.
“Ordinarily the location would have let us in just after Remembrance Day, sort of middle of November and we would be there until Christmas Eve”, he said. Visit salvationarmynorth.org/volunteer/bellringing/ to sign up or visit www.salvationarmyusa.org and click “Ways You Can Help” to donate.
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Outside the Elizabeth ShopRite, Majors Ivan and Christine Rock stand with volunteer bell ringers.
