ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, December 8, 1995 TAG: 9512080077
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: The Good Neighbors Fund
Rather than exchange Christmas gifts this year, several residents of Allendale Street Southwest decided to make a contribution to the Good Neighbors Fund.
One resident, Marti Turner, said the decision to give was easy because everyone felt positive about "the benefits of doing it and helping other neighborhoods out and other neighbors, so to speak."
Some of the neighbors discussed the idea over the summer. Then Turner wrote letters to her neighbors, and another neighbor delivered them. She said the response was great, with just about everybody on the block chipping in.
The joint effort is not unusual for this group of neighbors, some of whom have lived there for 13 years. They throw an annual Labor Day block party, and one family sponsors a Christmas caroling party every year.
Turner said she thinks the Good Neighbors Fund will become another tradition for this group of friends and neighbors.
Thursday's contributors included:
Stan and Lauren Breakell, Bob and Alice Flynn, Vic and Kathy Gilchrist, Jim and Chris Harkness, Bud and Ann Martin, Joel and Christy Nichols, Kipper and Mary Nottingham, Tom and Ann Palmer, Janet Rutherford, John and Lauren Saunders and Morris and Marti Turner, in honor of their good friends and Allendale Street neighbors
Baird Drywall & Acoustic Inc., in memory of Barry Palmer
Mrs. Steve Points
Lawrence Fitzgerald, in memory of loved ones
Patricia Slough, in memory of her father, William H. Slough
Virginia Slough, in honor of Gale James, L.P.N. at Camelot Nursing Home
The Adult Class at Wheatland Lutheran Church, Buchanan
Bobbie and Ted Cundiff
Ray and Marilyn Straub, in memory of their daughter, Karen S. Quesinberry
Luke Waid, in memory of Ben and Cecil Waid
In honor of the staff of First Christian Church, Roanoke: Jim Rivers, Jeff Hummel, Chrissie Anderson and Hassie Pike
Jimmy and Rita Loyd, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Smith, Jean, Keith and Mrs. Emma Atkins
David A. Foley, in honor of Steven G. Foley
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Allison Jr., in memory of their parents
Norma Jean Wray, in honor of Pam Hall
Lee Kingery Jr.
Roy and Doris Pollard
Lewis and Anna Vest, in memory of Robert and Livie Vest and Edward Watson States
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Fishwick
Ruby Barrett, in memory of loved ones
Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Martin
Hugh Garth
George and Louise Kegley
Janice S. Humphreys, in memory of Harry Humphreys
Rev. and Mrs. James W. Reynolds
Wayne and Dot Webb, in memory of their parents, T.R. and Kathleen Webb and Wilbur and Ida Fridley, and their niece, Trina Suzanne Wood
Grace H. Long, in memory of A.B. Harris Sr.
C.E. Coffman
Bill and Dorothy Zackmann,
Frank E. Dawson, in memory of his wife, Celeste Dawson
Betty and Jerry Spruell, in memory of Durward Powell
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hubbard, in memory of Mark Hubbard
Kathryn T. Doughty
Louis and Vera Showalter
Bob and Shirley Berbert
Emmett and Evelyn Wilburn
The Circle 5 Class at First United Methodist Church, Salem
Rose Marie Assenat, in honor of Jean Wray
Louise and Ronald MacLeod
George and Betty Hull
Mary L. Cathey and Ann E. Cathey, in memory of loved ones
Bob and Helen Gibson, in memory of Thelma Hunley
Margaret East
Roanoke Williamson Road Lions Club Inc.
ANONYMOUS DONATIONS$535.00
SUBTOTAL$3,655.75
TOTAL AS OF 12/7/95$29,394.75
Checks should be made payable to Good Neighbors Fund and mailed to The Roanoke Times, P.0. Box 1951, Roanoke 24008.
Names - but not amounts of donations - of contributing businesses, individuals or organizations, as well as memorial and honorific designations, will be listed in the newspaper. Those requesting that their names not be used will remain anonymous. If no preference is stated, the donor's name will be listed.
Gifts cannot be earmarked for any particular individual or family. Gifts are tax-deductible.
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