Goal missed, but joy abounds

COEUR d'ALENE - Santa's list from Press Christmas for All looked like this:

* Number of applications from needy Kootenai County families: 3,221

* Number of individuals who received help: 9,430

* Fundraising goal of 2011 campaign: $225,000

* Amount actually raised: $190,130

* Number of individual donors last year: 1,050

* Number of individual donors this year: 850

Those were the numbers that now go into the books, closing this chapter on the 26th annual Press Christmas for All holiday fundraising campaign.

But the numbers don't tell the whole story.

For the rest of the story, you'd have to see all those smiles on thousands of happy, grateful faces.

FINAL DONORS FOR 2011:

Bradley & Shariae Dugdale, Integrated Personnel, David Wieinger, Deborah Burton, Ken & Julie Knoblock In Loving Memory of Florence & Merle Hansen & Bob & Veva Knoblock, Margaret Dawe, William Jibby, Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Woods, Jan & Troy Tymesen, James & Susan Edwards, Leon & Wanda Nichols, Danielle Nichols, Caitlynn Nichols, Danica Nichols, Brittney Nichols, Katie VanValkenburg, Tucker VanValkenburg, Cal & Corrine Meierbachtol, Michael & Virginia Bernardo, Hap Hillbish, Roy & Gerri Hartford, George & Dorothy Rodkey, Linda Fabian, Mark Jackson, Dennis & Carolyn Hague, Mary Dolan In Memory of Philip Dolan, Dennis & Zooey Byram, Gerald & J.S. Bauerle, Terry & Debbie Meece, Koontz Family, Donna Ladwig & Family in loving memory for Gary Ladwig, Virginia Boyd, Patricia Woodworth, Caroline Hadacek, Nicholas Hadacek, Elliot Hadacek, In Honor of Leonard & Frances Cowart from their three granddaughters and Sheri Carlberg, Twila Fae Little, John Buting, Two Wheeler & Ski Dealer, Marlyn Pavent, Tonya Sears, J.R. Carlson, Richard Green, William Cochran, Ronald & Eileen Briggs, J.R. & D.J. Rogers, J. Allen & Barbara Plahn, Richard Flugel, Steven & Michele Harding, John Alden, Stampson Family of Minnesota, In Memory of Tom Cook & Rodger Hemond.