CFA exceeds goal
A STAR IS BORN
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Staff from Transtector Systems gather to make a donation of $2,240 to Press Christmas for All Wednesday at their Hayden office. Employee contributions and employer match funds make up the donation. From left, Brittany Stockstill, Julie Bailey, Sonia Hebert, Hank Harrison, Nancy Kjos, Jennifer Hawkins and Shari Rose.</p>
A STAR IS BORN
Press readers, you did it! A star finally adorns the top of the Press Christmas for All tree, thanks to you and a lot of help from an anonymous friend.
Press Christmas for All, with its ambitious goal of $170,000 tantalizingly close, still had not reached the magic number by mid-morning Thursday. Then the phone rang.
It was Anonymous in Athol making a final check on the campaign’s status. When informed that it was short of goal by just a few hundred dollars, A in A laughed — actually, it sounded a lot like “Ho, ho, ho!” — and said he and his wife weren’t quite done. He then arranged for an additional $5,000 contribution, raising his gift for this campaign to $20,000 and pushing Press Christmas for All well past its $170,000 goal.
By the time the newspaper’s early Christmas Eve deadline arrived, the fundraising total had climbed to $179,391.
And that means, for the first time in four years, a shiny star now graces the top of the Press Christmas for All tree.
Thank you, each and every one of you who so generously helped your less-fortunate neighbors this holiday season. The spirit of Christmas thrives in Kootenai County.