RCOS was at South Keys Loblaws Saturday helping with the Salvation Army Kettle campaign.
OC Transpo had a bus in the parking lot and oodles of volunteers filling it with brown paper bags of food for the Ottawa Food Bank. Seeral Rotary Club of Ottawa South members flanked the Salvation Army Kettle welcoming donations. It's beginning to look like Christmas in Ottawa South.
On Saturday, December 3, from 10am to 9pm, RCOS members greeted Loblaws shoppers, welcoming, cajoling and even singing (thanks Gary and Alex) to encourage donations to the Salvation Army Christmas Kettle campaign. The store was quite busy with shoppers for most of the day and a steady stream of people passed by. Most were happy to reply with a polite hello, some gave exuberant smiles and wishes for a merry Christmas, many shoved coins and bills into the kettle, and some sped past avoiding our eyes.
This was the second year that we had a portable debit/credit machine. it was used several times, but most people preferred to deal with cash, often the change and bills they had just received from the Loblaws cashier.
Many thanks to Jacques Laquerre, Eva Hammond, Gary Pluim, Alex Davidson, Joan Hunter and Scott Vetter fro volunteering that day and to Rosemary Parker for helping to organize it.
