NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Salvation Army in Hutchinson is still signing up families who need Thanksgiving and Christmas assistance.
If your family has children 12 and under, you can sign up online at https://saangeltree.org/. If it's just teens and adults, sign up here. Or, if you need help, you can still go to their office.
"We have in person signups for the overall assistance," said Major Paul James with the Salvation Army. "You can sign up for both of those in one time instead of going multiple times, but for Thanksgiving, we're doing that up until, I think, a day or two before."
Signup is Tuesdays and Thursdays only and to get both Thanksgiving and Christmas assistance, you need to sign up by the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, that is Nov. 22. The signup is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on those days at 700 North Walnut.
If you want to volunteer to ring bells this season, you can sign up online to do that, too.
"We have Chiefs stocking caps or beanies," James said. "It has the Chiefs logo on it and the Salvation Army saying, Doing The Most Good Together. We have a partnership with the Chiefs. Had to go through their vendors to get them made, and so it's a limited edition."
If you volunteer, you can get a beanie and a chance to win Chiefs-Broncos New Year's Day tickets. The ringing starts in Hutchinson later in the week.
"Our kickoff is going to be on Thursday the 17th," James said. "It's going to be a fun night, as well for the Third Thursday, which is the lighting of the lights. We're working on something, as well. It was free, but it cost a little bit of money to transport it here. You'll definitely want to come downtown and check out what's happening."
The kickoff is at noon Thursday the 17th in front of the Sleep Shoppe on Main.