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| Pumpkins for the Fall Festival, thanks to Ronnie & Teresa Scissom! |
Here's the current update:
8 community organizations: HeadStart, Grundy County Schools Early Intervention, Grundy County Health Council, Family Resource Center, Grundy County Safe Communities Coalition, Grundy County Rotary, SAA Ranch (pony rides) and Tracy City FUMC Youth Group (collecting socks for own community).
1 Mountain T.O.P. Day Camp table - former day camp staffers from IL, KS, GA, TN
1 Murfreesboro organization: MOPS (mother's of preschoolers) - Collecting Coats
Kent UMC -
1 booth: coats
1 booth: free glucose & blood pressure testing
2 more AIM participant booths
Soles4Souls - 300-400 pairs of shoes and potentially donating food & water
Sewanee Students - collecting hats, gloves, scarves in dorms and campus organizations
United Healthcare donated 400 plastic bags, 200 water bottles and 200 frisbees
18 AIM participants volunteering on the Fall Festival side - from 11 states (AL, TN, KS, IL, WA, NV, IN, MS, OH, GA, FL) - 1 woman that came to AIM for the first time this past summer is coming back specifically for the festival and is bringing her two sisters (the ones from NV and WA)
5 of those 18 volunteers participated in our day camp programs this summer and are specifically coming back for the FF.
7-10 Saturday MTOP volunteers are coming to help with FF.
**Live Music - Johnny Phillips and Vera Lynn Bush (songwriters for big country artists)**
Johnny has performed on the same bill with over one hundred country acts including Big and Rich, Gretchen Wilson, James Otto, Shannon Lawson, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Brooks and Dunn, Trisha Yearwood, Bill Anderson, Asleep at the Wheel, Travis Tritt, and Don Williams.
Free Lunch - volunteers from Morton Memorial UMC organizing
3 inflatables! Two moonwalks and one obstacle course!
And last but certainly not least, $275 has been donated to MTOP directly for the Fall Festival.
You can do the same here: Fall Festival Fund
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