Two traditional Methow Valley programs are gearing up their volunteer efforts to make the holidays happier for local residents. Here’s information about how to take part, or to help out: Methow Valley Manger Mall Preregistration is required and registration forms are distributed at all the local schools or at The Cove in Twisp during normal […]
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Manger Mall, Neighbors Helping Neighbors information
Two traditional Methow Valley programs are gearing up their volunteer efforts to make the holidays happier for local residents. Here’s information about how to take part, or to help out: Methow Valley Manger Mall Preregistration is required and registration forms are distributed at all the local schools or at The Cove in Twisp during normal […]
Taking part: Neighbors Helping Neighbors and Manger Mall
Manger Mall: Families from Mazama to Methow who need assistance providing holiday gifts for their children can register and then purchase one new gift and one handmade soft gift (a blanket or pillow) per child. Parents or guardians pay $1 per item per child. On the day of the mall, volunteers wrap the gifts and […]
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Manger Mall volunteers needed
It’s time to start thinking about two of the local holiday season’s most-important community events — Neighbors Helping Neighbors and Manger Mall. The programs provide assistance to local families in need of a little help shopping for gifts or getting Christmas dinner on the table. The Neighbors Helping Neighbors holiday food baskets program will have a volunteer […]
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Manger Mall need help
As the holidays near, momentum is building for two Neighbors Helping programs that provide assistance to local families in need of a little help shopping for gifts or getting Christmas dinner on the table: holiday food baskets and the Manger Mall. Last year, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, in conjunction with the Methow Valley Manger Mall, provided […]
Community briefs: October 21, 2015
BLM lifts fire closures The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District has lifted the regulated fire closure on public lands administered by the BLM in eastern Washington as of Oct. 14 Affected counties are Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, […]
Santa’s helpers
At the Twisp Valley Grange Hall on Friday (Dec. 12), Manger Mall coordinator Glenda Johnson, on left, volunteer Kim Claussen, and dozens of other volunteers filled tables with age- and gender-appropriate toys, games, dolls and stuffed animals for parents to select for their children. The Manger Mall itself took place on Saturday (Dec. 13), where […]
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Manger Mall fast approaching
Deadlines are approaching for local residents who want to take advantage of the Neighbors Helping Neighbors and Manger Mall programs this holiday season. To register to receive a food basket from Neighbors Helping Neighbors, local residents are asked to apply at The Cove in Twisp in person on Thursday (Dec. 5) or on Dec. 12. […]
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Manger Mall in holiday overdrive
By Don Nelson
Neighbors Helping Neighbors and Manger Mall are going into high gear the next few weeks to collect money, food and gifts.
Blanket statement
Glenda Templeton, left, Patsy Rowland and Jovonna Wilson display some of the blankets they have made for this year’s Manger Mall event. The trio made 20 hand-tied fleece blankets last year and would like to exceed that number this year. “You don’t have to be a super-colossal seamstress to do this,” said Wilson. Manger Mall […]
