Hartnell Chevrolet and Community Library, Salem branch, are the collection points for The Sharing Center’s ” Help a Bunny, Fill Some Tummies!” food drive . Donations can be dropped off at either of the two locations during their usual business hours. Here’s what the The Sharing Center Facebook page said the center was in need [...]
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Lucky girls win dolls at The Sharing Center fuindraiser
Two young ladies won American Girl dolls at a pancake breakfast to benefit The Sharing Center held at the La Sallette Shrine in Twin Lakes last month. The winners were Evelyn Dillman and Hailee Lindas. The Sharing Center is Western Kenosha County’s relief agency. The Twin Lakes LaSallette Shrine community consists of two priests and two [...]
Breakfast La Sallette will benefit The Sharing Center
The Knights of Columbus and La Sallette Missionaries will host a Pancake and Porky Breakfast to benefit The Sharing Center. The breakfast will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m, Sunday, March 20, at La Sallette Shrine in Twin Lakes. Tickets are: $6 for adults and $4 for children. Food donations for The Sharing [...]
Blue shovel campaign to benefit The Sharing Center snow fund
The Help Shovel Out The Sharing Center fundraising campaign is under way. This campaign, initiated by local citizens who just want to help out, consists of asking for donations of $5 in exchange for a token small blue toy shovel. The money raised will go directly into the Snow Plowing Fund at The Sharing Center [...]
Paddock Lake extends The Sharing Center lease with rent increase
The Paddock Lake Village Board voted unanimously to extend the lease for The Sharing Center another 12 months with a 10 percent rent increase. The relief agency occupies a former medical office building just south of Village Hall that the village purchased when its last occupants moved to new quarters elsewhere in the village. The vote came after a [...]
Hartnell Chevrolet raises $2,500 for The Sharing Center
Hartnell Chevrolet was able to donate $2,500 and literally a pick up truck bed full of food and other needed supplies to The Sharing Center after a month long effort at the Salem car dealer. Craig Schilz, new car sales manager, said the money was raised by the dealership donating $50 per each vehicle sold [...]
Twin Lakes splits $1,500 donation between The Sharing Center and Twin Lakes Food Pantry
The Twin Lakes Village Board reconsidered its earlier action to donate $1,500 to The Sharing Center and decided instead to donate $750 to the Twin Lakes Food Pantry and $750 to The Sharing Center. The action came after about 20 minutes of discussion, including one speaker during citizens comments. The board originally made the donation on [...]
Bulldog team donates coaches’ gift money to The Sharing Center
The Western Kenosha County Youth Football League Bulldog Middleweight Superbowl Championship team this past year had an undefeated season, 12-0. But the audible they called on how to use money collected for coaches gifts was another great call. The team decided to donate the money they were planning on using for coaches’ gifts to the Sharing Center. The [...]
Bristol gives $3,000 to The Sharing Center
Bristol approved giving The Sharing Center $3,000 at the Village Board meeting Monday. That was double what center officials had asked for from the village to help the Western Kenosha County relief agency meet a deficit in administrative costs. The Sharing Center has been making the rounds of municipal meetings over the last couple of [...]
Providence students help The Sharing Center
The Providence Catholic Middle School Student Council approached the Kenosha County Sharing Center to present a Student Council Food Drive to provide aide to area families through the Christmas Season. Through discussions with the director of the Sharing Center, Providence was informed that the Sharing Center has over 3,000 pounds of food, clothing and Christmas [...]
Westosha SHARE and Scully’s partnering in food drive
Westosha SHARE Food ,19200 93rd Street,Bristol,Wi. and Scully’s Silver Lake Grill,107 S.Cogswell Drive, Silver Lake are hosting an Adopt-a-Senior Drive for The Sharing Center, Paddock Lake. Westosha SHARE will be accepting monetary and non-perishable items and Scully’s Silver Lake Grill has a Giving Tree with wish lists and a suggested food list to be fulfilled. [...]
Wilmot Auto Service participating in Anonymous Angels program
This holiday season, Wilmot Auto Service in downtown Wilmot (Highways C and W) has teamed up with The Sharing Center in Paddock Lake. Business owners Cindy and Dwayne Garwood have hung Anonymous Angel Christmas ornaments on their Christmas tree at 11307 Fox River Road. The public is invited to come by and pick the information [...]
The Sharing Center issues statement regarding Twin Lakes position on donation
Last night, the Twin Lakes Village Board discussed not following through with sending The Sharing Center $1,500 to help meet end of the year expenses. Village President Howard Skinner, who introduced the reversal proposal, said he misunderstood what the money would be used for. He thought it would be used to buy food etc, not cover other expenses. [...]
The Sharing Center still has some families to adopt
There is still time to be part of the joy! A few small struggling families remain to be adopted for Christmas. Consider being an “Anonymous Angel” to a family of two adults or one adult. Anyone who is interested is urged to call the Sharing Center at 262-997-0783 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. [...]
Salem Santa visit coverage
Salem Town Hall hosted a visit from Santa Saturday afternoon. Besides photos and consultation with the big guy, there also were a host of other activities to enjoy as well. There was a raffle, children’s games, crafts and a cookie walk. The town, The Sharing Center, the Salem Boosters Club and Toys for Tots collaborated on the [...]
Twin Lakes sends $1,500 to The Sharing Center
The Twin Lakes Village Board agreed to give $1,500 from the current year’s budget to The Sharing Center,. The board approved the action unanimously at its meeting last Monday. Lynn Biese, the center’s director, made an appeal for the funds at the meeting. She said the money was needed to help the organization meet an anticipated shortfall in operating funds for this [...]
The Sharing Center distributes Thanksgiving meals
The Sharing Center held its annual distribution of Thanksgiving meals to families that need a hand today at Holy Cross Church, Wilmot. From 6 to 10 a.m. those donating meals brought in their donations. Then from11 a.m. until 2 p.m. families picked up their holiday meals. The center runs a similar program for Christmas. Donors can sign-up for that program through Dec. 3.
The Sharing Center to offer prescription co-pay vouchers
Through a grant from the United Way, the ELCA Urban Outreach Center of Kenosha and The Sharing Center of Paddock Lake are partnering to offer prescription co-pay vouchers to residents of Western Kenosha County. On the third Tuesday of each month, representatives will be available at the Sharing Center at 7001 236th Ave., Paddock Lake, [...]
Drop-off, pick-up for The Sharing Center Thanksgiving program is Saturday
Holiday baskets for The Sharing Center Thanksgiving Adopt-a-Family program can be dropped off by sponsors from 6 to 10 a.m., while client families can pick them up from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 20, at Holy Cross Church in Wilmot (Highways C and B). Any sponsor still wishing to adopt a family, please [...]
Kenosha County Tavern League raises money for The Sharing Center
The Kenosha County Tavern League sponsored a scavenger hunt for the Sharing Center of Paddock Lake From May 1 to Sept. 11. Local Kenosha County taverns raised over $3,000 for the food pantry, which services close to 350 families monthly. In addition, the Sharing Center will also receive matching funds of $500 from the Tavern [...]
Bristol Hair Shoppe conducting food drive for The Sharing Center
The staff at Bristol Hair Shoppe is conducting a food drive to benefit The Sharing Center of Kenosha County. The shop held a Fashion Expo night on Oct 7 in conjunction with Maurices Clothing store in Kenosha, and some of the proceeds of that night and the food drive now will be donated to the [...]
Salem Town Board supports The Sharing Center with $5,000
The Salem Town Board will be sending $5,000 to The Sharing Center, categorizing it as a purchase of services rather than a donation in order to wiggle through a legal loophole about donations that came to light at the regular monthly Town Board meeting. Lynn Biese, The Sharing Center executive director, made the appeal for [...]
First Christian Church offering SHARE holiday meals
First Christian Church of Kenosha is partnering with SHARE, a non-profit, volunteer-run food buying club that helps families save 30 to50 percent on supermarket quality food. Through SHARE, First Christian Church is providing a way for families to enjoy complete holiday meals by participating in the SHARE The Season campaign. Community members can purchase Christmas [...]
The Sharing Center extends Christmas signup until Dec. 3
The Sharing Center, Western Kenosha County’s primary relief agency, has announced a change in sign-up for its Christmas holiday program. While the deadline for Thanksgiving client and sponsor sign-up ends Friday, Nov. 12, the Christmas holiday sign-up will continue until Friday, Dec. 3. Thanksgving and Christmas family clients and sponsors are urged to stop by [...]
The Sharing Center seeking Anonymous Angels
The Sharing Center is seeking Anonymous Angels to help with the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner baskets programs. Anonymous Angels will provide all the necessary and, not so necessary, food items for complete Thanksgiving and Christmas meals; in addition, at Christmas time gifts will be given to all members of the families. “Anonymous Angels” may call [...]
Church of the Redeemer hosting food drive Saturday
The Church of the Redeemer, which meets at Central High School is sponsoring a Food Drive for the Sharing Center on Saturday, Oct. 23, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Lakeside SuperValu, Highways 50 and 75/83, Paddock Lake. The church also will collect donations at Walgreens in Paddock Lake from 9 to 11 a.m., Saturday. [...]
The Sharing Center begins sign-up for holiday programs
Income-qualified residents of Western Kenosha County, who are in need of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner baskets, may sign up at the Sharing Center in Paddock Lake, on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m, until the Friday, Nov. 12 deadline. “Anonymous Angels” will provide all the necessary and, not [...]
Community Baby Shower benefits The Sharing Center clients
Volunteers braved the colder than seasonal temperatures Saturday to collect baby-related supplies in what was dubbed the Community Baby Shower. The collection was held outside Lakeside SuperValu in Paddock Lake. The collected supplies will go to The Sharing Center for distribution to those in need.
Community baby shower to benefit The Sharing Center clients
A community baby shower to benefit clients of The Sharing Center will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 2, at Lakeside SuperValu, Paddock Lake. Items to be collected are: Diapers, sizes 3,4,5. Pull-ups. Wipes. Training pants/plastic pants. Formula. Baby and toddler food. baby shampoo. Baby wash. Baby powder. Baby oil. Cotton balls. Bottles. Bibs. Blankets
Shrink-A-Thon to raise funds for The Sharing Center
A Shrink-A-Thon weight loss event involving local residents will raise money for The Sharing Center. A Shrink-A-Thon operates much like a “walk-a-thon” only instead of walking” participants shed excess pounds. Picture children trying to raise money for their schools as they ask neighbors to pledge money for every lap they walk. Now, instead of children, think of adults [...]
