Hot summer days are just around the corner, but volunteers of the Forest Lake Area Children’s Fund have their minds focused on the cold weather months that will follow.
At its spring meeting on April 26, the organization’s board discussed fundraising plans for its next program of providing winter coats, boots and snow pants to students within the Forest Lake School District 831 boundaries who are in need. A major hurdle for the coming season will be fundraising.broadstreet.zone(48036);
During its 2016 program a total of 204 students received warm winter clothing. The drive resulted in expenditures of just over $11,000. At the spring meeting, board members learned the organization has just under $4,300 on hand and likely will need to raise another $7,000 if needs in 2017 rise to the level of the needs last year.
The coat fund got its start in 1987 with a small drive in Columbus that soon expanded
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