CHRISTMAS IN JULY!
Our older adults have a special place in our hearts! Each year at Christmas time, we go to one of the local nursing homes to visit with and hopefully, entertain the residents. We have fun, and we think they've enjoyed our visits.
Again this year, we are collecting items to fill Christmas stockings to give during our visit in December. We know you have busy schedules after Thanksgiving, so we are collecting the items now, to help decrease the holiday rush of buying gifts. We will fill the stockings - all we ask of you is to help us by either purchasing one, two, or all of the items to fill a stocking and adding them to our staff donations, and we'll take it from there! We hope to fill 50 stockings!
Here's how you can help:
Donations can be dropped off in the Animal Hospital of Statesville lobby anytime during regular business hours from now until August 31, 2025.
Thank you, as always, for helping us help our community. Everyone deserves to be thought of at Christmas and these stockings and our staff caroling event are small, heartfelt ways we can show love to our neighbors at Brookdale Senior Living at Christmas!
With the help of staff and clients, we have collected items for Food for Days for quite a few years now. Food for Days provides food in backpacks for local kids who may not get a meal on the weekends. Can you imagine? Each month, Food for Days collects a different item. While some of these may not seem as nutritious as you might want, these are items that kids will actually EAT, filling their bellies when they may not get anything else. They are easy-to-make food items that are appropriate for kids to make themselves.
As you can see, each month has a specific food item that we are collecting. These items may be purchased and placed in the basket in our lobby – it's on the top of the shelves where the cat food is kept. You'll see a sign, or just ask! Each month, we'll remind everyone which item we are collecting on FB, but this list will remain on our website as a reference for you.
Please help us feed local kids. As you may know, Animal Hospital of Statesville is very involved in community projects throughout the year.
As always, thank you for your generosity. We know we ask much of you, but no more than we ask of ourselves. We try to help those that can't help themselves. In this instance, and in the instance of our Quarters for Laundry drive, the kids are the ones who benefit. Let’s make 2024 a better year for our community’s kids of all ages!
For more information visit: foodfordays.org
Quarters for Laundry
One of the needs that Tonya Reid, who was the District Homeless Liaison for the Iredell-Statesville Schools, has made us aware of is the need for local homeless students to have clean clothes to wear to school. To that end, we are collecting quarters for Tonya and her “crew” of helpers to use to make sure those kids are sent to school with fresh, clean clothes. We have a big jar on the desk in the front lobby to donate your quarters to help her accomplish this important, but, dare we say, often overlooked issue that faces our community’s homeless students. We’ll be keep the jar up indefinitely, so gather up your quarters and stick them in our big plastic jar! Our staff is donating, as well as clients who come in, have a few quarters, and just pop them in the jar! They will add up quickly! In the video accompanying this write-up, two of Sarah’s daughters – Sarah, who was once one of our Client Services Representatives – robbed their piggy bank of their savings and generously donated their hard-won quarters - $20-worth, to be exact - to help out other kids in need! It’s a great lesson for kids to learn about charitable giving. It feels good to us, and it benefits others and makes them feel better, too! We have 2 cups on our counter - one at check in, and another at what we call retail. Please consider gathering up your quarters to help Tonya. She is no long the liaison, but STILL donates her time (and money) to do "her" kids' laundry so they can be clean and ready for school.